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A dreamy illustration of three Black women characters amid a floral motif on a pink, fluffy cloud background. A header reads: "Visibility will not delivery long-term structural change. We

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The Vulnerability of Visibility

Ten years ago, Black women were more visible than ever. It didn't get us—any of us—very far.

A computer screen showing a dot-matrix map of Western Europe is surrounded by the words "I'm in control. I make the decisions."

Does Playing Grand Strategy Games Make Me a Fascist?

Living a life without autonomy has led me to seek out control through video games.

On a black and white squiggly background, pink lettering reads "Feminism Feels Like An Optical Illusion," with two hands with a futuristic look are reaching out to the lettering.

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Taking Feminism Back From Capitalism

Techno-fascism and choice feminism have emptied the movement when we need it the most.

A still of a luminescent animation from Moana, featuring the title character on a boat with a glowing whale swimming beneath her

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Think of What We Can Do, Together

Recent TV and film like “IT: Welcome to Derry” and “Moana 2” show us why we love Artemis II: collectivism and hope are the only way to survive dark times.

A group of three brown-skinned people of an older, middle, and youth generation pose smiling in front of an art museum

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The Women Gather: Black Patrons Forge Deep Healing in Art Spaces

Museums are under attack, but Black women curators, artists, and patrons are still nourishing themselves and each other through the arts.

Children protesting in support of a free Palestine, surrounded by a wreath of oranges. A header reads: "We are the revolution."

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The Radical Idea That Children Are People

And they deserve rights too.

An illustration featuring the front of a Black-owned bookstore; a Black person with braids is pictured out front alongside an orange kitty and a sign reading "gathering is sacred here"

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Sacred Shelves

Two new books give Black bookstores the reverence they deserve.

A colorful illustration of a living room, as described in the piece: a couch in plastic, "Good Times" on a tv, a "Black Moses" style figure on the wall

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What Black Homes Remember

From plastic-covered couches to Black Jesus portraits, Black interior design preserves history amid rampant displacement.

A fat brown-skinned and a smaller brown-skinned person, both with short curly hair, looking lovingly at each other.

The Fragility of Body Positivity

How a radical movement lost its way.

A drawing of a person with a wide-winged bird tattoo on their chest and one feathery arm and feathers on the opposite side of their face; the person is covering their mouth.

Berdache

A comic by Shaawan Francis Keahna and Waabanokiizhick Mandosking.

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh wearing a mask in the colors of the Irish flag. Text above reads "saoirse don Phalaistin" and below "free Palestine."

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Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization