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Last week I had the misfortune of watching the Aaliyah bioepic on the Lifetime channel. I was born and raised in Detroit, so there was no way I could miss a movie about a hometown legend who was a huge …
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Summary: By making traditional political engagement a set of behaviors that is associated with judgement, blame and shame, we only alienate populations from politics. We must resist messages from politicians that encourage us to blame our own communities for today’s …
Recently, with ground-breaking triumphs by trans activists like Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, word’s that are relatively “new” to those outside of the LGBTQ community are becoming used more frequently (especially online). As far as I can tell, this is …