No homo… black male intimacy
by guest contributor Dumi Lewis, originally published at Black At Michigan So for the past few years nearly every time I hear Black men nearing a point of emotional intimacy two words quickly have...
View ArticleThird Shot and I’m Starting to Feel It – Shot at Love Recap
by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson Okay – I’m starting to get bored with the extensive recaps. So, I’m going to leave that to the official MTV blog and just highlight a couple...
View ArticleThe Office recap: Branch Wars
by guest contributor Jasmine In the time that we have come to know and love Stanley Hudson as one of the beleaguered employees on “The Office”, we have seen the myriad offensive ovations suffered at...
View ArticleNina’s Heavenly Delights: the cheesecake factory
by guest contributor Manish, originally published at Ultrabrown Nina’s Heavenly Delights is the latest badly-written desi flick to hit enough recognizable truths about the diaspora that it’s fun in...
View ArticleQuoted: Andreana Clay on Queer Women of Color and Hip Hop Masculinity
Excerpted by Latoya Peterson A variety of clubs cater to queer women of color in the San Francisco Bay area. Some are wall-to-wall women of color – Black, Latina, Asian and most play hip-hop music...
View ArticleQuoted: Adelina Anthony on Comedy as Resistance
Making queer Chicana experience comedic affirms our pains and glories – hijole, just the fact that we exist and thrive. If I flip the dynamic around and poke fun at whiteness or heterosexuality,...
View ArticleToward A More Colorful Queer Future
by Guest Contributor Alex Niculescu Over the last few years mainstream gay advocacy groups have focused their efforts on one issue, a panacea to seemingly solve all forms of inequality that gays are...
View ArticleWhy Ricky Matters (to me.. and maybe a few other boys)
by Guest Contributor Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, originally published at Hairspray & Fideo and Blabbeando There’s been a lot of commotion regarding Ricky Martin’s recent coming out statement on his...
View Article“La Mission” and Latino Masculinities
by Guest Contributor Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, originally published at Hairspray and Fideo and Blabbeando [For a summary of the film, see here.] A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to see a screening...
View ArticleIs Black Queer Back?
by Guest Contributor Aymar Jean Christian, originally published at Televisual In Brooklyn one night in May I was treated to my very first performance from Monstah Black, an artist who defies...
View ArticleExotic Taboo [Love, Anonymously]
by Guest Contributor Tiara the Merch Girl I often feel that I’m not taken seriously as a full well-rounded nuanced person when it comes to things related to eroticism, burlesque, sexuality, queerness,...
View ArticleNicki Ménages Urban Black and Latina Sexual Identities
by Guest Contributor Sabia McCoy-Torres Nicki Minaj got media circuits buzzing after performing alongside Madonna at the Super Bowl 2012 halftime show and then commanding the stage a week later at the...
View ArticleQuoted: Battameez on Interpreting the Kamasutra
Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai published Queering India: Same-sex love and eroticism in Indian society and culture wherein they read many “key ancient texts” against the grain to state that they’re...
View ArticleDavid Phan’s Suicide Sparks Grief, Anger, And A Call For Justice
By Guest Contributor Terry K. Park, cross-posted from Hyphen Magazine David Phan at age seven, at Arches National Park. Courtesy of the Phan family. After their son took his own life on November 29th,...
View ArticleBlack Freaks, Black F**s, Black Dy**s: Re-imagining Rebecca Walker’s “Black...
By Guest Contributor Darnell L. Moore; originally published at Feminist Wire Enter Scene: I am walking in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn—where we do more than die, by the way—rocking a close fade with two parts on...
View ArticleThe Web Series: Where are our Black Queer Women On Screen?
By Guest Contributor Spoken Pandora; originally published at Elixher In a three-part weeklong series, ELIXHER examines the Black lesbian web series phenomenon. It’s human nature to long for...
View ArticleWho’s Your Mama?: Race, Sexuality, and the Adoptive Mother [Academic Essay]
by Guest Contributor Sara M. Erdmann, MFA, PhD The image of the American adoptive mother has emerged gradually since adoption’s inception in 1851, but it has always existed within a racialized and...
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