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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17 Queer and Feminist Latinx Podcasts To Get Into
These podcasts are for the chingonas, the jotxs, and the baddass Latinxs who need some audio magic in their lives.
QTPOC Roundtable: TV and Movie Characters That Made Us Feel Seen
“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”
Confessions of An Undocumented African Immigrant
“I couldn’t afford to go home, but it was common knowledge among the many international students that, technically, one could remain in the country beyond the visa validity period as long as you were still enrolled in school. So I did.”
Let “New Black Swing” Hypnotize You with Smooth Summer Vibes
“Vibes. It’s all about the energy I share, the energy we share with one another. Whether in public or in private, in romance or otherwise. I think about the deepest times in my life and how I dealt with them through music with a bounce, catchy melodies and poetic sentiments.”
Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.
Foolish Child #27: Foolish Nonya
Boy? Girl? BOY OR GIRL?
Trumpcare Is an Attack on Trans People of Color. Let’s Fight Like Hell Against It.
Defeating this bill is a matter of life and death to the transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color who depend on Medicaid to survive.
14 Music Videos That Confirmed My Sexuality
“Soft butches everywhere? I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but this is mine.”
“The Bold Type” Gives Us a Muslim Lesbian and Unapologetic Feel-Good Feminism
Scarlet isn’t interested in acquitting itself to any man. And as the magazine repeatedly rejects the reductive assumption that sex and feminism and fashion and politics can’t coexist, so does the show itself.
Style Thief: How to Dress Like Jazzmyne Robbins
“Whether it’s metallic details, leather-y looks, or fabric that’s slashed or bound together with laces, Robbins often has a spectacular Mad Max: Thunderdome-type thing goin’ on. Hot.”
“Claws” Features a Butch Lesbian, a Bisexual Crime Boss and a Chance to Stop Talking About “Breaking Bad”
Claws is not Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is not Breaking Bad if Walter White isn’t a white man cloaked in respectability. You share that narrative through the eyes of a struggling black woman, a recent parolee, a recovering addict, a lesbian and a former sex worker, and the story changes completely.
VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Gabby Rivera: Summer Body Love
I went all the way to New York to get in bed with Gabby Rivera last week, and we talked all about body image, summertime feelings, and America Chavez. It RULED.
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.
Gloria Carter, Blue Ivy’s Grandma, Comes Out As a Lesbian on Jay Z’s “4:44”
Beyoncé’s husband released a new album, but what I’m excited about is the track titled “Smile” where his mother, Gloria Carter, comes out as a lesbian.
Celebrating Queer Muslim Joy with #PrEIDe
As millions of people lined busy streets in gayborhoods across the world for Pride weekend, 1.7 billion people began celebrating Eid al-Fitr — where after a long hot month of fasting from dawn to sunset Muslims throw a three-day party (in some places it lasts over ten) celebrating community, good food and impeccable outfits. As two holidays intersected and Queer Muslims began celebrating life at the intersection, a new holiday was born: PrEIDe.
“Brown Girls” Shows Women of Color Coming of Age in a Way We Never Get to See on TV
Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such, are more relatable to the broader audience. Brown Girls disproves that myth, creating an imminently relatable coming-of-age story.
Get Ready, Stay Ready: Allied Media Conference Reps the QTPOC Future
“The conference serves as a portal to collective dreaming and scheming where barriers become bridges to a more just future.”
That One Time The Patriarchy Blessed Me
“I loved the Church, and I loved the gospel. I was the kind of Mormon who politely dismissed myself from classrooms when teachers showed R-rated movies. At my first and only high school rager, I texted my mother to pick me up because I felt out of place amidst the drinking and smoking. That was me, Straight-Edge Dera, except apparently I wasn’t so straight.”
“Queen Sugar” Does Black Lives Matter Storytelling Right
Unlike Orange Is the New Black, Queen Sugar’s approach to Black Lives Matter storytelling works because it doesn’t resort to excessive violence or torture porn to make its point.