Happy Queer Women’s History Month!
Happy Queer Women’s History Month! Yes, March is officially Women’s History Month. But here at One+Love, we’re putting the spotlight on the fierceness and fabulosity of queer women! The month’s celebration kicked off with a feature on Chef Fresh, who…
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…
Happy Birthday, Audre Lorde!
On this anniversary of Audre Lorde’s birth, we celebrate Black History Month and all of our black LGBT forebears. She called herself “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” — and so many of her words continue to testify that intersectionality, like…
Fall in LOVE With Your Style
Your style is your best accessory; why not show it some daily love? We know, we know–finding the perfect outfit to strut in can be ridiculously stressful and downright off-putting. From the stores that don’t have (safe) fitting rooms…to the…
A Love Letter To My Queer Family
Dear A, As you fight for your life in a CCU hospital room too many miles from me, I think of you on this Valentine’s Day. Not because we are romantically involved, although we have been. Like so many other…
Party! Protest! Love! Dance! Gayme!
NYC V-day Events! Valentine’s Day is tomorrow! What are your plans for the next few days? Are you going to organize with your community and rally in the streets or do you want to dance the night away? Perhaps you’re…
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…
“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…
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