Maiysha Kai's saved articles

Yup.  Several of the brand new congresspeople are Trojan horses.  Boebert for sure; probably Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Madison Cawthorne too. 

They were busy helping racist traitors in through side doors. 

You really think a man that drags around his token brown child would do this?

It was Gaetz. 100% Gaetz.

Agreed with the article on all points. Wintour is wrong on the point of power: a more formal, less familiar, look would convey Kamala Harris’ power and support a narrative of power. Wintour contradicts her use of “welcoming” earlier in her mealy-mouthed response. Why does Kamala Harris have to be “welcoming” as… Read more

ever since ive learned about clubhouse it sounded like the party line of my teen years but with topics

I think you got it completely. Happy and relaxed looks good in a photo, not because of approachability or whatever but because it looks more natural than a traditional, heavily posed, extremely formal shoot. But there’s a good way and a bad way to do it. And this is, without question, a bad way to do it. It looks like… Read more

I think about this shit all the time. I have no idea how y’all do it. I used to admire y’all’s strength to stand in the face of that, but now all I can wonder is just how much better off the entire world could be if y’all could put that tireless energy towards... well, anything you choose. It’s so goddamned… Read more

“...when the two images arrived at Vogue, all of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the Vice President-Elect really reflected the moment that we were living in ... And we felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture, something that was very, very accessible… Read more

It’s not a small thing, to learn (again) that the supposedly most iconic fashion magazine in the world will go out of its way to make sure that the supposedly most powerful woman in the world whose Blackness Vogue is colour-blind to is being celebrated as “approachable”.

“I think that the fact that the cover itself is so charming, and so relaxed, and, for me, so surprising, and so real,” she muses, noting that the cover is “a very welcoming image
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Every year I teach a poetry critique unit, and every year one of the poems that resonates most with the students is Audre Lorde’s “Hanging Fire.” That poem is pure honesty. 

She never should’ve sidelined Andre Leon Talley. 

Also, I’m the same grouchy negro who initially thought Facebook was redundant (“I already have MySpace, and MySpace has music!”) and Twitter was valueless (“So people just write haikus to each other? Why not just text?”) Read more

“I think that the fact that the cover itself is so charming, and so relaxed, and, for me, so surprising, and so real,” she muses, noting that the cover is “a very welcoming image.” Read more

Damn right!

You’re reading my mind again. I came to say “real” is a euphemism for “gritty” when White folks describe those of our stories which are harrowing. It’s synonymous with their idea of a singular, downtrodden “authentic” Black experience. I doubt pedestrian “realness” is how Hilary Clinton or Sarah Palin would’ve been… Read more

...when the two images arrived at Vogue, all of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of... Read more

kinda like this.