My Glimpse Into the Wonderful World of Candida Royalle
A young writer reflects on her funny, enlightening, titillating, and, tragically, all-too-brief friendship with the late feminist porn pioneer, who died this week of ovarian cancer.
Jesse Sposato
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Jesse Sposato is an essayist and freelance writer. She currently writes Urban Campers, a series for New York Magazine’s Bedford + Bowery, and is working on a grief memoir. Her writing has appeared in Capital New York, BULLETT, VICE, xoJane, Wilder Quarterly, Biographile, and the New York Press, among others. Additionally, she co-founded Sadie Magazine, an online counterculture publication, which she edited for over six years.
Are Black Women Allowed to Claim Self-Defense?
In 2006, seven Black lesbian teens fended off a white male assailant—and four got charged with attempted murder. New doc ‘Out in the Night’ recounts a story of injustice we know too well.