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We can’t miss a day, we can’t make mistakes, and we absolutely cannot speak up. We’re the first and because of that, there many ways we are silenced.

When I began my own transition, of course, homelessness lingered as a fear in the back of my mind. I’d watched too many trans women be run out of their jobs under suspicious circumstances and subsequently struggle to find another job to believe I was entirely immune to the possibility.

This is not just about police brutality anymore, it is about our lives, our liberation, and the eradication of all forms of oppression.

I have put myself out there in ways that feel terrifying because it’s a revolutionary act as a multiply marginalized person to even exist in such a visible way.

We’re allowed to unplug from the Internet and take a step back from social media—and not just during times when we’re already feeling fatigue and burnout.

The way languages incorporate gender can have a powerful impact on the expression of identity.

Some companies are answering calls for diversity but does that mean marginalized folks feel comfortable, safe and valued at work?

Laughter can be used as a way for the marginalized to reclaim power while engendering a crucial dialogue around social justice.

Sometimes, the relationship habits that we romanticize or consider to be ‘normal’ can actually be damaging and unhealthy.

I came to discover that my experiences are not isolated, but are in fact a part of a larger mental health crisis affecting Asian American women.

In poor neighborhoods all across the country, universities have actively displaced of poor folks of color in the name of gentrification.

Performative call outs that focus on attacking individuals without addressing systemic oppression do nothing to change the discourse.

I first heard that comment in 8th grade. I tried to laugh it off. It was stupid, right?

Back in the early nineties Ma and I lived in a one bedroom apartment with crappy brown carpeting, cottage cheese ceilings, the heat thick and rising. Ma always out working while I fried up mushrooms and listened to her Diana Ross and the Supremes albums. Sometimes, the lights cut off. Back then the bills would…

Right now, at least 11% of adults don’t have health insurance in the U.S — the 13th richest country in the world. A nation that doesn’t take care of its sick is one where every life clearly doesn’t matter. There is a growing movement of folks who want to transform our capitalist healthcare system into…

This article originally appeared on Wear Your Voice and was republished here with the author’s permission. If you think that race does not have an impact on the way that an educator teaches school children, please come on in and take a seat. I, a Black student, owe a lot of my academic intelligence to…

Cold brews and fourteen-dollar raw juice joints and white folks everywhere; in what seems like a blink of an eye, your neighborhood has changed completely. But, despite how abrupt it can feel, gentrification doesn’t happen overnight. Gentrification happens after months, and sometimes even years, of preparation — crafted in the offices of real estate moguls…

For bisexual people, representations of our identity in the pop culture world seem to fall into one of two categories. The first is absolute erasure: We encounter TV shows, movies, news reports, songs, trends, books, and essays that refuse to acknowledge the existence or validity of bisexuality in any way. On the other hand, the recent…

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