Blogging The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 5, Episode 19: Battle of the Booty

It’s been a minute since we’ve recapped the Real Housewives of Atlanta!  Let’s get everyone up to speed:

Kenya is still crazy Kandi is still the most level-headed on the cast Nene is still talking about how successful she is Porsha is still using made up words Cynthia’s weave game is still suspect Phaedra [...]

What’s In a Name? Kind of a Lot.

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Refusing to learn how to pronounce Quvenzhané’s name says, pointedly, you are not worth the effort. The problem is not that she has an unpronounceable name, because she doesn’t. The problem is that white Hollywood, from Ryan Seacrest and his homies to the AP reporter who decided to call her “Annie” rather than her real name, doesn’t deem her as important as, say, Renee Zellwegger, or Zach Galifinakis, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, all of whom have names that are difficult to pronounce–but they manage. [...]

White History Classes.

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Between Mr. Gaines from A Different World passing away and me losing my BBQ sunflower seeds, this Black History Month was on a fast track to becoming one of the saddest in history.  Until, that is, Twitter banded together, shed their shrouds of indifference, made some hot, sweet, sticky, [...]

Know Your History: Christie, the First Black Barbie Doll.

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Harambee, brothers and sisters in struggle!  With the blessing of another year comes another chance to celebrate our nappy ass roots and search the forgotten annals of black history.  For the last few years, we’ve been bringing you the wildly informative and 100% true and accurate* series Know Your History, wherein we tell you the [...]

Blogging The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 5. Episode 13: Make An Ass Out of a Donkey.

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Dearly beloved: we are gathered here today to try and figure out exactly WTF is wrong with Kenya.

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Respectable Hip Hop.

Last night, much of Twitter united to reclaim and rewrite our favorite less-than-progressive rap and hip hop lyrics.  It was a beautiful thing.

It all started when I was listening to 2 Chainz, which I do when there’s no one around to judge me for it, and I thought about the line “She got a [...]

Blogging The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Episode 10: Off the Hook

How relieving to not have to open these recaps with talk of how boring Kim was in a particular episode.

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Blogging RHOA, Episode 7: I Do… But, I Won’t.

Kenya teaching the ladies how to dougie. I mean being batshit crazy.

Alright! Here we go! Nene and Kenya finally have that big fight the internets have been buzzing about since before the season started!

And by fight, I mean they do a weird little tango-waltz sort of thing.

We’ve been hoodwinked.

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