Shannon Keating
5 TV Shows You Should Watch Right Now
From Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You to the new season of The Twilight Zone.
Tomi Obaro
Bike Shorts Are The Pandemic Blessing I Didn’t Expect
I was skeptical when bike shorts first got trendy again. But after experimenting with them as a comfy quarantine look, I’m fully obsessed.
Shannon Keating
Corporate Pride Events Can't Happen This Year. Let's Keep It That Way.
The historic Brooklyn Liberation march for Black trans lives featured righteous fury as well as queer joy — a blueprint for what Prides of the future can be.
Shannon Keating
Symbolic Gestures Are Not Enough
As Black Lives Matter protests yield results, it’s become harder to ignore the gulf between well-meaning but ultimately worthless gestures and real, radical change.
Shannon Keating
Protesters And Journalists Are Being Attacked For Exercising The Same Rights
Why are some journalists all too eager to rail against media suppression while downplaying — or even championing — police efforts to harass or arrest protesters?
Shannon Keating
Stop Sharing Viral Photos Of Cops Kneeling With Protesters
If you share pictures of police officers kneeling or hugging protesters, you’re not advancing the cause against police brutality; if anything, you’re impeding it.
Shannon Keating
Peaceful Demonstrations Against Racism And Police Brutality Continued As Protesters Defied Curfew Orders
The demonstrations in Houston, New York City, and Washington, DC, were largely peaceful.
Stephanie K. Baer
People Are Taking To The Streets To Protest Police Brutality Amid Trump's Threat To Unleash The Military
Police attacked protesters in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, while Trump threatened to unleash the military on demonstrators against systematic inequality.
Claudia Koerner
The Racism Of White Women
It’s past time for us to ditch the damsel narrative, admit our power, and stand up for racial justice.
Shannon Keating
Celebrity Dating Gossip Is Getting Me Through This Pandemic
From Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat (maybe) getting cozy during quarantine to Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s endless paparazzi walks, I can't get enough of celebrity odd couples.
Shannon Keating
Five Celebrities With Unexpectedly Great Instagram Accounts
From Ina Garten to Arnold Schwarzenegger, these celebs are getting loose on Instagram.
Tomi Obaro
Netflix's New Lesbian Documentary Misses The Mark
An otherwise heartwarming story of a decadeslong relationship, A Secret Love is undercut by its filmmakers' preoccupations with the closet.
Shannon Keating
6 TV Shows Worth Streaming Right Now
From Mindy Kaling's new heartwarming teen comedy to OG reality TV.
Tomi Obaro
32 Short Story Collections That Will Cure Even The Worst Reading Slump
Look, we're not all spending quarantine breezing through the epics.
Arianna Rebolini
“I’m Depressed, But Feel I Have No Right To Be”: Class Anxiety During The Pandemic
“What good is the privilege I have when I feel like I can’t do anything meaningful with it?”
Shannon Keating
Is Someone In Your Household Going To Work While Sick?
We'd like to hear from you.
Shannon Keating
“Portrait Of A Lady On Fire” Is The Perfect Quarantine Watch
Céline Sciamma’s remarkable lesbian love story offers up some poignant — and timely — lessons about loving your hardest despite the future’s uncertainties. (Some spoilers.)
Shannon Keating
I Probably Have The Coronavirus. I Wish I Could Know For Sure.
There’s so much we can’t know about the future. But getting tested for COVID-19, at least, would tell me that my own worst-case scenario is the one I’m in right now.
Shannon Keating
When The People You Love Can’t Accept That They Need To Stay Home
“I deeply value doing things for the greater good, but so many people in my life seem not to. I don’t know how to go forward with these relationships.”
Shannon Keating
As The Coronavirus Spreads, What Do We Really Owe One Another?
Pandemics have historically pushed humanity to undergo great moral and spiritual reckonings. This one could be ours.
Shannon Keating
