One of the big three iconic magazines in the Black community is ESSENCE.   It has been chronicling the stories of Black women since its 19...

When I stated life as my true self 25 years ago, one of the things I started doing was picking up copies of Sophisticates Black Hair from ...

Some good news to report for transkind. Since 2006, the American Society of Magazine Editors holds an annual Best Cover contest to deter...

Just in time for Black History Month, Laverne Cox continues to blaze trails and make me and other Black trans peeps proud of her. Her la...

'But only when a transgender person poses on the front cover of a fashion magazine and it is no longer necessary to write an editoria...

Was happy to hear that Philippine Rep. Geraldine Roman was recently named to Foreign Policy Magazine's 100 Global Thinkers List . So...

One of the cool things about being trans is that we can and are making history at times. This latest bit of trans history involves the i...

By the time I was in the late 80's I was becoming more cognizant of the fact that I wasn't happy not living as my true self, I was...

For the second consecutive year, our fave transteen Jazz Jennings has been named to the TIME Magazine 30 Most Influential Teens List. It&#...

The Jenner Vanity Fair July cover and photo shoot will be in the issue hitting newsstands on June 6,  and like the Diane Sawyer intervie...

Laverne Cox has broken historic ground on a number of fronts in 2014, but I discovered another historic first that she'd accomplished wh...

To understand the significance of this ESSENCE magazine cover, I have to take you back to the late 80's Tracy Africa Norman was in the...

What would your reaction be if an institution magazine sought public input into who should  make its annual influence list, a person got t...

The fledgling trans style magazine Candy is only four issues old, but publisher Luis Venegas looked to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for inspi...

Guest post from Renee of Womanist Musings , who is all that and four bags of ketchup flavor potato chips . There is no doubt that actress...

"No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to disc...

One of the cool benefits of the recent Johnson Publishing Company deal with Google that allows digitizing of the iconic African-American mag...

Tami had a post in March that discussed her take on whether we should do more as a community to keep our iconic magazines alive. While som...