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It’s Thursday, let’s talk shit
The teal green cover for Taylor Swift’s The Life of A Showgirl is an apparent wink to John Everett Millais’s famous “Ophelia,” and I love a little artsy tidbit.
ALSO on Taylor Swift, what the fuck?? Loathe as I am to bring any discourse from that cursed site into my scared spaces, I can’t ignore a recent Twitter thread that detailed Swift’s relationships with teenage boys (two of whom WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL)… all while she was in her twenties. All of this is easily verifiable and was confirmed at the time of these relationships by both sides and I think I’m about to be sick again, so I’m going to stop here, please go see for yourself.
Greta Thunberg continues to show more bravery, grit, resilience, integrity and common sense than the world leaders who have shamefully demonized her for taking a stand with Palestine.
Robin Williams’ daughter is begging people to stop harassing her with AI-generated videos of her father and I can’t believe this is a thing that actually has to be said?
THIS on Fred Ramsdell, who won a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but couldn’t be reached by the Nobel committee because he was ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid, is my favorite story of the week. I feel you, Fred.
Diddy has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for a horrific laundry-list of crimes and while I’d like to be surprised… come on. The US criminal justice system has shown itself again and again to work in favor of rich, powerful men, always at the expense of vulnerable victims. He’s also already booking speaking engagements and in a blink-or-you’ll miss it sneak, delivered the opening monologue on Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony; Leaflets. I haven’t heard a lot of people talk about this so I’m assuming it flew under the radar, but I heard that, you bastard.
The Ìbejì Project is an homage to the traditional art of the Yorùbá people (hellooo gang!), who have one of the highest rates of twin births in the world.
WNBA fly girl Kalani Brown sat down with Bustle to talk about her iconic tunnel fits and it’s a fun peek behind the curtain of a thing I’ve always found really fun and fascinating. The NBA/WNBA tunnels are becoming a cultural staple and I want to know all the things about all the outfits!
This review of One Battle After Another says everything that needs to be said about this film and I will not be elaborating any further.
Apparently the human brain is built to socialize, but also to cap that shit at 150 friends. And you know what? Fair enough.
The Cut talked to Wendy Williams and I am once again raging about the evils of conservatorships.
Reading
I’m trying to make sure I read as much African lit as I can get my hands on these days, so when I found a copy of Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Girl Who Can and Other Stories on my mom’s bookshelf, it was an easy pick for my next book. Short, sweet, and packed with wisdom, I can’t believe I’d never read it before.
Watching
HACKSSSSS!! VERY late to the party here, but holy crap this is a fantastic show. Generational divides are hard to capture onscreen in a way that feels satisfying, but Jean Smart and The one thing that ruins a near-perfect show, is the sexual harassment plot line involving Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs’ characters, Kayla and Jimmy. Newsflash Hollywood: flipping genders in an abusive dynamic doesn’t make it funny, and hypersexualizing the only plus-sized woman on the cast for laughs is a cheap, stale gag. You’re better than this!!
NOT watching
The new season of Netflix’s Monster, is focused on the monstrous (that much they get right, at least) Ed Gein, and my boycott of this morbid franchise continues.
Things I saw that you should see too
This Vogue piece on girl code was surprisingly fun and juicy. I miss real confessional style women’s journalism (justice for XO Jane!)
What are you watching, reading and listening to? Oh and what did I miss?