Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, white shirts and suspenders (only one black girl in the craft now that I think of it!). So join us in parsing that out on Hoodrat to Headwrap's first episode of our Gamesgiving Series with...

***Chani Nicholas***

Don't miss this generous game give out on what the hell is happening in the heavens, and what it has to do with Mesopotamia, hippies in the sixties, white supremacy and most importantly, you.

www.chaninicholas.com

Recommended, Referenced Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/arts/how-astrology-took-over-the-internet.html

Bonus: Techgnosis by Erik Davis (thank me later)

H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap

Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire, who wrote at length about Recy Taylor's story in 2011 and was largely responsible for the public apology the Alabama House of Representatives gave to Recy on behalf of the state:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/111678/at-the-dark-end-of-the-street-by-danielle-l-mcguire/9780307389244/

Unrecommended, poorly written but referenced: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-lefty-critique-of-timesup-is-tired-and-self-defeating/

For backstory on Golden Globes Time's Up Movement and insanely rich and powerful people just "doing what they can", visit ihartericka on Instagram and watch the highlighted stories.

Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake.

Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not

A special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly okay.

References:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us

http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38006/1/in-the-trump-era-money-is-black-peoples-greatest-weapon

Strange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of HRHW

We're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that inform them.

Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to:

Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies

Tips to help folks help folks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria:

1. Call Congress 202-224-3120 and tell them to release disaster aid now

2. Donate to mariafund.org, NOT the red cross

*Correction of acronym: LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy)

Update: Jones Act rescinded as of 9/28

Refusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident Headwrap Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart as she helps you help us destroy white supremacist cis het patriarchy.

Referenced Reading: http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214

While DACA certainly isn't the enemy, patently xenophobic and anti-poor US Immigration Policy is certainly not a friend to those seeking refuge and opportunity in the land of the broke and home of the slave. Talking DACA, West Indian Day Parade, and a lil' bit of gender.

Ya'll remember that song by J. Cole featuring Drake, "In the Morning", where Drake's voice is hella scratchy as if the song was recorded in the morning and you couldn't tell if that was intentional or if the nigga throat was sore? Well, that's how we sound after this past weekend at Afropunk---the good, the bad, the binary. Find out if this shit was for us.