Tag: Karen

KR: As a child, news was all around me, so naturally my first reporting work was writing for my high school paper. My mother always had a newspaper on hand and she watched a lot of CNBC. Reading the news was a daily routine. My parents and I moved from Jamaica to the U.S. when I was in elementary sc...

If your name is not Karen, this may sail over your head. It's only because “Karen” is the first name on my birth certificate that I'm getting into a huff about this. I myself have clicked on Karen videos and been entertained by a Karen’s testosterone-...

I feel like y’all know exactly what I’m writing about, but it stills needs to be said. At three in the morning, Lana del Rey (née Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) woke up and posted an essay about how she has been criticized for apparently glorifying abuse, and while she has a...

There has been a lot of chatter from us white women in recent years about male privilege, The Patriarchy, and toxic masculinity. While sometimes using these terms may have some merit, what we never talk about is the privilege that we as white women have in spades, our shortcomings, and how virtually...

The two friends hadn’t done anything together since before COVID. After three years of generally staying at home, they decided it was high time they chanced a gentle afternoon outing. Perhaps they could even leave their masks behind, the daring creatures! They were lucky to have...