Snubbing Oscar Noms + Fra-Fragment Foot + Raye Supremacy Era + Dead Passport Bros + Gaza Updates + Mr. Mini Coochie? + Zayn's Foot + Paula Cole

I thought about doing a larger deep dive on Oscar snubs this week, then re-realized that none of it matters anyway!

I think the more interesting conversation is in the actual nominations. We have firsts and pioneers who stillllllll have to deal with media snubs and downright erasure. Yes, shoutout to Colman Domingo, who’s nomination news as the first Afro-Latino nominated for Best Actor showed up as an afterthought in Latin press. And yes, shoutout to Lily Gladstone, but do not forget that Yalitza Aparicio was actually the first Indigenous American actress to be nominated for an Oscar for her role in Roma.

There’s also Barbie, and fucking former secretary of state, Chief WW Hilary Clinton, perhaps with some urging, stepping in to hand out participating trophies (…tweets) to her fellow blondes, because god forbid their merits suffer in the shadows without acknowledgement. As I write this, #ProtectTaylorSwift is trending and it’s almost as if the #WitchesofTikTok, their Etsy shops, and their sage and crystal bundles have secretly conjured Susan B. Anthony back for a week of hell.

Happy Sunday. Appreciate yalllll. Enjoy —