With the convergence of Pride Month and widespread protests against white supremacy and police brutality, it’s important to elevate, donate, and support Black transgender leaders at this time. So often these frontline freedom fighters and liberation seekers aren’t given their just due. Let’s change that.
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In late February, New Orleans hosted its annual Mardi Gras celebrations. As usual, there were vivid floats, crowds galore, and attendees adorned in green, purple, and yellow decorative beads. Community organizer Mariah Moore was one of those folks relishing in the experience, but little did she know that just a…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie being asked about trans women is like Lena Dunham being asked about Black women. It doesn’t work. We can speak for ourselves. She needs to take a lesson from herself on the danger of a single story because cisgender hegemony is dangerous.
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Do all women define themselves in the same way? Do we all share the same experiences and relationships to our bodies? Do we all have the same goals or methods for achieving gender equality?
No. And Elinor Burkett’s blather of a piece criticizing Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover in The…
“My goodies, my goodies, my goodies… not my goodies.” I can’t remember that pivotal first moment I heard Ciara’s voice, but when I reflect on her first single coming out I see images of 14-year-old me singing along on the bus after school with swaths of other teens or…
If music is the product of its original environment, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar has become the quintessential arbiter of this notion. Through his storytelling abilities and lyrical prowess, his latest release, To Pimp a Butterfly, seeks to elucidate the current state of black consciousness and liberation in his most combative…
