When we say we are committed to Black liberation it must be in service of sex workers’ autonomy. But they are never nuanced beings. The fight for sex worker liberation is the fight for all Black lives, and until that is prioritized, erasure and respectability politics will persist. In every industry.
But voting is not and will never be enough. Voting often legitimizes the never ending good cop/bad cop routine of the two party system.
For me, our revolution requires a clear, concentrated, and committed love and support for Black women, Black Trans* folks, Black gender non-conforming folks, Black queer folks, and yes, Black men.
While Black folks decipher this lexicon for our own survival, white folks either remain oblivious to the whole exchange or worse, actively deny any wrongdoing in an attempt to preserve a perception of neutrality.
The impact of being uglified has real, painful, and pervasive consequences.
By JaKeen Fox May 6th 2018. The date will go down in infamy, not as the day John McCain said he wouldn’t want Donald Trump to attend his funeral. You won’t remember that in Hawaii, lava from a volcano destroyed…
No amount of speaking “proper†English, would have protected Mike Brown for being killed for the way he looked.
By Shereen Masoud What happened during the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, VA in August was terrifying. A mass of extremist white men from fringe alt-right groups yelling violently — and killing a counter-protester in their midst — is…
Academia and American educational institutions are and have been colonial projects.
Since her mysterious death inside a jail cell on July 13th, 3 days following her arrest after being pulled over for failing to signal before changing lanes, activists have set the internet ablaze demanding to know #WhatHappenedToSandraBland. But “what happened…
