Although we don’t all necessarily have to be bedfellows, talking honestly with other women (black, white, straight and gay alike) about our deepest uncertainties about self is pretty radical, writes Kimberley McLeod in a piece for xoJane. Loving another woman is a revolutionary act. I’d heard it before but didn’t quite grasp the gravity of…

Clutch magazine‘s Kimberley McLeod chronicles a revelation about her sexual orientation and an evolving relationship with her mother. My relationship with my mother has evolved over the last few decades. We have grown close to grow apart again to become best friends. As our relationship has morphed and matured, so have her views on me…

(Special to The Root) — On Aug. 14 Tiffany Gooden, 19, a black transgender woman, was stabbed to death on Chicago’s West Side. She was found dead just three blocks from where Paige Clay, 23, another black transgender woman, was discovered in April with a gunshot wound to the head. Just four days after Gooden’s…

Ebony‘s Kimberley McLeod tries to understand why the black legal association voted against LGBT-inclusive language. “As a Black bisexual woman, I am deeply disappointed by the National Bar Association’s decision not to include ‘disability, sexual orientation or gender identity’ as part of the existing nondiscrimination language in its constitution,” states Stacey Long, attorney and LGBT…