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Kara Brown
karabrown
Senior Writer, Jezebel

Who’s a good blogger? Samer is a good blogger, yes he is! Read more

I really love how Kara has trolled everyone into posting pics of athletes and other men in ridiculously tiny shorts. Good job, Kara! Read more

I also circle Negro on my census, and I think there might be a movie here. Two black people, willing to travel back 50 years into Civil-Rights era USA, to meet/hook up with Paul Newman.
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Idk how Kara would define it, but as a biracial woman, I most often use it (when describing myself) to mean someone with parents of two different races. That could be black and white, East Asian and white, black and Asian, etc. I think what Kara means is that it is perfectly possible to identify simultaneously as Read more

She means that while Robyn has white ancestry in her bloodline, her parents and grandparents are not white, so she’s not biracial (Robyn says she doesn’t have any “direct white ancestry.”) Usually biracial offspring come from two parents with two physically distinct identities (black and white; black and asian, etc.) Read more

Personally I’d define it as one parent of one race and one of another race leaving out grandparents and great grandparents because hell many of us would be considered biracial given the history of slavery as she pointend out. And black because she identifies and is perceived as such. Read more

Oy, she is not a victim of slavery. She is a victim of a patriarchal arrangement; she is a victim of capitalism, which values ownership and propriety over labor. She is not anyone’s legal property, to be bought and sold, in the same manner as slaves. She receives remuneration for her labor, and was given the right to Read more

Camille actually sort of said that herself, weirdly enough. Read more

I feel like you people are not talking enough about how beguiling my child is and talking too much about how to reinterpret an exchange about a chair that two adults already interpreted for you. Trust us that in the moment it felt like a very weird question given there wasn’t even a third chair at the table to begin Read more

I was laughing and smugly judging the ridiculousness...until the babysitting room came up and I was like, “YES! This place is perfect!”
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If, as Johnson says, we shouldn’t judge a performance on physical likeness, then why couldn’t Saldana have embodied Nina Simone without the cartoonish makeup? Read more