Tag: Identity
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How to make the hardest choices of your life
From picking a career to picking a spouse, one radical philosophical idea will guide you.
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‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world
Gulim in Kazakhstan keeps her very first one as a souvenir while Coco in Thailand breaks the law by having them, and Serena in Italy says they’re essential. But there’s still a stigma when it comes to talking about sex toys. That’s why Gabriele Galimberti’s images are so powerful, writes author and academic Roxane Gay…
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I’m 22 and I Just Watched the Original Gossip Girl for the First Time. Here Were My Thoughts
Connivery, thievery, treachery, infidelity, romance, deceit. Are all of these…the characteristics of a Shakespearean play? Perhaps a soap opera? Not quite—try a mid-aughts show about a group of preppy high schoolers whose favorite accessories are thousand-dollar designer shoes and candy-colored leggings. I’m talking, of course, about the original Gossip Girl.
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Kendrick Lamar and the Mantle of Black Genius
Kendrick Lamar has pushed the pop landscape toward jazz and soul sounds and made space for more radical forms of Blackness in entertainment.