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VIDEO: Jill Andrew Tells the World What’s Up in Her TED Talk on Fat Shaming

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Until yesterday, I wasn’t very familiar with award-winning writer and activist Jill Andrew or Fat in the City, the blog she co-writes with Aisha Fairclough. But then I saw Andrew’s TEDxYorkU talk on “Fat Shaming and the Thin Epidemic,” and everything changed.
In the TED Talk, Andrew uses her personal experiences to tell the story of how she confronts fat shaming in the face of…

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5 Things to Know About Prison Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex

Maybe you’ve heard, and maybe you haven’t, but I’m going to say it again because it’s still true: the criminal justice system in the United States is a fucked up institution that is every kind of -ist you can think of, and feeds off of the most marginalized bodies of our society in order for companies to maximize profits. It’s often called the prison industrial complex (PIC), a term coined by the…

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Reclaiming Abuelita Knowledge As A Brown Ecofeminista

When I was going to college in Berkeley I lived in this extremely bizarre vegan co-op that was filled with white people that were “into trees” and vegan food. They had this thing called “Naked Pizza Friday” where anyone who was naked got the first grabs on vegan pizza. So this co-op was definitely a weird experience for me. I saw too many naked white bodies and even learned about vegan butter. I…

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Comedy Crush: Aparna Nancherla, Joke Entrepeneur

Aparna Nancherla, former co-worker of past Comedy Crush Janine Brito, is a writer and stand-up comedian. She was the first Indian-American female comic to perform on late-night television. Her credits include @midnight, Conan, Last Comic Standing, and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.She’s been listed on LA Weekly‘s “12 Comedy Acts to Watch,” Serial Optimist’s “10 Comics You Must Know,” and…

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BREAKING: Father of Murdered Texas Lesbian Arrested In Connection With Deaths

Galveston area police arrested James Larry Cosby in connection with the murder of his daughter Britney Crosby and her partner Crystal Jackson. He is being charged with two counts of tampering with evidence in connection with the two deaths.
via ABC news affiliate
ABC News affiliate, KTRK in Houston reports that according to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, it appears the murders of the two…

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Black Lesbian Couple Murdered in Texas Gulf Area

Today we mourn the losses of Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby. A beer deliveryman found the two women’s bodies next to a convenience store dumpster in Port Bolivar, Galveston County, Texas on Friday.
Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby. via ABC News
The two 24-year-old black women, who had been together for two years and lived together in Houston, were murdered in different ways and their bodies…

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Former Miss Kentucky Djuan Keila Trent Is Queer, Is Thus Crowned Queen Of Our Hearts

Djuan Keila Trent was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1986, and later moved to Kentucky, where she was crowned Miss Berea Area and, subsequently, earned the title of Miss Kentucky in July 2010. Trent went on to compete in the 2011 Miss America Pageant and although she didn’t win, she did place in the Top Ten. During her reign as Miss Kentucky, Djuan continued advocating for the…

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Five Books That F*cked Up My Brain Cells (In A Good Way)

The stories we read are part of us. When we read and process stories, be they fiction, non-fiction or poetry, they seep into our brain cells and affect our ways of looking at the world. And throughout the history of best sellers and literary criticism, most bestselling authors and literary critics have been white dudes, which means a lot of the stories in our brain cells are white dude stories.
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100 LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost

Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender women represent an always-significant and increasingly-visible portion of the LGBTQ community. In addition to the legends of the Harlem Renaissance and the decades of groundbreaking activism spearheaded by women like Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith and Angela Davis, many of the most prominent coming out stories of the past two years have been black…

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10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women

It’s Black History Month, which means there’s no better time to read some lady-loving books by lady-loving black women — or, rather, to add a bunch of those books to a list of books you need to read and then go ahead read them over the span of whatever time period feels comfortable to you. Now, there are heaps of black LGBQ women renowned for their poetry (e.g., Pat Parker, Cheryl Clarke) or for…

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Comedy Crush: EmotiStyle’s Shamikah Martinez

Shamikah Martinez is founder of the all ladies comedy troupe Candy Slice Comedy, Upright Citizens Brigade performer, improviser, and YouTube personality. The New York based comedian is half of the EmotiStyle duo whose tag line is, “If you’re going to wear your feelings, they should look good.” That seems relevant to your life.

A music video you produced for Fall Out Boy was nominated for a VMA…

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VIDEO: Jessica Williams Delivers One Kickass Tirade About Stand Your Ground Laws In One Badass Suit

Yvonne’s Team Pick:
We should all give Jessica Williams, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s first black woman correspondent, a standing ovation for her on-point realness on last night’s show. In a segment regarding Michael Dunn’s verdict and Stand Your Ground laws, Jessica delivered one kickass tirade about how black teens should protect themselves and the problem with Stand Your Ground laws all…

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To Be Queer, Black, and “Sick”

Disclaimer: The usage of the word “sick” in this article is to reflect the problematic, social stigma around mental illness, and not as a moral or social indictment of people with mental illnesses or disorders.
The first woman I ever loved told me that when you’re queer and Black, illness is a shadow that always follows you but that no one ever acknowledges. She sung the words “I’m fine” every…

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Team Pick: “Las Marthas” Premieres Tonight, Asks Why This Border Town Celebrates George Washington

Yvonne’s Team Pick:
I’ve probably attended about a hundred quinceañeras in my lifetime and even wore a poofy pink dress to mine. So debutante balls or versions of it aren’t a foreign concept to me. What’s really interesting about the documentary “Las…

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