By Sexual Correspondent AJ Plaid and Guest Contibutor (and regular commenter) Fiqah

After re-reading some of the responses to the Ciara/Justin Timberlake post and extensively confabbing over brunches about it, we finally figured out that the greatest transgression Ciara committed wasn’t the BDSM imagery (though some wanted to switch the argument from that to “this is just [...]

by Guest Contributor Jen, originally published at Disgrasian
When I was at Yale, Mixed Company had the reputation of being the “funny singing group.” You know, as opposed to the “hot singing group” (that would have been the Baker’s Dozen, or the “BD’s” for men, and Something Extra, aka “Sextra,” for women) or the “serious singing [...]

by Special Correspondent Thea Lim

A little over half a year ago, I wrote a fawning article about Russell Peters, trying to justify why I love him in spite of the fact that he could easily be criticised for making racist comedy.
I said that I loved Peters because his comedy is (unintentionally?) subversive: it highlights the [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Here we go again.
Angry Asian Man reports on the newest bit of racism masquerading as humor:
This is really unfortunate, but I’m not surprised in the slightest…. Soon after Dartmouth College announced that it had appointed Dr. Jim Yong Kim as the school’s next president — the Ivy League’s first Asian American president — [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Earlier this week, I received an email from a new reader:
Hi Latoya,
My name is B and I live in Florida. In fact, the neighborhood where I reside is a very desirable, mostly residential area centrally located near downtown and only a few short minutes to our lovely beaches.
The reason I am writing is [...]

by Guest Contributor Macon Dee, originally published at Stuff White People Do
Do you remember Pauly Shore? I don’t find him especially worth remembering, but I think his new project, a movie called Adopted, deserves attention. Critical attention.
It seems to me that in the trailer below, Shore enacts a common white tendency: acting racist in a [...]

by Latoya Peterson

You know, dear readers, I am sometimes entirely too curious for my own good.
But I’m going to blame Joseph for this latest bout of killing the cat, since it was his comment (#58) on the original HJNTIY thread that led me to the Friday matinee show.
Before I jump into [...]

by Guest Contributor Anonymous

“Are Americans Ready for a Black President?” is a one of those news headlines circulating on the web.
So people call Obama black and McCain white, but I just did an algorithmic test. I measured the color of a large rectangle of each person’s forehead based on Wikipedia’s photo of them. A photo [...]