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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

We shouldn’t be surprised by Jay-Z’s NFL move. He’s always been a capitalist & this is what capitalism looks like

We need LGBTQ history in schools because the queerness of Black icons has always been obscured

How the Coalition to End Money Bond is working to help reform pretrial practices in Illinois

Black men – we need to take the racist online harassment of Black women more seriously

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

The trans child in me still needs to feel wanted

Poverty appropriation & the moral depravity of a society where elite education has the highest stakes

How theology based on a “one true god” cuts Black people off from necessary indigenous practices

We can’t ignore Marrianne Williamson’s fatphobia and ableism just because she supports reparations for slavery

Black/POC mixed race folks can reverse the anti-Blackness of mixed race narratives

How my experience as a Black man working with children was tainted by racism

The white writer’s misimagination of Black characters in science fiction

When does defending one’s reputation become a ploy to avoid addressing faults?

Reclaiming memory as a Black father and son in the face of cultural and racial traumas

Used in a relentless pursuit of the elusive middle class, side hustle culture is killing Black folx

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