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Produce Receipts or Let Amanda Seales Be

If this is an exhaustive list of why Amanda Seales isn’t “likable”, then we’re all in trouble.

I think about sisterhood a lot, possibly to the point of overanalyzing how well Black women practice and promote it. I think bell hooks felt the same when she discussed how fragile sisterhood can be…

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This is Not How You Protect Black Women

I doubt Will Smith is coming to my hood to slap a man on the corner calling me a bitch because I didn’t smile at his compliment. I doubt Will Smith is thinking about over 5.2 million Black women (myself included) who experienced domestic violence at the hands of a Black man as he assaulted Chris Rock on national television.

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