Vanessa Morgan has been a member of the undead in My Babysitter's a Vampire, a Southside Serpent in Riverdale and now she's Max, a con woman turned police consultant, in Wild Cards. The lighthearted ...

Black and straight users are strip-mining Black queer speech for clout, comedy, and cultural currency — without honoring its history or the people who shaped it, argues Quincy Hartwigsen.