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Artist at Work: Melissa Madera, Historian and Creator of the Abortion Diary Podcast
Madera’s podcast offers an intimacy and authenticity not often found in public conversations around abortion.
Everything That’s Wrong with ‘Anything’
This weekend, it was revealed that Matt Bomer, a cisgender actor best known for roles in ‘Magic Mike’ and ‘American Horror Story,’ will be playing a transgender sex worker in the upcoming film ‘Anything,’ based on a play by Timothy McNeil.
Beyonce, Black Motherhood, and the VMAs
The presence of these women on a national stage helps challenge the racist myth of careless Black mothers.
Filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos Centers Abortion Stories in New Documentary
The film arrives at a time when personal stories are center stage in the national conversation about abortion, including in the most recent Supreme Court decision, and rightly so.
The “Today Show” Hair Fail and Anti-Blackness in the Beauty Industry
Last week on the Today Show, a nightmare for naturalistas everywhere became a reality for Malyia McNaughton.
This is What Naked Power Looks Like
This is the time-honored tradition of burlesque, and it is unexpectedly on the frontlines of resistance against racism, objectification, and gender injustice.
How ‘Roots’ Reverberated in Africa
The epic miniseries, which united black and white Americans in a viewing experience that the late journalist Chuck Stone called both “an electronic orgy of white guilt” and “one of greatest emotional experiences of all time”—set off a chain of reactions in sub-Saharan Africa.
Lemonade refreshed my spirit. I didn’t feel exploited, commodified, or powerless, bell hooks.
I’m a woman that grew up in the church and I’ve has always struggled with my spirituality. For me, Beyonce’s latest work Lemonade is theologically and spiritually freeing.
How Prince helped me be black and genderqueer in America’s Bible capital
I found a north star in Prince and his identity because he showed me the power of my genderqueer body.