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if the butch woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, it’s not a community space. if the brown woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, its not a community space. if the trans woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, it’s not a community space. and if the brown butch trans woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith? it’s about as good as an insurance company with a pride sticker smacked on top of the logo
saying this for my non black queer followers but: black queer folk have always existed, we've always been around, especially when it came to defending and fighting for our communities rights.
it sucks to see us never included in queer centered art or post, but we exist.
reminder that indigenous queer folks do not need to fit your colonial definitions or conceptions of queerness in order to be valid, worthy, and spectacular.
if your concept of what a lesbian looks like requires that all lesbians have shaved or short hair, then you’re excluding ntv lesbians who honour our ancestors by growing our hair long.
i’m no less of a butch for having hair that goes down to my tailbone. i’m no less of a butch for wearing my hair in a braid. i’m also still butch when i wear beaded earrings, a ribbon skirt, and moccasins.
if your idea of queerness is tied to whiteness, that’s just a shame. indigeneity and queerness go together like inhaling and exhaling. one cannot exist without the other.
i actually think its awesome that queer people of color have their own queer culture and style and such and we should celebrate the uniqueness of that instead of pretending gay culture is just white gay culture.
very frustrating being a transgender/queer person of color in online queer communities whenever they're so white centric. you look up "transmasc haircuts" and it is mostly all white people with straight hair. "trans girl name ideas" and it is all names with european or [white]american origin. you are expected to remove your connection to religion[99% of the time referring to Christianity] after discovering queerness, which... Is alienating to people who practice native faiths, hinduism, islam, etc. calling black femmes aggro masc because they do not fit the white idea of femininity. passing tips often pertain to white people. the idea of nonbinary being thin white person with short hair excludes so many people. white people in online queer communities use their status of being gay or transgender to ignore the fact that they are capable of being racist just because "they're oppressed too." it is so irritating
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just a fucking reminder that trans women of color were at the frontlines of the LGBTQ+ movement, that they fought just as hard, if not harder, for everyone to have their rights, that they were and still are murdered in cold blood for being themselves.
just a fucking reminder to not erase them from history, to not pretend like being trans and gnc is just a white people thing, to remember our sisters and mothers of the movement, because we would not be here without them, would not have come this far without them, would be lost without them.
Just a fucking reminder.
this pride month, please don't forget to include arab LGBT people in your activism, attention, and celebration, especially palestinian LGBT people, who are frequently blackmailed by israeli occupation forces into being spies and informants. having your identity leveraged against you and being forced to sell out your own people in order to remain safe is a terrible and damaging experience, and we must stay aware of it and speak out against it.
Passing: Profiling the Lives of Young Trans Men of Color (2015).
[ID: Excerpts from interviews with two trans men. The first, Lucah Rosenberg Lee, has a shaved head and a trimmed beard. The second, Victor Thomas, has curly black hair and a trimmed beard, and is heavier-set.
Lucah, talking about gender dysphoria prior to transitioning, says, “I was in a heterosexual relationship. I was female. I would question this all the time. Am I attracted to these men, or do I just want to be them? That was a big turning point in my own self-discovery.”
Victor, talking about the transphobia he’s endured as a trans man of color, says, “You’re subjected to something because they don’t understand you. And you have to watch the way you react, because you’re a man now. People take you as a threat.”
Lucah, in another scene, discusses feeling erased as a trans man, and racism in trans communities. He says, “Being so invisible within the LGBT community can actually feel so isolating. When people don’t know my history as a trans person, I feel sometimes that I’m viewed as more of an enemy.” END ID.]
Trans men of color deserved to be loved and appreciated, and made safe. Trans men deserve access to our own spaces, no matter how masculine and cis-passing we are. We deserve credit and recognition for the contributions that we have made to trans history, most of which are erased nowadays.
Being a man is not dangerous or wrong. Being masculine is not dangerous or wrong. Being a black man is not dangerous or wrong.
Please support trans men of color.
Please support trans men.
Please support men.
Men belong in trans spaces. Men of color belong in LGBT+ spaces. Straight trans men belong at Pride. Men do not have to be feminine to be queer.
After I came out as bi a few years ago, a fellow Chinese American asked me, “so does this mean you want to be like white people?”
As QTBIPOC, a form of LGBTQA-phobia we often face is from our own ethnic groups, who believe that queer = foreign.
Yet when we delve into our histories, we see that nothing could be further than the truth. In many of our cultures, before Western influence, our queerness was ANCIENT. ✨
can we move past “should ace people be involved in lgbt spaces” and start examining how asexuality impacts all of us whether we identify as it or not. it particularly impacts people of color in a way that is distinct per racial group. i mean, trudy has written about this, danyi has written about this, vesper discusses this, hana examines this in her performance art, michael talks about this and created a whole online publication for other aces, primarily aces of color, to share their own experiences in their own way, mod fae over at fyeahasexual discusses this as well.
i think it’s important that we start shifting from “do aces belong” to “how does asexuality help me reclaim the agency white supremacy and western imperialism took from me?” by hearing out ace voices of color. and this doesnt have to end at BIPoC who are affected by western imperialism and white supremacy. we can move on towards people under the bracket of other issues in the world
"The Queer BIPOC community of Rio de Janeiro" Silas, Ina and Mai By Rody Oliveira
So I did a thing for the black folks that fall under the trans umbrella. I don't see a lot of y'all, but y'all are valid.
Just dropping some information about the creation of the Philly pride flag here, since discourse is everywhere but facts are not.
The links contain information about the history of racism in Philadelphia's bars and communities. The More Color More Pride campaign was created as a direct result of this racism, as one part of an attempt to tackle the issue.
The More Color More Pride campaign was developed by Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs and a local ad agency. The Office of LGBT Affairs was, at the time, lead by Amber Hikes, a black queer woman. You can read more about some of the other work she did for queer and trans people in that role at the link; she is now the Chief Equity and Inclusion officer for the ACLU.
