• ELIXHER
• On December 28, 2012

I Have an “Outie” Vagina (and It’s Totally Normal)

The general consensus among people who don’t know much is that vulvas are “supposed” to be small, pink and all tucked into the outer lips. Mine isn’t. Mine looks like a hot dog in a bun.

Continue reading on XOJane.

How My Past as a Black Woman Informs My Black Male Feminist Perspective Today

Although I am not new to masculinity, I am new to being a black man.

I am new to the experience of male privilege and its consequence of authority, as well as the disprivilege of race that marks my black male body as innately suspect. It is the delicate balance between power and criminal that has allowed me to see the machinations of misogyny in an entirely different light. Whereas black cisgender men have generally approached feminist discourse through the academic texts and writings of black women, for me, it is my lived experience as a black female that has shaped the ways in which I embrace and practice black feminism.

More over at bklyn boihood.

Gay Baltimore Man, Beaten on Christmas, Believes Attack Was Hate Crime

As the punches kept coming, landing across his face and head, Kenni Shaw tried to talk to his five attackers but couldn’t get the words out.

“I was pinned down by punches,” Shaw said of the beating he received Christmas night, outside the East Baltimore liquor store he frequents near his home. “It was so hard that I felt my lip and side face swell up immediately. I was trying to talk to these guys, but they weren’t letting me talk.”

Instead, they were intent on beating him — simply out of hate, said Shaw, a 30-year-old gay man.

Details at the Baltimore Sun.

WATCH: Hilarious Parody Of Azealia Banks

No more Grindr?! It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Check out the spoof on BuzzFeed.