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The rage felt so good, until it didn’t: The difficulty of cutting off abusive family members

Growing up in an anti-Black family: A message for Black people who consider kids with white partners

The hypocrisy of defending Maxine Waters against calls for civility while shaming Black non-voters

As Kennedy’s retirement puts gay marriage on ice, don’t let the issues facing LGBTQIA+ PoC be ignored

“Jogger Joe” destroying a houseless Black man’s belongings is a natural part of Oakland’s gentrification

Reaction to Rachel Maddow’s on-air tears are a reminder that some only believe the truth when white people tell it

With Mary J. Blige set to star in ‘Body Cam’, we may have another Black horror hit soon

An open letter to my boyfriend after the ghost of my abuser appeared during sex

I’m finally decolonizing the queerphobia I learned at home

What do we need for a new freedom?: A proudly fat, disabled, bisexual enby’s vision for #Juneteenth

Comic: Straight people, I am not your Po-Gay-mon

Black witnessing is an insistence on Black being: Re-membering those who were lynched

When is it #TimesUp for white women who don’t recognize Black women’s boundaries?

Jordan Peele will finally bring his Black horror genius to HBO with ‘Lovecraft Country’

Learning to love my androgynous and masculine Black womanhood

How I learned to stop torturing myself in hopes of getting to “the good part” of bad entertainment

Shondaland on Law and Order (and Trump’s America) in ‘For The People’

My mother, my Black feminist role model, is more than her motherhood

It’s no surprise more women are being imprisoned as less men are. We need abolition, not reforms.

Black people still can’t swim: Reflections on the McKinney, TX pool incident 3 summers later

Reflecting on my toxic relationship with a mother who never loved me

Florida jury spitefully awards Black children $4 for father’s death by cops, attorney says

‘The First Purge’ will finally center people of color in its violent, dystopian narrative

Black boy gone: Why this former minister left the church behind

We need to acknowledge genocides outside of the European/Jewish Holocaust

Learning when to cut off toxic marginalized people is imperative to Black mental health

I’m not bipolar, I’m just traumatized: What I learned about Black womanhood from my misdiagnosis

Comic: Stop pretending there’s no room for people of color in the fantasy realm

You ain’t responsible for protecting your fave from critique

PTSD is more common than you think

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