By Tamara Winfrey Harris Steve Harvey is convinced you could use a few lessons in being “a lady.” So he says in his relationship advice tome, Act Like a Lady; […]
Author: Tami Winfrey Harris
Tami Winfrey Harris writes about race, feminism, politics and pop culture at the blog What Tami Said. Her work has also appeared online at The Guardian’s Comment is Free, Newsweek, Change.org, Huffington Post and Racialicious. She is a graduate of the Iowa State University Greenlee School of Journalism. She spends her spare time researching her family history and cultivating a righteous 'fro.
Black Women, Tyrese Wants To Save You From Your Terrible Independence
For the past few weeks, as part of my project exploring black women, relationships and marriage, I’ve been immersing myself in books, films, blog posts and other media on the […]
What the Racist “Psychology Today” Post Means for Feminism
If you somehow managed to miss the Internet firestorm over the past week, Satoshi Kanazawa penned a Psychology Today post last Monday allegedly “proving” that black women are objectively less […]
Bridesmaids: Can an Apatow Movie Pass the Bechdel Test?
Turns out, to my enduring surprise, the answer to my headline query is “yes.” I went to see the Judd Apatow-produced Bridesmaids with the thinnest of hope. A gung-ho comedy […]
Hip Mama: For Uncommon Parents
Crack open issue number 47 of Hip Mama—The Body Issue—and here’s what you get: a photograph of a pregnant woman in the desert, posed like a warrior, belly full and exposed; […]
I Have Big Thighs
Surfing Flickr, I ran across a photo taken surreptitiously of a woman sitting in a subway. Her above-the-knee skirt is slightly parted to reveal her large thighs. It was posted […]
Lady Antebellum and the Glorification of the Pre-Civil War South
A few months ago, “Need You Now” by the country group Lady Antebellum was among iTunes’ free downloads. I’m a curious music lover with eclectic tastes, so I snagged the […]