“How do we access joy, I wondered, if we aren’t consistently dreaming about it and making portals for its existence in our lives?”
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With Amazon’s New Drone Patent, The Company’s Relationship With Surveillance Is About To Get Even More Complicated
“What we have here is a perfect marriage between law enforcement and one of the world’s biggest companies creating conditions for a society that few people want to be a part of,”
How These Southern Queer Folks Made A Pride Of Their Own
Southern Fried Queer Pride is a safe haven for Black and Brown LGBTQ+ folks — and they’re just getting started.
Reclaim Pride – Reclaiming Our History. Claiming Our Future.
Art by Colin Laurel in collaboration with Forward Together in June 2019.
How I answered a call to preach in college, and abandoned it
“I believe I was called by God. My insecurity screamed so loud that I couldn’t hear it.”
No, Kamala Harris Shouldn’t Pen Monthly Op-Eds for Essence
Essence could have chosen to critically engage Kamala Harris’ campaign as way to actually support and serve black women.
Zoe Spears Is the Fourth Black Trans Woman Found Dead This Pride Month
Her friend, Ashanti Carmon, was murdered nearly three months ago in the same area.
A Black Midwesterner’s Perspective on Abortion Access, Regional Culture, and Why People Should Care About the Midwest
When reporting on the Midwest, media outlets often forget about communities subject to state violence and suppression.
Six LGBTQ+ Activists on What We Should Abolish and Legalize by 2069
50 Radical Ideas: Let’s rethink the institutions and laws that shape our world.
Activist Miss Major Recounts the First Night at the Stonewall Riots
Here’s what happened when trans and queer folk cast the first stone and gave birth to a movement.