BYP x AirGo
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our... more
‘Fast Color’ was snubbed by Hollywood’s white male gatekeepers because it doesn’t fit their worldview
In rejecting the limited portrayals of women as tools or objects of affection, a story that utilizes a male-centric genre to consider the supernatural and ordinary experiences of women is uninteresting to male gatekeepers who are out of touch.
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“Anti-Blackness knows no borders. It is always underneath the surface, even in the polite confines of British society. ”
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Anti-Blackness knows no borders: How nation-centric understandings of Blackness fails us
Dalvin Aboagye Near the end of May, the more melanin-infused parts of the internet were set ablaze by a questionable scene in the second season of She’s Gotta Have It,... more
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Comic: Cis folks need to stop masking their transphobia as “preference”
Cis people insist on diving head-first into these conversations with the wonton butchering of the word “preferences” and the constant detour into the subject of genitals.
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Black military men’s bodies are the cost of their patriotism
The State continued to ring the bodies of Black men out like rag-dolls all the while treating Patriotism as a carrot on a stick. Something to achieve, in efforts to thwart State sanctioned violence, the cost undeclared.
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How Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers” episode failed bisexual men & trans women
Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At BYP, we will be exploring gender, sexuality, transgender issues and queer theory, and we are interested in publishing... more
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Reproductive justice advocacy requires more than being “pro-choice”
Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At BYP, we will be exploring gender, sexuality, transgender issues and queer theory, and we are interested in publishing... more
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What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?
Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At BYP, we will be exploring gender, sexuality, transgender issues and queer theory, and we are interested in publishing... more
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What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?
Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At BYP, we will be exploring gender, sexuality, transgender... more
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The silent pain of transwomen—or, why I don’t have male privilege
Transgender people learn early how to lie and suffer in silence. Cases of hate crimes against us are vastly underreported, because we’re used to the silent struggle.
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Resisting constant surveillance in my predominantly white neighborhood
By Gloria Oladipo I am tired of my white neighbors watching me, my family, and other residents of color.... more
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Dear Inbetweener: Finding my place as a bisexual biracial man
It took me years to find my people. I spent many lonely nights begging the stars and planets for some kind of peace and understanding without hearing anything back. But gradually, my people found me.
Linda Fairstein will always feel justified because there’s no accountability for the violence of white feminism
By Émelyne Museaux White women’s sovereignty has always been inextricably linked to the... more
Linda Fairstein will always feel justified because there’s no accountability for the violence of white feminism
By Émelyne Museaux White women’s sovereignty has always been inextricably linked to the... more
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 joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more