MayaFrancis's posts

Feminista Jones is kind of a big deal. So much of a big deal that, as a lead in for the @nbrbooks discussion of her…

“When did you learn to be okay with being a brown skinned woman?”

The #NBRB book club (I'll let you consult Google for the acronym's meaning) uses Twitter to discuss books written by…

I was sitting at my desk yesterday and my friend sent me a GChat message.

There are a lot of reasons not to like Lena Dunham. The way she’s chosen to cast Girls isn’t one of them.

Since I’m not a foodie (Popeye’s, anyone?) I don’t know that I’ve given Thug Kitchen enough consideration to really…

My regular rotation of music rests firmly planted somewhere in the 1990s, with pinches of the 1980s and beyond.

I was a junior in high school when a teacher came over to a group of us at lunch looking for one of our classmates.…

Let me just start by saying that I really enjoy Nicki Minaj’s 'Anaconda' video.

In last week’s piece about the Universal He Fine/He Ain’t Shit Matrix, I referenced The Gospel of Pussy Prosperity.…

In this, the 2014th Year of Our Lord, on the 23rd day of the month of July, at 6:55 p.m. EST, TIME Magazine ran a…

“I don't burden myself with the impossible task of writing the "Black Woman's" experience; to be honest, I think…

Ask any Black woman you know, and she’ll probably tell you street harassment has happened to her. Ask any teenage…

While I rep Philly to the death of me, there is a very big part of me that was born in Washington, D.C. The best…

I got an issue with this. And this. I’m going to try to put my finger on why. Bear with me.

“A lot of chicks really don’t have a choice, to be honest.”