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Sex and relationship resources by Black folks, for Black folks

Black folks don’t need a nuclear family to be legitimate

Unelectable: Protecting the Public w/ Jeanette Taylor & Stacy Davis Gates Event

I became a sex and consent educator with Black youth in mind

How TikTok is ushering in yet another way for youths to don “Digital Blackface”

Black non-monogamy is a pre-colonial practice

Mental health treatment is a Black tradition, white people just took credit for it

There will never be a “Sexual Revolution” under capitalism

Gameschooling is a critical tool that helps Black children learn

Despite appropriation, vampiric whiteness will never be able to suck the blood out of Black art

Calling Cards: Revolution means building towards a national movement of uncompromising politics

Steve McQueen’s ‘Western Deep’ is a counter memory for Black miners during South African Apartheid

Yup. Non-profit culture and performative activism perpetuate ableism and anti-Blackness

The business of prisons and the laws that make sure they exist

Increases in police funding will not make Black people safe, it is time city leaders listened

Comic: Even with human trafficking, cis straights conspire to paint trans women as monsters

Black people aren’t resistant to mental health treatment. We’re resistant to framing it as a cure

Quality, art, the culture of sameness, and white men’s egos

The Housing Crisis is intentional and Black communities are fighting back

Reflecting on Patrick Chamoiseau’s ‘Slave Old Man’ and physical memories of the enslaved

The quiet call of ghosts: Dusting my grandmother’s photo reminds me of who I am

Combating colorism: All Black children are worth defending

We need to respond to PTSD with community care

The Revolution of Black Mothering: Confronting a future that doesn’t always include us

“Laughing barrels” and the defiant spirit of Black laughter

‘Seeking for the Lost’ and the project of finding each other as a misplaced people

We need Restorative Justice in our schools, not more police

Fatphobia means fat people’s bodies—and even our weight loss—are never just our own

Millennials aren’t skipping church, the Black Church is skipping us

How unchoosing inherited religion taught me that the glue is our relationships

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