Gender and Sexuality

5 tips for supporting a loved one who has survived sexual assault

Why racial disparities in U.S. maternal health are so terrible, and what you can do about it

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

I grew up thinking that my body was blemished by Blackness

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

In a world where my parents let me be as free as Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union let Zaya

Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body

How prison-based thinking warps a lack of empathy for “deserving” victims to harm the vulnerable

Columbus activist Amber Evans is still missing over a month after her disappearance

R. Kelly explodes in first public interview after arrest

HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” finally airs to fierce debate about sexual abuse, celebrity & race

Former Trump staffer Alva Johnson sues Trump for sexual harassment, pay discrimination

Instead of dismantling male-only military draft, judge rules women should be included

Police rule Black mom’s death accidental after “adult sleepover,” medical examiner says otherwise

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

R. Kelly may soon be facing a new trial for sexually assaulting another 14-year-old girl

Jussie Smollett attack under new scrutiny after CPD won’t substantiate unnamed sources “staged” claim

Wear Your Voice campaign aims to correct how the body positivity movement fails women of color

Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express expose decades of abuse by Southern Baptist leaders

HBCU Bennett College is poised to maintain accreditation status after debt scare

Prominent Saudi Arabian women’s activist’s family says she is being tortured after arrest

“This is MAGA country!”: Actor Jussie Smollett hospitalized after anti-gay, anti-Black attack in Chicago

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

Phoenix nurse arrested for raping woman in coma

Chris Brown arrested on rape charges in Paris

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

APA says ‘masculinity identity’ is linked to homophobia and misogyny in new report

2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck

Abused Saudi teen who posted story online will be resettled in Australia after refugee status is verified

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