BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Jawanza Malone
Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our... more
Politics
Police-Free schools are necessary, as is abolishing the white supremacist state they are rooted in
Police-free schools isn't separate from eradicating the system that brought legitimacy to having a police presence on campus in the first place.
Word
“The idea of tethering "humanness" to sexuality has only ever provided opportunities to further marginalize folks without sexuality or with sexualities understood as non-normative.”
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Professionalism is a lie, sheltering in place is no exception
Sheltering in place heightens the expectation that our spaces (and bodies) always be intelligible to audiences, especially when those audiences are white.
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Guns too often become tools of intra-communal violence at the hands of cis het Black men
Gun ownership—especially of cisgender Black men—often increases the likelihood of harm against Black women, especially Black trans women.
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Exclusive Interview: Hari Ziyad reveals the cover of their memoir
Black Boy Out of Time explores my experiences as a Black, queer, non-binary person raised in a Hindu and Muslim family in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Sex is not what makes us human
The idea of tethering "humanness" to sexuality has only ever provided opportunities to further marginalize folks without sexuality.
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We are no good to the dead, and yet we believe the grieving owe us their tears
Instead of engaging with how we might honor our dead, we play into this world’s violence by asking, what can I extract from this dead, Black life?
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Choosing Play is Black radical parenting
When parents and caretakers reclaim playfulness, it becomes a necessary, exciting, and revolutionary approach to Black parenting.
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Choosing Play is Black radical parenting
When parents and caretakers reclaim playfulness, it becomes a necessary, exciting, and revolutionary approach to Black parenting.
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Comic: You’re not a nutrition expert, you’re just fatphobic and you should feel bad
Many so-called nutrition “experts” and people “giving weight-loss tips” will even suggest diets that will put people into a state of calorie deficiency.
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Black gun ownership as resistance against white terrorism
Black gun ownership, as a resistance strategy, is the ultimate subversion of a white supremiscist framework of social order.
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Hereditary Wounds: A Short Story
I flip through dusty photos and find one of a young boy, no more than seven years old sitting next to an older man, not knowing about hereditary wounds.
Entertainment
Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury
There should be concern for Black male youth’s embodiment of their sexual selves, needs and how they understand the world around them.
Education
The siblings of disabled youth are committed to building more accessible worlds
These are skills that can be and must be learned to help all of us grow and to build a more accessible world.
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
BYP x AirGo
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Jawanza is the Executive... more
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Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight... more
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara... more
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AirGo is back for our second episode in front of a live audience! This time, we’re excited to launch our #BYPSpotlight, a collaboration with Black Youth Project, a... more
Religion
How I use ancestor veneration to navigate my Mother’s Death
I offer this ritual as an invitation and witnessing to all who are grieving their mothers, dead and alive.
Gender-and-sexuality
High rates of femicide make it hard to be a Black woman in this world
Femicide, defined as "the intentional killing of women because they are women", is a crisis within a crisis for Black cis and trans women.
Race
Black dissociation is a requirement of capitalism
The dissociation required for me to see myself as separate from my body, and to see my body as antagonistic of my identity, is a requirement of capitalism.
Health
A self-harm resource list
As a Black Queer person who self-harmed as a youth, I felt completely alone. I didn’t know what I know now, that up to 47% of bisexual women self-harm.
