By D’Shonda Brown — 2021
These black women and gender-nonconforming individuals have created a space for other young girls and nonbinary persons to feel seen and heard.
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Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
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From remembering birthdays to offering service with a smile, life has a layer of daily responsibility that is hardly discussed—one which falls disproportionately on women. Finally confronting it could be a revolutionary step.
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Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
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Hand-wringing about the sanctity of women’s sports reflects an unwillingness to understand what it truly means to be transgender.
The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.