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Of Melanin, Mahrams, Mahr and Marriage: ‘Bridgerton’ in Review

By Zayaan Ryle|2021-01-24T19:48:59+02:00January 22nd, 2021|Categories: All Topics, Expressions, Reviews, Reviews Featured, Reviews Latest|Tags: Bridgerton, Colourism, feminism, Gender, Literature, Marriage, Netflix, Race, reviews, Shonda Rhimes, television|

Guilty as charged - I binged Bridgerton. The first Netflix-Shonda Rhimes production is essentially a Jane Austen-meets-Gossip Girl-meets-softcore-porn soap opera. Was this the best television I’ve watched in a while? I mean, no. But it’s

On The Entanglement of Racism, Policing, and Capital, within the Human Empire of Absolute Freedom.

(Or, on why it has taken hundreds of years of publicly lynching Blacks, for most of y’all to find out last week.) Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim: We live under the hegemony of a European project