Bondage theology and how to heal the body trauma of Black folks.
In an unhealed state, inflicting pain is the only way we know divinity.
Hunted by the state: HIV, Black folks, & how advocacy fails us.
By Timothy DuWhite “The Negro death rate and sickness are largely matters of condition and not due to racial traits and tendencies.†- W.E.B. Du Bois I think I am suppose to start with a story, right? I mean, that…
#Wannabes4Jiggaboos: when “loving dark-skin” turns into violence.
By Marcus Borton Another day, another dollar, another night, another chill session. He could host and host well he did. He stared at me, after asking if I was comfortable, and shared, “You know, I really have a thing for…
Fighting a culture of silence around sexuality that breeds child sexual abuse: Interview with The HEAL Project founder Ignacio Rivera.
“Our society’s view on sex is important to understanding, preventing and dealing with child sexual abuse. We live in a hyper-sexual society that exposes sexual imagery but does not talk about it. Sex education in public schools has almost been…
God is dead: queering the Christian witness after Orlando
by Paul Daniels, II I am male. I am Black. I am Queer. I am Christian. I speak from a place of psychological, existential, and theological privilege: the product of a Black church in the American South whose 12-year-old mind…
No closet religion: a southern Black queer boy speaks of home.
I’ve found home in myself, and that whisper within promises that it is okay to never hide the God I serve.
You can’t grow flowers in poisoned soil: when men live from the wounds of little boys.
By Yolo Akili So much of it starts with the little boys we used to be. It starts with the ideas about the world that these little boys created in order to understand the confusion and the pain around them…
Our Hands Are Also Bloodied: Exposing Intimate Partner Violence in The Black Queer Community
by John Fleurimond “I need to see it,” I grabbed my friend’s iPhone after she refused to hand it over. I opened the camera application and there it was: my face. Blood flowed from my brow. Speckles of it got…
To [Not] Have a Decent Face.
by Maurice Tracy “The love for you was different because we weren’t really together. It was the fact of the chase, the thrills and the times we would spend together. The passion and the conversation, the passion and the action…
Are BlaQueerness And Masculinity Compatible?
by Tabias Olajuawon BlaQueer community members, scholars, artists, lovers and griots have long discussed the effects of normative masculinities on our livelihoods and our struggles with and against the hegemonic portrayal of maleness. While (white) maleness is often defined and…
