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Race
How Language Purity Is A Tool To Further White Supremacy and Classism
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 ...
Body Politics
Robbie Tripp Put the Final Nail in Body Positivity’s Coffin With His ‘Chubby Sexy’ Music Video
In “Chubby Sexy,” Tripp capitalizes on his wife’s “thickness” while using a poor approximation of AAVE to deliver heavy-handed fat jokes. By ...
How Postpartum Bodies Are Affected By Fatphobia
Being pregnant is complicated and societal standards for postpartum bodies can breed parent to child resentment. Parents struggling with image ...
LGBTQ+
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. ...
Non-Binary People Share Their Self-Care Tips
For trans and non-binary people, self-care starts with finding your environment, your home. When it comes to self-care, finding sources ...
Culture
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Nancy Pelosi Is More Than Complicit In The Racism Inflicted Against Her Colleagues
White women like Pelosi pave the path from covert racism to audacious racism. By Anuhya Bobba White feminism is insidious, and that fact has been ...
Dear Scarlett Johansson: It’s Not “PC” — It’s Fighting Against White Saturation
It would be more honest for Johansson to simply say that she feels entitled to play any role because whiteness has taught her it’s acceptable for her to do ...
Scrub Your Legs: Being Unclean By Choice is Such White Privilege
When Black and brown people are marked as dirty, we pay for it in ways that white people sulking on Twitter will never understand. By Gloria Oladipo The ...
The United States War with Iran is a Reproductive Justice Issue
The reproductive justice framework necessarily compels us to be anti-imperialist. By Lily Bolourian The framework of reproductive justice tells us that ...
Dalit Feminists Should Be The Leaders of The Women’s Rights Movement In India
The voices of Dalit feminists are often unrepresented and contradictory to the needs of mainstream feminists. By Jhilam Gangopadhyay TW: this article ...
Sex Toy Designers Wanted: This Free Online Tool Lets You Craft Custom Dildos
This is a sponsored post Destigmatizing important conversations around sex, sexuality, and pleasure is important. That is what the 2018-established Sex Toy ...
Wear Your Voice Partners With Planned Parenthood For Their New Series, Summer of Sex
Summer of Sex is a multimedia project centering Black, brown, and Indigenous people's experiences with sex. Wear Your Voice is excited to announce a ...
How Do Black Girls Navigate Sexuality When The World Insists That We Shouldn’t At All?
We are creating Black women who may recognize their physical appeal, but don’t know how to embrace it because they feel like they are not allowed to. By ...
When They See Us Yesterday: The Black Imagination Beyond State Violence
I believe we can build a world where the Black Imagination no longer has to be a response to state-sanctioned violence. This article contains light spoilers ...
Sex Should Not Be Painful: The Stigma of Vaginismus
Our Summer of Sex is made possible by the sponsorship of Planned Parenthood. With their help, we are able to bring you this thoughtful series delving into the ...
When a White Company Trademarks the Word ‘Black’
As mainstream companies discover the profitability of Black consumers, Black-owned businesses are threatened to be squeezed out of existence. In the United ...
Marshae Jones and how the Criminalization of Miscarriages Fits In With Abortion Laws
What is happening to Marshae Jones is yet another reminder that the pro-choice movement must move towards reproductive justice. TW/CW: This essay discusses ...
These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps
It doesn’t do migrants and refugees a service to pretend that white supremacy, capitalism and other forms of oppression aren’t intertwined. Today Wayfair ...
Wear Your Voice’s Sherronda J. Brown Wins Planned Parenthood 2019 Media Excellence Award
Planned Parenthood celebrates journalists and Missouri abortion providers at the 2019 Media Excellence Awards. On Monday evening, we gathered with other ...
The Magic of ‘Fast Color’ and Everything It Is Up Against
“Fast Color” is a welcomed far cry from the status quo. This review contains minor spoilers for “Fast Color” and a brief interview with Saniyya Sidney ...
No, Kamala Harris Shouldn’t Pen Monthly Op-Eds For Essence
Essence could have chosen to critically engage Kamala Harris’ campaign as a way to actually support and serve Black women. By Vanessa Taylor On Sunday ...
Within a White Supremacist System, Eric Garner’s True Crime Was Being Fat
Eric Garner was killed by the people who should have helped him, but those representing his murderer are blaming his fatness. This essay contains ...
What It’s Like Being a Black Woman in the Legal Cannabis Industry
It's the fastest growing industry in the country, but am I profiting from an industry that is doing nothing positive for my community? By Brianna ...
Boston’s ‘Straight Pride Parade’ Is Really About White Supremacy
The parade is not about promoting straightness but about promoting traditional notions of white masculinity and the restoration of a white settler ethnostate. ...
In ‘Booksmart,’ The Pussy Hats Come Home to Roost
In 'Booksmart' the characters of color are flattened and serve purely as plot devices for the white leads. By Noor Al-Sibai If you read reviews in ...
In the Fight to Diversify Hollywood, We Need to Stop Ignoring Assistants
The entertainment industry thrives on unpaid and underpaid workers using the law of supply and demand to justify unfair compensation. By Adriana ...
Prison Abolition is a Key Component of Reproductive Freedom
The prison industrial complex looms large as one of the single biggest institutions which perpetuate and exacerbate unequal access to reproductive care. ...
As Gay Marriage is Legalized in Taiwan, Trans People Continue to Face Violence Across Asia
Marriage is not by any stretch of the imagination a barometer of progress for the majority of queer and trans people. This article contains mentions of ...
Lena Waithe and the Obligations of Leadership
This has been a teachable moment for Waithe but I regret greatly that Tiffany Boone and Ayanna Floyd’s bodies, minds and safety were the sites for her ...
Reproductive Control is About Far More Than “Women’s Bodies”
Insisting that this is only about "women's bodies" erases a whole host of other things that abortion rights are inherently about. This essay contains mention ...
Gentrification: Rich Black People Pushing Out Poor Black Folks Won’t Solve Anything
Gentrification is, in fact, a structural and cultural phenomenon that specifically and disproportionately targets low-income Black communities. April 26 was ...
#QueerCripRollCall Helped Me Feel Seen By The People I am Kindred to
Seeing Black disabled people affirming their identities, practicing radical transparency, gives me permission to move in my full selfhood. By Aurielle ...
‘Pleasure Activism’ Delves Into The Politics of Sex and Desire
adrienne maree brown’s "Pleasure Activism" offers its readers so much to think about and grapple with. by Josie Pickens Pleasure Activism: The ...
The Fight Against Reproductive Rights Targets the Most Marginalized People—Here is How You Can Help
Those disproportionately targeted by state violence for autonomy over their own bodies are fighting for reproductive rights and have been for a long ...
My Vow of Celibacy Helped Me Find Sexual Liberation
My sexual accessibility has never been up to me, and this was a crucial and painful epiphany to have. Content Warning: this essay mentions depression and ...
The Whitney Museum’s Biennial Silence and Its Culture of Oppression
The Whitney Museum chooses silence in an effort to displace, downplay, and negate valid public outrage regarding their policies, ethics and leadership. By ...
Daenerys Was Always A Narcissistic, Power-Hungry Colonizer
Dany’s descent into genocidal horror was an undeveloped turn of events, not an undeserved one. By Nylah Burton This essay contains spoilers for HBO’s ...
