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Join NOW!In an illuminating interview with Claire Schwartz for Guernica, writer Kai Cheng Thom discusses activism, the unique intersections felt by people of color in the queer community, consensual behavior, trauma, and the immigrant experience. It’s a lot of ground to cover, and in doing so she reveals the convergence of all these areas of concern into […]
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My responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
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I don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
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Of course, it’s not only parents who teach us about gender roles. Sometimes it feels like we’re absorbing them with our first gasps from the womb.
...moreRecently, we blogged about Lilit Marcus’s project to read only books by women for a year. That year taught her a lot, but there was one hitch: at the end, she realized that “of the 40 books I read this year, only six were by women of color. Still fewer were by queer women.” If […]
...moreThis dovetails nicely with Roxane Gay’s post about writers of color: a list of writers of color who are also queer. “I thought, I’m sure I can come up with 50 books by LGBT people of color,” writes the post’s author. “So I did.” That list ranges from literary giants like James Baldwin and Alice Walker […]
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