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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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• Dancing in Circles: On Being Triggered by Meanness

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  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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• Free Freedia! or, Housing in America is a Racist Disaster

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  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 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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• (Ho)ld That Thot: This Black Babe Doesn't Want To Be "Saved"

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  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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• 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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• Putting on a "Brave" Face: On Ableism and Appropriation in the Film Industry

  by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be

  "How brave is a nondisabled actor who gets turned down for an able-bodied role, when they know a career-making disabled role might be just around the corner?"

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