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Race
The Many Shades and Iterations of South Asian Anti-Blackness
How ‘mixed-ish’ Failed To Tackle Biracial Identity and Chose To Rely On Tropes
Mixed-ish puts forth a very narrow, self-centered, and unimaginative interpretation of what it means to be multicultural or multi-racial. By ...
Body Politics
The State of Fat Representation in Sex: A Weekend at The Sex Expo
Not seeing fat people represented sends a message that fat bodies aren’t desirable. That couldn’t be further from the truth. By Mayra ...
Fat People Deserve To Glorify Our Bodies
A fat body deserves good things, all the things the world told you it never did. Yes, even promotion and glory. Follow Da'Shaun I love ...
LGBTQ+
Three Forms of Faux-Acceptance to Avoid to Live Your Best Queer Life
LGBTQ+ folks should never have to settle on conditional acceptance. We cannot splice or erase our identities to assuage the feelings of cisgender ...
Taylor Swift ‘Embraces’ LGBTQ People While Ignoring Her Nazi Fanboys
She may be trying to become the next queen of the gays, but Swift will remain an erstwhile “Aryan goddess” until she forcefully proves otherwise. ...
Culture
‘Joker’ Propagates The “Mentally Ill Loner” Narrative Without Introspection or Challenge
"Joker" potentially allows men who identify with Arthur Fleck's descent into violent criminality to find not only acceptance, but also ...
#TweetYourHustle Brings Visibility and Praise For Some ‘Hustlers’ — But Not Sex Workers
The 'Hustlers' Twitter campaign should have been an opportunity to share the hustle of actual sex workers, but they found themselves marginalized ...
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Video: Fatphobia Is Not a Sexual Preference by Sonalee Rashatwar
Sexual preferences are not hardwired, they are socially ingrained ideas that we ingest and rarely question. By Sonalee Rashatwar TW/CW: The following ...
Desirability: Do You Really Love Fat People When You Can’t Even See Us Beyond The Political?
The reality is that our bodies take up more space than the world ever makes for us, yet somehow desirability finds a way to keep us out. I am fat. I have ...
The Road to Polyamory: How CBD Helped Me Interrogate Feelings of Jealousy and Insecurity
Embracing polyamory, I feel blessed with how much more love I’m able to experience. Does the wanting ever go away? I don’t know. By Shelly Rose In ...
The Case for New Erotic Language
In acknowledging that our erotic language could be more expansive and continuing with this practice of language creation, we need new words. By Dalychia ...
White Fragility and the Mask of Mental Health
White people will tell you that your tone, no matter what that tone might actually be, is causing them anxiety and thereby use it as a reason to ...
Fat Black Women Deserve Fulfilling, Enjoyable Sex Without Compromise
I want other fat, Black women to feel like they don't have to settle as many of us are taught to. I want dignity during my dicking, quality in my quivering, and ...
19 Youth Climate Activists of Color Who Are Fighting To Protect The Earth
Meet the Black and brown teens fighting to protect their lands from industrial, military, and colonialist actions that have caused climate change. Last ...
If Cancel Culture Was Real, We Would Have Canceled Bill Maher By Now
Cancel culture is a myth and it’s only a matter of time until I’m forced to listen to another one of Maher’s offensive and terrible bits. CW: Mentions of ...
Justin Trudeau’s Black and Brownface Proves White Supremacy Doesn’t Have a Political Party
Justin Trudeau wore brown and Blackface, not because he doesn’t understand the implications of it, but because he thought it was amusing. By Gloria ...
Navigating Fetishism as a Queer, Non-Binary, Black Sex Worker
If I didn’t manage so well to adhere to the image of the hung, dominant, rough, and forceful “Mandingo,” I would not have nearly half as many clients. ...
Israel’s Elections: A Vote Between Apartheid and Apartheid
This election has come down to a race between two parties that are fighting over who proposed an illegal annexation of Palestinian land first. By Rose ...
When Marginalized Folk Take Our Lives, It’s Because the State Already Has
TW: This essay discusses suicide I had just finished my first and most brutal semester at Morehouse College days before. I went over to my brothers’ house to ...
Wild Flower Sex is a Lesson in White Abuse of Power
The callout to Wild Flower is an example of what many Black sexuality professionals face in the field. And more, what Wild Flower Sex did was not accidental, or ...
Karmenife X On Healing Through Being a Dominatrix and Subverting White Supremacy
There is nothing shameful about your kink, there is nothing shameful about your fetish, but there is something so disgustingly shameful about not paying sex ...
On The Cultural Practice of Labia Elongation
At a young age, we are unduly influenced to modify our genitalia so they fit the cultural idea of how a sexually desirable woman ought to look like. ...
“Engage The Whole Booty”: Raquel Savage’s Must-Learn Tips for Anal Play
It is best to try anal play with a partner or partners with whom you have good, solid communication, and trust is a must. As part of our Summer of Sex ...
The ‘Womanizer’ is a Revolution for Clitoral Orgasms
The success of the Womanizer seems to be as a result of two things: great engineering and someone finally listening to the truth about the clitoris. By ...
Hysteria By Any Other Name: How Media Rely On The Trope Of Emotional Womanhood
Complicit and complacent media change women's narratives with a series of techniques and alter the way we internalize their stories. Content Warning: ...
David Koch Is Dead And It Is Perfectly Moral to Celebrate His Death
White people, as they exploit and uplift mechanisms of racism and white supremacy, have posited themselves as arbiters of morality. By Anuhya Bobba Last ...
Black and Indigenous American Solidarity is Crucial to Ending Settler Colonialism
Indigenous communities can offer support to Black Americans by doing our own reckoning while honoring the space they deserve to tell the truth about their ...
Israel Is Not A Democracy, It Is An Apartheid State
Americans — and especially American politicians — need to wake up to the fact that Israel is not a democracy and its treatment of Tlaib and Omar is just another ...
Orgasm Girl: How My Relationship to Masturbation Grew From Secrecy to Celebration
Giving myself an orgasm is a reminder of my strong sense of intuition and a reminder that I am all I need to feel complete. By Maggie ...
Sweet Vibrations: Everyone Deserves Their “O”
Sweet Vibrations is dedicated to ensuring that your pleasure is a priority. This is a sponsored post in partnership with Sweet Vibrations Despite there ...
The Depraved Violence of Britain’s ‘Subtle’ Racism
British racism is only subtle insofar as it is left unspoken, forgotten and tolerated. By Rami Yasir In an episode of The Grapevine, Saïe, a ...
How The Male Gaze Sabotages ‘Euphoria’
'Euphoria' became dependent on hypersexualizing female characters and weakened their storylines. This essay contains minor spoilers for HBO’s ...
Kashmir: Caught between Hindu Nationalism and Freedom
Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has escalated forces and has created a vacuum of mystery around what exactly they could be doing in Kashmir. TW: mention ...
How Language Purity Is A Tool To Further White Supremacy and Classism
Language purists seem to think that everyone is given the same opportunities and is born with the same abilities to take advantage of those opportunities. By ...
From Colonialism To The Diaspora Wars: We Are All Finding Our Way Back
Our enemy is not each other; our enemy is always white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. One of the most common quarrels among Black ...
11 Reasons Why ‘Ramy’ Doesn’t Deserve a Second Season
People have hailed 'Ramy' as "exciting" because it brings us "something new". But when I consider the messages in the series, it’s clear that it isn't ...
Hot Girl Summer is a Declaration of Unconditional Self-Love
Hot Girl Summer is a body-positive call to be proud of the skin you’re in and live your best life, a movement rooted in unapologetic confidence. By Alie ...
Why East Asians’ Anti-Racist Praxis Must Start With Decolonisation
For East Asians who practice anti-racist activism, we need to be honest about our relationship to whiteness and how this affects our racialisation. By ...
El Paso Shooter Represents White America And Its White Supremacist, Settler-Colonial Roots
The El Paso shooting should spur white Americans to reckon with their legacy of violence. Without it, white nationalists will continue onwards. By Anuhya ...
The Trauma Inflicted Upon Migrant Children Today Mirrors The Experiences Of Korean Adoptees
Shared and ongoing histories of war and exploitation necessitate us to fight alongside not only migrant families, but all people engaged in struggle for ...
Surveilled and Harassed For Playing Malcolm X Speeches: Mikisa Thompson’s Resistance
"I’m just trying to survive as Black woman who wants to do the work to help dismantle white supremacy," says Mikisa Thompson. Content note for anti-Blackness ...
Emerald Garner Needs Us To Remember Eric and Erica Garner
We have a responsibility to keep this history because people like Eric and Erica Garner deserve to be remembered and heard. This month, just one day before ...
Engaging With Black Pregnancy Outside of High Childbirth Mortality Rates
The only time I saw Black parents represented were to mention mortality rates during childbirth. It left me infuriated and frustrated. By Sadiyah ...
Shower Toga Offers The Ideal Way To Change and Shower In Public
The Shower Toga is a one-size-fits-all solution that allows you to shower and change in public discreetly and easily. (Sponsored Post) If you’ve ever ...
It’s MY Pussy, I’ll Rap About It If I Want To!
Megan Thee Stallion challenges the notion that womxn who rap can only express themselves in one way, be one thing, and that must be approved of by men working ...
Founder Q&A: Interview with Shower Toga’s Kressa Peterson
From mud runs to Shark Tank, Kressa Peterson tells us about The Shower Toga and how to keep going when you're overwhelmed. In this sponsored post we ...
Why Can’t I Cum? A Survivor’s Quest For An Orgasm
Survivors of sexual assault deserve spaces to discuss sex and desire. Without them, we're left alone in our quest for an orgasm. This essay contains ...
