Briana Lawrence’s ‘Magnifique Noir’ is for Black girls who realize that they’re fine being themselves and that there’s no singular way to be. Briana Lawrence is the creator, writer, and one of the illustrators of the magical girl inspired illustrated novel series Magnifique Noir. Magnifique Noir focuses on the misadventures of young, college-aged Black queer...
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7 LGBT2S Bolivian Community Organizers You Should Know About
While the country is under the strain of anti-Indigenous politicians, it’s important to learn about the Bolivian organizers changing the lives of QTBIPOC. By ThatNerdyBoliviane In recent times, the gradual rise of anti-indigenous, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic violence across Bolivia has been overwhelming and heartbreaking. The oversimplification of the structural problems that led to the...
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Tamar Braxton and Cishet Black Women’s Complicated Relationships to Queer Black People
Tamar’s statement goes beyond harming cishet men, it opens up a particular kind of violence against Queer Black people. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence and r/pe culture Recently, recording artist and television personality, Tamar Braxton, made a post on her Instagram story where she essentially claims that the one and only reason a...
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What Gender Is My Brain? The Dangerous Phrenology of “Brain Sex”
History raises cause for concern about the stakes associated with relying upon brain imaging to dictate the source of transgender identity. By Alex Verman When POSE actress Indya Moore tweeted about a “biologically female penis” in February, it created exactly the kind of reaction you might expect. The replies to her tweet are gleefully cruel,...
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Five Non-Binary People On Their Favorite Parts of Transitioning
Even within the LGBTQIA community, non-binary issues are largely misunderstood, or ignored altogether. “There were days I felt like a girl and days I felt like a boy, and those days wouldn’t always correspond with the body I was in. I still believed everyone when they said I had to be one or the other....
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The Transgender and Khawaja Sira Communities: Shared Struggles and Tensions
The issues of the Transgender and Khawaja Sira communities within Pakistan today may be similar, but they are both different communities in their own right. By Manaal Farooqi Conversations about transgender and non-binary peoples are popping up in media outlets more frequently—particularly in the West. While great strides and conversations are being had about the...
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Queer Black Muslim Women Are Still Kept Out Of The LGBT+ Community
Our bodies are all read within social and political contexts. But, some of us are never read as anything beyond bodies. By Vanessa Taylor “Thank you for coming,” a white person told me as they eagerly shook my hand. We were at Pride 2016 and I was the only visible Muslim around. Only moments before,...
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Why Dating For Asexual People is Unnecessarily Difficult
Dating as asexual is hard because it is incredibly difficult for allosexual people to understand a sexual identity that does not center sex. I marathon-watched season five of “Bojack Horseman” in a single day because of who I am as a person. It’s been a couple months since the season dropped on Netflix, but it’s...
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Cora Harrington’s ‘In Intimate Detail’ Is The Inclusive Book On Lingerie We Deserve
“In Intimate Detail” is thorough, thoughtful and inclusive. Like many other people, I’ve had a complicated relationship to my body and undergarments. I felt out of place in my own skin, consistently made to feel as if my limbs, my breasts and butt were at the mercy of objectification, and later, assault. Buying lingerie seemed...
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The Actual, Factual Best Lipsticks For Oral Sex
The quality of each of these lipsticks ensures that you won’t come back up looking like a sad clown after making someone cum. There isn’t anything quite like lipstick to make me feel ultra-femme — with the exception of liquid liner and a perfected cat-eye. My Sephora cart is pretty much always littered with a...