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Tongues: When Speaking the Coloniser’s Language Means Rejecting Your Own
by Chithira Vijayakumar I learnt to read Malayalam the easy way: by lying on my grandmother’s stomach, brown skin painted with the silverfish of my mother’s and my uncle’s births. By listening to her...
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A New Kind Of Love
by Jorge Gutierrez (this piece is part of our “Getting Free” conversation for December) The past two years have been a journey, as I’ve unpacked, let go, healed, and redefined what love means and looks...
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Spirit & Nation
by Yosimar Reyes I am afraid to say this, but the more I think about the solution offered for my predicament as an undocumented person in this country, immigration reform simply seems to be a band aid...
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What It Means To Be AfroDominicana
by Dianna Tejada “Dominicans know they’re Black, I don’t know why they deny it so much. I mean, look at your hair. You must be Black.” This and statements of similar sentiment have followed me my...
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Broke on Broke Crime: On Black and Brown Living and Unity
by Kitzia Esteva-Martinez I am riding my bike home from visiting a friend and lightly grocery shopping in my neighborhood of San Antonio Park, Oakland. My bike chain falls off so I stop to fix it, as...
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Not Your Tragic Queer Muslim Story
by Lamya H I. I become visibly Muslim at 14 when I start wearing hijab. It is not an overnight decision: I’ve been wanting to do it for years. I’m living in a Muslim-majority country where hijab isn’t...
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Look In the Mirror: Confronting the Contradictions of LGBT Organizations and...
by Christian Emmanuel Castaing I once assumed that I, a Queer Latino male, would be “safe” in one of the largest and oldest LGBT organizations in the nation. No one could make me an outsider this...
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Blood Memories: A Queer’s Transgenerational Search for a Scar (an ex-cerpt)
by Mónica Teresa Ortiz You forget about the other girl. For the night. For the rest of the summer. And you don’t notice her again until the upper part of her bare arm brushes against yours, next to you...
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Tired Of My Sisters Getting Killed
by Monica Roberts ‘The dehumanizing transphobic rhetoric needs to stop because anti-trans hate thoughts can morph into anti-trans hate speech that leads to anti-trans hate violence.’ –Monica Roberts,...
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On Being Fat, Brown, Femme, Ugly, and Unloveable
by Caleb Luna Falling in love is dangerous for brown boys because, under white supremacy, we are not people to love. Falling in love is dangerous for brown boys because people don’t see us as...
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