In honor of Pride, we’re celebrating some of our favorite queer folks who live in the revolutionary spirit of Pride through their unapologetic self-love, activism, and creative expression. Here’s a short list of badass queer icons out in the community that deserve endless support for their culture-shifting work as writers, artists, educators, and movement leaders. […]
What is the goal behind your pursuit of accountability? Sitting down with relationship coach Morgan K, we explore how we can better approach building and sustaining connections while feeling grounded in our own role. […]
Whether you hustled throughout the past year or laid low… The main theme of 2021 was adaptation. We adapted how we engage in our relationships, how we plan for the future, and the ways we take care of ourselves (or at least we try to). Usually, we are ready to skip ahead and create visions […]
The way the internet expects activists and organizers to be broke and struggling is internalized white supremacy. […]
Everyone thinks they have an idea of what their future will look like, and then something like COVID makes us all realize that it is never ‘for sure. […]
The below introspection on whiteness has been said before—I just hope I can bring a different perspective from my unique position and that if just one person takes the time to read this and reflect, it will have been worth it. From an extremely young age, I have been forced to unpack and analyze what […]
When the world goes up in flames everyone turns to Black voices for direction. As a people, Black women are the most educated and underestimated, vulnerable and marginalized group in America. Somehow that makes us the perfect candidates to save the world. This revolution will be televised, and Black women will be at the forefront. […]
Voter suppression is part of the fabric of this country. It has taken different forms over the years, and today it is just as rampant as ever. Do not let them take your vote from you. It’s yours. After all, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to silence you if your voice didn’t matter—your voice […]
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” –Toni Morrison […]
To make salient the ways enforced norms can dominate and subjugate, I’ll provide a personal anecdote. I grew up in a white working-class suburb, in a working-class immigrant Chinese family. In an effort to preserve the native tongue, my father didn’t allow us to speak English at home. Even though I soon became a voracious […]
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