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Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts

greatest hits

first person

I Never Meant for My Hair to Be the Way Back to the Lighthouse

“I thought changing something on the outside would change the wrecked ruin of me on the inside. I thought somehow the inside would get a memo from my outside and…

A. Tony Jerome —

May 11, 2017

lesbian webseries

qpoc

tv reviews

“Hello Cupid: Farrah” Is the Cutest Mini-Movie of All Time

When I heard there was a new mini-movie on Black&Sexy.TV about a group of queer women of color, I was excited to watch it, but honestly didn’t have really high…

Ari —

Apr 7, 2017

people of color

qpoc

gender

Here are Some Ways to Give Black Trans People Money

Across the country, Black TGNC people are performing serious emotional labor as organizers, healers, artists, sexual liberationists, and advocates. It’s time to give back.

Venus Selenite —

Mar 31, 2017

qpoc

queer visibility

culture

Check Out Collectively Speaking, Enhancing QPOC Visibility On Their Own Terms

QTPOC-centered podcast, YouTube channel, and website Collectively Speaking launches today! Support QTPOC media!

Ari —

Feb 21, 2017

alsoalsoalso

feminism

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Proof the Future Is Queer, Black, Brown and Female

Meet the queer black feminist who helped hang the RESIST banner, there’s a crack in the desert, Rebecca Solnit, tons more on the Women’s March, the Doomsday Clock has some…

Laneia —

Jan 26, 2017

latina

latinx

tv reviews

Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” Is the Revolutionary, Feminist Latinx Family Sitcom We Didn’t Know We Needed

One Day at a Time is so revolutionary in its depictions of what a family might actually look like in America. It’s got the same recipe of an old school…

Yvonne —

Jan 10, 2017

qpoc

queer tv history

tv news & trailers

We Can’t Hardly Wait for “Brown Girls,” Already My Fave Web Series of 2017

2016 has seen the expansion of black storytelling on major TV networks with shows like Insecure and Atlanta, but Brown Girls’ DIY attitude and background opens up the possibilities of…

Ashley Ray-Harris —

Nov 4, 2016

latina

our pulse

first person

La India y La Negrx: Intentional, Radical Love in My Queer Interracial Relationship

“Love in partnership as colonized/racialized bodies is courageously undressing the walls we have built to survive and showing others the chaos that war has left behind.”

Edyka Chilomé —

Oct 6, 2016

hip-hop

netflix

television

Netflix’s Hip-Hop Drama “The Get Down” is Almost What We Need, But Not Quite

This is a story centered around poor Black and Latinx communities, their struggles with institutional abandonment, and their journeys to self-love and empowerment.

Ari —

Sep 8, 2016

people of color

qpoc

theater

Who Tells Your Story?

Now, more than ever, in the climate we’re in, our stories need to be told. And our stories include loving, joy, revolution, dancing, crying, raging, surviving, and so, so much…

Ari —

Jun 13, 2016

people of color

personal essay

first person

In A World Lacking Lesbian Rom Coms, I Made My Own

“Sidetrack is a show largely about my life and my experiences, because after years of watching so much television that erased me, I just wanted to write myself in.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 20, 2016

fools journey

qpoc

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

Fool’s Journey: Cristy C Road’s Next World Tarot is the Deck of your Queer Punk Dreams

“Aside from bringing another deck to the world, I’m excited to create a deck that illustrates a blend of mind and body outcasts. The deck originated as a ‘queer deck’…

Beth —

Nov 18, 2015