On the November 20 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, rap’s resident “Icy Girl” Saweetie performed a handful of songs for a live audience. For unfamiliar viewers, Saweetie represented her brand exceptionally well. The performances served glamour, attitude, and…some light choreography. To be fair, the latter has previously been a critique from Saweetie fans; in…
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Pose has been praised as a bastion of queer representation on television for its prominent casting of Black and Brown trans women. Carrying the weight of BIPOC queer representation on its shoulders, the series understandably has blemishes when it comes to storytelling and character development. With a fairly green cast as far as acting is…
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By now, Zendaya faithfuls have surely laid eyes on her latest project, Malcolm & Marie, a collaboration with her Euphoria showrunner Sam Levinson. The film, co-starring John David Washington (yes, Denzel’s offspring), was released in early February to almost universal criticism from reviewers and casual viewers alike. The movie was panned as shouty to some…
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At one point or another, many of us have been sucked into the Shonda-verse. Maybe you’re an OG who started with Grey’s Anatomy; maybe you became addicted to the “twisty” turns of Scandal. Or maybe you’re being introduced to Shondaland for the first time through the newest hit, Bridgerton. Whenever you were indoctrinated into the…
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I was looking forward to watching Enola Holmes upon first watching the trailer a couple of months ago. It looked witty, adventurous, and of course, starred America’s sweetheart-in-waiting, Millie Bobby Brown. I was excited at the prospect of seeing Millie take on a role vastly different than that of Eleven in Stranger Things. That the…
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Since the overtly-sexual pussy anthem “WAP” dropped from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, there has been much debate on and offline about how appropriate the song is. My own mother, as an off-and-on fan of Cardi and sort-of fan of Meg, even called me to discuss her feelings about this song and music video.…
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The Wordy Wench 