A grocery store chicken wrapped in plastic is fished from a trashcan and thrown to a little red-headed kid. A young woman spontaneously riding in a pick-up truck with a group of oil-workers who sneer when she asks “if they’re rich.” A van filled mostly with white kids in baseball caps, tank-tops, and metal neck […]
Read More “American Honey” review: A lost America through the perspective of a lost girl5-days after the election, comedian Wanda Sykes was performing in front of thousands during the 22nd Annual Comics Come Home Fundraiser. Sykes, on the topic of consoling people after America elected The Annoying Orange stated; “This is not the first time we’ve elected a racist, sexist, homophobic President. He ain’t the first one, he’s just […]
Read More The Importance of Wanda SykesA while back I wrote a post theorizing about how abortion bans can in fact be used as means of control by State Governments in terms of perpetuating poverty and income inequality, and thus consolidating elitist control State citizens. Since that post, a recent bill has been passed by the Ohio Legislature which essentially restricts […]
Read More How Abortion Bans Promote Elitism (Part 2)(image use flickr-Gage Skidmore) Depending on who you are, Tomi Lahren is either the Hobbit that saves Middle Earth or one of Sauron’s orcs. A 24-year old conservative media figure on The Blaze, Lahren’s rants on Colin Kaepernick’s un-Americanism, the babyish nature of Trump protestors, and how Black Lives Matter is similar to the […]
Read More Tomi Lahren’s Interview with Trevor Noah is the New NormToday’s comedian quote for the post comes from none other than Paul Mooney who stated that white people can laugh at jokes about any race, religion, ethnicity, nationality etc. but “the minute it’s about you being ‘white’, you have no sense of humor about yourself. Fuck you, you can be talked about too, this is […]
Read More The Ballad of the Oversensitive White Males90s hip hop and feminism have quite the sordid history, with Kanye West himself acknowledging that “I definitely think generally rap is pretty misogynistic.” Nonetheless, there has indeed been moments of intersection between feminism and hip-hop in the past whereby brutal honesty is mixed in with the need to genuinely lift each other up, particularly […]
Read More Exploring feminism in 90s Hip HopSong of Solomon might be the most accurate, intimate and harrowing account of boyhood I have ever read. And it was written by Toni Morrison, a woman; someone not usually associated with having such vast knowledge about growing up masculine. Yet Morrison’s ability to critically analyze the role of gender and race in 1930 […]
Read More What Toni Morrison taught me about masculinity(featured image WikiMedia Commons- Star Maid Games) For 95 minutes, I pretended to be in love. My beau to be was a player on the RPG “Valtameri”, who went by the moniker “Ichi.” Our relationship bloomed through simultaneous strikes on enemy demon squids, rock monsters, and crystal trolls, all while exchanging skin showing selfies and […]
Read More “Cibele” or How a Video Game teaches us about Modern Relationships(featured image pixabay-Bessi) Here at ShoutOut JMU we discussed a bevy of topics on the night of October the 24th the 2016. Take a look! Politics: -Hillary Clinton’s schooling of Donald Trump in terms of abortion and Planned Parenthood rhetoric was poetry for those tired of hearing a man explain how such freedoms are […]
Read More The Legend of the Newsroom(featured image use flickr-Mujeres ante el Congreso) At the Presidential Debate last night, Donald Trump announced he would he would appoint “pro-life” justices on the courts and would try to place the issue of Roe V. Wade back to the states. As of 2016, 30 abortion restriction laws in 14 states have been enacted, […]
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