TAUNT is founded and led by a Black woman. We’re a local, indie outlet not filtered through the white male gaze. And we can’t wait to show you what that looks like.

After almost 15 years in this industry, what made me think I’d have a plethora of positive experiences to choose from? Was it the time that, even though I was the highest seller, I was …

When I sat down to start this piece, it was 11:11 on day 11 of my hunger strike. This morning, my seven year old asked if the hunger strike was over and whether Kroger was still racist. Before I …

I can still remember the first time I held my baby brother – a tiny, swaddled thing – the moment I became Sis, which is what he still called me in his letters. The drug war was ravaging the …

We’re tired of fighting systems that weren’t built for us in the first place. We’re tired of being ignored, misunderstood, and our power being underestimated – but we continue to show up. …

“You cannot selectively numb emotion. When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness,” this is a quote from Brene Brown’s Ted Talk on vulnerability …

To grapple with gentrification—what it is, what it isn't, what counts, what doesn't, who is complicit, who's resisting, where one can begin to draw lines—is to grapple with a microcosm of our …

Ritual is intentional repetition. Personified incantations. It’s the act of turning our bodies into altars and our actions into offerings. Regardless of who we present ourselves to be, the outcomes …

I set out to curate an issue that had nothing to do with COVID-19. Eight months into this pandemic, we’re all sick and tired of the unknown, the gloom and doom, the polarization of it …

Nearly 25 years later, we’re no longer teens, or youth, or even young adults, just grown-ass people, and we’re watching in horror as disasters unfold daily on our screens. But we also see …