Our Porn and Politics column aims to create a dialogue around kink, polyamory and race with renowned sex professionals, performers, activists and educators, King Noire and Jet Setting Jasmine. In our most recent edition, we discussed the intricacies...
The unemployment caused by the pandemic is amplifying hardship in several communities, particularly among minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, homeless people and other vulnerable groups. While these have been times of strife and hardship, businesses and...
Trans and nonbinary people challenge systems that we consider finite and concrete from the moment they recognize their gender identities, and they usually begin challenging these systems from a very young age. While it’s difficult for cisgender peopl...
Cortney Connolly is an artist studying Collaborative Arts at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Cortney’s installation LUmkA was released on the 7th of July, 2020. Lumka 1.0 is a digital installment that spans from paintings to written work; LUmkA inc...
The Dopey Podcast was created “by addicts for addicts, and for those that might be recovery-curious.” The show normalizes past behavior in a safe place to listen, identify with, and be a part of a coterie capable of laughing at “the craziest stories,...
On July 22nd, wellness brand Miss Grass and cannabis collective Humble Bloom hosted a unique virtual conference with a multitude of panelists and moderators. Entirely focused on the movement for Black lives (and with all proceeds going directly to be...
There is an urgent need to make sense of the discourse that has been happening surrounding the destabilization of hegemonic “master narratives.” How do we wrestle with the stories that we have been told and the stories that we have been systemically...
Recently, I was on Instagram when I saw a photo of activist Ameya Okamoto and her sister posing and slightly pulling their eyes back. Her hashtags and caption are what caught my attention: “#myBODYisnotyourcostume #myBODYisnotatrend… it took me year...
Women are often stereotyped as being more emotional and dramatic than men. Not only is this stereotype unfair and extremely sexist, but it is also harmful and can have physical ramifications. The notion of women as more emotional creatures causes man...
The pandemic has caused drastic changes in almost all aspects of our lives. For the food industry, the pandemic has operated as a catalyst, forcing people to think more critically about the sources of their food and what a shortage might mean. With m...
