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Kimberly Kaye

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Louisiana
As seen in: Observer, LGBTQ Nation, Queerty, OffBeat Magazine, The Food Section
Covers:  Arts & Culture, Health, Wellness, Nutrition Science, Food History, Disability Issues, Mental Health, Women's Health, Queer Issues, Queer History, New Orleans, Martial Arts, Grappling

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Kimberly is a journalist, researcher, script writer, and producer who's been covering niche beats since before Twitter was founded. They began as a junior reporter at arts and culture outlets like Broadway.com and The New York Observer, working up the ladder to Associate Producer, Senior Correspondent, and eventually Creative Director of Editorial. Kimberly transitioned to freelance work in 2013 in an effort to dig more deeply into reporting on disability, health care, medical apartheid, and qu…

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Meet the transgender heartthrob of the Wild West

Meet the transgender heartthrob of the Wild West

He was a skilled barroom brawler, trick shooter, and dashing womanizer known for having multiple mares in his…

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Gluten through the generations

Gluten through the generations

The Thanksgiving table looks curated by Edna Lewis herself, a mandala of serving vessels heaped with food and…

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The original queer veterans: This ancient gay army was an elite & unstoppable force

The original queer veterans: This ancient gay army was an elite & unstoppable force

The Sacred Band of Thebes was ancient Greece's savage gift to anyone still facing opponents of gays in the mi…

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How to Not Get Grifted by Toxic Alpha Male Coaches

How to Not Get Grifted by Toxic Alpha Male Coaches

Lions don't walk around announcing they're lions. Neither do sharks. Or bears. Or wolves. Despite this, over …

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It's a good time to be Joy Clark

It's a good time to be Joy Clark

The lifelong West Bank native is having something of a "moment," if such a thing exists in indie-Americana an…

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Everything You Need to Know to Understand SIBO and Gut Dysbiosis Better

Everything You Need to Know to Understand SIBO and Gut Dysbiosis Better

Now that COVID-19 has successfully ravaged a few hundred MILLION bellies—leaving adults and children with lin…

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Motherhood as mutual aid: How drag mothers made queer family building a vital form of resistance

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By Kimberly Kaye
| LGBTQ Nation
The type of drag motherhood showcased internationally by Ru Paul’s Drag Race is the most satisfying of serotonin rushes. What sane queer has not been even briefly moved by gorgeously lit queens weeping tears down precisely Botoxed faces while raising grateful, manicured hands to “mother”? Given this moment in history, however, it’s critical to clock drag motherhood as both revolutionary and, contrary to what we see on slickly produced TV series, only occasionally glamorous.
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Motherhood as mutual aid: How drag mothers made queer family building a vital form of resistance

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By Kimberly Kaye
| Queerty
The type of drag motherhood showcased internationally by Ru Paul’s Drag Race is the most satisfying of serotonin rushes. What sane queer has not been even briefly moved by gorgeously lit queens weeping tears down precisely Botoxed faces while raising grateful, manicured hands to “mother”? Given this moment in history, however, it’s critical to clock drag motherhood as both revolutionary and, contrary to what we see on slickly produced TV series, only occasionally glamorous.
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Women-only enclaves have existed for centuries but their sapphic histories have long been buried

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By Kimberly Kaye
| LGBTQ Nation
Rising queer icon Doechii set the internet aflame this month when she said she considers straight men a “red flag,” triggering a tsunami of posts from aggressively aggrieved cis men proving her point. Women of all sexualities who witnessed the viral moment resoundingly echoed, “same, girl.” Following the similarly incendiary Man or Bear trend, the moment spotlit how the feminine urge to withdraw from men entirely is, regrettably, timeless.
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