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For Bi-Mixed Girls When Grad School Isn’t Enuf: Creating Queer POC Community from the Borderlands

by Breanne Harris in About Us, Bisexuality, Life at the Intersection, Our Team, Special Series, Staff with 2 Comments

Our Intern Breanne reflects on her work at QWOC, queer identity and creating community.

No Longer Invisi(BI)le: 10 Bisexual Women of Color to Celebrate #QWOCTalk

by Breanne Harris in Activism & Politics, Bisexuality, Featured, History: Past, Present, and Future, Special Series with 35 Comments

QWOC Media Wire profiles bisexual women of color who are standing up for bisexual rights and visibility everyday.

Call for Nominations: Bisexual Woman of Color (S)HEROS to Celebrate During Women’s History Month

by QWOC Media Wire in Announcements, Editorial with 3 Comments

Send us your nominations for openly self-identified bisexual women of color to feature as part of our QWOC Heroes series for women’s history month.

Love in the Grey: A Thank You to Shonda Rhimes (from a Bisexual, Mixed Race Queer woman of Color)

by Breanne Harris in By Topic, Entertainment & Culture, TV, TV Shows with 5 Comments

Our Intern Breanne gushes about her love for Shonda Rhimes, queer women of color characters, interracial adoptions, multiracial hotties and what it really means to be an LGBT ally in the media industry.

Queer Women of Color and Visual Storytelling: Spotlight on Taryn Crenshaw of Artist Collective, Esoteric Lore

by Tiffany in Art, Artist Interviews, Interviews, Mixed Media with 2 Comments

“My placement on this planet essentially is to educate people through the arts exposing realities that are traditionally marginalized or not necessarily emphasized in mainstream culture and media, and create space that is loving, healing, and celebratory in and around art and education.” — Taryn Crenshaw

Queer, Black Geeks, Unite! Moya Bailey Leads Women of Color Digital Skill-Sharing Collective, Shawty Got Skillz

by Tiffany in Activist Interviews, Announcements, Conferences, Geeks and Nerds, Life at the Intersection, Media 101, Trainings and Institutes with 3 Comments

Digital humanities dissident, Moya Bailey, has sculpted a yellow brick road in cyberspace for women of color. This summer she …

If Not Now, When: Addressing Domestic Abuse in “Between Women” Season One

by Ariel in TV, TV Shows, Web Series with 5 Comments

It’s admirable that the creators of Between Women chose to tackle the issue of domestic abuse within same sex relationships. Yet their presentation of such an important issue doesn’t come without noticeable flaws, specifically with respect to the way an abusive relationship was presented in season one.

We Will Not Be Unwritten: Preserving Queer Women of Color History

by Spectra Speaks in Activism & Politics, History: Past, Present, and Future with 0 Comments

As LGBT people (esp. members of marginalized groups: women, people of color, transgender, disabled etc), we all need to do a better job of telling our own stories, and in effect, writing ourselves (back) into history. Read this opinion piece from founder, Spectra, on preserving QWOC+ Boston’s history.

Revelation: A Moment in the Life of a Black Lesbian Adoptee

by QWOC Media Wire in Family & Parenting with 3 Comments

Acclaimed author and activist, Robin G. White, shares a personal moment of “Revelation” from her journey as an adoptee to find her birth family, and re-affirmation of her lesbian identity. Simply put, it is beautiful. We are who we are. “It is in our genes.”

Do Ask, Don't Tell Me What I Should Feel about the Military

by Erika in Activism & Politics with 1 Comment

As much as we may hate the ignorance, we are not exempt from it. We may be better than others at keeping our judgments to ourselves, but in some cases, we’re just as bad, if not worse, than the people who do it to us. Recently, I interviewed a QWOC who served in the military about her opinions on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.