Abstract
This study offers a feminist critical discourse analysis of news coverage about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's blockbuster single WAP ("Wet-Ass Pussy"). As WAP rose in popularity, it sparked discourses in the press that reflect the tension between transgressive politics of pleasure and hegemonic politics of respectability. Therefore, through the coverage of WAP, we interrogate how Black women's sexualities are constructed and what those articulations say about the racialized sexual politics that shape Black women's lives.