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Summer Institute Confessional: Brandon Mack

How NSRC's Summer Institute inspired Brandon Mack.

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Marrying Black, Marrying Up: on Michelle Obama, interracial marriage and strong, black women

Imagine a powerful, charismatic, handsome black man. Now imagine him arm-in-arm with a black woman and then a white woman.  How do your perceptions of him change? The cliche goes that once African American men gain success, they marry interracially as the last sign that they had 'made it.'That stereoptype, though, is a myth, says Professor

Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic

Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic

The many names, affectionate and derogatory, we use in reference to female buttocks suggest the range of ambivalent associations they elicit. “Booty” holds the promise of illicit pleasures. “Fanny” desexualizes the female behind, turning it into a sweet but inconsequential body part. The command to “get off your

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Thoughts on Summer Institute 2007

Intersections between race, gender, religion, class, and sexuality.

Entrevista Con Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Entrevista Con Jesus Ramirez-Valles: Tal Como Somos

El Productor Ejecutivo de Tal Como Somos nos habla sobre su experiencia creando este interesante documental...

Tal Como Somos

Tal Como Somos

Un documental que revela las realidades que enfrentan muchos Latinos gay, bisexuales y transgenero en los Estados Unidos de America. El filme narra las historias de varios individuos y parejas viviendo en lugares como Chicago, Washington D.C., Nueva York y San Francisco. Estas personas nos relatan como han lidiado con el hecho de ser "diferentes" en una comunidad muy arraigada en la religión, machismo

Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels

Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels

MEXICO CITY — The 29-year-old is not gay. He wants that known. He did have sex with a man once, but that was the result of loneliness and his hormones’ being in overdrive, he said, not because of any attraction to men. He suspects that the one encounter was responsible for giving him the virus that causes AIDS. But he is not gay

Risky Lessons

Risky Lessons

It's been called "passionate", "engaging", and "intellectually thrilling". Jessica Fields' book Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality has just been released by Rutgers University Press.

Queer Filmmakers of Color

Searching late one night, I was on cyber hunt for “Asian” and “lesbian”. I was led to a montage of images—writhing, flaunting, fucking—women erotic for the camera and the pleasure of men. I wondered. Are these representations of Asian lesbians the only ones out there? And who's creating them?

Slow Times in Mixtlan, Mexico

Slow Times in Mixtlan, Mexico

I didn’t know how tough my senior year of college was going to be. What I thought would be a year of drinking, partying, and fun-filled memories had turned into sleepless nights, article deadlines, and an abundance of stress. I knew I had to do something reinvigorating for Christmas vacation.