By Lola Fasina – People prefer binaries: good girl, bad girl, obedient, deviant. I will not fit. I kneel when I choose. I command when I choose...

By Emanuel Xavier – They circled. They screamed. They struck. And she screamed too—until she didn’t...

By Namkeen Peshawri – When mobs shout outside our office, when phone calls whisper threats, when I must reduce my visibility to survive, art becomes shelter...

By Qsherhana and Sir Lavender Scare – The same terrors that sent me spiraling in past years can feel like calls to action when he and I face them together in the best and most genuine way I know how...

By Zach Oren – 'People do make a choice to be discriminatory. It's not like discrimination is an innate nature. Even cats and dogs are friends...'

By Selina Shaw – To be Queer is to be an alchemist. We are in the seams of the surface world, unpicking it and playing with its arcane truths, making and discovering...

By Erica Millner – Red lips occur as a charged symbol of femininity, sexuality, and allure, while also suggesting artifice, masking, and the pressure to conform to rigid gender roles...