Tag Archives: queerness

Fleeting Frustrations #3: When White Queer Icons Like Ezra Miller Fail Us

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Zina

It’s more important that we bask in Ezra Miller’s star as it begins to crest than we have the tough conversations about what it means that a queer icon getting visibility is partially responsible for a film that attempts to flat out humanize Darren Wilson, a murderer who killed Mike Brown because he was Black and read as a threat to Wilson because of it. Continue reading →

A Political Stitch

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Zina

Note: if it’s not clear (but it should be), this is a celebration of my identity and my Blackness because February is Black History Month and it’s taken me this long to put my thoughts together. “I didn’t know you … Continue reading →