While at the Creating Change conference this year, I attended a day-long workshop on sexual liberation, facilitated by Ignacio Riviera and Aredvi Azad. The presenters talked about the idea of “sexual harm” as an addition to our conversations about sexual violence....
Quiet moments with food sizzling on the stove. Reading a book to learn carpentry. Tailoring clothes. This is how I spend most of my time while playing Project Zomboid, a post-apocalyptic survival game, whenever I’m not frantically fighting off the mob. Unless I’m...
What is image-based abuse? A recent study from the American Sunlight Project found that about 1 in 6 congresswomen have been the victims of sexually explicit “deepfakes.” Deepfakes are AI-generated images that appear real, and are often difficult to differentiate...
“It is so important and necessary to document, period. If we don’t know where we’ve come from, we won’t have the full knowledge to take us where we need to go.” – Qween Jean, in conversation with Raquel Willis (Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans...
When I canvassed for the Human Rights Campaign in 2018, people would stop on the street to ask me questions about queer and trans identities. Sometimes they would tell me they “didn’t care what I did in the bedroom.” One woman put her hands over my head and prayed to...
