Gender and Sexuality

PA Catholic church wages war to prevent court report’s release on clergy abuse scandal

The “positive outcome” of the Starbucks arrest won’t save us because it didn’t save Chikesia Clemons

I thought my transness would betray my Blackness. I was wrong.

String of Black LGBTQ+ murders sparks fear of serial killer in Central Florida community

Oakland mourns after 18-year-old Nia Wilson is killed on BART subway station by alleged white supremacist

A course is being taught at a New York college on the crisis of white masculinity and it’s about time

Letter to my Black mother who wants me to forgive the world when I saw it try to kill her

Shuri returns to the throne in her own Marvel comic by Nnedi Okorafor

Black youth need more than public health strategies that read sexuality as diseased and immoral

Comic: Revolution means nothing if it doesn’t include Black women and Black queer folks

Poet Simone John talks her book ‘Testify’ and Sandra Bland’s legacy on the anniversary of her death in AAIHS interview

‘Pose’ actress Indya Moore to star in, executive produce Frankenstein retelling ‘Magic Hour’

NYC performer welcomes a world without anti-Blackness in “immersive abolitionist fairy-tale,” ‘Neptune’

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

Anti-Blackness serves again?: Serena Williams is drug-tested more than any other top US tennis player

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions hires Black queer scholar to ensure better representation

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

New study shows that focus on appearance creates big barriers for Black women in sports

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

After 6 missing and killed Black women and girls, Chicago student starts carpool program to protect them

I’m finally decolonizing the queerphobia I learned at home

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

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

Jeff Sessions says domestic violence is not grounds for asylum in the U.S.

Learning to love my androgynous and masculine Black womanhood

Time explores the history of a Nazi concentration camp symbol that was repurposed for Pride

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

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

Morgan Freeman accused of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment by 8 women

UT Austin ‘Restrictive Masculinity’ program under pressure by administration after right-wing criticism

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