How I found empowerment among Black strippers in an industry that forces us to compete
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.
Increased representation for marginalized people won’t fix anything if people in power remain overrepresented
When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.
Zaddy issues: On dating older Black men & being polyamorous
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.
How slavery taught me to be hyper-vigilant in a never ending chase after safety
It is exhausting to always be this vigilant, and all too often it is still not enough.
Decriminalizing Black theft, and the right to steal in an anti-Black capitalist society
“We’ve always been at the center of the theft.” - Andrew Salkey Six months into the catastrophe of my grandmother's death, her car was broken into three times. The last time they took her notebooks and my favorite shoes. Before…
Why Black people need to explore intimacy within our friendships & non-sexual relationships
White supremacy and cis-heteropatriarchy encourage us to have selective distributions of intimacy, touch and care that are reserved specifically for our sexual partners and family members.
Caster Semenya and how the biomedical industry is designed to kill Black people
The idea that there are only two genders is an intentional capitalist and colonial project used to strengthen the political economies of hegemony and anti-Blackness.
If “interracial dating” isn’t influenced by white supremacy, why does it imply a white partner?
For many POC, “interracial” dating is more often than not about scoring a white partner, in an attempt to liken oneself toward a more legible humanity
Blackness doesn’t need whiteness to exist because whiteness didn’t create it. We did
We are agents and shapers of history, culture and discourse, not mere passive, thoughtless victims. We were sizing them up the same time they were sizing us up.
Prison “reform” is useless unless it pushes for freedom and dignity for *everyone*
Prison reform continues to be structured around arbitrary definitions of who does and doesn’t deserve humane treatment
