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On Feminine Crippled Love and Chronic Lovelessness
June 17, 2013 | ELIXHER 1
ELIXHER contributor Cyree Johnson writes about being diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erethematosus, learning to love hir body, and how popular media examples of crippled Black femininities sanction chronic lovelessness. Read More
Tumblr Thursdays
June 13, 2013 | ELIXHER
Get your dose of Black queer yumminess. It does the body good!Read More
Tumblr Thursdays
June 6, 2013 | ELIXHER
Anddddd we’re back. Ready to visually stimulate you with some Black queer yumminess. Check out this week’s top Tumblr finds.Read More
I Finally Explained Lesbian Sex To My Mom
June 5, 2013 | ELIXHER
ELIXHER founder and editor-in-chief decided to break down how lady loving goes down to her 52-year-old Christian, Caribbean mom — no judgment and no too-private details.Read More
People Love with Their Souls: On Gender Roles and Expectations
June 5, 2013 | ELIXHER
Many times we try to define who we are and who we want to be in a relationship dependent upon what we see in others. We have to take ownership of our love and allow it to be cultivated on our own terms.Read More
PO(P)LITICS: Teaching Old Slaves New Tricks
June 3, 2013 | ELIXHER 5
In less than a decade, Kanye West has gone from penning “Gold Diggers,” to actually becoming the guy who leaves your ass for a white girl. His fall from conscious fans’ grace has at times been so dramatic, that his entire career is beginning to resemble a shoddily wrought morality play.Read More
Black Lesbian Web Series and Critical Fandom: Conversations with Cultural Creators
May 29, 2013 | ELIXHER 4
ELIXHER contributor Cyree Johnson asks the creators of three popular Black lesbian web series “What does healthy media for Black lesbians look like?” What do you think?Read More
How Loving Up On Another Woman Helped Me Love Myself
May 28, 2013 | ELIXHER 3
In an xoJane commentary, ELIXHER founder and editor-in-chief Kimberley McLeod reflects on how falling for a woman made her fall deeper in love with herself. Read More
The Web Series: Where are our Black Queer Women On Screen?
May 28, 2013 | ELIXHER 1
In this three-part weeklong series, ELIXHER examines the Black lesbian web series phenomenon. Writer Spoken Pandora talks to various filmmakers and actors about the importance of asking for what we want to see on screen and showing up when we get it. Read More
Butch Please: Butch with a Side of Misogyny
May 27, 2013 | ELIXHER 3
Oftentimes when I am in a place occupied by butches and men, masculinity becomes a kind of currency. Butches start talking about how they’ve “fucked more girls” than the men, “gotten more pussy,” and are “better in bed.” Their sexual partners become objects rather than humans.Read More
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