FROM OUR NEW SHORT STORY SERIES, 'IMAGING OTHER WORLDS': "Pearl didn’t push Zura on the whole cunnilingus issue because that’s not what she needed from him. He wasn’t her only partner. What she wanted from him was a few free drinks followed by an enchanting night ride and a deep quickie."
Because doulas as a whole, are not part of the healthcare system, we are the most unbiased birth experts in the labor room.
I carry a combination of marginal identities that hold an enduring need for self-sufficiency and suffering.
I think that when we begin to open up about harm, cleanliness, criminalization and stigma, we get better at loving each other. And when we listen, we build up sustainable, community driven responses to diagnosis and harm.
We illustrate further, our harm, when we react to being indicted for our wounding intentions. Yoba stormed out of an interview with The Root—their staff enduring quite a tantrum. Members of my organization, when inquiring if I cared more about community needs or my own desires, were subject to the same.
The impact of being uglified has real, painful, and pervasive consequences.
All of the information that was useful to me came from the Black and non-white strippers I knew, women who the industry set up to be in competition with me.
My experiences with dating older Black men have taught me that though some of their actions are inappropriate, they’re often misplaced reactions to the world we live in.
Yes, 18 is the legal threshold from childhood to adulthood, but legality has never been something that applied “equally" to Black children, especially Black Queer children.
If most male supremacists are concerned about the declining status of white men, men of color want to establish a dominance that society never bequeathed to them.
