The Cut - Capturing the Joy of Black Girlhood

By the end of the week, there will be not one but two new lens-based art exhibitions just blocks apart in Newark, New Jersey, that explore Black girlhood. Both are rooted in the intertwined personal, professional, and political passions — activism, art-making, curation, cultural criticism, scholarship, psychology, and politics — of two extraordinary multi-hyphenate Black sisters: Scheherazade and Salamishah Tillet.

According to new data collected by the Washington Post, 1,011 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year. The family of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has officially launched a wrongful-death lawsuit over the shooting by Alec Baldwin that took her life last year. Novak Djokovic continues to be the worst. We didn’t think Ottessa Moshfegh could get any cooler, and then she walked in Maryam Nassir Zadeh’s runway presentation. Finally, Justin Bieber is making Canada proud. Here’s one to haunt your dreams: fashion resale meets Zodiac killer. And a reminder not to steal your neighbor’s mail, no matter how appealing it is.

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