The seven types of people who say disparaging stuff to people online. Excerpt from “As If We Stood At God’s Feet As Equals,” a memoir on the body as the focal site of oppression. …

Parentification is the process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as parent to their own parent. In extreme cases, the child is used to fill the void of the alienating parent’s emotional life. To my many friends who are themselves parentifed children: we see you, and…

30 🏛 Rules & 🛠 Tools to Dig Your Head Out of the Sand & Have Fruitful Conversations On Race By Vincent Bish

I’ve always wanted to write a book. To be honest, I’ve been writing one as long as I can remember in this body. …

Each generation of queer children tries on a freedom purchased by those of the era before. Each wave of queer youth, therefore, are not born solely of their own invention and courage — but, instead, are born free through a deed purchased and left by a generation past. In this parcel of unconquered territory, on this land where we chart new lives, with the material language our elders set aside — we build shelter. And stretch our provisions to cover someone else.

By Ashlee Davis The opportunity to serve as a political appointee in the Obama-Biden Administration was a true privilege. The lesson that was reinforced in more ways than I would ever be able to count was that this opportunity was meaningful for the the seemingly invisible and marginalized segments of…

TV Criticism | HBO’s “Insecure” | Molly Made to March Towards Crumbling Myths of Success? | S04 E04 The writers use Molly’s character, every season, to explore a single thesis: how incredibly brittle traditional ideas of success are becoming, and how they almost certainly fracture under today’s pressures. Every episode sees Molly trying to trace the blueprint most of us were given as kids (in terms of what…

Creating Space to Talk About Failure | Debugging Shame 👾 Like Princeton professor Johannes Haushofer mentioned in the now infamous ‘Failure CV,’ when we fail to talk about rejection, it robs us — especially those of us at the beginning of our careers — of a true understanding of the…

“Beyoncé singing the United Negro National Anthem at Coachella is the very definition of intertextuality: the shaping and revising of a well-known text (i.e. …