Yes, all lives matter. Still, the fact remains that Black and Brown lives matter less than white lives in our society. The reason there is no “White Lives Matter” movement is because whites enjoy privileges that POC do not. To deny this, or try to take the wind out of the sails of the Black […]
When I talk about race and whiteness, people often say I must be a “self-hating white person” and that I shouldn’t let “white guilt” bring race into my life–or at the very least, into my conversations with them. Here’s the thing: If I get exposed to the flu, that’s not my fault. But once I […]
There have been a lot of high profile suicides lately, and those are statistically proven to push people over the edge. It’s important to me this message reaches as many people as possibles, so please share its ideas as much as you feel comfortable: “A Brief Guide to Helping Your Suicidal Friend, By A Formerly Suicidal […]
With all these people committing suicide, just posting about the hotline isn’t enough. That’s not support. We need mental health reform. We need to get rid of the stigma that mental illness is uncommon and a burden. We need affordable healthcare and medicine. We need affordable rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness. […]
Being Black and queer is exhausting. Sometimes I don’t even realize how exhausting it is until one day I can’t get out of bed and then I try to ignore it with television, social media and work and then my computer dies and I have to sit with my Black queer body all alone and […]
There was a story on the New York Times’s “The Daily” podcast about taxi drivers committing suicide because of the depreciation of their medallions. Every death is tragic, suicide or otherwise, and it’s injurious to human dignity that we place people in such precarious positions that suicide seems an appropriate response to monetary woes. But […]
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, which can cause inflammation and damage in any part of the body. I drew a chart of how lupus and the condition caused by lupus affect my body. Not all of these are present every day and they can all appear with […]
Shoutout to us, the survivors. Shoutout to those who speak up and name our attackers, and to those who—for whatever absolutely valid reason—do not feel safe enough to name the person who hurt them. To the survivors who are faced with flashbacks of their trauma while being put on the spot to represent anyone that’s […]
When I heard about the allegations against Junot Díaz I was heartbroken, but not surprised. Díaz’ work is rife with misogyny—which should’ve rung alarm bells for all of us—and a while back when he spoke at my school, I witnessed behavior eerily similar to that described by Carmen Maria Machado. (One of my classmates tried […]
Non-Black people of color, especially Latinx non-Black people of color, need to understand that everything that has happened to us in the past five centuries has been because of anti-Blackness. The conquering of our homes, the taking of our land, and the destruction of our ancestors is rooted in anti-Blackness. That should be at the […]
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