The Glamour Issue
Not Your Fetish: Trans Erotica Writers Redefine Desirability
Trans people have produced erotica long before 2017 and will continue to do so long after.
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Steven Canals Wants TV to Go Beyond Striking a Pose
The ballroom is truly about being a safety net and being a family for young LGBTQ kids who were being discarded by their families, government, and churches.
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Glamour Shots: #HospitalGlam Pulls Back the Curtain on Disability and Beauty
Karolyn Gehrig is referring to both healthcare’s status as a luxury good, and the way traditional poses of illness are used to sell health and beauty back to us.
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Black Barbie in Bulgari: Revisiting Hip Hop’s Ghetto Fabulous Era
Though ghetto fabulousness doesn’t quite look the same as it did in 1997, its influence lives on.
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Sunday Best: The Beauty and Timelessness of Black Adornment Rituals
Fashion rituals are a set of acts, an unwritten code of survival, that are passed down from generation to generation.
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Lip Service: Lucy Parsons’s Revolution Was Beautified
Desirability politics, social capital, and lookism remain present in even the most conscious radical spaces.
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We’re Here, We’re Sheer: Cora Harrington’s Lingerie Revolution
The power of lingerie, and of intimates, is that you can express yourself underneath what you have to wear.
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When Richard Met Donyale: The Duo That Challenged High Fashion’s White Lens
When Donyale Luna and Richard Avedon began their collaboration, glamour was still a race-evasive code for whiteness.
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Retrofitted: The Community Preserving Vintage Style, Not Vintage Values
For many members of the vintage community, living in the actual past would mean living in a time of increased oppression.
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Numa Perrier Brings Humanity to the Cam-Girl Experience
Numa Perrier’s story of sexual awakening and self-realization is gritty and realistic without ever turning its Black women characters into victims.
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