Michael Arceneaux, a longtime writer and author of I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé, describes his first book as his B’Day or Janet album. Released in July, the book is a series of charmingly cynical, reflective essays about his Houston upbringing, finding his…
Think of your most awkward middle school moment—of which there are likely many—and now imagine being a teenager in 2018. Chances are, you’ll feel a kinship with 15-year-old Elsie Fisher, the actor who plays Kayla in Bo Burnham’s sweet directorial debut Eighth Grade (a movie Jezebel clearly loves). In her remarkable…
Marsha Ambrosius’s light touch is so refreshing in a world of increasingly heavy-handed communication. The singer, who was born in England and worked for years as one half of the neo-soul group Floetry, has a catalog full of slow-burning R&B. At times, her passion takes a matter-of-fact turn for the explicit, as it…
This is just plain rude.
Grown-ish, the black-ish spinoff starring Yara Shahidi, turned out to be a success in large part because of its talented (and also hot) ensemble cast. On the series, which completed its impressive first season in March (former Jezebel staffer Kara Brown was in the writer’s room), Chloe and Halle Bailey (widely known…
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
The idea of saying “fuck it” to your shit job and taking your rock band on the road sounds like the stuff of teen fantasies and cult ’80s movies, or at the very least a nominally bad idea. But it’s 2018 and all bets are off—and if you have even a small fraction of the talent that friend-of-Jezebel TOMI does, you’re…
In Part 1 of our roundtable with former reality TV stars Amber Marchese (The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 6), Irene McGee (The Real World: Seattle), and Shii Ann Huang (Survivor: Thailand), they discussed the filming process, producers, and how the melodramatic sauce gets made. Here’s the second part of that…
In late April, Jezebel moderated a conversation between three reality TV alumni: Amber Marchese (Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 6), Irene McGee (MTV’s The Real World: Seattle), and Shii Ann Huang (CBS’s Survivor: Thailand). In a lively discussion, the trio traded stories about their filming…
From RuPaul to Lady Bunny, drag queens have attracted the mainstream spotlight in recent years. But those who love the art form beyond Drag Race know that there’s far more to drag than performances of over-the-top femininity. Drag kings and male impersonators have been perfecting and honing their own performances of…
In Mary H.K. Choi’s debut novel, Emergency Contact, most of the conversations between Penny, the novel’s protagonist, and Sam, her friend/love interest/soul mate, take place via texts. It’s a premise that in lesser hands could flop, but Choi’s writing sparkles, gleams, and glistens. Emergency Contact is a true…
According to her Boston Globe obituary, when Frances Glessner Lee, the Gilded Age heiress turned pioneering forensic scientist, was interrupted again and again by a male reporter, she “pushed out her jaw and said, ‘Look here, young man, you’re trying to anticipate what I’m going to say, and you haven’t the brains…
Welcome back to Where Are They Now?: Last Week’s Creeps This Week, a series that catches up with creeps of yore.
In December, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski identified what she felt was a problem with the #MeToo movement: “Any woman can say anything, and that’s it,” she said. The accused’s career “is over.” Oh, is that so?
On the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Jezebel spoke to women attendees about their beliefs and self-perceptions.
The dominance of emotionally narcissistic men in music, Drake and his disciples, has been somewhat exhausting; their object-relationship with women and centering of selfish demands in soft croons like a radio version of three-card monte. But, simultaneously, we’ve been fortunate to have seen women musicians like…
