Season

Volume 1

by Ashley Blaine Featherson, Brandon P. Bell, Logan Browning, Antoinette Robertson, DeRon Horton and 4 others

Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as "post-racial" as it thinks.

(13 total)

Characters

Leann Bowen (8)Njeri Brown (8)Justin Simien (4)Logan Browning (4)Samantha White (4)Coco Conners (3)Antoinette Robertson (3)Ashley Blaine Featherson (2)Marque Richardson (2)Reggie Green (2)

“Joelle: Is it just me, or is Drake’s entire career a response to that episode of Degrassi when he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t get it up? Samantha: Yeah, we get it, Drake. You fucks.”

— Justin Simien, Joelle Brooks, Ashley Blaine Featherson, imdb.com

Tagged: Drake, Pop Culture, Music, Degrassi, tv show

“I’m smarter than you. I’m more ambitious than you. Thirty years from now, when I am the second black female president… all you’ll be able to do is think about me. And I won’t remember your name.”

— Chuck Hayward, Jack Moore, Coco Conners, Antoinette Robertson, imdb.com

Tagged: Ambition, President, Intelligence, Insult, Sassy

“I get that being reduced to a race-based generalization is a new and devastating experience for some of you. But here’s the difference: my jokes don’t incarcerate your youth at alarming rates or make it unsafe for you to walk around your own neighborhoods. But yours do. When you mock or belittle us,…”

— Justin Simien, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

Tagged: Race, racism, Generalization, joke, Black Lives Matter

“Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery. White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany. Everyone: What?! White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Rashid Bakr, Jeremy Tardy, imdb.com

Tagged: History, Slavery, racism, Germany, joke

“I wanted an avant-garde look, like Solange — something that says, ‘I’m woke, but I’ll also kick your ass in an elevator.’”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

Tagged: Solange, Celebrities, Pop Culture, Avant-Garde, Fashion

“A bullet held me captive, gun in my face, your hate misplaced. White skin, light skin, but for me, not the right skin.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Reggie Green, Marque Richardson, imdb.com

Tagged: poem, Poetry, BLM, Black Lives Matter, Black

“Troy: So you didn’t have a man around to show you what’s what? Lionel: Yup. Which is why I chose to be gay… kidding. That’s not how it works.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Lionel Higgins, DeRon Horton, imdb.com

Tagged: LGBTQ+, gay, manhood, joke

“As soon as you double down on your blackness, they will double down on their bullshit... Who cares if you’re woke or not if you’re dead?”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Coco Conners, Antoinette Robertson, imdb.com

Tagged: Woke, Bullshit, Black, BLM, Social Justice

“Dear white people, having a black vibrator does not count as an interracial relationship.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Coco Conners, Antoinette Robertson, imdb.com

Tagged: Interracial, Relationships, NSFW, Sassy, Sex

“Dear white people, here’s a little tip: When you ask someone who looks ethnically different ‘what are you?’ the answer is usually a person about to slap the shit out of you.”

— Justin Simien, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

Tagged: Race, Ethnicity, NSFW, Sassy

“Sometimes being carefree and black is an act of revolution.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Joelle Brooks, Ashley Blaine Featherson, imdb.com

Tagged: Black, BLM, Revolution, Race, carefree

“I like my men like I like my coffee ― full-bodied and preferably with Kenyan origins.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

Tagged: Men, Relationships, Kenya, Coffee, flirty

“Black lives are degraded without regard, and we in here watching TV. This is how the revolution dies.”

— Justin Simien, Reggie Green, Marque Richardson, imdb.com

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Revolution, TV, Entertainment