Vanessa Taylor is a writer based in Philadelphia, although Minnesota will always be home. Through articles, essays, fiction, and more, she focuses on Black Muslim womanhood and technology..
Conservatives love to paint adoption as the solution to abortion. Adoptees aren’t buying it.
Privatized adoption is the “commodification of children,” one adoptee told Mic.
Ever since the Supreme Court made abortion access a federally protected right in 1973, conservatives have attacked Roe v. Wade. Narrative control has been key to anti-abortion movements, including the re-defining of its supporters as “pro-life.” Anti-abortion activists paint themselves as “saving” kids, and they frame privatized adoption as abortion’s ethical alternative. But as Roe teeters on the edge, adoptees a...
This is why we’re all disgusted with the police
In 48 hours, law enforcement’s story about what happened in Uvalde has unraveled. What’s left is a mess of incompetence and horror.
Meet the fashion designer turned muay Thai trainer teaching her community to fight back
When the pandemic hit and anti-Asian attacks spiked, Jess Ng was uniquely positioned to help protect her fellow New Yorkers.
5 people of color on the Supreme Court's leaked abortion ruling
"IT’S TIME TO PUT DOWN THE PUSSY HATS AND PICK UP THE PITCHFORKS."
“A double-edged sword”: 4 women of color on Elon’s Twitter takeover
"Nothing beats getting to witness internet history by just showing up."
Inside the rise of human composting and other green burial practices
The quest to save the planet doesn’t end when your life does.
This organization is bringing back the “environmental spirit of Islam”
One meal laid the foundation for Green Muslims, an organization committed to seeing “Muslims living in the environmental spirit of Islam, striving towards connection with nature and environmental stewardship.”
Ukrainians are using TikTok to directly call out Putin
"Putin, we will never forgive you for this.”
How Maya Cade turned a Twitter thread into a sprawling archive for Black films
The Black Film Archive now hosts over 200 films, all with "something significant to say about the Black experience."
Hate crime convictions will never be enough to address murders like Ahmaud Arbery’s
Arbery’s murderers were convicted on federal hate crime charges. Why does it feel so hollow?
A new archive is finally giving everyday Black women the reverence they deserve
A daughter’s quest to honor her mother’s legacy brought her to the question: “Whose account of the past counts?”
Jan. 6 could not have happened without Big Tech
If you want to prevent another white supremacist insurrection, you have to go after Facebook. And Google. And Amazon.
These young activists are battling all-knowing tech
The teenagers of Encode Justice are sick of being preyed upon by supposedly helpful algorithms.
These leftist podcasters want to make MMA a more progressive fight club
The Trump presidency turned MMA into a chud-filled hub of racism and sexism. Southpaw wants to offer an alternative.
Who gets the privilege of being paranoid?
For a Black Muslim woman in America, surveillance is no conspiracy