Ballsy (Courtesy of Mama Duke)
If you’re going to name your debut album,
Ballsy, you’re probably pretty, well, ballsy.
Local rapper Mama Duke proves she’s just that on her 10-track album dropping tonight (Dec. 18) at midnight – although she might use a different word to describe herself. With a huge grin breaking out across her face, the creative from Palacios, Texas, unapologetically proclaims she’s “braggadocious.”
“In a room full of mostly men in hip-hop, I can t really walk in a room with my guard down, so that s in my music,” explains Duke. “Hip-hop is braggadocious naturally, so when you add all these elements of being a Black, queer woman, it s pretty in-your-face.”
Looking back on a rollercoaster of a year
Historically, Qmmunity s Top 10s have served as a space to celebrate the wins that made that year a better, queerer place: more inclusive, more radical, and sometimes, more fabulous. In a year like 2020, however, I and my
Chron-patriot
James Scott couldn t ignore that some of the biggest stories in the LGBTQmmunity – locally, across the state, and nationwide – were either outright losses or wins punctuated with asterisks. Don t get us wrong: There were some major wins, of course (hello, workplace protections), but in rounding up Q s Top 10s, we wanted to represent the spectrum that is 2020. So below, in chronological order (mostly), you ll find what we think are this year s 10 biggest celebrations, mournings, and moments that made us go WTF? mixed with some (ಥ
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerts have moved online as artists, venues and other outlets create new ways to re-imagine the live-music experience as social-distancing practices are commonplace. New platforms and ticketed online events have emerged as the music industry continues to innovate during this time.
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28 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week (Dec. 5-11) I wish I was as consistent about anything as my dog is about trying to put her whole snoot in my mouth when I yawn.
Woof it’s been a long week. If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog or if the cat-astrophic news cycle is making you want to claw up your furniture let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious tweets about cats and dogs.
We Shih Tzu not.
Each week at HuffPost, we scour Twitter to find the funniest posts about our favorite furballs being complete goofballs. And, yes, they are sure to make you howl.