QTPOC Healing & Liberation

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Why Are Filipino Americans Still Forgotten and Invisible?

The perplexing case of the marginalization of Filipino Americans

“We are still wanting to be seen, wanting to be heard, wanting to be included.”

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Top Infrastructure Official Explains How America Used Highways To Destroy Black Neighborhoods

America's top road-builder is trying to force a reckoning over the misuse of infrastructure dollars to displace and dismantle poor-but-cohesive communities throughout the 20th century -- and maybe even repair some of the damage.

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Five consejos from Latinx womxn community workers and activists to their hermanxs in the struggle

Providing much needed social supports while also working in community for social change is no easy task to say the least. For the past few months I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with…

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“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” A former Nixon adviser comes clean about the "war on drugs" to journalist Dan Baum. Source: AJ

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Losing My Anti-Racism

The Box It was my junior year at Carleton College in Minnesota. I had just returned from four months studying in Bolivia. My identity was in flux as I tried to integrate my changing worldview after…

"What’s the point of an anti-racist toolbox if it’s useless to millions of Black people, if it ignores the political economic conditions in which millions of Black people actually live? Our current preoccupation with racial reflection, awareness, and diversity may be appropriate for college campuses where the stakes are lower...Much more is required of us if we are to ever get free.”

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People try to argue that the Black Panthers were a service organization or a criminal group. The answer is both, and more.

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Piece on the white privilege underlying Macklemore’s success

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My (Apparently) Obligatory Response to ‘Formation’: In List Form

1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé’s new song and video. I don’t think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in …

Critique of Beyonce’s Formation from the perspective of a Black, queer person addressing colorism, Black capitalism, amongst other factors.

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We Slay, Part I

Beyoncé don't give no fucks about your Saturday afternoon. Which is to say--as Big Freedia's voice says in Beyoncé's new song, "Formation"--"[She] did not come to play with you hoes. [She] came to ...

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1. I AM STILL IN LOVE WITH ALL OF MY EXES. I OFTEN WONDER HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO BREAK SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER COMPLETE TO BEGIN WITH ANYWAYS. 2. THE OTHER DAY A WOMAN ON THE SUBWAY WAS READING A B…

“7. I HAVE WRITTEN THE SAME POEM MY ENTIRE LIFE. IT BEGINS WITH “BODY” AND IT ENDS WITH “I’M SORRY.””

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Ancient Visayan Deities in Philippine Mythology

Philippine gods and goddesses of the ancient Visayas. Ancient Visayan Deities in Philippine Mythology

Decolonizing by (re)learning my forgotten histories. We are a powerful people. We resist. 

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11 of the Most Culturally Appropriated South Asian Accessories – And What They Really Mean

The bindi, the sari, henna – if you want to appreciate these South Asian accessories, you need to know how to do it without causing harm. This guide tells you what these accessories really mean, and when it's acceptable to wear them.

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Most Popular Posts of 2015 #2: Transitioning While Non-Binary

Many people have asked the question, how can you transition if you’re not male or female? What are you transitioning to? The answer is different for every non-binary person. What we do know is we are all valid in our bodies and genders. The way we see ourselves and dress ourselves and take care of o

“There are people who believe you need to have dysphoria to be transgender, but I am not one of those people. If you learn about gender, and explore your own and find you are more comfortable with a different label than the one given to you at birth, that’s all I believe you need to be transgender.”

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“People of European heritage are often called hungry ghosts because we don’t know our selves. This trauma of disconnection is profound, causing us to constantly grab for anything of spiritual meaning – even if it does not belong to us. This taking leads to cultural theft and appropriation, spiritual materialism, and the silencing of authentic native voices.”

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I’m Black, not African-American. — THOSE PEOPLE

I had a debate with my significant other a few days ago. He said that I was African-American. ¶ I said: ¶ “No, I’m not. You’re African-American, I’m Blac…

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Nothing more threatening to racist, sexist, systems of oppression than loud brown girls who fight against them!