Vanessa Taylor
Vanessa Taylor is based in Philadelphia. She has work in outlets such as Teen Vogue, Racked, and Catapult Magazine. Follow her across social media @bacontribe.
Claps from Vanessa Taylor
You can’t have my sons.
On some level, boys are a total mystery to me. Culture informs so much of who they are. Their exuberance can be read as aggression because it’s so often loud and physical, with lots of yelling and jumping and general wildness. None of these are exclusive domains of masculinity; girls…
Wow. I have to admit, I did not know anything about the early history of Islam in the United States. Grew up in a small town in the far northwest and had no idea that there were black Muslims in the U.S. from the time of slavery. I apologize for not seeing the battle going on before the advent of this administration. I hope those of us sunk in our…