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Intergenerational trauma is gendered, and other life lessons from my Black mother & sister

Defending “Nipsey Hussle’s widow” and other hollow gestures for Black women

How Dr. Yaba Blay’s ‘Professional Black Girl’ captures the creativity and artistry of Black Girl Culture

Nipsey Hussle’s death warrants more than a “Black Man Take Down” conspiracy theory

I grew up thinking that my body was blemished by Blackness

How defiant Black women athletes like Surya Bonaly and Serena Williams inspire me and help lay the groundwork for the future

Why the plan to replace Rikers, or reform any prison, is doomed to perpetuate the problem

Menstrual cups are for Black people, too

On being a Black cynic when the world’s laughter is so loud

Why we need to weaken the link between appearance and health

Chills down my spinal degeneration: Why we need Black queer disabled kink

How learning to work with my Ancestors created a relationship of reciprocity and parental support

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

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