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Black Queer People In Fashion To Support During Pride Month — & Beyond

This year, Pride month — which marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when Black LBGTQ+ activists like Stormé DeLarverie and Marsha P. Johnson led demonstrations in NYC after the police raided Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn — intersects with a moment in history when the racist treatment of Black […]

I Was In Lafayette Square Before President Trump’s Bible Photo-Op. Now, I’m Suing

I Was In Lafayette Square Before President Trump’s Bible Photo-Op. Now, I’m Suing

On the late afternoon of 1st June, Toni Sanders headed to Lafayette Square, near the White House, with her wife and nine-year-old stepson. For days, Sanders had been out protesting the pattern of police brutality that was killing a growing and alarming number of Black people. The 36-year-old and her […]

JK Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be A Surprise

JK Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be A Surprise

On Saturday — while people globally marched in protest of systemic racism and police violence against Black people and people of colour — author JK Rowling decided it would be a good time to send a tweet taking issue with a headline that used the phrase “people who menstruate.” “I’m […]

It’s Not Enough To Reform The Police — Defunding Is The Only Answer

It’s Not Enough To Reform The Police — Defunding Is The Only Answer

No modern grassroots uprising is complete without a robust social media component, and the racial insurgency that has followed George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has been no exception. In the weeks of anti-police brutality actions that have followed Floyd’s killing, Instagram timelines have been flooded […]

A Comprehensive List Of Mental Health Resources For Black Women

For Black women, accessing mental health care is more important now than ever. Black people have watched as a disproportionate number of their loved ones die from coronavirus, all the while witnessing people who look like them be threatened or violently killed – for nothing other than being Black in […]