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Comic Relief: When People of Color Aren’t the Punch Line

Whose Lives Matter?: Trans Women of Color and Police Violence

By Princess Harmony Rodriguez At 207 Juniper Street, in the City of Brotherly Love, stood a bar called the…
Especially in the Wake of Ferguson, It’s Time to Destroy Anti-Blackness in the Sikh Community

By Mai Bhago Initially after Michael Brown’s death, I argued intensely with my family for hours, trying to convince them…
Going To Therapy As A QTPOC, Without Being Harmed, Erased Or Baffled

By CarmenLeah Ascencio This is the second installment in CarmenLeah’s new, monthly column about QTPoC wellness and healing. We…
On Ferguson Protests, the Destruction of Things, and What Violence Really Is (And Isn’t)

by Mia McKenzie Since the announcement on Monday that Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed…
White Women Say I’m Too Confident (and Other Racist S*&%)

by Kim Tran Lately, people in general, and specifically white women, have been telling me that I’m “too confident.” They…
On Liberal Racism, Sexism and Islamaphobia: Why Liberals Don’t Deserve Our Trust

by Hari Ziyad Racism, sexism, homophobia, and the general intolerance of different lived experiences stem from the same terrible womb…
Unfurling: A True Story about Growing up Brown, Queer, and Mormon

by Jennifer Duque “Shake syntax, smash the myths, and if you lose, slide on, unearth some new linguistic paths. Do…
Four Person-to-Person Things I Do to Address Anti-Blackness con Mi Gente

by CarmenLeah Ascencio When my mothers married in 1989 I did not know that their union as a (non-black) Nuyorican…
I’m From Ferguson and I’m Tired and Fed-Up

by Diamond Latchison I’ve grown up in and out of the Ferguson-Florissant area of St. Louis, Missouri for nearly 17…

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