Instead of Posting Black Boxes To Your Instagram, Abolish Whiteness
While Black folks are being beaten, tear-gassed, and arrested en masse right now for protesting—risking our lives in more ways than one—white people are posting
For Marginalized People In Georgia, The Fight For Survival Intensifies
In Georgia, stay-at-home orders are quickly coming to an end, but the conditions which led us to being quarantined are not. Governor Kemp recently signed an executive order to reopen a number of businesses in Georgia. In that executive order, he
My Mom Won’t Leave My Abusive Father and I Still Love and Miss Her
I’m learning to acknowledge the love that I still feel for my mom, even if it is technically in conflict with my palpable resentment of her. TW/CW: this essay discusses family trauma and mentions emotional and physical abuse. May is an extremely
Honoring Queerplatonic Relationships To Better Honor Ourselves
There is a whole world of possibility to be found in queerplatonic relationships. We do not have to, nor should we, stifle ourselves or our capacity for variant, multifaceted expressions of love. By Sherronda J. Brown Throughout my life, many things and
Re-Learning Radical Softness and My Capacity to Love
I used to believe that displaying any kind of vulnerability—particularly love, which I believe to be the pinnacle of radical softness—meant getting hurt. By Clarkisha Kent Trauma has made me a cold bitch. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.