 Guys, I can’t stop listening to “WAP.” The new single by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion is hilariously profane and subversive all at once, as Niela Orr writes in her excellent analysis of the song and music video. I’m only mad that the only place I can currently dance to this song is in the obscurity of my own apartment.
Tomi
Personal Essays  What My Mother Didn't Talk About My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.
I’m Still A Virgin In My Thirties, Not By Choice Growing up in a strict Korean Presbyterian community, chastity was a given. But the body-shaming I received made sex seem like an impossibility.
"He Asked If I Knew How I Was Going To Die. He Said It Would Be Real Peaceful." In a haunting excerpt from Natasha Trethewey's memoir, Memorial Drive, Trethewey recounts the first time her stepfather tried to kill her m
Features  C.J. Burton for BuzzFeed News The Case For Facial Feminization Surgery To make something like FFS truly accessible — and to give trans people true agency over it — requires completely reimagining the capitalist medical system.
“I’m Going To Be Honest With You,” The Grandfather Told Police. “I Killed A Lot.” In this excerpt adapted from The Devil’s Harvest, Jessica Garrison reveals how a contract killer’s 35-year run of murder and mayhem in California’s Central Valley reflects a far more widespread injustice: The institutions that were supposed to protect a community failed it again and again.
Books  Kate Bubacz for BuzzFeed News Luster Is The Next Great Millennial Novel This darkly comic book about a Black twentysomething woman dating a white guy in an open marriage has been getting a ton of buzz.
10 Great Books That Are Out In Paperback This Month André Aciman's follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Rivers Solomon's deep-sea novella, an anthology of essays to mothers, and more.
Answer 8 Questions And We'll Tell You Which New Book To Read This Month So many great releases. Where should you begin?
This Laura van den Berg Short Story Is An Eerie Commentary On #MeToo In this story from I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, a man tries to convince his wife her anger isn’t real.
Mothers Are Blamed For Everything, And I Was Tired Of Being Blamed In this short story from Sansei and Sensibility, a woman has to clean up her late aunt's apartment.
Cultural Criticism  YouTube / Via screenshot How Cardi B And Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” Flipped The Script The hilariously profane song and music video are subversive in so many different ways.
The Future Of True Crime Will Have To Be Different While I’ll Be Gone in The Dark and Unsolved Mysteries make for compelling TV, it’s time for true crime to move past white middlebrow comfort food.
Behind The Campy Cult Classic That Captured Bloody Teen Girl Rage Twenty years after the Canadian horror flick Ginger Snaps introduced the world to an iconic teen girl werewolf, there's still no character quite like her.
Why Does Indian Matchmaking Make My Culture Seem So Burdensome? Shows like Indian Matchmaking and Family Karma are entertaining, but when will South Asian people get reality TV that doesn't depict our culture as being a drag?
Lisa Rinna’s Shamelessness Saved The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills The soap star and QVC queen's utter shamelessness has revived the franchise.
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