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In a world where my parents let me be as free as Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union let Zaya

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ contends with unresolved trauma, and a host of other unsettling things

Comic: No, you did not turn out “just fine”

Associating disability with weakness made it impossible to embrace my autism

The recent college admissions scandal is just a fraction of the rigged American Education System

Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body

How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia

How prison-based thinking warps a lack of empathy for “deserving” victims to harm the vulnerable

Being a “chooser” in a dating field that deems Black women undesirable

I have no interest in “white allies”

Nourishing Black children has nothing to do with their parents’ genders and everything to do with letting them be themselves

Facing my eating disorder: No one loves fat, Black bodies

Toni Morrison is our greatest living writer

Black integrity matters

Comic: Queer men don’t need straight men’s permission to be cute

Meet Ashton P. Woods, the millennial Black Lives Matter activist running for Houston City Council-At Large

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

We deserve to see more Black vampires on the screen

When Black womxn finally allow ourselves to get angry

Carceral “love”, consent, and Black womxn’s bodies: From ‘OITNB’ to ‘Siempre Bruja’

The presumption of attractiveness will always perpetuate violence

How hip-hop helped reimagine Black presence in horror

Moving to South Africa meant my race was different, but not the realities of racism

During Kamala Harris’ Presidential run, we have to be vigilant about critiques laced with misogynoir

A meditation on intergenerational trauma and how we raise Black children

Colleges sanitizing remnants of white supremacy on their campuses isn’t progress

How Ariana Grande uses “Black Cool” in her incremental appropriation game

How tourists make cultures like Salvador’s into “exotic” commodities for their consumption

I will no longer argue with anyone who shames me for not voting, and you shouldn’t either

Black women have to keep pushing back against internalized misogynoir

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