by ELIXHER
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Surviving the Holidays as Queer People of Color: Give the Gift of Media
Just as I had searched for information that I could relate to, articles, films, people, I needed to encourage my family to do the same. Media was the only other way I could think of to appeal to their hearts, and evoke enough empathy so that they would do the rest of the work to get to know me again.
Continue reading at Spectra Speaks.
Sex on Screen: An Intro to the Hella Brown Series (NSFW)
Porn is what’s hot in the streets (aka halls of the academy) now. There are brilliant scholars who historicize and build upon black feminist participation in conversations about pornography. And there are others who simplify the argument into a false then vs. now paradigm that presents our foremothers as prudes, not as the women who made it possible for us to talk about sexuality in the ways that we do today.
More over at The Crunk Feminist Collective.
HIV Cases Decline for Black Women, Increase for Gay Men: CDC
Fewer black women in the United States are being infected with HIV, but the number of young gay and bisexual men infected is rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday
Read more about the findings at Reuters.
Why Are Black Women’s Bodies a Constant Target?
From punch lines to partisan attacks black women’s bodies are consistently placed on the world’s stage for gawkers to poke and prod. In the 21st century some 400 years removed from the auction block it’s amazing that society still hasn’t evolved from this type of voyeurism and ridicule—instead thanks to social media the virus commonly referred to as racism is even more widespread.
More on ThreeLOL.com.
RuPaul Decoded: The Man, the Myth, The New Queen of All Media
With two television shows airing on LOGO—RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag U—and a rising social media empire, RuPaul is cashing in big time and just might be the next big media mogul. BlackEnterprise.com Decodes her rise to the top. Sashay!
Continue reading at Black Enterprise.
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