Gender

The silent pain of transwomen—or, why I don’t have male privilege

On being queer and mourning the loss of straight male friendships

The Black body remembers our traumas even when we try to forget

How I used my names as a vehicle for my non-binary identity exploration

Our world has made gender into a cage

Morehouse’s new policy accepting trans men misses the point by clinging to the gender binary

The conditioning that fuels the mental health epidemic for Black men, and how to stop it

Intergenerational trauma is gendered, and other life lessons from my Black mother & sister

How my mother made me a liar and forced me into the closet

In response to Trump administration’s memo define gender to exclude transgender people, organizers, activists say we #WontBeErased

The story of Black queer women imprisoned for defending themselves to reminds us this criminal system cannot save us

Queer isn’t who you are, it’s how you reclaim freedom. And even the gayest of us sometimes fail at it

More role models for Black boys in school won’t fix anything if we continue to overlook Black girls

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

Waffle House, Starbucks, and the unalterable anti-Black, patriarchal violence of newsworthiness

Why Black gender conversations will always fail unless we center Black children

Stop expecting Black children to grow up straight & cisgender

Why “privilege” is counter-productive social justice jargon

I still love you Janelle Monáe but you’ve got this “consider stopping having sex” thing all wrong

“I’m not gay no more”: on Andrew Caldwell, static sexuality & gender expression

Amandla Stenberg Does Q&A for ‘Rookie’ Magazine

Wade Davis Talks Being Gay in Sports in New TED Talk

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Their Gender Identity

#ThouCrushThursday celebrates desire beyond the gender binary

ICYMI: President Obama Takes a Stand for Gender Equality

ICYMI: Lupita Nyong’o lights up red carpet in dress coded by girls

Let Jaden Smith Live

Laverne Cox Has the Best Response to Caitlyn Jenner’s Photo Shoot

Fifty-Percent of Millennials Believe Gender Is On a Spectrum

Report: Violence against Gender non-conforming people

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