Category Archive for "Health & Wellness"

Kelli Dunham

Kelli Dunham, “Everyone’s Favorite Ex-Nun, Genderqueer, Nerd Comic”

  An ex-nun, genderqueer, nerd comic walk into a bar — and…wait for it…it’s Kelli Dunham! Kelli performs “progressive comedy” in bars, among other places, and even landed on the Campus Pride HOTLIST for being a popular performer on the…

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Get Tested Get the facts

STD/STI Awareness is Hott: Get the Facts, Get Tested

You deserve an empowered, electric, educated sex life. Yeah, educated. April is STD Awareness Month, and it might be time to brush up on your STD/STI IQ. When the subject turns to sexually transmitted diseases and infections, many of us…

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Dr Scout AFA Deadline

Dr. Scout On LGBTQ Health Equity and the Affordable Care Act

Dr. Scout is the director of the Network for LGBT Health Equity at CenterLink and an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He is a frequent public speaker and cultural competency trainer who specializes in…

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HIV/AIDS Activist Mike Tikili Acts Up (Part 2)

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,…

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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,…

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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,…

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Three Steps to Self-Love

  “The greatest love of all    Is easy to achieve    Learning to love yourself    It is the greatest love of all.” — Whitney Houston, “Greatest Love of All” Ok, ok, I know what you’re probably thinking. “Self-love” is…

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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…

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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…

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Self-Care Everywhere

So you’re heading out for the day. Got wallet? Check. Got keys? Check. What about your self-care kit? Let me explain: a self-care kit is a portable self-nurturing experience for the superhero on-the-go. Even if you’re not superhero-identified, I suspect…

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