Category: Articles & Blog
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Immuno-Heavy | Aces Lira
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The knots of responsibility weigh on me.Anxiousness creepsfor cuddles,when all I want is peace.You said you understood and I was tied, convinced. I know that people grow.You never grew out of selfishness.Telling me you want something serious butOpening myself you changed your mind.Words:promising but gestures:confusing.Slight hints over time of your…
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The Songs I Loved: En Vogue’s “You Don’t Have To Worry”
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there are some songs from 1990 that i love but seldom listen to because they put me in space of melancholy. en vogue’s uptempo funk/pop gem “you don’t have to worry” is one of those songs. the third single from their iconic debut album “born to sing,” which celebrated its…
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The Songs I Loved: Neneh Cherry’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
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almost 10 years into the AIDS epidemic, and only 4 years removed from the first time president reagan uttered the mentioned AIDS in a public address, the imagination of most americans and mainstream news media, AIDS was just a “gay disease” that was “killing all the right people.” it was…
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Remembering the Brilliance & Impact of Vanity 6
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girl groups have long been around since the turn of the 20th century. from the boswell sisters who were hit on the vaudeville circuit of the 1920’s and the andrew sisters, one of the most successful singing groups of 1940’s. but it wasn’t until Black girl groups like the chantelles,…
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The Black History of Freestyle Music
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the late great and house music pioneer, dj frankie knuckles, once said that house was disco’s revenge. and he wasn’t lying. but in the years between the racists- and homophobic-driven disco backlash in 1979 and the rise of house music in the late 1980’s, black, latinx and lgbtq club goers…
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WHEN HOUSE MUSIC WAS BLACK & GAY
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happy pride, y’all! this weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the first pride events throughout the country. june 28, 1970, queer and trans folks marched to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the stonewall riots. pride events grew out of the anti-police protests led by Black and brown trans and queer…
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I Changed My Mind About Community
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Last year I broke up with the LGBTQ2 community–well the shallow gatekeepers that ravaged our collective understanding of what it means to hold identities at their intersections. Let me explain, I’ve always been queer, I went through so much struggle trying to understand who I am in this binary world.…
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The Songs I Loved: RuPaul’s “Supermodel (You Better Work)”
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my mother worked for drug dealers. from monday – friday, regardless of how drunk or high she got the night before, she was up for work. i súplale this is where i got my work ethic and my ability to hold my liquor. because of my mother’s line of work…
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The Songs I Loved: Queen Latifah’s “Come Into My House”
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“welcome into my queendom, come one, come all…,” the opening line of the first verse of queen latifah’s 1990 hip-hop/house track “come into my house” was an invitation into her world, extended to those of us who were either exiled from or denied entry into kingdoms that valued hyper-masculinity and…
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An Offering: During A Pandemic
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This is an offering, my offering to you and in giving this offering to you, I enrich myself. I am doing this because, as they say “time is of the essence” and because I come from a lineage that finds spiritual work in the giving of gifts. My mother and…
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The Songs I Loved: Wilson Phillips “Impulsive”
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my LOVED mother’s day. birthdays and holidays came and went without much notice but mother’s day was her day to claim. like the rest of the mothers on our block, my mother got dressed to a T with my no where to go. but that was cool tho. getting dressed…
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The Songs I Loved: Sarah McLachlan’s “Adia”
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in 1998, my relationship with my younger brother nicholas was strained. we were so young (me 21 and he 18 years old) and on our own. looking back, i realize now just how much we carried on our young shoulders and how much of that prevented us from carrying each…