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Andrew Ricketts

reviewing black culture. slowly and mercifully.

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Black men don’t write about sex, part 4

“Three boys and a bike” by Dan Williams, 1984

As we walked to the corner store sex shop in the Flatbush Avenue junction, we’d already deliberated that our tallest friend would manage the purchase. He had, of course, bought the first tape t...

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Black men don't write about sex, part 3

To Pretend, Danielle McKinney, 2020

“Sex, like any experience, is a lens through which we learn to see ourselves—sometimes a warped version, sometimes a truer one. We don’t have to be fucking to look through it. Our access to pleasure is d...

22 days ago
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"Belly" Was More Than a Flop. It Exposed Rap's Masculine Farce.

Last week, I watched Belly, the 1998 technicolor splash from Hype Williams that taught me silly rap songs could make or unmake a man.

There’s a really simple recipe for making a 1990s thug rapper. The bones and broth of that recipe made lo...

23 days ago
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Black men don't write about sex, part 2

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Black men don't write about sex, part 1

“Portrait of a Man” William H. Johnson, ca. 1930-35, Smithsonian Museum

I was at a retreat in Miami, Florida a few years ago. It was a writer’s workshop wherein mostly Black writers were getting a week with some dedicated professionals to...

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