I don’t think so: Drake feat. Lil Durk, “Laugh Now, Cry Later”: While I agree with the general sentiment of Drake’s latest offering in that laughing now and crying after the fact is usually a good way to live, I don’t know if this song or the video, which is basically an ad for Nike, is the move? Nike’s headquarters…

Director Karen Maine says she “doesn’t really” read reviews, but two about her debut feature Yes, God, Yes have caught her eye. The first, by Catholic News Service, rates the film as “O”—as in, morally offensive. This rejection only proves the message Maine was trying to get at with her film about a sexually repressed…

For the duration of my life, I have prided myself on my ability to sit on the couch and watch whatever was in front of me, even if it was bad, for hours on end. Some might call this laziness, but I prefer to look at it as being open-minded enough to give just about anything a chance. This skill has opened my eyes to…

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ode to good pussy hasn’t even been out in the world for a week, thrilling countless women who have spent their entire lives searching for an empowerment anthem about a natural biological fact. As is the case whenever a woman deigns to express agency over her body and what it does,…

Beauty influencer and activist Jackie Aina will executive produce and star in a documentary on Black women in the beauty space, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

While some K-pop fans continue to be celebrated for using their impressive mobilization skills to crash the Dallas Police Department’s narc-y app, flood white supremacist hashtags with fan cams, and devastate attendance at Trump’s Tulsa rally, the actual artists who inspire such devoted, organized fandom rarely…

Who’s the shadiest, most powerful, most spiteful of them all? These are Jezebel’s definitive power rankings for Season 5 of The Real Housewives of Potomac. Results are tallied throughout the season, based purely on friendships, storylines, confrontations, confessional looks, and our very good instinct.

Nearly two years ago Kenya Barris left his contract at ABC to work on projects for Netflix, explaining that one of the reasons for his departure was that the network had actively censored an episode of Black-ish for its anti-Trump commentary, keeping it from being aired entirely. In a 2018 profile for The Hollywood…

One of the critical elements in any non-medicinal healing work is stripping away the ego, which is what prevents most people from delving into the memories and emotions they are trained to keep locked tight in order to conform to civil society. The manner in which one strips the ego varies based on the background of…

It is personally not my vibe to have a questionably-intentioned reality television couple create an HGTV theme park for middle-class Disney adults and home renovation fans in my town. Still, Chip and Joanna Gaines have successfully transformed Waco, Texas into their personal strip mall through the fortune and fandom…

600 years ago, in what was either Smarch or Blipril, all anyone could talk about was Tiger King and potential husband-murderer Carole Baskin. Now it’s summer (maybe), we’ve collectively moved on from Tiger King, and all anyone can talk about is a different kind of pussy, Baskin included. My brain! The discourse!…

Sure: Kesha, “Little Bit of Love” - This song strikes me as something Katy Perry should be doing right now, instead of whatever it is that she is doing—a playfully PG-13 pop song with an earworm chorus, a thin message about needing some temporary lovin’, and that’s it—a surefire course to at least some semblance of…

Summer music is music best enjoyed in the company of other sweaty bodies pressed against yours—in a dark bar, a crowded backyard, or the privacy of your own home. This summer, we are not allowed to press our bodies against strangers and so it feels quite rude of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion to release “WAP” into…

This is TV Time Capsule, our chance to revisit moments that defined a genre, era, or generation. In each episode, we’ll take a critical look at a show, theme, or entertainer to relive the absurdity of pre-streaming programming.

“The Harley Quinn animated series is excellent and you must watch it,” is a sentence I would have ignored just months ago, before I watched several episodes of said series. Previously, I had no attachment to this Harley Quinn character, and little understanding of her beyond knowing that director Kevin Smith named his…

It’s impossible to revisit The Real Housewives of D.C. without examining it within the context of politics and diversity. Filmed on the heels of Obama’s historic election, it was the first of the Housewives franchises to have a full-time cast member of color in a line-up that’s more or less “racially homogenous.” But…

Despite being a woman with mostly questionable judgment, I have impeccable taste in reality television. Give me all your smut, especially when your smut is delivered through a less-than-vague classist commentary, what Bravo mastermind Andy Cohen has called “an Upstairs, Downstairs reality show... like Downton Abbey on…

Disney announced recently that the live-action remake of Mulan will now be available to Disney+ subscribers on September 4 in lieu of a theatrical release. The movie will cost $29.99 to rent, on top of the $6.99 it already costs to subscribe to the service. This is well and good for Disney, a company that is certainly…

It’s never been a secret that religion and healthy relationships to sexuality are usually at opposite ends of a very unnecessary binary. But Yes, God, Yes, the directorial debut of Obvious Child writer Karen Maine, gets at why sex-negative religious instruction is so harmful to developing teens, and how it hurts teen…

Actress Zoe Saldana apologized for appearing in the trainwreck that was the 2016 Nina Simone biopic Nina, in which she wore a prosthetic nose and makeup to make her skin appear darker.