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...
We can’t look at Patty and feel empowered by her character when she is a walking testament to everything we are told is wrong with us.
Netflix loves revenge st...
How our readers and community helped sustain our platform.
Thanks to the generosity and support of hundreds of our readers, our magazine has the funding to con...
When engaging in conversations about campus assault awareness, we cannot limit it to higher education and college campuses.
TW/CW: This essay contains extensi...
It is time for us to rebuild Black Wall Street.
This summer marks ninety seven years since Black Wall Street was destroyed. Greenwood was a community in su...
No, you can't catch AIDS.
When people think of HIV and AIDS, they think all sorts of things including death and exposure. They think of myths that have been ar...
Regardless of which network or publication you first received the news from, you likely never once heard or read the word racist.
By Ja'Loni Amor Owens
Fol...
Black women and femmes often represent perfect victims for what our abusers would say is not a crime.
By Shannon Barber
"If I didn't define myself for myself,...
Despite the ongoing trauma I've experienced and the toxic things I've had to unlearn, I wouldn't trade being Blasian for anything.
Until recently, I thought th...
There is no such art, no such glorious work of fiction, no such extraordinary performance, that excuses a real-life abuser.
By Candice Frederick
It’s been ...
My pain is real and the medical system is broken, misogynoir is more pervasive than what is generally perceived, and Black women deserve to been seen.
By Jazmi...
Body positivity, as a movement, was meant to give space to bodies that an oppressive society says are not worthy of love and acceptance.
The body positive move...
European monarchies built and waged their power upon our deaths and our blood. Within this context, how could we possibly expect them to value Blackness?
By Nn...
Trauma and mental illness do not abdicate you from responsibility for your relationships with others.
By B.B. Buchanan
Too rarely do we discuss mental health ...
"Crazy Rich Asians" promotes the ongoing systematic erasure and oppression of Singapore minorities on a global screen.
By Sangeetha Thanapal
After the trail...
White women are weaponizing their emotions and femininity to assert their power over BIPOC. This isn't new, but it is dangerous.
If you've been paying attentio...
Childish Gambino truly made a video for the white voyeurs of Black death.
by Jazmine Joyner
Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, has become a force to be re...
Even though we share some common lines, I don’t know what it is to live in Roxane Gay’s body.
Roxane Gay had weight loss surgery (WLS) and I have many opinion...
Masturbation, more than any other sex act, is a time to be completely selfish and all about yourself.
May is here, which means that it is finally National Mast...
This Mental Health Awareness Month, you can really honor those with mental illness by fighting for them.
It's Mental Health Awareness Month, which means that w...
Black, indigenous and women of color are not your sin-eaters, we don’t exist to endure pain for the sake of our communities.
The 1st of May marks the beginning...
Committing to self-love whispered quietly in your mind is all you need to ground yourself in the work.
Self-love is a term that's honestly gotten a bad rep. Ma...
When we invest in each other, we invest in our collective futures to rise above the oppressive systems that affect all of us.
We’ve all heard of the Mark Zucke...
What happened to Chikesia Clemons shows how dangerous it is to be a Black woman doing anything at all.
I haven’t watched the video of two white police officers...
White feminists identify so strongly with The Handmaid’s Tale because it is a show about white women in slavery.
Reproductive rights is a subject that is c...
To do justice by Asifa would be to recognize that in her tragedy lies the story of thousands of women and girls in Kashmir who have experienced the same crimes ...
