When we don’t tell our stories, it allows others to write the narrative for us—or worse, exclude us entirely from it.
Outlet: The Root
‘Smoke Your Weed, Baby’: Memories of My Mother’s Truth or D.A.R.E.
“This firsthand learning showed me how to be an independent thinker and that the state will stop at nothing to try to criminalize our minds and bodies.”
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.
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?
It’s Time to Fully Welcome LGBTQ Members Into the AME Church
A change in our policy is a step in the right direction.
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.
Black Bodies Will Not Be Your Platform, Jameela Jamil
Our Black bodies are not platforms or podiums for anyone or any movement.
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?
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.
What Harriet Teaches Us About Black Women’s Leadership
When I learned that Harriet, too, had been a domestic worker, I wondered if this was a clue to understanding both the ways black women lead and the ways the stories of our leadership get told.