Mike Tikili is a community organizer of Nigerian descent who was raised in Brooklyn and Guyana. He became involved with Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) through his work with QUEEROCRACY, a grassroots activism group that focuses on global health,…
Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, Sharonmelissa Roberson (aka “Chef Fresh”) started remixing southern culinary traditions as soon as she could walk and hold a whisk. Fresh is a fat black poly dyke who now calls Chicago home,…
Monica Roberts, aka the TransGriot (pronounced “gree-oh”), is a native Houstonian and a trailblazing award-winning trans community leader. She has lobbied since 1998 for trans human rights protections at the federal, state, and local levels in Kentucky and Texas. In…
When One+Love went in search of a male couple of color to feature for Valentine’s Day, we were told to look no further than Deondray and Quincy Gossfield (formerly known as Deondray Gossett and Quincy LeNear). Often billed as a…
Maisha Najuma Aza is a radical, magical, sex-positive, body-positive, black, fat, queer, femme, healer, writer, and priestess in Atlanta, with a Master’s in social work from the Smith College School for Social Work. She provides sacred sex and body love…
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ bio immediately initiates you into her mysteries. So it begins: “Alexis is a self-identified queer black trouble maker, love evangelist and space cadet. So, that means time and space manifest in prolific and polyphonic ways.” And it’s…
Natalya Brusilovsky loves to cook to music. And as you’ll see below, she recommends dancing as a way to enliven a cook’s mood–and her dish! (Call it kinetic spice.) And this community-based theatre artist and pop-up restaurateur knows how parlay…
The fight for bisexual visibility in the U.S. must invariably include Dr. Loraine Hutchins’ name in blazing lights. Trailblazer that she is, she co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Bi Any Other Name: Bi People Speak Out. More recently she co-edited Sexuality,…
Kaila Adia Story, PhD, is an associate professor of Pan-African Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, appropriately enough! Her research examines the intersections…
Urooj Arshad is the Associate Director of International Youth Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth. In this role she supports youth-driven organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean in empowering young people to be strong advocates for their…
HIV/AIDS Activist Mike Tikili Acts Up (Part 1)
Mike Tikili is a community organizer of Nigerian descent who was raised in Brooklyn and Guyana. He became involved with Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) through his work with QUEEROCRACY, a grassroots activism group that focuses on global health,…
Chef Fresh Serves Up Fresh Insights on Food, Fat, and Fun
Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, Sharonmelissa Roberson (aka “Chef Fresh”) started remixing southern culinary traditions as soon as she could walk and hold a whisk. Fresh is a fat black poly dyke who now calls Chicago home,…
TransGriot Monica Roberts On Black Trans History
Monica Roberts, aka the TransGriot (pronounced “gree-oh”), is a native Houstonian and a trailblazing award-winning trans community leader. She has lobbied since 1998 for trans human rights protections at the federal, state, and local levels in Kentucky and Texas. In…
“Meet the Gossfields”: Power Couple Riffs on Love, Art, & Getting Married At the Grammys
When One+Love went in search of a male couple of color to feature for Valentine’s Day, we were told to look no further than Deondray and Quincy Gossfield (formerly known as Deondray Gossett and Quincy LeNear). Often billed as a…
Maisha Najuma Aza On Sex, Sensuality, and Self-Connection
Maisha Najuma Aza is a radical, magical, sex-positive, body-positive, black, fat, queer, femme, healer, writer, and priestess in Atlanta, with a Master’s in social work from the Smith College School for Social Work. She provides sacred sex and body love…
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Space Cadet From A Black Feminist Future
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ bio immediately initiates you into her mysteries. So it begins: “Alexis is a self-identified queer black trouble maker, love evangelist and space cadet. So, that means time and space manifest in prolific and polyphonic ways.” And it’s…
Natalya Brusilovsky, Culinary Choreographer
Natalya Brusilovsky loves to cook to music. And as you’ll see below, she recommends dancing as a way to enliven a cook’s mood–and her dish! (Call it kinetic spice.) And this community-based theatre artist and pop-up restaurateur knows how parlay…
Dr. Loraine Hutchins, Bi Trailblazer
The fight for bisexual visibility in the U.S. must invariably include Dr. Loraine Hutchins’ name in blazing lights. Trailblazer that she is, she co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Bi Any Other Name: Bi People Speak Out. More recently she co-edited Sexuality,…
Kaila A. Story, Black Queer Fierce Intellectual
Kaila Adia Story, PhD, is an associate professor of Pan-African Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, appropriately enough! Her research examines the intersections…
Introducing Urooj Arshad, International Youth Health and Rights Advocate
Urooj Arshad is the Associate Director of International Youth Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth. In this role she supports youth-driven organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean in empowering young people to be strong advocates for their…