Nylah Burton
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Denver, CO, United States
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Past articles by Nylah:
The real history of Queen Charlotte, and the problem with Netflix’s Bridgerton spinoff
Shonda Rhimes’s new show imagines an interracial romance that remakes Regency England. That sure didn’t happen. → Read More
Swarm isn’t a love letter to Black women. It’s hate mail.
If Donald Glover wants to prove he respects Black women, Swarm isn’t it. → Read More
This Indigenous Community Was Deemed 'Extinct.' Its Food Culture Destroys That Myth.
"Despite rising prices, gentrification, and constant development… this will always be Ohlone land.” → Read More
Atlanta’s third season explores the horrors of intimacy with whiteness
The FX hit leans into the surreality of being Black. → Read More
BitchReads: 10 Books Feminists Should Read in April
“Young Mungo,” “The Red Zone,” “Harley Quinn: Reckoning,” and more. → Read More
10 Essential Books About Writing
Must-read titles for writers include works by Elena Ferrante, Akwaeke Emezi, Meg Wolitzer, Yoko Ogawa, and more. → Read More
Euphoria changes the narrative around Blackness and addiction
The show’s imperfect portrayal of Rue gets some things right. → Read More
Why “The Lost Daughter” Fumbled its Elena Ferrante Adaptation
By omitting the rich interiority of the main character, the film adaptation renders flat the book’s complex discussion of motherhood and class. → Read More
Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” Imagines a Carceral State for “Bad” Moms
In “The School for Good Mothers,” the question of how to punish bad mothers is answered by the state, in an America not much different from our own. → Read More
Insecure’s final season was about legacy. The show will leave a lasting one.
Issa Rae’s HBO show might be ending, but the work she started has just begun. → Read More
Is “Harlem” Intentionally Designed to Hate-Watch?
The new show makes confusing choices that deliver woefully unoriginal Black characters. → Read More
Writers of Color Are Reshaping the Wild West Lit Canon
Bitch Media's Mission is to provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to media and popular culture. → Read More
“Sex Cult Nun”: Faith Jones Interrogates the Abusive Community Her Grandfather Created
“Sex Cult Nun” is a startling memoir of child abuse. → Read More
Essentialist Thinking
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch. → Read More
Sally Rooney is a Phenomenon—and Her Newest Book Suffers For It
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch. → Read More
This Woman’s Plan For Black Women’s Equal Pay? Get Black Women Elected
Glynda C. Carr, co-founder of Higher Heights for America, shares why getting Black women elected will help close the Black women's pay gap. → Read More
“The Very Nice Box” Reveals the Dystopian Heart of Millennial Workplaces
This book’s uncanny nature is what makes it so damn smart and also more than a little terrifying. → Read More
Kristen Arnett’s “With Teeth” Centers an Unreliable Queer Narrator
As unreliable a character as Sammie is, the reader knows she’s not a liar. → Read More
Ashley C. Ford’s “Somebody’s Daughter” Argues for Love with Conditions
We have to be open to the idea that love can look and be so many different ways. → Read More
Your College Is Probably Evil. Here’s How to Pressure It Into Doing Better
Schools are doing annoying, tragic, discriminatory stuff all the time. If you don’t like it, there are ways to get them to listen. → Read More