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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

Black man accused of killing 7-year-old after witnesses pointed to white suspect says he’s innocent

What Future’s fear of admitting his sobriety says about our unhealthy expectation for Black pain

The importance of reckoning with anti-Black bias in the white-dominated tech world

How white narcissism affords only white people the right to fear

Turning the fight to save the environment into a fight for racial justice

Comic: When white people can’t imagine a world without colonization

Black men need to abandon “pimp” culture and support Black women sex workers

I’m tired of watching white men get away with sexual violence against Black men

In defense of The Gay Agenda: Reimagining life without cis-heteros

Black excellence?: How a school abused Black students & got fame for sending them to Ivy Leagues

Cyntoia Brown’s clemency is a glimmer of hope for Black girls and the ones who protect them

‘Surviving R. Kelly’: It takes a village to fail a child

The excellence of Black Hollywood doesn’t need to be validated by mainstream awards

What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?

Trans people have the right to forgive transphobia on our own terms

Exposing children to examples of protest plants the seeds for them to fight for justice

Queering Kwanzaa: How the seven principles remind me of QTPOC power

Reconciling ‘glorious healing’ & the ‘loving refusal’ of intracommunal violence in an era of disposability

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