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Spokesmodel, not silenced model, Munroe Bergdorf spoke her piece

Sit. Pose. Look pretty. Keep mum about systemic racism and colonial rule. Collect your coins. Rinse. Repeat. If L’Oreal Paris’s leadership expected Black transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf...

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The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood

By Benji Hart The block on Chicago’s far north side where I stay is majority Black, poor and working class. It’s also gay as hell. The matriarch of the street is a Black cis queer woman in her 50s...

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Why Black gender conversations will always fail unless we center Black children

“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up […] Each of us must find our work and do it.” — Audre Lorde I am hurting. On Saturday, as I walked through a Black gay club, a...

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Learning to love myself enough to f*ck raw while Black and HIV positive

By Timothy Duwhite My boyfriend wants to fuck me raw. Though he hasn’t said it yet, eventually he will. Right now, however, he is just a tapestry of hints and subtleties. He asks me if he can just put...

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‘House of Cards’ canceled in the wake of Kevin Spacey’s child sexual...

Anthony Rapp, an ex-Broadway actor best known for his appearance in the production of “Rent” came forward in an interview with Buzzfeed News and alleged that Kevin Spacey “tried to get with him...

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What Kevin Spacey’s “apology” says about how whiteness operates in...

by Ashley Nkadi This past weekend, Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp chimed in on the ongoing #MeToo conversation, adding his own personal account of being assaulted by actor Kevin Spacey when he...

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We need to talk about gay men using body types to conform to heteronormative...

by Siete Saudades I ran into a client of mine on the tube recently. She was surprised to see me in London, of all places. Normally, I see her in New York. I am a spiritual mercenary, and this client...

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Man kills 14 year old son because rigid masculinity standards are murderous

Giovanni Melton did not have to die, but as reported by Attitude magazine, he was killed by his 53-year-old father, Wendell Melton because the elder Melton did not want to have a gay son. According to...

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We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my...

by Tabias Olajuawon This essay contains discussion of racialized sexual violence and anti-Black fetishism “You are not to touch other flesh without a police permit. The State wants to seize your bed...

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Heinous anti-blackness: Dozens of African girls found dead in Mediterranean Sea

Global personhood politics, which include white supremacy, gender-based violence and economic oppression of African-descended people, inflict grievous harm. Another painful reminder of this trifecta...

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Cyntoia Brown is being failed by the justice system because she’s a black woman

In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was sixteen and facing a life sentence for killing her sex trafficker in Tennesee, a state that is known for its strong stance against sex trafficking. Tell Brown or those who...

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Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my...

By Jessica Dulaney All my life I have believed in the magic of literature, but only a few years ago did I witness one of its most incredible tricks – to help me see myself. I am a Black girl who spent...

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Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter...

By George M. Johnson There is no such thing as Blackness that doesn’t encompass Queerness, despite the attempts from toxic masculinity and those willing to protect its image at all costs to have you...

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How suffocating ideas of masculinity took the precious life of Giovanni Melton

by Maximillian Matthews I wonder when my late father first observed the singularity of my gender performance. Perhaps he saw it when he took me to my first concert during Janet Jackson’s 1993 Janet...

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He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta...

by Veronica Morris Moore Spike Lee’s 2017 reboot of “She’s Gotta Have It” is mediocre, and that’s being generous. In the age of Black television like Issa Rae’s Insecure coupled with our collective...

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Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating...

By George Johnson The “closet.” A colorful phrase used to describe the lives of people like me who were too afraid to live as a queer people publicly. The place where we brought all of our lovers to do...

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New York Times report reveals Vice Media swam in a culture of racism and sexism

According to a New York Times report, Vice Media has been a cesspool of sexism that closely mirrors the way that the “old boys club” of Hollywood has been functioning, despite its reputation for...

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The Black barbershop is both toxic and intimate for cishet Black men

by Da’Shaun Harrison Disclaimer: this piece was written with the intent to create a productive dialogue around intimacy and attraction. It is not to say that the connection between barber and client is...

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It’s not just straight men: We all have to reckon with internalized...

By Maximillian Matthews “Don’t hit me up if you are fem… no soft shit.” “No offense to you but NO FEM, soft, questionable dudes etc. MASC dudes only!!!” “Please be masc. I’m not into feminine dudes at...

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Black LGBTQ activists convicted on six of eight charges for Columbus Pride...

Earlier this week, a jury convicted three Black LGBTQ protesters, who are part of a group called the Black Pride 4, in connection with a June 2017 Columbus Pride parade. According to Columbus Alive,...

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