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Freestyle of The Day: Crooked I “Grindin” on The Wake Up Show w/ Sway and Tech
Monyca Byrne-Wickey at the Quiksilver Pro Long Beach with the local girls about to go surf. Photo by me.
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Testimony by QUEER YOUTH RADIO, California
Titled: “Youth Talk About Being Trans in Long Beach”
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Young people in Long Beach talk about what being transgender means to them and what type of support they would like to see in the community.
Clickhere to also check out Queer Youth Radio’s interview with Long Beach trans community activist, JACKIE VALDEZ.
Kari Barba: The Queen of Modern Tattooing
Barba has been tattooing for four decades. One of the few female tattooists in the field in the 1980s who has devoted to raising awareness on gender equality and pushing tattoo-hygiene standards to what we recognize today. She is tattoo royalty, owner of Outer Limits, the longest-running tattoo studio in America and the second oldest in the World.
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I know that people like to focus on how we can protect the bodies of Black women and girls. I am with them. But I also care about doing the work pertaining to protecting Black women and girls from themselves after we failed to protect them from the world’s darkness in the future. How do we keep Black women and girls alive. We want to prevent mental and physical deaths.
Sexual trauma, intimate partner violence, other forms of physical violence, body shaming and sexual shaming are taking years off of us as Black women and girls.
I hear some Black men and women say “So you are trying to teach women and girls how to be hoes?” because I’m teaching them how to be sex positive. I hear some Black men and women say, “So you are trying to push homosexuality onto people” because I affirm LGBTQIA Black people.
I care about Black lives. Period. What keeps our people here longer with us on this planet? Affirmation.
“Aren’t you Christian? What would Jesus do?”
If you have to ask me that question, then I’m almost clear that you don’t know what he would do.
I’m no fool. I’m using African-centered/Afrocentric approaches with other Black women to sex positivity because I know that hypersexuality/ over-sexualization is a theme historically within Blackness.
P.S. Cishet Black men and boys, I’m coming for you next. It’s so crucial and necessary for you to learn this as well.
So everyone, just be ready. Black Futures Matter and I’m here to introduce/add another component to Afrofuturism for Africana people.
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How to Live for Almost Free in Long Beach
Great insight on the way Long Beach residents (like myself) are able to achieve healthy sustainable lifestyles at low cost thanks to wonderful community-driven alternatives such as time banking, free stores, and more.
