The Moral Implications of “Outing” Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston’s intimate friendships with other women created rumors about her sexuality throughout her career. Now Robyn Crawford, known to be one of Houston’s closest friends, is releasing a book, A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston in which she “confirms” that she had a romantic relationship with Houston in the early 1980s. […]
The Immeasurable Darkness: Mental Health as a Black Immigrant
As a woman from Nigeria living in New York, I often felt that my depression and anxiety were trivialized; the only solution was to show up for myself.
Don’t Touch My Hair: My Experience With Microaggressions
A White hand reaches, a Black girl screeches – it’s the all too common tale of micro-aggressions towards Black women’s hair. Hair is not an extension of our bodies, it is our bodies. (In the tune of Solange’s voice, echoed by Black women everywhere, “Alexa please queue ‘Don’t Touch My Hair.’”) This is my personal […]
Queer History in Pre-Colonial America
From notions of multiple genders outside of the binary to open-ended pronouns, fluidity was a thing in pre-colonial U.S.
