• ELIXHER
• On February 23, 2013

Exclusive Video: De’Borah Performs Original Song, ‘Ambition’

We know you’ve missed our favorite contestant — and the only out competitor — on the most recent season of NBC’sThe Voice, since De’Borah Gardner was voted off last November.

That’s why we’re happy to release a SheWired exclusive video of De’Borah back in action, performing an original song called “Ambition,” that speaks especially to LGBT youth who are feeling downtrodden, reminding them that their drive to succeed will help them “make it out to be successful.”

Originally posted on SheWired.

Feminists We Love: Kim Katrin Crosby

Kim Katrin Crosby is a daughter of the diaspora ~ Arawak, West African, Indian, and Dutch ~ hailing from Trinidad and living currently in Toronto. Kim is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, activist, consultant, facilitator, and educator. She is co founder of The People Project, a movement of queer and trans folks of color and our allies, committed to individual and community empowerment through alternative education, activism, and collaboration. She was featured as one of Go Magazine’s ’100 Women We Love’ in 2012 and is a current feature of The Insight Project highlighting Toronto’s game changers.

Read more The Feminist Wire.

“I’m Sick of Dating”: Where’s My (Healthy, Long-Term) Queer Black Relationship?

I want to spend the rest of my life with a woman. I’ve been through enough to know that much. But I’m starting to doubt that it’s going to happen. I know dating is hard in the Black lesbian community, and yes, I know – I’m young, I’ve got time. But I’m ready… and impatient.

More on QWOC Media Wire.

Black History Month: Waking with a Dream

In a guest post for the Human Rights Campaign, NBJC Programs and Outreach Associate Je-Shawna Wholley commemorates Black History Month. She writes: ”If I had to articulate what makes this year’s Black History Month special to me, I would say that this year I have the opportunity to fight for equality for black people for a living. It was through my work with NBJC where I witnessed the efforts to debunk the myth that African Americans are more homophobic than any other race. I was a part of the efforts to showcase that black LGBT youth are philanthropic as we watch more and more black LGBT emerging leaders make an investment in NBJC. In my work, I get to see black LGBT people come together and make history every day; and that is truly an honor.”

Read more at HRC.org.