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Stonewall Was an Uprising: A Playlist for Finding the Joy in the Struggle
For Black queer and trans people, insisting on cultivating joy might be the most radical move of all.
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VIDEO PLAYLIST: These Bangers from Rhythm + Flow’s Lesbian Rapper Londynn B
Londynn B is a lesbian Cardi B by way of Grace Jones — all charisma, swagger, and sex. With the bars to back it up.
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A Playlist to End The Longest Black History Month EVER. Let’s Party.
I’m ready to kiss the last hours of the longest 28 days on record away with a f*cking party and a playlist full of bangers!
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Making Amends with Valentine’s Day
I hid behind instruments, computers, Whitney’s voice, Prince’s guitar. I sat in front of my computer surrounded by cassettes, illegally downloading songs, awkwardly whispering “I love you more than I know how to explain and I’m scared so here’s a mixtape I made you.”
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Building An Altar to Honor Pulse on Its Fifth Anniversary
“Building ofrendas unite the living and the dead; they give space for our stories to be held. I light candles and kneel before them to say prayers because doing so reminds me, even when I’m my most lost – I’m never alone in this world.”
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Black Queer People Writing Ourselves Into History: An Autostraddle Master List
We want this year’s Black History Month to be serious. But also – sexy, fun, JOYful. We want to reflect the multiple ways that black people see ourselves and walk through our world. And so, we begin here. By writing ourselves back into our own history.
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S L I C K: King of Cups
“I distinctly remember you eating my pussy on the banks of the Nile river, ” I say and we both waterfall into each other’s bodies. I climb on top of her, straddle her hips, and she grabs my ass.
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Black August: A Feminist and Queer Syllabus for Black Liberation
There’s a long and proud Black radical history of fighting back against the prison industrial complex and criminal (in)justice systems. So why is it that most of the voices that are upheld come from cis men?
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QTPOC Roundtable: Queer Anthem Playlist
There’s just some songs that make you want to shout and dance and that make you feel proud to be queer.
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Stepping Out Of Silence
When love is a matter of desperation, how do you even begin to know what it is you desire? It doesn’t matter what shape love takes. Or does it?
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Playlist: Fuck Independence Day, Celebrate Black Women Instead
I will not celebrate a country in which 11 of the 14 trans people of color murdered this year have been black women. I will not celebrate a country currently run by fascists and white supremacists. I will not eat your bland potato salad. I will not celebrate a country that does not celebrate me.
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“Someone Great”: Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise Add a Lesbian BFF to the Gal Pal Comedy Formula
It’s like Girls Trip’s less raunchy kid sister who went to NYU and made some white friends.
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Playlist: Black Queer Music History, Pt. 2 (1930s-1960s)
It was hard enough to be black during this time, let alone black and queer, but these musicians did it and they made awesome music!
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Playlist: Black Queer Music History Pt. 1 (Early 20th Century)
Black queer artists have been killing the game forever. Check out what they were doing in the early 20th century.
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A Road Trip With Your Father In Honor of His 74th Birthday, In Playlist Form
A road trip which happens to coincide with the occasion of Prince’s death and the release of “Lemonade.”
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Black Queer Music History, Pt. 4 (1990s-Present)
Black queer musicians today are some of our strongest advocates, and they’re leading the revolution with singing and dancing.
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Black Queer Music History, Pt. 3 (1970s-1990s)
This is my favorite era because the variety we hear during this time period is something like never before. Finally, queer black folks get to individually express their identities and aesthetics!
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Call For Submissions: “Renaissance,” Personal Essays From Black LGBT Women
I’m guest editing an essay series for Autostraddle next month and am looking for personal essays about how your black queer life has been saved or influenced by art in all forms, from television to sculpture.
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Speakeasy Night At Klub Deer: The Playlist
The QTPOC Speakeasy is throwing a house party/pajama jam on Mt. Feelings and everyone’s invited! Come for the throwbacks, stay for the dance-off. We even put together a mini-playlist for you, bb.
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Playlist: Top 20 Underrated Selena Songs
I’m bringing it way back to Selena’s first album with old school Tejano music and cumbias, a few of her English songs (one that has that Paula Abdul 80s/90s swag) and some of her mariachi songs.