queer

It’s frustrating that most identities on the asexuality spectrum are qualified by a “lack” of something — desire, intimacy, attraction. I wonder, what might happen for demisexual (or asexual) people if we turn our focus toward what relationships contain, rather than what they’re missing.

In today’s world, children may be a financial liability, but that shouldn’t make them a luxury item.

“Well, then I guess there’s no God.” 

Right now, today, as of writing this, I identify as queer. But I didn’t always.

In respecting Janelle Monae’s rejection of male attention, we must also respect her rejection of queer attention.

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.