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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

The Year in Innovative Black Women

Public representations of black women can be beneficial when the women involved are in control. 

The Year in Talking Sex With My Mom

A gay daughter inviting her conservative mother to a porn convention has to be a conversation starter, right?

The Year in Being a Goddamn Homeowner

I lay awake in my old apartment, listening to a squirrel claw his way through the popcorn ceiling, and decided, “You know what? It would be great if I was the one who had to pay to fix this problem.”

Swim Thru Fire Pt. 8

The series comes to an end.

The Bones of the Past

Train-hopping across America, forgotten poetry, and rediscovering the lost notebooks of the anthropologist and natural science writer Loren Eiseley.

The Year in Natural Hair

This year, I watched women on television—and black women in my own life—embrace, document and celebrate their natural hair.