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LIST OF PAST BGD POSTS

Scandal: Why I Kinda Love It, Why I Kinda Hate It

Totally Radical Muslims: Elementary School

A Couple Of Very Important Words To Keep In Mind On This MLK Day

Standing Up To Stand-Up Comedy: A Short Memoir On Oppression, Elitism, Rape Culture, and Social Hierarchy

Chasing the Bluest Eyes: Real Talks On Internalized Racism

Musings from a Queercrip Femme Man of Color

The Eleven Most Dangerous BGD Posts of 2012

The Essentials of Advocacy

Thanks For Giving: A Shout-Out To My Sisters In the Struggle

I’m Not Innocent, and I Still Won’t Stop Calling You Out On Obama

Her Body Is Not Your Playground: Why the Photoshopped Frida Nudes Are Not Okay

National Coming Out Day: It’s Not Just for Queerness Anymore!

How To Know If You Are White

The Kreayshawn Complex: Cultural Appropriation As Counter-Cultural Expression

It Gets Fatter! Fat Queers of Color Take on Fat Phobia in Our Communities

Shocking Revelation: Mitt Romney Is A Rich Asshole

When the Lesser Of Two Evils Isn’t Enough

8 Really Important Things To Discuss With Your Furniture

On Not Loving Yourself

My Body Is Not Your Pastime (Don’t Ogle, Comment On, or Attempt to Purchase It)

9 Queers Who Won’t Survive The Apocalypse

The White-Skinned Elephant In the Room

Whack Jobs Are Not the Problem (You Are)

On Scars, Softness, Numbers and Being Seen: In 9 Parts

Read A Book! Or, Why I Don’t Talk To Strange White Folks About Race

From One Skinny Girl To Others: A Few Words on Fat Phobia

Happy Independence Day! (*side-eye*)

How To Be A ‘Reverse-Racist’: An Actual Step by Step List For Oppressing White People

Brown Silence

Why I’m Not Going To Pride

to brown gurls, whose bodies have never been enough

Desirability: Or, Why That White Ally Who Dates All the Brown Queers Needs To Stop It

Femme On Femme

The Fallen

Resistance Is the Secret of Queer Joy

10 Things Us Queers (And the Rest of Y’all) Can Do Today to Grow A Little

Don’t Forget About Love

Day 454: On Patriarchy, Power, Desire and, Of Course, Hair

Obama Loves Queers! (Except Not)

A Pound of Flesh: Cece McDonald, June Ambrose, and the Danger of Throwing a Weave On It

Love, QPOC Style

A Conversation With Lil Wayne

The Getting There

An Open Love Letter to Folks of Color*

Solace

White Silence: A Follow-Up

White Silence

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5 Tips for Slightly Less Dysfunctional Queer POC Community

Fast Food Redemption: A Poem

The Greatest Love: Mourning Whitney

Dangerous