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Rape Can & Must End: Poems
Rape Can & Must End: Poems
Witness
By Derrick Weston Brown
I was a vessel of “What Abouts” “Yeah buts” “Why Didn’t You’s” At 15 no one I knew had ever been raped. Rape was trench coats & Hollywood & dark alleys & sitcoms & strangers & pasty ass Gordon Jump on an episode of Different Strokes
Rape was prison “don’t drop the soap” jokes & After-School specials
& Taimak I mean- Garth who hemmed up Cree Summer I…
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No one is obligated to remain: Consent, agency & supporting loved ones who want to let go
No one is obligated to remain: Consent, agency & supporting loved ones who want to let go
Content Note: Suicide
By Amber Butts
come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed. – Lucille Clifton
I remember the first time one of my friends told me they were experiencing suicidal ideation. She didn’t use those words. We were in the sixth grade and left the classroom during recess because our friends were playing with Ouija boards. I contacted the…
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When liberal orgs tell QTPOC to "bring your full self to work," it's a lie. I know because I fell for it.
When liberal orgs tell QTPOC to “bring your full self to work,” it’s a lie. I know because I fell for it.
By Kay Martinez
I’m Afro-Latinx, gender non-conforming, 33, they/them. I was the first Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion at Mazzoni Center. My hire made me the first trans person and Queer or Trans Person of Color (QTPOC) to report to the CEO. How is it possible that, in 2018, no trans people or QTPOC have ever been in senior management positions for Mazzoni Center, the largest LGBT health…
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For all the poor Black kids who become prey for rich white liberals
For all the poor Black kids who become prey for rich white liberals
By Kejhonti Neloms
The most evil man I personally know is an older white gay liberal who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He has a house on Ashland, just south of the University of Louisville. But I bet he has another house—probably on Frankfort Avenue with all of the other boujee liberal older whites—where he doesn’t shoot up young queer Black boys with meth. The second time I met Bryan I had just…
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There's a Black queer dude swinging at white people by my job and I'm losing my mind too
There’s a Black queer dude swinging at white people by my job and I’m losing my mind too
By M.L. Thompson
Last summer when my depression was really taking hold, I went to lunch one afternoon and was stopped along the way. There is a Black queer man swinging punches on the corner by my job. This nigga almost hits me. I tell him to watch out, but he’s not listening. My face scrunches ugly, I put a hand on my hip, back up toward my work building. What is this nigga doing? Hail mary’s!…
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I wanted to stop suffering like Jamel Myles. Here's what I learned about youth mental health
I wanted to stop suffering like Jamel Myles. Here’s what I learned about youth mental health
By Nickolas Gaines
Content Note: Suicide, homophobia, bullying
The first time I attempted suicide, I was a high school freshman.
An email circulated around my friend group that said I was gay, and it was also posted up by the lockers. The school administration worked with the IT department to track down the source. To use the computers, you had to sign in to the system and it tracked students’…
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We can hold Omarosa accountable without throwing a Black woman away
We can hold Omarosa accountable without throwing a Black woman away
Crossing the Street: Attack Dogs, Whistle Blowing and the Disposing of Black Women
By Amber Butts
The human and the dog compound each other’s constructed viciousness in a mutual ‘becoming against,’ the consequence of which is that the image of the vicious dog pursuing the slave has become part of a collective consciousness that compulsively recreates—and each time reignites—the association of…
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'BlacKkKlansman's false promise in America's next chapter and police
‘BlacKkKlansman’s false promise in America’s next chapter and police
By Biko Caruthers
I have to admit that I’m not entirely sure what I think films about race should do in America.
I have seen so many: 12 Years a Slave. Rosewood. The Great Debaters. Malcolm X. Selma. Mississippi Burning. A Raisin in the Sun. Remember the Titans.
In my teen years and early twenties, I think I enjoyed these films because they gave me hope. They made me feel good. I got further…
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"We've never been this close": Why I needed to capture Black brotherly intimacy in these photos
“We’ve never been this close”: Why I needed to capture Black brotherly intimacy in these photos
Filmmaker Emir Fils-Aime and Music Producer Anthony Avery photographed by Gioncarlo Valentine.
“Black men loving Black men is THE revolutionary act.” – Marlon Riggs
Gioncarlo
A few months ago I asked two friends to sit for a series of portraits so that I could test out lighting. I’ve been friends with Emir and Anthony for about a year, but the pair have been friends for about fifteen years. I’d…
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All your non-Black friends say "n****r" behind your back
All your non-Black friends say “n****r” behind your back
By Kejhonti Neloms
They all call you nigger behind your back. You were right when you thought you heard your boss at the Dollar Store say it. Your daughter was right when she thought she heard her teacher say it. You were right when you thought you heard your doctor refer to room number 209 as the room with the nigger in it. You’ve always been right.
All of your white friends call you a nigger…
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"Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there": An interview with 'Neptune' playwright Timothy DuWhite
“Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there”: An interview with ‘Neptune’ playwright Timothy DuWhite
By Hari Ziyad
On July 13th, poet, writer, RaceBaitR deputy editor, performance artist and playwright Timothy DuWhite’s one-man show Neptune had its world premiere at Dixon Place in NYC, during the venue’s annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. If you didn’t get a chance to witness the show many are calling breathtaking, don’t fret yet—there are still four more performances,…
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I don't blame the Mexican men who robbed my white neighbor
I don’t blame the Mexican men who robbed my white neighbor
To be Black in the United States is to live in a perpetual state of Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
By Kejhonti Neloms
My white neighbor felt something cold and hard against his temple before the fear set in. He was being robbed. Again. This was last Friday at 2 in the morning, and he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had been out all night with some of the locals in Oaxaca—mezcal as a…
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The Black Bloggers Fundamentals Toolkit
The Black Bloggers Fundamentals Toolkit
As a Black writer working in the overwhelmingly white digital publication world—especially a writer who is just starting out—there are too many professional challenges you will face. Thankfully, you don’t have to embark on this journey alone, because the editors of RaceBaitR are here to help!
The creator of RaceBaitR, managing editor of Black Youth Project, and assistant editor of Vinyl Poetry &…
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