Sherronda J. Brown

Sherronda J. Brown

Sherronda J. Brown is a Southern-grown essayist, editor, storyteller, and the author of Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture.

10 posts
The prison system is ‘a gendering, killing machine’
Crime, Reform & Abolition

The prison system is a ‘gendering, killing machine’

Abortion doula and abolitionist Ash Williams discusses the links between gender policing and the prison system

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
color photo outdoors of two cardboard poster signs in support of trans rights lean against a speaker
Gender & LGBTQIA+

These US states are protecting gender-affirming care and abortion access

As many states target trans people and bodily autonomy, executive orders, bills, and amendments in other states enshrine gender-affirming care and reproductive rights

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
color photograph of a pride celebration in a grassy park with trees in the background. people sit and stand close together on
Gender & LGBTQIA+

For the love of found family

California’s new law allows care for non-nuclear families, offering legal recognition to family structures that have always existed for queer, Black, and Indigenous people

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
color photograph of a person in a brown coat and a long green and white scarf holding a white sign over their head that reads
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Acephobic conspiracy theories have transphobic and fascist roots

As asexuality receives more recognition as a queer identity, it also becomes a bigger target for fearmongering and fascist conspiracy theories

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5 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
Gender-affirming care bans are cruel and hypocritical violations of children’s autonomy
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Gender-affirming care bans are cruel and hypocritical violations of children’s autonomy

Bans on gender-affirming care and forced medical interventions for intersex children are driven by the same Christofascist aim to eliminate queerness

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5 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
Home portrait of a young Black nonbinary person. They are wearing a pink colored jacket and looking at the mirror in the bedr
Gender & LGBTQIA+

How PCOS can create gender euphoria for trans and nonbinary people

While most treatment for PCOS symptoms focuses on forcing bodies back into the gender binary, some patients and providers are forging a different path

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
a Black woman in a light brown jacket and puffy black vest walks by the window of an adult video store. through the window a
Gender & LGBTQIA+

There’s no such thing as a ‘right to sex’

The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have to have it—is harmful to us all

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
three queer BIPOC sit on a dark red sofa pushed against a wall. Two more queer BIPOC sit at their feet and lean against the l
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Queer, non-nuclear, non-conformist: Family is what we make it

Reimagining family means challenging how white colonial ideals have been used to define family throughout the colonized world

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9 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
How PCOS patients are affected by the fall of Roe
Gender & LGBTQIA+

How PCOS patients are affected by the fall of Roe

PCOS patients face more barriers within a medical institution that already does not provide adequate reproductive care

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown
court house in front of a yellow background with illustrated fists signaling protest
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Criminalizing abortion isn’t just about controlling ‘women’s bodies’

In the fight for reproductive justice, it’s time to recognize that white supremacy and capitalism are just as much our antagonists as patriarchy

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7 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown

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