Sexuality

Welcome to August: Sex and relationships are changing

August we are going to talk about sex and relationship and examine how our shifting society and culture affects things.

Book Review: “The Sex Lives of African Women”

About halfway through Jenelle Monae’s song “Screwed,” she begins to chant, “See, if everything is sex, except sex, which is power, you...

Book Review: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

In Netflix’s remake of the classic Australian show, “Heartbreak High,” the characters Darren (a non-binary character) and Cash...

Am I Polyamorous?

It’s a term that I’ve heard with increasing regularity over the last several years. Any exploration of it in the media has focused very...

Beyond the Binary – Struggling for Affirmation as Gender Expansive Folk

Although I came out only a year ago, my journey as a gender expansive person started well before adulthood. As an Assigned Female at...

SCOTUS Ruling Promises Problems for Mississippi’s LGBTQIA+ Youth

Jackson residents Dylan Hegwood (left) and Gee Lemonade say they’re already seeking opportunities elsewhere in anticipation of...

Alone but Never Lonely

Photo courtesy Sykina Butts. Per my Aunt Becky’s research, the following was true: There were no Black people in Salt Lake City, Utah....

for black girls in college who have considered summer school when spring semester isn’t enuf

I wasn’t exactly sure how it worked: me, a girl, asking another girl if she wanted to go out “like that.” But I did, and I was glad.