They may be less prominent than characters in other TV shows, but these queer and trans characters should be acknowledged and critiqued when necessary.
This ye...
LGBT organizations and the white LGBT community only center, honor, and see Black and Brown Trans people when we are dead.
by Kay Martinez
It's Transgender...
Dating as asexual is hard because it is incredibly difficult for allosexual people to understand a sexual identity that does not center sex.
I marathon-watched...
Sabrina’s privilege lets her get away with everything, turning her into your basic TV frivolous white girl.
by Negesti Kaudo
Note: light spoilers of 'Chill...
It is our duty as people who exist on land that was brutally taken and brutally exploited, to make time to be informed and active political beings.
It’s a huge...
I believe what the system tells me about itself. I have full faith in its capabilities to replicate, uphold, and enact violence here and globally, which is all ...
The roots of Black and Indigenous spiritual practices and witchcraft carry Sabrina's narrative and many other white witch-centered narratives.
By Briana L. Ur...
If your allyship only extends as far as your comfort, you are not an ally.
John Brown was an abolitionist who died in 1859. He was hanged after a failed attemp...
Fascism isn’t on the way. It’s already here.
“They have something to say to every politician who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred an...
Commitment to diversity and to examining what it looks like to have more Black people at cons isn’t just a numbers game.
This weekend, GeekGirlCon will conven...
If you experience attraction to two or more genders, congratulations, you’re bisexual! It’s as simple as that.
Bisexuality is the attraction to other and the...
Instead of blaming people of color who don't vote, white liberals need to take a closer look at their own communities.
by Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt
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The gun crisis in America is so severe that people would actually have a child elsewhere with solid gun regulations, just not here.
TW: this article contains ...
Class privileged white women will likely have their abortion access far less infringed upon than poor people and women of color.
By Muqing M. Zhang
On Oct. ...
Our society can never really eradicate patriarchy or sexual violence when we permit violence against Indigenous women.
By Dani M.
Every year, Indigenous pe...
“Women” almost always means white women, and rarely ever includes Black women.
First off, a question: bitch what the fuck?
Anyone who still uses this q...
Everything we know about obesity is wrong, and everything about who we listen to on the subject of fatness and fatphobia is bullshit.
By Hess Love
I can't ...
It's time to focus on the people who built movements, not just the ones who conveniently profit from them.
Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” depicts a nude white woman...
Nappily Ever After would have significantly benefited from hiring Black people, especially women or femmes, and allowing them creative power.
By Jazmine Joyne...
When Asian women are objectified and dehumanized, this reinforces the idea that Asian women lack agency.
By Linh Le
Worldbuilding is tricky. Creators have ...
I thought I didn't like sex, but really, I just didn't like feeling like shit afterwards.
This essay discusses coercive and violating forms of sex in detail.
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The men who commit sexual assault are humanized and given the benefit of the doubt over and over again, while the victims of rape are abused, doxed, and accused...
I want to see "BoJack Horseman" succeed at writing a nuanced portrayal of a person of color and their culture.
By Linh Le
“I stepped outside of the Ho Chi M...
I want so much more than seemingly unrelenting reminders of how anti-Black this world is.
As a horror aficionado, I am constantly caught between appreciation f...
Sundeep Morrison's RAG HEAD exposes the ways in which Sikhs are increasingly unsafe in this xenophobic society.
Hate, racism and xenophobia have become a regul...
“In Intimate Detail” is thorough, thoughtful and inclusive.
Like many other people, I’ve had a complicated relationship to my body and undergarments. I felt o...
Victoria’s Secret is making a choice on how they want their brand to be perceived and it is as one which equates being thin with being beautiful.
Victoria's ...
Religion is not infallible, and it continually creates space for its leaders to abuse the power that religious interpretations unquestioningly afford them.
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The way that men in tennis treat Serena Williams is a phenomenon that can never be separated from her gender or from her Blackness.
“My response to racism is a...
White people are always worried about the wrong things and it shows up both in what they choose to protest and how they choose to go about it.
White people are...
BlacKkKlansman isn't a story of infiltrating hate, but a harsh reminder of how easily pro-police propaganda can disguise itself in radical Black aesthetic.
Th...
Too much or too little, makeup has long been a wonderful and difficult facet of our lives.
If you know a femme-presenting person who wears makeup, it has likel...
Missy never needed men to help develop her talent. She was too busy crafting theirs.
By Tiffany Hobbs
In 1997, an innumerable mass of people took to their ...
Without mass actions like the current nationwide prison strike, which bring direct awareness to the issue, these stories go largely underreported.
Note: Due to...
If you think someone is in trouble, you should reach out to them. Not the other way around.
In 2002 I moved from California to Switzerland, back in with my...
The gatekeepers of publishing keep marginalized people from getting their work out there. Jemisin is proof that this practice needs to end.
N.K. Jemisin just ...
Argento shows us that people are capable of being abusive and abused, and her accuser, Jimmy Bennett, also deserves justice.
TW: This essay contains mention an...
The quality of each of these lipsticks ensures that you won’t come back up looking like a sad clown after making someone cum.
There isn’t anything quite like ...
Brown Asians and Black people should not be asked to support a movie that does not support them.
By Sangeetha Thanapal
Many are lauding “Crazy Rich Asi...
Not a single person who has ever fat-shamed me has even bothered to asked me if I want to be thin. I don't.
I hate the gym. It's a traumatic space for me. Bein...
This whole public transport model is rotten to the core, and after several deaths over the years, students finally took to the street to demand their right to r...
Beyoncé addressing this post-baby body reality is an important moment.
I am not a rabid Beyoncé fan. I like Lemonade and a few more of her songs, but it would ...
Abortion doulas work to normalize the termination process from start to finish.
While most people have heard of birth doulas and generally understand their su...
To support Gunn and define his firing as a purely political issue is to ignore the intersections of race, gender, and queerness in favor of privilege.
By Steph...
Although visibility has come far in the trans and gender non-conforming community, it is important that we keep our youth in mind.
Navigating my gender identit...
For those of us who live below or at the poverty line, our 24 hours are very different from the wealthy.
You may be learning increasingly about capitalism and ...
As long as our culture refuses to hold the Depps of the world accountable, there will always be women like Heard who will be tasked with watching their abusers ...
It is clear that the cultures of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples are incredibly significant because of how much white people fear them.
Throughout history...
