Look squarely at your fatigue and remind yourself that there’s no app, or self-help book, or meal-planning scheme that can lift it. - Anne Helen Petersen

But unruliness – in its many manifestations, small and large, in action, in representation, in language – feels more important, more necessary, than ever.

It’s as if each of these women is constantly igniting the line of acceptable behavior: you don’t know where it is until she steps over it, at which point it bursts into flames.

To turn black women into objectified others was to underline their difference; they may be beautiful, but they are of another kind, separate from the dominant understanding of attractiveness.