‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity

Calling All My Lipstick Lovers: Janelle Monae’s Sexy New Song is a Black Queer Bop
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Calling All My Lipstick Lovers: Janelle Monae’s Sexy New Song is a Black Queer Bop

I have listened to Lipstick Lover by Janelle Monae over 100 times. If you didn’t know, I am a massive lipstick lover (in all ways), so you can trust me when I say that Janelle Monae’s latest song is the sexy summer anthem for femme queers everywhere – especially Black femme queers. If you haven’t heard it yet and watched the music video, I suggest you change that…

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Black and White: How Race Impacts Our Queer Experience
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Black and White: How Race Impacts Our Queer Experience

There’s a phrase commonly used, particularly among gay men: ‘No Fats, No Femmes, and No Blacks or Asians’. Originating from the ‘dating’ app Grindr, it was (and is) frequently used by white members to deter people who didn’t fit their ‘preference’ from messaging them…

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