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Author: Brandi Collins-Calhoun

  • Echoing Ida

Sex, Explained Was a Lot of White Noise and Mansplaining

There cannot be spaces or talk about advancing sexual liberation without the stories and experiences of marginalized people.

  • Echoing Ida

More to Love? 5 Partners Sound Off on Juicy Pregnancy Sex

With black women already fighting for our lives during pregnancy and childbirth, we now have to find the capacity to fight for our pleasure too?

  • Echoing Ida

Black Bodies Will Not Be Your Platform, Jameela Jamil

Our Black bodies are not platforms or podiums for anyone or any movement.

  • Echoing Ida

Not Getting My Hair Wet Was Keeping My Sex Life Dry

If you can’t lay up with me in my bonnet, do you even deserve me in my bundles?

  • Echoing Ida

Why My Daughter Will Be Getting a Sex Ed Crash Course, ‘Expeditiously’

T.I. damn sure doesn’t need to be holding his daughters’ hymens hostage; it suggests it’s an acceptable approach to parenting and sex ed—and it’s nasty as hell.

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