Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stars in the sexy new all-POC “Robin Hood” remake, now available on Amazon Prime!
Presenting: the working-class hero herself, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! Shining, shimmering, and splendid in a $12,000 gown at the $35,000 per ticket Met Gala in New York last week, AOC made a boldly hypocritical and sexy statement at the star-studded event where the rich and famous chicly caroused without masks during a global pandemic.
A highly necessary event, all the hot and fabulous were required to be vaccinated, though they didn’t need to wear masks despite high rates of breakthrough infections during one of the worst surges of a virus that has killed over 650,000 Americans so far. …
Leftists ignored their country’s needless war in Afghanistan for two decades. Now they glorify the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.
Social media is overwhelming; technically, any of us could learn about and engage in the politics of anything happening almost anywhere in the world at any time. And yet, we make very specific choices about how to engage. Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we constantly choose the geopolitical matters to concern ourselves with. …
Netflix’s #1 movie is not all that… but it is another instance of “woke capitalism” and nostalgia went wrong
I can’t provide a good reason for why I watched the grating new Netflix movie “He’s All That,” other than that I am a glutton for punishment, and sometimes I get a little nostalgic. …
How QAnon conspirituality overtook a “healing” community through fear, manipulation and ego
Five years ago, I was introduced to Ayurveda, and it changed my life. Since then, I have eagerly awaited the moment when I would enroll in a formal program to study and become a practitioner myself. Now, two weeks from the much-anticipated start of an esteemed program I’ve enrolled in, I find myself at a point of breakdown.
Incoming students filled out a vaccination survey two months ago, and despite having two online orientations leading up to the program (which provides options for in-person and online learning, though the latter is discouraged and will be eliminated next year, regardless of…
And thank you for the kind response as well! I am grateful that we can have this exchange.
To begin, I will say that Jewish Voice for Peace is an incredibly toxic organization that notoriously spreads misinformation; I followed them for a long time as I am very much a leftist/socialist and I was told that I would agree with many of their politics from some of my Jewish leftist friends. I ultimately unfollowed because while I appreciated their advocacy for our Palestinian siblings, I was appalled by the hateful and incorrect information they were peddling (for example as I…
What I learned from being canceled by a “social justice” publication on Medium
This is not an article I expected to write in my lifetime, but here we are. The past week has been one of the most terrifying and revealing weeks of my life; as the latest manifestation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on, social media began to reflect the world’s antisemitism on a level that seems fit for the 1930s. …
Israel’s actions against Palestinians are abominable and must be rectified, but please beware of the accuracy and appropriateness of how you’re describing the conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is making daily headlines again, and the Internet is scrambling to put together the right words to condemn, defend, and/or grieve the current bout of violence. It has become increasingly common and popular to use three terms in particular to describe Israel during this social media cycle: genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. None of these, however, is appropriate or accurate to employ.
Let’s break down some terms here:
Why is “genocide” inappropriate to use when describing Israel?
Genocide is defined as “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.”
At the formal establishment of Israel, there…
Oh that's so wonderful to hear thank you so much for reading and following! <3
I hear what you're saying and agree in the sense that women are generally held to higher levels of scrutiny, but I don't think it's fair to write this off as that in this case.
George Clooney and the other aforementioned male celebs *should* be held accountable. But the Clooney example, which you cite multiple times, is a venture that was formed in 2013. I'm not saying that makes it okay, but I am saying that public dialogue and collective consensus (if we can even call it that) around what constitutes cultural appropriation has changed a lot since then; that…
If you are still holding up celebrity culture and dismissing other victims of child-stardom, your concern may be just another fad
The New York Times has just unleashed its documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” and the Internet is up in arms. Calls to #freeBritney have spilled out across the web, and celebrities, activists, and media alike have joined in the chorus apologizing to Britney for contributing to her demise and bemoaning the misogyny that contributed to her downfall.
But how sorry can you really be for Britney’s misfortune when you’re gobbling up this information as yet another schadenfreude-y snack in an endless pantry of celebrity gossip? I haven’t yet seen hashtags circulating demanding apologies to Lindsay Lohan or Amanda Bynes, or the…
