Karine Jean-Pierre Representing for the Queer, Brown Girls.

Karine Jean-Pierre has accepted the role of chief of staff to Vice Presential candidate Kamala Harris.  The announcement of her appointment came just hours before Harris was officially added to the ticket as Joe Biden’s pick for Vice President. And while I have my reservations about Harris, I have been a long time admirer ofContinue reading “Karine Jean-Pierre Representing for the Queer, Brown Girls.”

Black is the New Boudoir.

It’s time to strip. It’s time to unravel, layer by layer, hundreds of years of institutionalized self-scrutiny, perverse concepts of one’s physical self, and the idea that we as people of color (POC) should strive to maintain our “decency” by way of not celebrating or exposing our bodies. Historically, POC have been hyper-sexualized in mainstream mediaContinue reading “Black is the New Boudoir.”