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Since I’ve conf…
Since I’ve confided in people about my sexual orientation, both on this platform & in my personal, face-to-face life, I have found myself, while retelling my “coming of sexual-age” story, grimacing...
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Today is #BiVisibilityDay!
So here I am being visible and shit. I try to be open about how I identify on a regular everyday basis, but today is about establishing a community of sorts and actively letting one another know we’re...
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I have figured …
I have figured out a few things (probably): Sexuality is fluid. Sexual fluidity varies in viscosity for different people. If you identify as something, it doesn’t matter who you’re dating/have...
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What is the sig…
What is the significance of those moments when cultural heritage rather than sociopolitical status make a difference in how one understands the self? How do middle class African Americans navigate the...
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In fact, ‘diver…
In fact, ‘diversity’ doesn’t stop at hiring one person who represents each so-called different viewpoint, be it race or gender or sexual orientation or political leaning. Any newsroom in which the...
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Black girls and…
Black girls and women are rendered invisible and inconsequential in a society that devalues our gender, sexual, and racial identities. And, tragically, queer Black women find male oppression especially...
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We are tired of…
We are tired of being analyzed, defined and represented by people other than ourselves, or worse yet, not considered at all. We are frustrated by the imposed isolation and invisibility that comes from...
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While many of u…
While many of us have little difficulty assessing our own victimization within some major system of oppression, whether it be by race, social class, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age or...
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Day 23: Three Blind Lies #30Layers30Days
Name three things you have felt the need to hide or lie about in the past that you’ve had to overcome in order to move forward. My sexuality. This one I was hiding even from myself for a while, in a...
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Ev’Yan Whitney, on identifying as a QWOC when you’ve only dated cis men
For as long as I’ve known that I wasn’t straight, I didn’t think I was allowed to claim a spot in the queer community. Partly because I had come out so late in life, and partly because I was married to...
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