When you use the wrong pronoun, you’ve crossed my boundary but you could never misgender me.
Author: Idas
The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
History broke wide open — and so did the arguments about what should be memorialized
Nice Guys Kill to Stay Nice: On the Weaponizing of Kindness and Why ‘Perfect Abusers’ Don’t Exist
“I don’t want to be like the other guys you met,” he said.
Eugenics Is Influencing Dating Apps and Other Forms of Tech
While touting tech ‘advancements’ as being explicitly based in eugenics or scientific racism may be out of fashion, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
Trauma is Not Our Name: On the Epitaphs and Eulogies of Black Life
This is only slightly a review of Queen & Slim, and more-so a take on the politics of visibility and how many of us will die to be seen not knowing that being seen is, too, death.
Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans
A group of progressive attorneys is refusing to enforce new abortion laws. But in a legal landscape so hostile to choice, is deliberate inaction enough?
Cyrus Grace Dunham Gets Real About the Messiness of Identity
“Sometimes I feel like my gender is just happening to me.”
Black Friday: A Special Rite of Passage With My Black Family
Although the day after Thanksgiving is often reduced to “capitalist consumption for the un-woke masses,” it has become a favorite family tradition of time spent with two women I love.
The History of the Medical Industry’s Role in Oppression is Well Documented
Social media is reshaping the medical industry’s abuse or, at least, the extent to which that abuse can be shared. It also provides a platform where workers can reinforce dangerous beliefs.
At Sneakertopia Artist Man One Pays Homage to Nipsey Hussle
Big brands and art meet at the Playa Vista pop-up — and, yeah it’s commercial but it’s also ill.