Written By Danielle Stevens For those of us living while Black in the United States, particularly those of us who are also queer, trans, women, working class, immigrant, and/or houseless, the regularity with which we are met with dehumanization is obscene. When humanity becomes a luxury exclusively accessible to those whose skin tones are closer…

I saw these beautiful multicolored leaves this week as I was leaving a Queer Woman of Color intentional breathing space that I was recently involved in forming. This was the first collective meditation space I had been in several months after relocating from sunny California to (really) chilly Ohio . As we held this tender…

Far too often, we as women and femmes and queer and trans people of color who experience truth through the sacredness of our intuition, are told we are too sensitive, too fragile to be acknowledged; the ways we show up in our softness and gentleness delegitimized, seen as too weak for the hardness that capitalism has…

Our blog title is grounded in and modeled after the anthology: This Bridge Called My Back, in honor of the women and femme ancestors and healers of color whose narratives, wisdoms, and truths serve as blueprints for our liberation and movements towards freedom; Who breathe resistance and survival through their bones, allowing us to live…

This Bridge Called Our Health: Re[imagine]ing our Minds, Bodies, & Spirits is a queer and trans-inclusive intentional space for writings, testimonies, and narratives by and for women and femmes of color of all genders about the intersectional experiences that shape and impact our health. An Intergenerational, Body & Sex-Positive Health Blog, we are committed to…