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Welcome to Demystified, Unbothered’s monthly spirituality series for Black and brown folx. Through a lens of reclamation, Unbothered is helping its audie

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As We Mourn The Death Of Lauren Smith-Fields, Where Is The Justic...

Black TikTok influencer Lauren Smith-Fields was found dead in her apartment on December 12. As the 23-year-old’s family continues to dig for answers over

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Book-ish

Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait To Read In 2022

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Black Is The New Black 2021

The Black Vanguards Who Inspired Us In 2021

Black Is The New Black is R29Unbothered’s celebration of Black trailblazers who are changing the game. Black trailblazers who are reminding the world tha

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Unbothered

For Chanté Adams, Love’s Got Everything To Do With It

For Chanté Adams, Love’s Got Everything To Do With It WRITTEN BY KATHLEEN NEWMAN-BREMANG December 16, 2021 Black Is The New Black is R29Unbothered’s c

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Janelle Monáe Is Writing A Short Story Collection Inspired By

Janelle Monáe is making her literary debut with The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer. Based on the Afrofuturistic world of Dirty Co

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Unbothered

The Banning Of George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue ...

George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, a coming-of-age essay collection about growing up Black and queer in New Jersey, was reportedly removed from

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Unbothered

The Wellness Industry Has An Inclusivity Problem. Black Girls Hea...

When Delilah Antoinette found herself struggling with her mental health in 2017, she longed for a safe, Black space to unpack her experience. Unfortunately

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How Tulsa Is Fighting Against America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country. And in Oklahoma, Black women account for 10% of births across the state

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Unbothered

Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder Is Anything But Ordinary

When Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder was published in March, it was met with wide acclaim — and for good reason. It’s a captivating queer coming o

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Unbothered

If We Were Different, We’d Be Perfect: An Exclusive Excerpt From ...

It’s been seven years since lauded poet Yrsa Daley-Ward shook the literary world with the book nayyirah waheed called “a symphony of breaking and mendi

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Unbothered

Phoebe Robinson’s Tiny Reparations In The Publishing Industry

It’s almost absurd to think that Phoebe Robinson — a successful comedian, author and actress of 2 Dope Queens fame would have difficulty selling her fi

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Unbothered

CaShawn Thompson & Lilly Workneh Are Reminding You That #BlackGir...

In 2013, CaShawn Thompson declared that Black girls are magic. Inspired by negative attention Black women were receiving in the media, the illustrious phra

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Nichole Perkins Is Giving Black Women Permission To Be Perfectly ...

Nichole Perkins, a renowned pop culture commentator and former podcast host, is not afraid to dive deep. On the award-winning Thirst Aid Kit podcast, for e

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Unbothered

Morgan Harper Nichols Was Just Diagnosed With Autism — Now She’s ...

Morgan Harper Nichols has been autistic since childhood, but it wasn’t until her recent diagnosis that things became clear for her. “Since I was young,

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High Impact

Black Women Are Leading The Charge To Take Back The Cannabis Indu...

Unbothered’s High Impact is rewriting the rules of wellness, wealth, and weed with real and dynamic conversations that put Black women at the centre. Thi

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Black History Month 2021

How Tarot & Astrology Became Black & Brown Women’s North Star

As stigma surrounding non-Christian spiritual practices fade, Black and brown women are reclaiming divination as a tool for self-healing.

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Verified

Now That She’s Stuck In Your Head, Flo Milli Is Just Getting Started

Post-COVID life — whenever that comes — is predicted to usher in a new Roaring Twenties era. The decade, which marked both a period of economic prosper

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Unbothered

Angie Thomas’ Concrete Rose Is Advocating For Blac...

Angie Thomas didn’t plan on writing a prequel to The Hate U Give. But as Starr’s dad, Maverick “Big Mav” Carter, became a favourite among her r

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Unbothered

How Black Women Can Get What They Deserve In 2021, According To A...

To call 2020 a dumpster fire would be an understatement. A global pandemic, social uprising, and blistering US election season all at the same time? Not ex

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Unbothered

Our Favourite Black Women Authors Share The Books That Impacted T...

The annual Well-Read Black Girl Festival is upon us, and this time, it’s going virtual from November 6-8. An ode to Black Political Power: Past &

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Unbothered

Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching Gives A Frig...

In June, shortly after the George Floyd protests began, Abraham Knofler was so upset with Bedford Stuyvesant’s Burly Coffee for posting a Black Lives Mat

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Unbothered

Cari Champion & Jemele Hill Aren’t Just ‘Sticking To Sports’ — Th...

It’s been almost three years since Jemele Hill, then a sportscaster for ESPN, tweeted what many likely wouldn’t deny: “Donald Trump is a white su

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Unbothered

Meet The 23-Year-Old Black Woman Who Directed & Edited Ciara’s St...

Annie Bercy was eating a sandwich and minding her business when she received an Instagram DM from Ciara. “She was just telling me that she loves my work,

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Unbothered

Listen To An Exclusive Excerpt From Mahogany L. Browne’s

In a world where the maligning glare of society teaches them to do otherwise, Mahogany L. Browne wants Black girls to love themselves. “The conversation

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Unbothered

Black People Don’t Just Deserve To Be Alive — We Deserve To Be Happy

We are navigating unprecedented times. And while Black people across the diaspora are no strangers to struggle (see: the timeline of the last 400 years), t

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Culture

Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One

2020 has brought almost crippling hardship upon the black community. Amid COVID-19 — the novel virus that is still affecting thousands globally and has h

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Stephanie Long

Stephanie Long is the Deputy Director of Enterprise for Refinery29 Unbothered. A voracious bibliophile and once-aspiring Sidney Shaw, her words have been featured in VIBE Magazine, VIBE Vixen, among other publications.