J. Danielle

Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present. There's no perfect translation, but one of the closest English expressions of the word I've ever seen is Billie Eilish's Tiny Desk performance.

You'd think the Los Angeles-born singer invented the... See more

“Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?... Comfort has come to be its own corruption.” — Lorraine Hansberry, Black playwright and writer

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.

It’s been endlessly argued that algorithms influence too much of what we watch, listen to, read, and even think. Personal taste erodes while decision-making is outsourced to the platform.

Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort.

Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance.

Over 40 million people rely on SNAP to afford groceries, and the program is confronting its largest cuts in history. Even if you personally don’t use food stamps, your local grocery store could go bankrupt after losing SNAP customers.

I think you see that the gifts that are given to us as individuals are not for us alone, or for our own self-improvement, but they’re actually for the community and to be offered.