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Unbothered
I’m A Black Woman With Cerebral Palsy & I Didn’t Think I’d Make It Into ...
Imani Barbarin
Mar 21, 2023
Unbothered
Black Women Get Fillers Too — & I Refuse To Dissolve Mine
Jackie Adedeji
Mar 21, 2023
Unbothered
The Spring 2023 Equinox Is Bringing Big Exalted Energy — Here’s What To Listen ...
Chelsea Jackson
Mar 21, 2023
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Unbothered
What Fashion Loses As Law Roach Retires
Ayan Artan
Mar 17, 2023
Unbothered
Hulu’s
UnPrisoned
Taught Me How To Forgive My Father
Liv Facey
Mar 17, 2023
Unbothered
Swarm
Sets Its Sights On The Beyhive & The Portrayal Stings
Ineye Komonibo
Mar 17, 2023
Dedicated Feature
Unpacking The Many Layers Of The “Big Chop” & What It...
Our hair and our identities are intimately linked, and for Black women in particular, that connection runs deep. In a society that continues to prioritize
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Unbothered
How ADHD Makes Natural Hair Care Hard For Black Women
“I think about cutting all my 4C hair off every wash day,” reads an anonymous post from one Reddit user who identifies as a Black woman with ADHD. “I
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
I’m Showing Black Folx How Family Photo Albums Help To Prot...
Welcome back to Book-ish, Unbothered’s hub for Black folx who put the ‘lit’ in literature! Book-ish is a space for Black people who love to r
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Renata Cherlise
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Somos Latinx
The White Business Of Cosplaying As Black and Latine Is A Violent...
Long before Rachel Dolezal and Jessica A. Krug turned prominent scholars and leaders by pretending to be Black American and Black Puerto Rican, respectivel
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Marjua Estevez
Unbothered
Angela Bassett Doesn’t Owe The Oscars A Thing — Not Even A Smile
My expectations for this year’s Oscar Awards were low. After another long awards season of Hollywood doing what it does best — ignoring Black art — I
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Ineye Komonibo
Somos Latinx
Despite Making Music For A Decade, Ravyn Lenae Is Just Getting St...
At age 24, Ravyn Lenae has spent nearly a decade in the music industry. By the time many of us discovered her through her second EP in 2018 — Crush, the
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Ashley Garcia Lez...
Unbothered
The Black TV Shows You Should Be Watching This Spring
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Chris Rock & Dave Chappelle: We’re Not Outraged, We’r...
“Woke culture” isn’t ruining comedy — it’s comedians themselves who are choking the life out of it. And if you need any proof of this downward sp
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Tayo Bero
Unbothered
A Guide To Manifestation Masturbation, According To Amber The Con...
This story includes sexually explicit language. Welcome to Demystified, Unbothered’s spirituality series for Black and brown folx. Through a lens of recl
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Kourtney Pope
Unbothered
In
Creed III
, Adonis Faces His Toughest Opponent Yet: Trauma
This story contains heavy spoilers for Creed III. When Creed first premiered in 2015, the world had no idea how big it would become; after all, it was just
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Tessa Thompson Talks Going To Couples Therapy With Michael B. Jordan
Rocky Balboa’s iconic ascent up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — out of breath and in gray joggers as “Eye of the Tiger” blares in the
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
Netflix’s
The Strays
Highlights The Horror Of Colorism
Spoilers ahead. In a week where a reality TV favourite finally addressed its known colorism problem, Netflix UK dropped The Strays (February 22) a psycholo
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
TikTok Says You Need A Signature Scent. Let
Black Girls Smell ...
Are you on PerfumeTok? Chances are, if you’ve paused even for a second on any perfume review or Sephora ad on TikTok, you’ve found yourself in the vide
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Race Is “More Central” In
Queen Charlotte
Than In
Br...
In the Bridgerton Cinematic Universe — the BCU, if you will — it’s expected that glamorous balls, fancy gowns, and romantic longing will reign over a
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
Why Do So Many Black Women Keep Working With Chris Brown?
There was controversy recently directed toward R&B singer Chlöe Bailey, of Chlöe x Halle fame, after she announced that her latest single “How Does
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Hanna Phifer
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Unbothered
The NAACP Image Awards Is
The
Award Show Of The Season &...
Every year, the NAACP Image Awards recognize the best Black talent in entertainment. Every year, it is the singular awards show that prioritizes the Black
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
The Real Housewives of Potomac
Finally Got Real About Colo...
Thanks to the machinations of crafty producers and executives eager to make their productions as dramatic as possible, we know that much of reality televis
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
Black Women Are Suffering From Eating Disorders In Silence
Sensitive content warning: This article discusses eating disorders like binge eating, anorexia and bulimia. Katharine Smith’s eating disorder began
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Shanetta McDonald
Unbothered
I’m A Black Woman Who Eloped & I Have No Regrets
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Edisana Stephen
Unbothered
The Emasculation Of Black Men Isn’t A Real Thing
As a society, we’ve never been good at talking about gender dynamics — especially not online. So, when Rihanna, ASAP Rocky and Jonathan Majors all pose
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Tayo Bero
Unbanned
“I Can’t Shut Down Because I Tell The Truth:” H...
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning&nbs
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Niki McGloster
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Quantumania
Is A Disaster — Except For Jonathan Majors
This story contains spoilers for Ant-Man: Quantumania. With the emotional adventure of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closing out the controversial fourth
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
I Found My Post-Breakup Glow Up While Still In A Relationship
There is a truly magnificent moment that comes a few weeks, months or years after a breakup: you start really believing you’re going to be OK again. The
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L'Oréal Blackett
Unbothered
Black Women, Curaçao Should Be Your Next Vacation Destination
“Curaçao is so much more than the little island next to Aruba, dushi,” my tour guide Tirzah said when she picked me up from the airport. Two of the fi
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Alexis Jackson
Unbanned
An Abolitionist Approach To Fighting Against Book Bans
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black
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Danialie Fertile
Unbothered
The Driest Winter Ever: How I Gave Up Masturbation For One Month
This story includes sexually explicit language. Welcome to Don’t Yuck My Yummm, Unbothered’s sexual wellness column and digital diary aimed a
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Kourtney Pope
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Deliver Us From Eva
Turns 20 — The Gabrielle Union Rom-C...
Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hindsig
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Kathleen Newman-B...
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