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Stephen Miller Represents A Much Larger Problem With White Society
A History of Coups: The U.S. Doesn’t Want Socialism To Succeed
The U.S. loves to intervene through coups to prevent socialist leaders from creating change in their own countries. And they’ve just done it ...
Entertainment and Culture
How BoJack Horseman (and Men) Heal From Trauma At The Expense of Others
BoJack could easily be replaced with a number of men who are continually allowed to be violent as a mechanism for “healing” regardless of who ...
PARASITE, The Horror of Poverty and The Importance of Class Solidarity
Parasite is a visceral, realistic lesson on the importance of class solidarity, commenting on the cyclical violence of poverty, and demonstrating ...
Sex and Health
T.I.’s Violation of His Daughter is a Blatant Form of Misogynoir
T.I. is not an anomaly but a representative of a greater framework that dehumanizes Black women. TW: descriptions of misogynoir, virginity ...
Between My Thighs Is All Mine: A Journey To Accepting My Asexual Identity
My body is the beautiful, celibate temple that it was destined to be. Aromantic moments happen, but my truest gratification comes in many ...
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The Image of Whiteness and The Limits of White Allyship
What does it mean to be a white person producing knowledge on race and racism, and potentially profiting off such analyses? By Harley Wong With the bold ...
Tamar Braxton and Cishet Black Women’s Complicated Relationships to Queer Black People
Tamar's statement goes beyond harming cishet men, it opens up a particular kind of violence against Queer Black people. This essay contains discussions of ...
Wear Your Voice At ComplexCon and Community Week
"I hope Complexcon’s producers continue to build on this and prioritize the voices of more Black and brown women/LGBTQIA folks in media." On 2-3 Nov. Complex ...
Virginia Democrats Are Willing To Ignore Both Blackface and Accusations of Sexual Assault
Liberal Americans seem unable to grasp or remain in complete denial over the idea that not every Democrat is a good person. This was made apparent in ...
Billionaires, Bill Gates and The Scam That Is Philanthropy
Masquerading as a form of benevolence, philanthropy continues to be a useful form of tax evasion for the mega-wealthy actively fighting against true ...
From Lebanon to Chile, Protesters Are Uniting Against The Ruling Class
In Chile, Iraq, and Lebanon, people have put aside their sectarian and ethnic differences to fight back against corrupt, capitalist systems of ...
The Abuse of the Black Femme Also Known as The Perfection
The pain and terror of Black women and femmes is less important than the machinations of white women and this colors The Perfection. This essay contains ...
Problematic Halloween Costumes Aren’t A Mistake, They’re An Exertion of Power
Wearing a problematic costume is a refusal to recognize the pain of someone else’s experience, and a refusal to acknowledge the harm people can do. By ...
The ‘Charmed’ Reboot Still Has A Lot To Learn About Portraying Black Characters
The treatment of Black characters on "Charmed" is still lacking in nuance, but I believe it still has the potential to be headed in the right direction. This ...
Social Media Will Be the Death of Me: A Black Sex Worker’s Lament
Sex workers are shadow-banned, locked out of our accounts, and even banned from the platforms that we helped bring to prominence simply for daring to ...
Mexico’s ‘Africamericanos’ Exhibit Explores Black Identity In Latin America
There is little recognition of Afro-Latinx communities throughout Latin America, but Puebla's “Africamericanos” exhibit is seeking to change that. It wasn’t ...
Asexual Is Queer And Gatekeeping Is Not Liberation
Asexuality would also be better understood if we expanded and reformed our understanding of queerness itself. "Pursuing an understanding of queerness as an ...
Big Mouth Ignores The Cultural Realities of Being a Queer Person of Color
If Big Mouth is serious about shamelessly tackling these uncomfortable topics, they need to do better—for both the queer and the BIPOC community. By Shin Hye ...
How The Colonial History of Hypersexualization Obscures the Possibility of Black Asexuality
Black asexuals deserve to have more visibility and clarity, and Black people deserve to embrace our sexualities outside of the confines of prescribed ...
Everyone Should Know What Happened to Black Wall Street
No, the massacre of hundreds of Black folks—one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history—really happened, and most people, especially white Americans, ...
The Many Shades and Iterations of South Asian Anti-Blackness
South Asians have a complex history with anti-Blackness and we need to confront and dismantle it for collective liberation. South Asia has a rampant ...
The Ritual of Taking Nude Photos For Myself Helped Me Reclaim My Body
Taking nude photos of myself gave me a sense of empowerment in reclaiming my body for myself only, shifting the power from my rapists back to me. By ...
How Kink Helped Me With Gender Dysphoria As A Non-Binary Person
Kink granted me the bodily autonomy I needed—I didn’t have to be an object of fetish or ridicule, I could be sexy on my own terms. By E Young The ...
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 Mejia Let’s face it. ...
Andrew Yang’s Appeal To White Supremacists Reveals His Anti-Blackness
Andrew Yang's reliance on the model minority myth and popularity amongst the alt-right and other white supremacists is more than concerning. TW/CW: mentions ...
Muslim Americans Don’t Have The Privilege of Forgetting Bush’s Crimes
By sanitizing George W. Bush into a harmless old man with different political views, we dishonor the people who lived through or died by the injustices that he ...
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 and ...
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 ...
‘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 celebration, empathy, and ...
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 ...
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 Nylah ...
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 ...
