No Borders and Binaries

Capitalism strikes again and this time quite close to home.
Whoring our community out to brand names so that inhumane corporations like Nike can “improve their image” and “capture new markets” while continuing their horrendous policies worldwide is absolutely not responsible. It’s degrading and dehumanizing when actual people are reduced to mere consumers to be used, [...]

Youtube has a strict policy of banning boobs or nipple show (unless we are talking educational material like self-examination - Actually on that note I am even going to defend the educational value of love scenes but not here). Getting to the point, someone please explain to me why showing L-O-V-E scenes with boobs (or [...]

I take great inspiration from this quote by Jennifer Beals at an NAACP event a few years ago:
“It has been said, ‘History is written by the victors.’ I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by [...]

A pilot has been shot for a TV series starring queer people of color, quite unprecedented in diversity. It is being pitched as Melrose Place + L Word + 227. Nisha Ganatra plays a young woman coming out. Check it out, especially if you know anyone in the TV biz, or if [...]

Alright, this is officially my first L Word post and many more may come but I will make them socially and politically relevant for the most part.
What do I think about the L Word? I actually had a distaste for it for the first 3 seasons; I did not even watch the first two until [...]