rape

Black folks, we’re diverse, we think different thoughts and that is oh–fucking–kay…but it is important for to stand strong in my beliefs and disallow the use of my survival of rape, my trauma and my proximity to violence as authenticator of state-sponsored violence and ownership of black, brown and queer bodies.

“You rape our women and you’re taking over our country” I read these words and my palms become dirty and calloused from the hands of those who tried to hold…

There’s a phrase I had never heard before–whether being out of touch or something my students never used while I was teaching–called “frape,” which I heard for the first time…

Heteropatriarchy obscures the lens of men so deeply that we often cannot note the reality of sexual violence(s), even when they occur on our own bodies. On Men & The…