valentine's day

WEB COMIC: I’m a Mixed Race Woman of Color. He’s a White Trans Man. We Love Each Other.

A Valentine’s Day Comic Strip by Nia King Notes from Nia: I’m a mixed-race queer cisgender woman. My partner is a white transgender man. We’ve been together three years. He is the most amazing partner I could ever ask for. And despite his being white and male,...

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

Dear Shonda Rhimes, I know we don’t know each other or anything but I just wanted to take a moment this Valentine’s Day to say, “I love you.” Don’t worry, it’s not “like that.” I’m already taken, which is actually...

Introducing VINE, “The Instagram of Video”: Let’s Make a Queer Woman of Color Love Scene

The newest social media tool, Vine, is up and running in the iTunes store and QWOC Media Wire is excited about all the ways this micro-video-blogging tool could be used to create more visibility for queer people of color. Dig it. Vine, “The Instagram of...

QWOC Media Wire February Call for Submissions: Queer Black Women Making Love (and History)

In case you didn’t notice by the Target dollar section’s sea of hearts and pink, February is upon us! Which means it’s Time for Valentines Day, Black History Month, LGBT History Month (UK), National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month and much more. We are looking...