Dead Black Boy Magic: How mental health stigmas compound with anti-queerness to kill our children
I carry a combination of marginal identities that hold an enduring need for self-sufficiency and suffering.
At 20, Lil Nas X is still a child. Why do older adults keep sexualizing him?
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.
Black and Bullied: How This Sex Positive Blerd Unlearned Her Anti-Blackness
By Arielle Iniko Newton I wasn’t the cool kid. I was bullied during my adolescent years for reasons that seem mundane and trivial in my adult life. My lack of social acumen paired with my sexual proclivities meant that I…
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…
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…
Choosing Queer: I Was Not Born This Way, And That’s Ok.
By Hari Ziyad I don’t remember the first time I found a boy attractive. I do know that in my earliest memories, when I was 4 or 5, this attraction felt natural and innate. I know, too, that there was…
These Two Artists Are Imagining A Black Queer Future.
By Darnell L. Moore Art is a tool necessary for new world creating and self-remaking. When conjured in the imaginative expanse of the black creative mind, art has the capacity to transgress: Art can move us toward black queer futures…
I’m Black And Queer At The Same Time, All The Time.
By Hari Ziyad “When you walk through the door, what does one see?” I have always found this a fascinating question for multiple reasons: first, it assumes people are present in every room to “see” and that those people all…
Not Yet Here: Internal Abolition in a Black Queer Future.
by Darnell L. Moore I could not sleep on August 10th. The previous day, 18-year old Mike Brown, Jr. was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson. I was haunted by the images of Brown’s bloodied black body left face down…
