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Reclaiming our bodies through Black erotica

Why the new trailer for Netflix’s ‘Raising Dion’ feels bittersweet

Black women speak to being socialized to fear their own pleasure, & what we can do about it

How the media & justice system re-traumatize sexual assault survivors

LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionately vulnerable to homelessness and survival sex work

Finding refuge from white supremacy in our Indigenous cultures

When combatting colorism in dating practices becomes overcompensating for guilt

The challenges of relearning intimacy as a Black woman when your parents never showed affection

Comic: Homophobia and the weird double standards it creates about indecency with children

Reframing “sex positivity” by centering consent

Black men need space to talk about their own sexual pleasure outside of domination

How Black cis het men’s relationship to our bodies contributes to our violence against Black transgender women

Black people don’t need to be “twice as good”: Unpacking the communal depression of watching Serena lose

Make sure you affirm and support risk-takers in public, not in private with microappreciations

Learning to love myself despite the struggles of dating and sex as a diabetic Black woman

Shame and fear prevent Black teens from going to the gynecologist

Social stigma and jokes help to create misinformation about herpes

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

From John Henry to James Evans: Black men married to hard labor in the white American imagination

Black women student leaders often feel unsupported in their roles

Comic: Sex Education utterly failed you and that’s not our fault

Being a Black educator doesn’t mean you aren’t teaching anti-Blackness

100 years after Chicago’s Red Summer race riots, the lasting legacy of segregation is crystal clear

Loving trans and non-binary folks doesn’t make you a radical

Kaepernick isn’t the only reason working with the NFL is making a deal with the devil

I don’t know what my grief looks like outside of social pressures to perform it in acceptable ways

Don’t get too excited about tech advances. Many are designed to leave Black people behind

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

I’ve been intentionally single for 2 years & it’s the best gift I could give myself in a patriarchal world

‘How We Fight White Supremacy’ honors the many ways Black folks resist

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