Toxic allies often end up unintentionally working together with homophobes. Queer people in Bangladesh deserve genuine allyship. TW/CW: this article contains mentions of queerphobia, homophobia, harassment, abuse, and murder. By Rasel Ahmed Queer Bangladeshi community organizers are witnessing another dangerous surge of homophobic attacks online in Bangladesh. Hundreds of people are making anti-LGBTQ+ videos and...
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Death, Grief, And The Legacy I Carry On From My Brother Through Queerness
The pain that comes with grief is not necessarily one which will leave, or even ease, but people’s deaths hold power, which we ought to channel in our lives. TW/CW: discussions and mentions of trauma, death, homophobic slurs, queerphobia, transphobia, and death by suicide. By Jon Bellebono On an individual level and a societal one,...
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Lena Waithe Is Proof That Representation By Itself Is Not Radical
Lena Waithe can claim all she wants that she gives a real fuck about Blackness and Black people, but her actions and her work continue to reflect otherwise. Two years ago, when I was still a columnist for Into (RIP), I wrote about how Lena Waithe’s increased visibility in Hollywood and her Vanity Fair cover...
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Solidarity Amongst The Rich: Isaac Mizrahi Endorses Fascist Bloomberg
Isaac Mizrahi’s ahistorical support of Michael Bloomberg illustrates that solidarity amongst the wealthy is more important than the lives of marginalized people. On Tuesday, American designer Isaac Mizrahi announced his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate, oligarch and all-around-terrible person, Michael Bloomberg. Mizrahi, who has a net worth of 20 million dollars, explains that during Bloomberg’s...
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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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Stepping Back Into The Repurposed Closet For The Holidays
This repurposed closet is your space to set up reminders of your queerness, creating a way to feel comfortable while you’re out of your element. By Briana Lawrence As a woman who frequently travels to different conventions across the country, six hours of driving isn’t that great of a distance to me. Back when I...
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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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How The Colonial History of Hypersexualization Obscures the Possibility of Black Asexuality
Black asexuals deserve to have more visibility and clarity, and Black people deserve to embrace our sexualities outside of the confines of prescribed hypersexualization. This essay contains discussions of sexual and reproductive violences, and racist fetishization “Western social thought associates Blackness with an imagined uncivilized, wild sexuality and uses this association as one lynchpin of...
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Between My Thighs Is All Mine: A Journey To Accepting My Asexual Identity
My body is the beautiful, celibate temple that it was destined to be. Aromantic moments happen, but my truest gratification comes in many forms. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence and mentions molestation By Janyce Denise Glasper “You’re going to make someone very happy one day,” a friend said often, so often that this...
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How Kink Helped Me With Gender Dysphoria As A Non-Binary Person
Kink granted me the bodily autonomy I needed—I didn’t have to be an object of fetish or ridicule, I could be sexy on my own terms. By E Young The first time I had sex as a teen I was relieved that someone found me desirable. I know now that it was an all-too-typical case of...