Results for: queer parenting
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When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents
Surrogacy agencies within and without the United States are using legal loopholes to profit from poor women and women of color’s bodies.
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The Speakeasy Reacts to “Dear White People”
“Dear White People is not a how-to guide on ways to avoid performing acts of microaggressions, or why it’s bad to appropriate black people’s culture. Instead, it’s an examination of the importance of support systems, the difficulty of being an outsider, and how one uses identity as a tool of protection.”
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Because I’m Black, Too
“That risks making a wound of my blackness. My blackness is not a wound; it is a gift I’m trying, consciously and earnestly, to understand and protect and witness.”
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10 Game-Changing Things We Learned At Facing Race 2014
2. Tension is a productive force.
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Black Advocates Address Stigma, Discrimination Around Breastfeeding and Black Motherhood
“Black motherhood and bodily autonomy has been historically undermined and often robbed from Black women in numerous ways. From this country’s first visions of us as wild oversexed Jezebels able to easily produce the next generation of slaves and doting mammies, caretakers and nannies for our slave-master’s children, we haven’t been seen as individual and capable loving nurturers to children.”
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The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown
“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”
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Upon Going Home: Review of “The Messiah Complex”
“The Messiah Complex is radical because it takes on concepts of beauty, class differences, gender roles, and navigates love and life in a trans or gender-nonconforming body, all within a Black context. Never before have I seen so many nuanced themes in an all Black cast.”
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Beyond Definition: On Queer Black Love and My Kaleidoscope Identity
“My queerness was exactly the durable and malleable fabric that brought me here to this love. I am so grateful to finally have this powerful Black revolutionary in my life, I am thrilled about the quickly manifesting potential of our combined energy that nurtures creativity both for ourselves, our kin and our community.”
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The Danger at the Intersection of Street Harassment and Compulsory Heterosexuality
When we have these conversations about street harassment, we have to talk about the unique experiences LGBTQ women face.
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Make A Thing: Sacred Queer Heart Shrines
I wanted to create these mini shrines devoted to the badass bitches, feminists, queers and women of color, who’ve paved the way for us, so that we can be inspired and empowered by them everyday.
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I’m Going To Homeschool These Damn Babies
I finally feel safe enough to imagine the big queer family I never had. A home where gender is an option, not an obligation, where parents can apologize to each other as well as to their kids and where long, ongoing conversations about race, power and privilege exist.
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Idol Worship: Angela Davis Is My Ultimate Feminist Icon
Angela Davis will never be silenced, and her speaking out means that the rest of us are safely carried on the backs of giants when we do so ourselves.
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Queers for Economic Justice Closes Its Doors Thanks to Lack of Economic Justice
“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”
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100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost
This epic megapost is your glorious opportunity to meet more than 100 amazing black LGBT women who’ve made their mark over the last 150 years.
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Straddler On The Street: Jessica
Jessica has lived in London her whole life but currently attends Cambridge University where she studies English Literature. She spoke about Effing Dykes, intersectionality, mental health issues, and much more.
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La Virgen de Guadalupe: Brown Goddess in My Heart Forever
La Virgen de Guadalupe has always been dear in my heart and always will be, but the way I view her has changed throughout the years, through various lenses with different interpretations, including now as a queer woman.
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I Would Grow My Hair To Cover the City
I imagine myself as not myself, at my grandparents’ apartment this Christmas, wearing makeup, a women’s blouse, long hair combed to the middle of my back: What he thought I would grow up to be, what my mom thought I would grow up to be.
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Straddler On The Street: Lydia
Lydia is a queer femme who writes an acclaimed personal style blog, Style Is Style. She’s been featured in BUST and Rookie but this is the very first official interview where she’s talking about coming out and being queer! Also her style is AMAZING. Prepare to fall in love.
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35 Trans Women I Had #Herocrushes On In 2013
A #herocrush isn’t romantic or sexual, it’s about people you admire. People you’d love to work with to dismantle systems of oppression. This year most of my #herocrushes happened to be trans women.
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Drawn to Comics: As The Crow Flies Helps You Relive Your Awkward Camp Memories
Melanie Gillman’s webcomic As the Crow Flies tells the story of a young, queer girl of color trying to find her place at a Christian camp filled with people she can’t relate to.