If I mention The Color Purple and you don't know what I'm talking about, I question everything about you. Like your very existence. Alice's Walker's seminal text, The Color Purple is like playing spades and the electric slide— if you show up at the Black family reunion, you better be familiar. I'm talking ability to drop random quotes in conversations familiar. For example: Sister-in-law: Girl, I'm moving to Hawaii Me: You and me us never part *insert hand motions*[...]
Yesterday bell hooks dropped her critique of Lemonade/all things Beyoncé. Spoiler alert-- bell still feels the same about Beyoncé. And it still reads violently. And it still hurts to watch. Be not deceived, couched in a lengthy word count and what appear to be concessions that allude to bordering on positivity, bell publicly came at Bey's head. Also a Black woman. Again. The easy stuff. Bell said Bey ain't saying nothing new or revolutionary. I addressed that in my last piece. I must say I'[...]