Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun. That`s not a small problem.

I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?