#lexual media

[bantuotaku]

I’m *that* cousin. 🥰🥧

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[gothjeffskinner]

I'm seeing lots of recommendations for the same few video essayists so im gonna add some of my favs I haven't seen mentioned. Some people on this list don't frame their stuff as queer but that doesn't mean it lacks relevance to your queer education

What was up with Teen Wolf media in the 80's? What does it say about 80's ideas of gender and identity?

Why do private universities have so much money and what are they doing with it?

Euphoria could have been good, if only someone cared about the characters.

Part of 'Lexual Does the 80's', what women cared about, did, and faced, with a focus on black women.

Introduction into Alyson Stoner's research and reflections on the 'toddler to train wreck pipeline' child stars face.

Bama Rush is about power, its not gonna get diverse.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Anyone else watch Intelexual Media on YouTube?

She's fantastic. Makes videos about recent and less recent history and culture with a focus on sex, feminism and race, she's always fab and her content is really really interesting, informative and well produced, especially for a creator who seems to work (mostly?) solo.

She's done two series of videos focusing on specific decades with each having parts that focus on specific aspects of those decades she's tackling such as how each decade treated women or how it was for Black people, or how it was for children. She includes themes of sex history, food history, gender politics, politics in general, class difference, and more.

She started those with "Lexual does the 70s", she recently finished "Lexual does the 80s" and she'll be releasing "Lexual does the 90s" soon. They even have cute little retro intros to them according to each decade she's doing.

She even has some great true crime content, done tastefully.

Here are some of my favorite videos by her!

A Black Women's History of Pinup and Burlesque

A Short History of Masturbation

Who Was the Atlanta Ripper? | It's a Mystery

Black Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence: A History

A Black People's History of Halloween and Haunts

A Brief History of America Hating Sex Workers

Creating The Conservative New Right In The 1970s

[wizardofpalmsprings]

watched this very good video essay (all of her essays are good tbh) by Lexual Media about growing up in the 90s and honestly isles a great reminder about how cyclical life can be and how one generation gets called “lazy” or “selfish” but then they’re the next driving work force in the world. Also how cyclical the outcry around what people deem “other” is as well. What’s old is new again

(Just a heads up if you click on the link that she does go into detail about the C*lumbine massacre and information surrounding it. It’s very heavy stuff, but she wants to make sure her viewers have all the facts at hand about a given topic and how it affects the world. Proceed with caution)

[mirandamckenni1]

Liked on YouTube: Words Are Messy | A History || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQra1hU9Ms || Let's break down the messiness of human communication-- particularly the words we use and why. [Etymology, Slang, language, ebonics, AAVE, african american vernacular English, Oakland school board controversy, Maya Angelou, woke, stop woke, Ron DeSantis, What does woke mean, when did woke start, why do black people talk like that, how to speak ebonics, how to speak Jive, Lizzo, Beyonce, Spaz, Rihanna, Controversy, ableism, awkwafina, blaccent, valley girl, Dinesh Dsouza, McDonalds, Julie Washington, Accents, how to pronounce, pronouncing things] 0:00-1:50 -Messy Montage 1:51- Lexual The Assasin 4:00- Black American Survey 4:39- The Change of "Idiot" and "Moron" 5:50- Housewives and Hussies 7:01- Changing "WOKE" and "Phobia" 9:28- Language, Slang, Dialect 11:10- Early Black American Speech 13:36- Ebonics and Dr. Robert Williams 15:48- 1980s and Valleygirls 16:21- Exporting Hip Hop 17:15- Codeswitching and The Oakland Controversy 23:10- Ebonics: Slang or Language? 23:39- The Words SP*Z and Neiga 26:29-Fruit From The Poisoned Tree 27:23- The Fluidity of Slang and Language 28:28- LGBTQ Slang 30:15- A Brief History of Roasting 31:33- The Impact of Social Media and Globalization 34:02- Peaches Monroe and On Fleek 35:58- The Standardization of English 36:46- Ableism 40:17- The Diversity of The Marginalized 43:06- "Fat" and "Freak" 44:44- Rihanna and Regional Differences 45:41- Final Thoughts Love the content? Support for $1/month on https://ift.tt/Gg5puYf Sources, essays, exclusive videos, a podcast, reading lists, and much more are available ON PATREON.

[nigmos]

i noticed that too when i watched those shows back in the day! lexual media has actually a good youtube video about the history of black women in reality tv dating shows if you're interested in it.

these dating shows like. I don’t think it’s intentional that they’re making a hostile environment for black women at least not all of the shows. like it’s definitely a lack of vetting of the men and lack of consideration but I think if nothing else it’s by far extremely revealing of how black men think of black women and what other men think of black women. like it can’t just consistently be bc these women have ugly personalities. I doubt that and bc all of them are drop dead gorgeous it can’t be that reason either. I just find that so very hard to believe. none of these men find these black women attractive on any of these Netflix dating shows lol bc of what reason I wonder 🧐 bc black women are always the ones who go home first 🤔

I just find this interesting sociologically I guess? like one of the women in the interview is Nigerian-American and she said she could tell most of the men weren’t black bc of how they spoke. except Uche bc his name gives it away lol but she clearly wanted someone that was familiar to her culturally (in the sense of black American culture or even Nigerian-American of course) and also bc she can’t hide her speech mannerisms like she won’t put on a “white voice” lol so the men could easily figure out what race she was and that could potentially put them off from her. and the other women that were open to interracial dating still felt like oh i don’t like these men but they also don’t like me either.

[makiruz]

Lexual does the 80s is back y’all, about women.

Give her a watch

[khizuo]

VIDEO ESSAYIST REC TIME

(okay some of these people are more educational youtube than video essay but shhhhh)

F. D. Signifier — does media breakdowns centering discussions of black masculinity. amazing perspective and really well-paced videos. probably one of the most important people out of this list to check out, imo. Recommended videos: Black Men and Colorism on Screen, Bo Burnham's Inside and "White Liberal Performative Art"

Shanspeare — discusses various topics related to pop culture and media, always with an intersectional lens and impeccable styling/editing/everything. Another person on this list I'd consider really important to check out.

Mina Le — discusses fashion history/fashion in media. her style is immaculate and her videos are really interesting to watch.

Kaz Rowe — lesbian artist, discusses a lot of niche history topics which is like, my favorite thing. this is one of the youtubers who I'd consider more educational youtube than video essays, but their videos hit that sweet spot of video essay to me so I'm including them.

Tee Noir — does commentary and video essays on pop culture stuff, as it relates to black womanhood. Always provides great perspectives and has a really fun delivery style.

James Somerton — video essays on games and media often with a focus on queer issues. Very well-produced videos.

Folding Ideas / Big Joel — in the youtube video essay space of "leftist white guy discusses various media", these two just happen to be my favorite. Innuendo Studios — The Alt-Right Playbook is a must-watch, but this guy also does fun dives into various niche gaming/media topics beyond that.

Intelexual Media — another youtuber who I guess falls more under the educational Youtube bracket, but I don't care. If you haven't watched a Lexual video, go do so right now. She does deep dives into Black American history that are absolutely vital viewing. I recommend basically everything she's ever done, but maybe start with her series on American life in the 70s, or her videos on sex history.

12Tone / Adam Neely — music theory youtube is my secret weakness. Yes this partly has to do with me being a musician but their videos are really fun nonetheless. Don't be thrown off by the music esoterica; there's usually a non-esoteric point behind it all.

Zoe Bee — does long-form videos on a wide range of topics that all somehow manage to hit a sweet spot. Feels like a fun professor because they are a professor.

[chaoticintellectual]

Intelexual media is an underrated youtube channel. It does excellent work with topics of american history, race, sexuality and women's issues explored in a way you probably haven't heard before. I particularly like the lexual does the 70's series. You should check it out if that sounds like your cup of tea

[theunfilteredhippie-blog]

In this era almost everyone has a digital identity. With that, many take conversations to social media, especially millennials. Today I will discuss Lexual aka Elexus, an interesting and sometimes controversial young woman, that I have been following for a few years now.

From Lexual’s bio on her very own site Lexual.co:

Lexual, aka Elexus Jionde, is a 23 year old virtual educator who dedicates her time to writing essays and producing videos that tackle important topics like history, racism, and sexuality. She also addresses current events. The idea for Intelexual Media was borne from the results of the 2016 presidential election, in which she realized that what this country needs is more critical thinking and better education. Using her special brand of realness and in-your-face charisma, Lexual has amassed a following of 42,000 supporters who enjoy and learn from her content. Lexual has been featured by The New York Times, Buzzfeed, AJ+, The Charlotte Observer, Galore Magazine, and other publications. Although she is from Charlotte, she graduated from The Ohio State University and has lived in California and New York. In addition to teaching online, she has given lectures to teenagers in Charlotte and Kinston North Carolina, with plans for more lectures in the future. She has self-published one book, The A-Z Guide to Black Oppression.

I choose Lexual as my lecture topic for a few reasons:

- In the age of new wave of feminism, new wave media is changing the feminist movement, and its most powerful weapon is… #

      * As recently as a decade ago, those seeking to fight sexism had few avenues to do so in a public way. Discussions of feminism and feminist values were scarce in a very public forum, and activists had been branded “feminazis” by Rush Limbaugh, and numerous celebrities, like pop star Katy Perry, actress Shailene Woodley, and actress Kaley Cuocco rejected even the word “feminist.” Before Twitter and Facebook exploded as platforms for news, participating in rallies was limited to those who were in those cities, or those who could afford to take time off work and travel.

     * Social media democratized feminist activism, opening up participation to anyone with a Twitter account and a desire to fight the patriarchy. By removing the barriers of distance and geography, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram have made activism easier, facilitating public dialogues and creating a platform for awareness and change.

-  Lexual’s controversial 9/11 thread that triggered it all.

     *  On Sunday evening, the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Lexual tweeted a thread with started with, ““White people can’t ever let go of 9/11, a single day in our history, but want you to get over 300 years of racial oppression lol”. This tweet was followed by several other tweets containing historical information that often goes ignored by teachers, textbooks, and media outlets. Information such as the fact that black people were unknowingly being injected with syphilis, resulting in them being sterilized, is vital information that certainly went ignored in our high school history classes. Her thread also contained information regarding unfair housing discrimination practices, the racist origin behind a banned Disney film, the War on Drugs, and much more. The thread is closed reminding the audience not to forget 9/11, but also not to forget American tragedies that affect black people to this day.

 - I am biased. It is amazing and inspiring to see a woman my age represent themselves wholly as a person, and establish themselves as the BRAND, by way of digital and social media. 

     * Lexual branded herself as the “cultured ratchet” who drops black history facts and sexy selfies at the same time.

      * Ever since her viral black history thread about 9/11, she has faced online racial abuse and death threats. She is continuously slut shamed for her sexy photoshoots and her past as a cam girl, but she still wears her sexuality proudly. She is boldly herself and hopes her brand is proof that sexiness and intellect aren’t mutually exclusive.

     * She managed to use her infamous tweet to raise $10,000 to fund her site, her book, and other projects.

     * She uses her platform to promotes black progression through knowledge 24/7, straying away from the euro/western centric, patriarchal narrative norm.

There are many sides to feminism like there are many sides to history, or just many sides to the get to the truth. Lexual provides a perspective that highlights, the world is a different place for different people. In the illustrious words of Desus and Mero, You gotta hear both sides.

 THE ASSIGNMENT:

Name a “controversial” person you follow on social media. List why you started following.  Mention if you joined in on their conversation, or commented. Mention if you continued to follow along with them and their conversations.

[bantuotaku]

A Black History of Stripper Culture👠💵

My exploration of sex history continues with A Black History of Stripper Culture. We talk about historic clubs like Magic City, how Atlanta got fully nude clubs, the black women who were/are strippers, the problems they face, labor history, depictions of black strippers, and how people's attitudes towards them have evolved over time.

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A Black People's History of Parties

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The TRAGIC Reality of Black Abuse & Femicide

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What Was Life Like For Black Americans In The 90s?

What was it like being black in the 1990s? Black life in the 1990s was at times beautiful, at times scary, and always complicated. The continued rise of black celebrities and culture did not translate into a rise in the black condition. What changed? What stayed the same? In this episode of Lexual Does The 90s, we’ll dive into Black Life in Clinton's America.