Sharing the love with my fellow sister bloggers who also partnered with the Black Women’s Health Imperative to raise awareness for National HIV Testing Day. Check out their fabulous blogs and show them some love, too! Queen Unique, The Queen’s Pen Malikah, Reclaim Your Queendom Nikki, divaMissioN Sarah, Vegged Out Mom Ayanna, By Ayanna Ellis [...]
Given my fundamentalist background, I’m especially aware of the barriers posed by sex-negative, stigmatizing, false assumptions and beliefs about HIV testing. Beliefs that AIDS is a “gay disease,” even a punishment from God for a “homosexual lifestyle.” Abstinence-only programs that teach young women that that the only protection they need [...]
Today is National HIV Testing Day. Are Women Human? is partnering with the Black Women’s Health Imperative to promote the ELEVATE Campaign, aimed at raising awarenesss about HIV among Black women, and getting more Black women tested for HIV. As with so many issues, the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals and communities [...]
Trigger warning for rape, heterosexist/misogynist violence. NewBlackMan has a moving essay by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, aka AfroLez, on how she came to terms with her sexuality and why she’s vocal about her identity as a black lesbian. The conclusion includes a powerful reminder of how much progress has yet to be [...]
I’m very excited to share that I’m now a contributor to MOMocrats, a great blog dedicated to writing about politics from a variety of parents’ perspectives. My first post for MOMocrats has just been posted; please check it out, and the rest of the blog, too! An excerpt: Steven Levitt of [...]
One of the most interesting and insidious aspects of complementarianism is its use of alternative (read: false) historical narratives to legitimize its claims about the timeless and universal nature of “masculinity” and “femininity.” Men everywhere have always been like X, and women everywhere have always been Y, and that’s that. [...]
Image: James Franco in drag, ht Sociological Images. Text: girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading because you think being a girl is degrading Continued from here. [...]
Text: Traditional Marriage includes… 1691: Whites only 1724: Blacks with permission of slave owner 1769: The wife is property 1899: Polygamous Monogamous 1900: The wife can own property 1965: Contraception legal 1967: Interracial couples 1975: Wife can have credit in her name 1981: Husband owns all property 1993: [...]
Trigger warning: suicide, physical and emotional abuse, heterosexism, cissexism. Kirk Murphy’s story is yet another tragic example of the ridiculous and harmful the lengths we go to as a society to enforce supposedly natural gender norms. We’re talking about a 5 year old little boy who had to make sense of [...]
AWH radio and podcast guest spots 
Let’s Talk About Names: Britni 
Do public schools hate Christian kids? No. 
The perils of funny feminism 
Let’s Talk About Names: Nia 
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