Whiteness is always invested in taking up more space. As a result, white people often do everything in their power to make every space they enter into more comfortable for whiteness. By Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt Wear Your Voice is a small publication. We are run by just a few people, we have...
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Symone Reminds Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ Communities That We’re Worthy
The reigning champion of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Symone, is here to remind us that we’re worthy. Pride means many things to LGBTQIA+ communities across the country. From celebrating our identities and our experiences, to self and community affirmations, Pride is a moment to be exactly who we are—and we are Unstoppable Together. It is an...
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Fran Tirado On Defining Pride Just For Ourselves
Writer and producer Fran Tirado is uplifting queer and trans communities through their work. Pride means many things to LGBTQIA+ communities across the country. From celebrating our identities and our experiences, to self and community affirmations, Pride is a moment to be exactly who we are—and we are Unstoppable Together. It is an expression of...
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Serpentwithfeet Is Celebrating Pride and All His Colors
Serpentwithfeet shares the importance of LGBTQIA+ youth centering themselves all year. Pride means many things to LGBTQIA+ communities across the country. From celebrating our identities and our experiences, to self and community affirmations, Pride is a moment to be exactly who we are—and we are Unstoppable Together. It is an expression of liberation, a protest...
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Singer and Rapper Tunde Olaniran Explains What Pride Means to Them
Tunde Olaniran Tells Us Why Pride Is So Important to Them Pride means many things to LGBTQIA+ communities across the country. From celebrating our identities and our experiences, to self and community affirmations, Pride is a moment to be exactly who we are—and we are Unstoppable Together. It is an expression of liberation, a protest...
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Official Statement of Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson
Official Statement from Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, Lisa Simpson, mother of Richard Risher, and the Collective After Tamir and Richard were murdered, when we had to bury our sons, we didn’t see ‘Black’, ‘Lives’, or ‘Matter’. Our DNA changed when our sons were murdered. It took breath out of our bodies. When y’all...
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Just A Bunch of Pandas To Get Us Through The Election
Pandas. We need them, you need them, so we simply compiled an extremely important dossier of 21 panda pictures to get us through the week and beyond. Yeah, this week is really fucking difficult. Actually, this whole year, decade, lifetime has been difficult. But you know what, it’s ok to not read the news and...
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Re-Framing Reproductive Rights and Justice: A Reading List
The debate over reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy continues as the possibility of another conservative supreme court justice puts Roe v Wade at risk. This week, mainstream media’s news cycle was overwhelmingly focused on Christian Cult Karen’s supreme court nomination hearings. The fascists in the white house and senate are pushing through her nomination proceedings...
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We Shouldn’t Have To Say This: Breasts, Areolae, and Nipples Vary In Appearance
It’s critical that we call out and interrogate the misogynoir at the forefront of people’s reactions to Cardi B’s breasts. By Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt We really shouldn’t have to even say this, but it’s a fact that breasts, nipples, and areolae vary in size, color, position, and shape, and even in texture....
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News Round-Up: What the Fuck Is Race-Changing Make-up, Tina Fey?
After years of skirting questions and discussions about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and race, Tina Fey decided to nip some shit in the bud and avoid a reckoning. By Lara Witt and Da’Shaun Harrison Another week, another mess. Here is Wear Your Voice’s “hint of anger” news round-up just in case you did the right thing...