Monthly Archives: May 2013
A Journey with Ja’briel: Fundraising for Gender-Confirming Surgery
May 31, 2013 | Tie 1
Black trans advocate, activist, author and GLAAD People of Color Media Institute graduate, Ja’briel Walthour has launched a IndieGoGo campaign to gain support in the pursuit of her gender-confirming procedure(s) and the release of her transgender-themed children’s book series and resource guide.Read More
What You Missed This Week
May 31, 2013 | ELIXHER
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The Web Series: Q&A With The Peculiar Kind Founders
May 30, 2013 | ELIXHER
In this three-part weeklong series, ELIXHER examines the Black lesbian web series phenomenon. Here we chat with Mursi Layne and Alexis Casson, the founders of The Peculiar Kind, a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color. Read More
Melissa Harris-Perry Featured in ELIXHER Magazine Summer Issue
May 29, 2013 | ELIXHER
In the inaugural issue of ELIXHER Magazine, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry tells us about her favorite LGBT media moment in 2012. Subscribe today!Read More
WATCH: Entangled - Ep. 3
May 29, 2013 | Tie
In the third installment of Caryn K. Hayes’ digital dramady series, Entangled With You, Alisha (Kathryn J. Taylor) suffers through the venereal gift that Craig (Al Thompson) has so graciously shared with her. Here’s to Penicillin! Read More
Black Lesbian Web Series and Critical Fandom: Conversations with Cultural Creators
May 29, 2013 | ELIXHER 6
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
The Combahee Pilgrimage to Commence in South Carolina, in Celebration of Black Liberation
May 27, 2013 | Tie 1
From the radically transgressive queer minds that brought you Mobile Homecoming and The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind spawns the Combahee Pilgrimage, a 4-day creative, spiritual, and affirming rendezvous for self-identified queer, LGBTQ or queer-affirming Black people in commemoration of Harriet Tubman and 750 enslaved Africans’ successful self-liberation at Combahee River.Read More
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