karabrown
Kara Brown
karabrown
Senior Writer, Jezebel

Tone policing black women is pretty damn white, and if you don’t want to be lumped in with Miley, maybe don’t engage in it yourself?
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And it’s not anger like, “Guys, I’m frustrated about some things that are a bigger issue.” Read more

i actually think the vid is kinda cute but i can’t deal with this song. from chatroom: Read more

He’s just doing this at this point to get your attention, Kara. I’m starting to get concerned for him - this amount of thirst isn’t healthy. Read more

his parents pranked kara by birthing him.
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I am getting this bad feeling he didn't mean it when he told her they should work on their relationship. Read more

1. There is NO SUCH THING as African Culture. Read more

If by nitpicky you mean batshit crazy, I agree. Read more

It’s entirely possible that two extremely common words were combined in two different contexts by two different social groups. However, the term that these articles are tracking originates, like so many other trending terms in the last 10 years, from the black community. Read more

It’s all part of this effort to make words normative. To tell language how it’s supposed to behave, instead of just observing it and reporting on it. This slang already had a definition, but instead of learning what it was, uneasy white folk needed to make a new one. To control words, lest words control us.
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“Bey, you’re going to be on the cover of Vogue! And they are also going to write a story, so you’ll need to sit down with the writer and answer a few questions.” Read more

i cannot fully express how fun it has been to make jokes about being inside jane’s vagina while i was editing this

Is this a band or an advertisement for Forever 21 or both