called up american sweetheart Azealia Banks for the spring issue of
@Dazed
(!!)
“People are always like, oh, it’s the Azealia Banks redemption arc,” she said. “But who the fuck am I redeeming myself for? You should be trying to redeem yourselves for me.”
andré leon talley is moving the pub date for his memoir up from september to may, due to “POPULAR DEMAND” — he said if it’s TEA the girls want, it would be impolite to keep them waiting
basically sold out everywhere—or at least everywhere i’ve been—but finally managed to get a copy of my azealia cover story via a friend in new york…& turns out they went with my title!
went to Montréal to have lunch with
@Kaytranada
-- we talked about him finally singing lead on his own beats, recognizing his cultural influence, dreams, tattoos, self-doubt & self-belief, drake, beyoncé, & more... for
@vulture
/
@nymag
💿
science centre shutting down over a fixable roof issue (probably to be replaced by a condo imo), revue theatre threatening closure because of a greedy landlord, ontario place shut off to accommodate a luxury spa, this is exactly what i mean
was rifling through my mother's old photographs & recovered these glam shots of my aunt from jamaica, a theatre, film & tv actress, who wrote in an enclosed letter: "Can you believe that because I look 'young' for my age I have a problem? What do they expect me to look like?"
claudia conway is a teenager whose politics are at odds with her parents... I don’t know why you’re all experiencing this as her being a kind of moral hero, the desire to anoint kids in this way is always weird and discomfiting
wrote for
@vice
/
@vicecanada
about whitney houston, amy winehouse, alexander mcqueen, and how we are complicit in the destructions of our cultural icons
The 29-year-old black photographer William Ukoh has always been fascinated by the Renaissance and its religious imagery. Now, he’s creating his own version. Spoke to him for
@vice
/
@vicecanada
about his work, his heritage, and black storytelling.
gays, particularly on al gore’s internet, can be neatly divided into two distinct ontological categories: geniuses (fans of azealia banks) and literally everyone else (non-fans of azealia banks)
my first contributing writer entry for the walrus is about tyler perry’s “diary of a mad black woman,” “american fiction,” & the endless cultural battle over “authenticity”
ok I've been impatiently waiting to announce this, nursing my delight in private, & now I can say this: for the next year, I'll be an editorial fellow .
@thewalrus
! words can't describe my excitement—i'm going to learn so much!—so here's an emoji to serve as my emotional proxy: 🍾
i started today, officially, as an associate editor at
@huffpostcanada
! i’ll be here for the next couple months, doing a bit of lifestyle, a bit of culture, a bit of entertainment. my email — aka where you can send tips and love letters — is connor.garel
@huffpost
.com 💫
hahaha remember how the smoke & mirrors were arranged around tyler mitchell's cover shoot, presenting it as a kind of CULTURAL REVOLUTION—some irreverent action to inaugurate a triumphant shift in publishing—only for vogue to never have another black photographer shoot the cover
No I didn't. I don't think Nicki understands that the most unique aspect of her cultural impact was the permission she gave female rappers to be insanely feminine. Nicki Minaj was the first female rapper to not be trying to emulate male rap aesthetics, she was unapologetically
deaths, especially when announced via literal tabloid twitter accounts, are always dreamlike in the worst way, and there is nothing worse than collective grief filtered through the confusion and uncertainty the internet fosters and exacerbates
(this is a “some news” tweet…)
thrilled to announce that i’ve [re-]joined
@thewalrus
as the magazine’s 2023 Justice Fund Writer in Residence!
looking forward to working on a couple of longform stories, over the course of the next year, that are close to my heart 🍾
the cognitive dissonance required to make routine of land acknowledgments and also then pledge “unwavering support” for ethnic cleansing and land theft lol i hate “canada” and all of its political exponents
people are starting online book clubs & baking clubs & film clubs & finding ways to make social distancing less lonely & i have to say, at the risk of being saccharine: it’s incredibly beautiful & human, & possibly the first sincerely good moment for this website in a v long time
last year, logan paul filmed a dead body in japan's suicide forest for his youtube channel. now, he's back with a documentary about the whole thing. i wrote about the limitations and mythologies of cancel culture for
@vicecanada
friday was my last day at
@HuffPostCanada
. I had a great year and a half there, & i’m so grateful they took a chance on me right out of university! today is my first day
@thewalrus
, & I’m eager to see what the year will bring. it’s in my bio now, so it’s all VERY official 💫
for the record, that viola davis shoot for this month’s vanity fair is the magazine’s first cover to be shot by a black photographer—which is como se dice embarrassing
hard to isolate any single passage from this bc it's all so horrifying, bc it's impossible to avoid a physiological response to a piece that lays plain all the violence of who exactly is terrorizing whom—in lieu of the euphemistic "it's complicated"
i wrote for
@vicecanada
about the televised revolution of pose/
@poseonfx
and what it means as a queer person, amid social and political rejection, to choose your own family
#posefx
journalists baldly revealing themselves to be uncritical repeaters of what is so clearly IDF propaganda is beyond infuriating, especially when the retractions — in their few instances — are so mealy-mouthed & weak compared to the outrageous force of the initial false claims
From Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian to Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, check out some of our famous celeb couples who have found love beyond race.
#NOTEDbyBET