Hari Ziyad

Hari Ziyad is a New York-based storyteller, the author of BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME (Little A, 2021), and the Editor-in-Chief of RaceBaitR. Their work has been featured on Gawker, Out, Ebony, Mic, The Guardian, Colorlines, The Root, AFROPUNK and Paste Magazine among other publications. They are also an assistant editor for Vinyl Poetry & Prose. Find out more at hariziyad.com

All Posts by Hari Ziyad:

I’ll still complain about politics even when I don’t vote – fight me.

The forgotten collateral of exhuming the Black dead through art

Black people not voting is logical, and vote pushers are usually anti-Black

Solidarity can’t work without understanding that Blackness has a role in every struggle

What our fixation on Michelle Obama’s hair says about the space we give Black women to breathe

Why I’ll never thank white “allies”

“I’m not gay no more”: on Andrew Caldwell, static sexuality & gender expression

Why I’m tired of white gay men telling queer stories

How our unhealthy understandings of accountability promote a race to the bottom

What does prison abolition mean to the mother whose son has been decapitated?

How Trump’s concern trolling about Black crime is a trap for well-meaning progressives

The cost of hope

Why I don’t want another Black president

How the fear of losing whiteness gave us Trump, but losing it sets free

Black History in 2016…on the Negro National Anthem, Kaepernick, Violence, and President-Elect Trump

Survey: Young people agree that Trump supporters are deplorable, here’s what it reveals about ‘political correctness’

Not voting is not a ‘privilege’

Study Shows Young People Of Color Remain Optimistic About Their Future, But It’s Time Black Folks Consider Pessimism

When white women and white gay men unite in victimhood

Young white people think Black Lives Matter incites violence against the police: here’s why they’re not completely wrong.

Nate Parker and the Rape Stories We Don’t Tell

The swift murder of Korryn Gaines, and the slow death of Black Millennials’ political imagination

STUDY: Young People Disagree Politically Along Racial Lines

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