PHOTO ESSAY: Permanent Reflections of Femme and Genderqueer People of Color
“My niece shows me her Instagram feed and I see no one like her looking back at me. The people I love have fleeting reflections in the media.”
“My niece shows me her Instagram feed and I see no one like her looking back at me. The people I love have fleeting reflections in the media.”
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Breitbart’s anti-trans messaging was shaped by Milo Yiannopoulos. The Religious Right’s was shaped by the Family Research Council, home of Josh Duggar. Trump’s position on trans rights gives them and men like them leeway to behave like the predators they falsely accuse trans women of being.
We’re not even two months into the year and four trans women of color have been murdered, three of them Black, and the last two have been not even twenty five years old.
Here’s how a 28-year-old Arab-American queer demisexual cis woman living in the urban Midwest does ethical non-monogamy.
This round we cover net neutrality, Y2K, away messages, left swipes made too soon, and astropoets.
Roxane Gay is not here for your stupidity about Milo, the WNBA is not here for Candice Wiggins’ cry of reverse-homophobia, this new movie from Kristen Stewart looks good (but not as good as Totino), Hillary and Kate redux, and yes: Cate Blanchett at Stonewall.
While any and all support for the trans community is necessary and welcome, the ACLU is missing the mark with this hashtag. The big swing and miss for me is the fact that SB6 is an anti-trans bill that specifically aims to single out trans feminine individuals, regardless of sexual orientation.
Hey, let’s add a little dash of teen pregnancy to this overstuffed season of teenage dramatics.
Queer triple threat performer, director, and visionary Kelly Bartnik is mixing the episodic TV show format with live immersive theater performance and you can see it this weekend!
As homophobic Christians dominate more of the national discourse, and as Religious Freedom acts of various permutations strip rights from queer and trans people across the U.S., reclaiming the Gospel has begun to feel urgent.
The danger of talking about science as a series of value-neutral truths is that it obscures the human decision making that took place at every stage along the way, as institutions were built up. It implies that the biases held by those decision makers are shared by everyone, and are therefore insignificant.
“One of the most rewarding/amazing jobs I ever had was working with LGBTA-identified elders.”
Does Brittani Nichols smell great? Does Kristen Stewart smell terrible? There’s only one way to find out, really.
A love letter to the only woman that stole my heart and snatched my scalp at the same damn time.
It’s Alex’s first Lesbian Valentine’s Day!
Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle Melton have decided to hold hands forever.
QTPOC-centered podcast, YouTube channel, and website Collectively Speaking launches today! Support QTPOC media!
Even when the realities of being a trans woman get her down, she’s able to look at the positive side of life and hope things will one day be better.
“I guess I had a lot of opinions that night because you told me that I was especially chatty. I told you it was because you weren’t giving me anything to keep my mouth busy.”