• Director's Cut: Part Three

     HPh SH
    by Matthew Bright
    "Director's Cut" by Matthew Bright is a historical, surrealist story on subverting queer tragedy.
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  • Director's Cut: Part Two

     HPh SH
    by Matthew Bright
    "Director's Cut" by Matthew Bright is a historical, surrealist story on subverting queer tragedy.
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  • Director's Cut: Part One

     HPh SH
    by Matthew Bright
    "Director's Cut" by Matthew Bright is a historical, surrealist story on subverting queer tragedy.
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  • All Hail Mizhena - Conqueror of Transmisogynistic Gamerbros

     TPh MSG
    by Dorian Dawes
    She stands, a cleric with an unusual name pieced together herself from her own experience. Her dialogue is brief and limited. She is Mizhena and she has somehow absolutely destroyed Baldur's Gate and by that extension Dungeons and Dragons forever.
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  • Is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Non-Monogamy Ever Sustainable?
    by Andre Shakti
    Today's "I'm Poly & So Can You" gives you three times the wisdom, as Andre's polycule weigh in on questions about dental dams and not sharing your experiences with other partners.
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  • I'm A "Sad But Brave Girl" Who Spoke Out About Campus Rape

     SV
    by Erin Day
    "Would people have cared more if I was prettier? Should I have talked more about the violence? Was my story not important enough? Exciting enough? Emotional enough? Did I fail to make my story matter?"
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  • I Have a Problem With Men in Roller Derby

     TPh TMSG
    by Laurel Hanson
    (CW: Transmisogyny) Roller derby has an identity that is inherently female. It was started by women, it was built by women, it has been maintained by women and spread by women. It isn’t just a sport for women, it’s a sport in which women support each other
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  • VICTORY THROUGH GUTS: The New WWE Women’s Championship
    by Colette Arrand
    On its way to the ring, HARLOT Magazine's new regular wrestling column, penned by girl grappling aficionado Colette Arrand!
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  • Buying In and Selling Out: On Social and Sexual Capital
    by Kitty Stryker
    "At best I felt guilty, like I was betraying my queer femmeness by dating, not only a guy, but someone who was pretty damn close to 'The Man'. At worst, when we kissed in public, people looked at him with pity, like I had tricked him."
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  • Together, We Are Strong: A Letter from the Editor
    by Jetta Rae
    We are, to move in a more collective direction that serves a multitude of communities, including sections of Harlot, with additional editors to help us fight on.
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  • I'm Poly & So Can You: How Do I Disclose On A 1st Date?
    by Andre Shakti
    "The more forthcoming you are about your supposed 'red flags', the more confident and self-possessed you appear, and the less likely it is that someone will try to take that part of you and weaponize it."
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  • Socially Inadequate Teens Obsessed with Kafka
    by Dorian Dawes
    "Not everything has to be political, Aaron. Bugs don't have complex systems of government. "
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  • Why I Love "Please Clap"
    by Christine Hopkins
    "On that day, 'please clap' became the unofficial rallying cry of all people who yearn for more."
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  • How Whippersnappers Are Ruining Cyberpunk-And Everything Else
    by Lauren Parker
    "All they care about is sending each other armpit porn on MOX-E. It’s like Twitter never even happened."
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  • Young People Need To Stop Engaging In Casual Fornication With Their Peers
    by Rani Baker
    "Lemme buy you some sort of pumpkin spice drink until I ultimately decide your shallow pop culture references are beneath my sapiosexual intellectual purity.​"
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  • An Alien Monster Chats About the Morality of Eating Humans
    by Kaiden Nia-Ali
    "It is our destiny and birthright to take human flesh for ourselves."
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  • Could Your High School Crush Be The Only Chance To Stop Trump?

    by Colette Arrand
    "The Orangemen would do to you for having too many books what they did to your high school crush for having hands larger than His hands."
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  • Has Polyamory Hit The Tipping Point?
    by Kitty Stryker
    "Have we reached a place in society where the perfect couple isn’t a couple anymore?"
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  • Meet Nurx, the Kiki's Delivery Service of Sexual Health

    by Kitty Stryker
    "We designed it to help people who face unnecessary obstacles when trying to get a prescription."
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  • Saffron Colonial and the Colonisation of Cuisine
    by Lace Dagger
    "Spices (and other materials) have always been front and centre in the colonial machine. To say Western Cuisine incorporating flavour notes of other cuisines is merely 'an exchange of cultures' is reductive and erasing."
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  • I'm Poly & So Can You: Cuck My Life Into Pieces

     WPh
    by Andre Shakti
    Andre answers the questions of a spouse struggling with distrust for her sex worker metamour and a poly meetup organizer trying to understand cuckolding fetish.
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  • A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She's Anti-Criminalization

     WPh SV GV
    by Kitty Stryker
    "I’d like to see more survivors using their voices and being given a platform. I’d like to see an end to the ridiculous argument that victims all want to see sex work criminalised, and an end to the unfounded idea that it would actually benefit us."
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  • Simple Sexuality: How Do You Label Yours?
    by Michon Neal
    It starts with my values. What I treasure, what I seek, and what I know about myself.
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  • How To Confront Racism and Homophobia in the Goth Movement
    by Dorian Dawes
    If we don't work to make it better, we're no better than the Biff Tanners of the world; just another bully in someone else's story.
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  • True HoMance: When Sex Workers Date Each Other
    by Andre Shakti
    "While SW/SW relationships are connective, therapeutic forces to be reckoned with, they’re just as undeserving of glamorization as the sex industry itself."
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  • A House is "Clean": How Fighting STI Stigma Starts With You
    by Mickey Valentine
    "It doesn’t matter if you’ve fucked your husband or the entire football team. Calling yourself 'clean' brings a more heightened sense of panic to variety of situations."
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  • Dream Command: A Kinky Queer Sci-Fi Thriller

    by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
    The serial fiction "Dream Command" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew posted in its entirety!
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  • Policed Queerness and Womanhood In A Time of Bathroom Bills

     TPh HPh
    by Colette Arrand
    "No matter what I wear, no matter how I look, and regardless which bathroom I use at work, I hold no illusions of safety."
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  • Whorephobia & Misogyny in Wrestling—Still Real To Me, Dammit

    by Scarlett Harris
    "Laurer’s high-profile blackballing from the industry shows the punishment and shame brought on women who are seen profiting from their sexuality."
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  • The Calculated Republican “Trans Bathroom” Wedge Strategy

    TPh
    by Rani Baker
    "Make no mistake, this isn't just about bathrooms.​"
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  • When Being The Bigger Person Affords You Very Little
    by Kaitlin Tremblay
    "As women, being forced to be the bigger person puts us back into the position of caretaker. It forces us to continue sacrificing our own well-being for the well-being of others."
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  • The Porn Star's Guide To Hemorrhoids

    by Kitty Stryker
    "I want to help other people who find themselves with this condition without making them wade through the weirdness that is hemorrhoid licking porn."
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  • When Black Hustlers Make Money, It Subverts The Social Order
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "I am still an anarchist—I just don't anymore believe that making money as an artist to support and blast your message on high out into the world is antithetical to my radical politics."
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  • A Gift Guide For The Discerning Ballbuster

    by Jetta Rae
    A modest menagerie of wares to help the women and other non-men in your life fight back against patriarchy and bad taste.
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  • Yes A Stripper: Sex Workers Need To Take Back Pole Dancing
    by Bella Vendetta
    "It's awesome and inspiring and empowering if you pay for the privilege of pole dancing. But if you make a living at it, it's disgusting and degrading."
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  • Yoga in the West: A Colonial Machination of Appropriation
    by Lace Dagger
    "Yoga has been completely stripped of its power, strength, and glaring Indianness, repackaged into a symbol of contemptible, weak, nonthreatening, submissiveness: exactly what a colonial power looks for in a colony."
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  • I Didn't Have A Catchy Title For This; Send Help

    by Jetta Rae
    HARLOT Magazine is changing direction. We need your support to help us move forward.
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  • Radical Self-Reliance Is Killing People

    by Kitty Stryker
    "The attitude that other people are entirely responsible for managing their own emotions and you have nothing to do with it is selfish and lacks understanding of how human interactions work. "
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  • Dancing in Circles: On Being Triggered by Meanness

     SV RV VD
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "Every time I am in a group of mostly white, able bodied or invisibly disabled people...my capacity for humiliation, no matter others' aim, is always large."
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  • A Discerning Millennial's Intro To Presidential Porn Parody
    by Aaminah Khan
    "Presidential porn, like a lot of niche porn, exists partly as a way of proving social cachet, kind of like a red, white and blue-themed 2 Girls 1 Cup."
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  • Ellen Page's Gay Imperialism is Not Activism
    by Tovah Leibowitz
    "Ellen’s journey to 'explore what it means to be lesbian, gay, bi, or trans' is in fact a journey to impose what it means, then call that meaning 'evidence' in order to affirm a more palatable political ordering."
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  • Somewhere That's Green: Little Shop of (Gentrified) Horrors

    by Kyle Turner
    "Audrey II is the step to the American Dream that Seymour and Audrey crave, and in a desire to acquire that, Seymour feeds Audrey II endlessly, all in the hope that Audrey II will have enough."
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  • How To Face-Sit Like A Lady
    by Lauren Parker
    "Some are born with ladyship assigned to them, others achieve ladyship through self-actualization, and others have ladyship thrust upon them (in consensual roleplays)."
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  • Sex Workers Share Stories Of Clients Using The "L" Word

    by Andre Shakti
    "No one ever asked me if I felt oppressed, under-appreciated, or taken advantage of when I was a barista. Yet when I speak on sex worker panels, I can almost guarantee that someone will make it their personal mission to do just that."
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  • Free Freedia! or, Housing in America is a Racist Disaster

     RV
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "To punish Big Freedia so extremely...would further reinforce the racist precedent that America believes black people, no matter how talented, are bodies for prisons, not houses."
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  • An Interview with Matthew Bambach, Designer of Worry Quest
    by Courtney Hilden
    "You take a thought, you contextualize it, and you create a more realistic thought from that."
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  • Quean For A Day: The Love, Lust, & Longing of a Lesbian Cuck

    by Jetta Rae
    "It isn’t a compromise or some minor league of sexuality that I’ve been demoted to—it makes space for my idioms and nervosa to, not just be accounted for, but actively engaged. "
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  • Venger From Dungeons & Dragons Was Totally Trans, By The Way

    by Rani Baker
    "I mean come on; you have a flamboyant gender-non-conforming goth-witch in a dress with well-established daddy issues–"
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  • Hillary's Liberal Cowardice Enables Trump's White Supremacy

     RV
    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I’m particularly taken aback by the idea that those families 'melted hearts in the statehouse,' because if black feelings truly mattered, it wouldn’t have taken a terrorist murdering nine black churchgoers to force the hand of South Carolina lawmakers."
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  • Dream Command: Chapter 4

    by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
    "They go, either in respect of the rank or in respect of the gun. Probably the gun."
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  • On The Joys of Cis People Telling Me How Well I Pass

    TPh
    by Jordan Wieleba
    "You suffer, you learn, you suffer, you learn, you suffer until you reach a point where you can finally be comfortable in your own skin (and sometimes that never happens). It’s a lifelong process."
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  • Non-Binary Twins Talk Family, Queerness, and Identity

    by Andre Shakti
    An interview with my partner Justin and his fraternal twin, Jackzon, both of whom are gender variant.
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  • J.K. Rowling Introduces Us To Magical World Of Appropriation
    by Safíra Anouk
    "It’s unlikely Rowling’s agenda in writing this series is to perpetuate the trauma of colonization; as an affluent white writer from Britain, a country which has reaped the spoils of the genocide on our peoples, that is precisely the outcome."
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  • We Don't Need Any More "Inspirational" Celebrity Trans Women

    by Rani Baker
    "There seems to be this undercurrent of who is going to become Highlander Queen Of The Trans or whatever."
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  • Safe To Say #TheTriggering Was A Myopic, Laughable Failure
    by Aaminah Khan
    "The people behind #TheTriggering weren’t dauntless free speech advocates—just sad and spiteful little gremlins who genuinely think that trans people should die and women need to talk less."
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  • "Why Don't You Fuck Women?": On Biphobia and Anti-Blackness

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "For all its supposed liberating and contrarian qualities, the ironic rigidity of queer identities really constrains my ability to freely have sexual relationships with women when and where there might otherwise be interest."
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  • Eye See Myself: On Cosmetics and the Fear of Aging Womanhood

    by Kitty Stryker
    "I didn’t believe that any adult could actually be persuaded that some moisturizer is really going to make any difference–but this is a multi-billion dollar industry."
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  • 1957's "As Boys Grow..." is Creepy but in an Inclusive Way

    by Kyle Turner
    "I have no idea why a vintage sex education video like As Boys Grow… would include an ellipsis. I guess because... growing up is terrible?"
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  • Coming Out To My Mom Twice Nearly Killed Me, Saved My Life

     TPh
    by Katelyn Burns
    "'I don’t know mom, I think it was just a phase,' I told her. Her whole body relaxed, she audibly sighed in relief. She didn’t want me to be her daughter."
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  • Know Your Magic Wand: The Real Danger of Fake Vibrators
    by Andre Shakti
    "...the force of the scream actually ejects my partner's hand from my cunt, and we scramble away from the affronting vibrator like crabs."
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  • Sharmin Hossain on Caste Apartheid and Cultural Amnesia

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "Bangladeshis are a resilient people. We have survived genocide and ethnic cleansing, and continue to feel the vibrations as we migrate and build Little Bangladeshi communities all over the world."
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  • An Interview with Ofunne Amaka, Creator of Cocoa Swatches
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "I think people sometimes shy away from the fact that things like hair and obviously makeup are inherently political—but that's the reality of the world we live in, it just is."
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  • When We Ask Straight Men About Their Desire For Trans Bodies

    TPh
    by Colette Arrand
    "Our cameras and our thinkpieces are never on the side of trans women."
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  • I Want To Want It: On Female Sexual Dysfunction

    by Sarah Stanton
    The irony that so many of the conditions stigmatised in today’s society are those perceived as women’s illnesses is not lost on me.
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  • 5 Times “Law & Order: SVU” Kinda Got It Right

    SV TPh
    by Andre Shakti
    “That’s another thing. I hate being coddled. What, I have a baby and suddenly I can’t talk to serial killers anymore?”
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  • (Ho)ld That Thot: This Black Babe Doesn't Want To Be "Saved"

     RV
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "Interesting: it's degrading for a femme or a woman to be self-employed and making informed choices surrounding her sexual agency...but it is not degrading for us to adhere to your rules and roles in order to be a respectable wife."
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  • LBG Voice "Drops the T", and the Ball, in Pursuit of Equality

    TPh
    by Rani Baker
    "Remember the “Drop The T” petition? Neither do I, but it spawned a depressing website."
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  • Dream Command: Chapter 3

    by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
    "My wrists immobilized, my uniform grimed and ripped. Footfalls behind me. I can tell without looking to whom they belong: boots polished to a high luster, patent leather encasing powerful calves." CW: Depictions of gunfire and combat.
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  • Taupe is French for "Mole": Explaining Colors To Men

    by Kate Foray
    "You might just find the smart salmon sportcoat was inside you all along."
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  • Meet the French Aristocrats Who Throw Glitter Onto Buttholes (NSFW)

    by Kitty Stryker
    "Just wait until we bulldoze the ball park for our stables, then maybe people will get up in arms.​"
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  • A Bad Sign: Caitlyn Jenner and the Alleged Zodiac Killer

    GV
    by Rani Baker
    "On the off chance that a Cruz presidency does happen, this could prove a distinct reality check for her. "
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  • We Need A Decolonized, Not A "Diverse", Education
    by Zoé Samudzi
    "Diversity is antithetical to critical education, to any politics that ultimately seek to dismantle oppressive systems."
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  • I Am Poly & So Can You #2: Hey Mister, Got A Sister?
    by Andre Shakti
    "Once we start trying to regulate how people love one another we’re no better than those who oppress us."
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  • Topping As A Disabled Person
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "I know all too well that bottoming is not passive; even when we are touched against our will, it takes every fiber of one's being to receive, or to not receive, psychically or physically."
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  • The 8 People Moving Into Your Gentrified Neighbourhood

    by Aaminah Khan
    "As your home is bulldozed to make room for a new block of condos, why not cheer yourself up with a little people-spotting?"
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  • Sex Work is not "The World's Oldest Profession".

    by Bee D. Geiger
    "Prostitution was created and criminalized by men. Sex workers have gone into sex work and been punished for being sex workers largely because of men."
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  • Phoenix Goddess Temple Proves Need For Sex Worker Solidarity

    WPh
    by Kitty Stryker
    "As long as the law can come for some of us, they can come for all of us."
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  • How I Explored My Gender Identity Through Pony Play

    by Brandy Lewis
    "Being a pet gave way to me wanting to be someone’s female pet–that was where I found the woman inside of me."
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  • The KKK Are Not and Have Never Been a Progressive Movement

     RV
    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I don’t believe that the majority of the ideologies they express are fundamentally different from the ideologies that founded or are perpetuated by institutions in this country." CW: Descriptions of Supremacist Violence Against Black
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  • A Queer Film Critic Reviewed The Anti-Gay PSA "Boys Beware!"

    HPh SV
    by Kyle Turner
    "The search for verisimilitude, or reality, begins and ends with the title card of Boys Beware! Homosexuals Are on the Prowl (which, in my opinion, could use a colon, which is sort of ironic if you think about it)."
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  • Same/Different: How Bisexuality and Queerness Overlap and Diverge
    by Sara Habein
    "Words carry baggage; bisexuality has the deluxe matching set.​"
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  • DiCaprio Win Proves The Oscars Really Are Equal Opportunity

    by Aaminah Khan
    "The Revenant will go down in history as a veritable harbinger for countless Oscar wins to come for white people starring in stories about people of colour."
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  • Emma Watson: Check Out These Alternatives To Mainstream Porn
    by Kitty Stryker
    "What boggles my mind is this idea that there’s a distinction, a line that’s widely believed to be clear, between porn and art, or even obscenity or filth and art."
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  • An Interview with Writer and Documentarian Siana Bangura

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I am out here trying to clapback at a society wanting to block my every blessing simply because I am not a white man."
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  • An Interview with Erika Lust on Crowdsourcing Feminist Porn

    by Jess Goodwin
    "Even though I love coming up with my own scenarios for films, it feels way more communal and diverse to let people tell me their erotic visions. Ordinary people have extraordinary stories to tell, and they are a joy to shoot."
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  • We Can't Trust White People: Blood Quantum and Appropriation

     RV
    by Safíra Anouk
    "...for people who have survived the greatest genocide in known history, it is justifiably important to fight, if need be, to keep our bloodlines alive and thriving, mixed or otherwise."
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  • What Arkham Horror Gets Right And Very, Very Wrong

    by Dorian Dawes
    "Fighting against bigotry and systemic inequality can often times feels as maddening and daunting as challenging Cthulhu, but we have to keep trying.​"
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  • I Love God and I Love Fucking
    by KC Slack
    "There is no conflict between my calling and my coming. My religiosity and my ministry do not preclude me from fully experiencing my sexuality."
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  • 6 Games Influenced By Feminism A Century Before GamerGate

    by Rani Baker
    "The notion that games have always existed as a pristinely apolitical escapism is an anachronism and, frankly, boring."
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