By Syreeta McFadden • @reetamac • 11 years ago

What We Missed

 

The caption to the picture above should read, ‘Hell Yeah’.

In the category of ‘Oh hell naw’ – Zoe Saldana as… Nina Simone? Really, Hollywood? *side-eyes & mad shade* It better be a mistake. Sources have yet to confirm if a proper unpacking of why that’s 50 shades of wrong to come later.

Ann totally speaks what we’re really thinking about Paul Ryan.

Uganda had their first pride parade (homosexuality is still illegal there) and this picture is everything.

What is holding abortion-rights activists back from stopping “fetal-pain” legislation?

SYREETA MCFADDEN is a Brooklyn based writer, photographer and adjunct professor of English. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches and Storyscape Journal. She is the managing editor of the online literary magazine, Union Station, and a co-curator of Poets in Unexpected Places. You can follow her on Twitter @reetamac.

Syreeta McFadden is a contributing opinion writer for The Guardian US and an editor of Union Station Magazine.

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