Gender and Sexuality

The colonial politics of desirability, fitness and gay manhood

I became a sex and consent educator with Black youth in mind

Black women face greater scrutiny than white women for being polyamorous

These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence

Why bisexual people don’t owe anyone disclosure of their sexuality

Black women speak to being socialized to fear their own pleasure, & what we can do about it

How the media & justice system re-traumatize sexual assault survivors

The challenges of relearning intimacy as a Black woman when your parents never showed affection

Black men need space to talk about their own sexual pleasure outside of domination

Learning to love myself despite the struggles of dating and sex as a diabetic Black woman

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

Coverage of sex work keeps making white women dangerous victims in the name of progress

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

How biphobia impacts Black bisexual men’s health

Sexual assault programs must address racial power dynamics & acknowledge the history of racist lies about assault

How we failed Nigel Shelby and allowed the abuse he endured

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

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