Alex Reaves
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Alex Reaves is a sad and bored teenager living in the suburbs. While not writing for publications such as xoJane and Thought Catalog, she thinks about her future cats. @weil_knockoff
Season two of Master of None was recently released on Netflix, and it seems Aziz Ansari might be…
Woke Boy Extraordinaire™ Kendrick Lamar has supposedly taken on body positivity in his latest release Humble. “I’m so…
I should’ve been shocked when I heard about the recent assault of an unidentified black woman in an…
All childhoods should be happy. Children, perhaps the only innocent people in this world, deserve to cherish a few…
Hands on hips, neck rocking back-and-forth, a mouthful of sweet, strange vernacular passed down from your mama and…
Tammy was like me. She was 18-years-old, obsessed with boys and spoke French. She wrote poetry, loved shopping,…
Bono is Glamour’s Man of the Year — on a list for Women of the Year. You may be asking…
One of my favorite music videos growing up was P!nk’s “Stupid Girls.” It featured a parade of young,…
A common part of the black experience is the epiphany that our skin color is not incidental. One…
What does it mean to be a young black woman in this day and age? Is it being…