In 2013 Beyoncé’s track “Flawless” hit the music world — hard. Sprinkled throughout the track were samples of award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech entitled “We Should All Be Feminists.” It wasn’t long after that the internet was flooded with the pop star’s feminist stance and Adichie’s role in it. Recently, three years after the…
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I tried to make a home out of you but doors lead to trap doors, a stairway leads to nothing. Unknown women wander the hallways at night. Where do you go when you go quiet? I finally watched Beyonce’s latest work, Lemonade, a staggering and vivid “visual album”, and was…
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It’s easy to brush off popular culture as a separate and contained sphere of life, but look no further than the latest issue of TIME Magazine to be reminded of just how completely false any such notion really is. On the cover of the annual “100 Most Influential” article is none other than Beyonce. In her underwear. Who wrote her endorsement? Sheryl Sandberg.
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