Tracey Anne Duncan

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Tracey Anne Duncan

Here on the eve of Pride 2025, it’s time to brush up on our queer pop culture history. Pride means copious glitter and unbridled joy. But it also means sly subversion and, when necessary, shade. Some of the most iconic queer moments on screen happen when a queer character dresses down someone who dared bring hate to the party — or simply shows up visibly and gloriously queer when they aren’t “supposed” to.

1 month ago | huffpost.com | Tracey Anne Duncan

Cybersecurity is often framed as a corporate or technical concern but it’s becoming evident that it’s a social justice issue too. Queer and trans communities are disproportionately targeted by cyberthreats. The recent ransomware attacks that had an inordinate effect on disabled people. And disinformation, artificial intelligence policing, and mass surveillance continue to criminalize Black, brown, LGBTQ+, and disabled communities.

1 month ago | huffpost.com | Tracey Anne Duncan

Horror movies used to treat queerness as a secret to be buried or a perversion to be punished. But now, with a new generation of queer creators in charge, we’re holding the knife — or the axe, if you prefer. Queer horror centers queer bodies, queer friendships, queer rage. From Don Mancini’s ” Chucky,” a gay teen love story playing out amid murderous doll mayhem, to Alice Maio Mackay’s ”T Blockers,” in which parasitic masculinity meets trans resistance, a new genre is blooming.

1 month ago | huffpost.com | Tracey Anne Duncan

As Donald Trump resuscitates oil drilling projects on Indigenous land here in the United States, a new generation of Indigenous artists is protesting — not with homemade signs, but with grinding guitars, ancestral wisdom and unrelenting soundscapes. One of them is Takiaya Reed, a Black, Cherokee, Two-Spirit musician, and one half of Divide and Dissolve, a doom metal band known for its slow, heavy, emotionally immersive sound that doesn’t need lyrics to make itself heard.

2 months ago | yogajournal.com | Tracey Anne Duncan

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. If you’ve tried meditation, you know it can be challenging. If you haven’t tried meditation, there’s probably a reason for that. Learning how to meditate can seem intimidating, boring, even as if it’s an ultra-spiritual superpower granted only to a select few.