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Black Joy is movement work

Black joy is a central component in movement work. Whether it's dancing, laughter, or song, it is community building.

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When Black women make mistakes, we deserve compassion, not public ridicule

Comic: You Chose Your Christian God, Now Let Us Chill With Ours

When the Ancestors tell you to go to therapy

Comic: We don’t want to learn about our own cultural practices from white people

Asian American Youth support defunding police, investing in Black Futures  

Survivors deserve much more than “just vote, we’ll worry about the abuser(s) later”

We must fight for a Black liberation that exists outside of AntiBlack Systems

Comic: “Underpopulation” is not an issue you can blame on queer people. Trust me.

How Black people mourn the loss of a Superhero

Is your crowdfunding support colorist? Probably.

Your vagina deserves better than cishet patriarchal myths

We are no good to the dead, and yet we believe the grieving owe us their tears

Comic: You’re not a nutrition expert, you’re just fatphobic and you should feel bad

Hereditary Wounds: A Short Story

Solidarity in translation: Anti-Blackness from the U.S to France

The Black Lunatic

Scarcity and shame are symptoms of capitalism

The world is still inaccessible for us

Comic: Black activists are not your mules

The work must be intergenerational

The Matrix

one party

i found a watch and some liquor in the backseat

The Body: A Photo Series by Imani

Comic: The cishet obsession with children’s genitals is really weird, and transphobic

Direct giving is our legacy. Ignoring that legacy is anti-Black

Our calls to action against anti-Black state violence cannot be ableist

Police brutality does not end because of a pandemic, it is made worse by it

The myth of “progress” helps to obscure the truth—we are still marching for civil rights

Comic: Porny fan art is okay, but marginalized redesigns are apparently not

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