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Y'all;
I am broke and disabled. I'm an artist myself.
Liking/Reblogging your art is not an invitation to solicit to me, and it will get you blocked. I reblog to help other artists get exposure bc I know I can't afford a commission.
I'm happy to help promote you until you come into my DMs uninvited to ask me to spend money i don't have.
Lowkey in the 2spirit torment nexus like. I don't want to have to cut off my hair to Be More Androgynous. I might just have to kill all white people instead
Gender is a social construct -> my dysphoria is socially informed, I only feel dysphoria when I'm 1. Not dissociating and 2. Interacting with other people -> I do not intrinsically see my long hair as gendered, but I know other people, most everyone on the street, cannot see me -> this gets increasingly frustrating while I actually *try* to present more androgynously rather than simply Plausibly Deniable -> am I going to have to explain my intergenerational trauma re: forcibly cutting Native people's hair to the 80% white website
The force/coercion to conform to white standards of gender presentation is an aspect of genocide & I just feel like a lot of you don't Get that. Like this isn't even strictly a trans problem this is just an ndn problem. I've been feeling increasingly that my gender is just that I'm an ndn at this point & this is why I've been leaning into the 2spirit label more than genderfluid while both equally apply to me. "Genderfluid" is my english gender it's what I call the same fucking thing* in white people gender framework terminology
*2spirit identity is an extremely broad umbrella term I'm not speaking for everyone
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/05/08/brother-rep-justin-pearson-among-protesters-reportedly-detained-during-special-session-tn-capitol/
it is so fucking exhausting and annoying how white women, including and maybe even especially in progressive and leftist spaces, continue acting like they are not themselves still beneficiaries of tremendous privilege simply because they endure sexist or misogynistic discrimination. being a woman does not excuse the fact that you are still white and you still reap the benefits of being white! you do not get to "but sexism!" your way out of being held accountable for saying and doing racist shit!
never forget that WHITE WOMEN owned slaves, it was WHITE WOMEN who gatekept the womens' suffrage movement, WHITE WOMEN who not only participated in but also organized segregationist protests to harass and threaten children of color like ruby bridges, WHITE WOMEN who weaponize both their whiteness and their womanhood to threaten the safety and lives of black and brown people, WHITE WOMEN who had their own sect of the KKK, WHITE WOMEN who lied about black and brown men to get them murdered by lynch mobs, WHITE WOMEN who had significant influence in the eugenics movement, WHITE WOMEN who are just as complicit in settler-colonialist violence as white men are, WHITE WOMEN who receive preferential treatment to black and brown people of all genders seeking jobs and housing and education, and WHITE WOMEN who proclaim themselves to be the arbiters of feminism while forever ignoring the struggles of black and brown women and talk about white womanhood as if it is universal.
so forgive me but i am sick and tired of hearing about how WHITE WOMEN have it bad when WHITE WOMEN withhold their allyship until they can be certain that supporting the liberation of oppressed groups will benefit them in some way and are just as guilty of doing this as white men are.
and it's WHITE WOMEN who are going to see this post and ignore it like they always do, that is, if they don't add unnecessary paragraphs of "well, actually" full of logical fallacies and outright misunderstandings of how the fucking world works...
>Predominately Black led piece of media becomes popular.
>Among the characters there are one or two White characters with minor and/or distinctly antagonistic roles.
>White tumblr users focus entirely on said White characters.
>Tag of Black led piece of media is filled with posts about White character(s)
>Rinse. Repeat.
I think the most charitable interpretation of this is that people connect to characters that are like them, and that the experiences of Blackness is so alien to them that the White characters are the only ones that White people connect with. Combine that with the fact that Tumblr is so White as a platform, and you get this issue.
It’s still bad and racist, but it is understandable. People should still do better though. (I’m not trying to justify, I’m trying to come up with an explanation)
Please don’t make me say it.
We don't need you coming up with an charitable interpretation.
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Or maybe the reason people like the queer character over the two related het characters is because of the queerness.
If Smoke and Stack weren't related and Mary and Annie were in a relationship then things would be so much different.
But there are so little black queer fantasy movies or shows that no one blinks an eye.
Where are the black gay vampire hunters? The enemies to lover black lesbian werewolf story?
Sinners 's problem isn't a racism one. It is a queer one.
This is such a bad addition. You don't get to call a movie bad, "having a problem", or "generic het slop" because it wasn't about what you wanted it to be about. That's not how creation works. "Generic het slop" please go be racist on someone else's posts 😭 And Remmick isn't queer. He's just a white man doing what white men- especially straight white men- have historically done.
If you think Remmick's behavior in Sinners towards Sammie was in any way queer or motivated by sexual attraction, boy do I got a book you'll love!!
Join your fellow centuries of believers as you learn the racist history of white people (yes, the women too!) taking advantage of their enslaved Black victims' bodies in any way they saw fit, because they had a psychosexual obsession with the power they held over them! I'm sorry, I mean the "enemies to lovers obsessed vampire trope"!
theres this thing a lot of white people do (and i myself have been guilty of) where we wanna be in on the jokes about white people, but also wanna preemptively excuse our mistakes, so we try to be cute about it like "omg im soooo white and stupid. white people suck and i am the worst one. i was raised in the suburbs ive never seen a melanin in my life. im so clueless let me tell you all the crazy things i used to believe-" and its like stop stop stop it nobody wants to hear this. its not cute its cringe. please. kill the instinct to turn your ignorance into an endearing character flaw. it doesnt work that way.
"I've never heard of Megan Thee Stallion before" if you've ever said any variation of "Hot Girl Summer" then congratulations you've benefitted from an internationally popular Black female artist's creativity
"I thought those were just memes" yeah y'all tend to do this to a lot of things Black people create and/or do, while conveniently cutting them out in the process. You should really consider how easy it was and why that is. I do have a suggestion.
Everyone say thank you black women
THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN
LOUDER!!
Noooooooooo and now Megan has been mistreated once more 😭 oh this Afro April is a BUST it's Black Girl Magic May now. I need all of the love towards Black women (yes that includes Black trans women) to be front and center I canNOT oh my GOD is NO ONE valuable 😭
Tomorrow starts Black Girl Magic May!
"Why do y'all get your own month" because I'm exhausted of Black women and girls getting treated like hot dog water bruh 😭
We've been talking about increasing Black femicide and misogynoir all year, (and that's just in the US alone. Consider the ongoing genocide in Sudan.) It's sickening, how little value our lives, our feelings, and our safety hold at the intersection of race and gender. How much our pain and humiliation sparks a cruel joy from the world that thinks we should have just shut up. We see it every time, and no one is safe. Not even the most popular lady rap artist in the world, and most certainly not the scores of unseen Black trans women who don't even get put on the lists of stolen souls bc of biased, bigoted reporting.
It would be nice if y'all would actually be kind and do right by the Black women and girls around you 😭 maybe take the time to actually make us feel safe around you, because we can tell when you aren't.
Y'all can do whatever y'all want on your pages, but here? #Black Girl Magic May.
TODAY!! AND ALL MONTH!!
Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested
Hello,
I was thinking about a conversation I had recently, and I would like to know whether you think I spoke appropriately in the situation.
One day I was listening to this white boy talk. I wasn't saying anything, I just allowed him to talk my ear off. After talking for a while, suddenly his voice gets low, and his speech pattern goes from ramble to pointed "I am going to tell you one of my fears because you are the only Black lady I trust not to attack me, and listen first.". Something like that. I'm not joking, this was said with a straight face, and full honesty. I was aware at the time that this boy was not very socially...inclined, so I didn't visibly react.
Anyway, he continues to explain this fear to me, after I give him a nod to proceed. And I did as he trusted I would do, I listened.
He talked about how 'people' (referring to POC), trying to change the racial hierarchy scares him, and why he fears 'progressive' thinking and the push for 'diversity' in positions of power. And his final point was that he feared that straight white CIS men would be "pushed to the bottom" of the racial hierarchy. Something like that.
He wanted to know if I thought that was a justified fear.
I waited for beat, so I could figure out how I was going to articulate what I wanted to say to him, so I wouldn't make him feel stupid. I honestly wanted him to continue to trust me, so he wouldn't go and do this with someone else, and get beat up by some other, shorter tempered Black person. He was probably regurgitating whatever his parents had been telling him his whole life.
Finally I said "You may not understand this, but only white people think that way. Only white people think there has to be a group at the bottom and a group at the top. Only white people believe the only way to live is to have someone beneath you. But nobody is trying to find a new scapegoat. A different group of people to step on. No one is trying to swap the dynamics of white and Black people. All 'we' are trying to do is achieve equality. White people just struggle so much with adopting this one simple thing. White people can't even imagine it, they can't even fathom. It is not a part of the equation."
And I cringed at my own words. I could not tell you why.
For a while there was silence. The boy muttered some things to me I can't remember, and thanked me for listening.
But now I can't stop thinking about it. I'm worried whether or not I said the right thing. Because he trusted me. Even though I know it is impossible to speak for the entire Black diaspora, as one Black person. And I almost wanna say I feel bad?
But, what do you think?
Thanks for your time.
YOU DID PERFECTLY FINE.
For this cis white man- idc how socially awkward he is- to take his feelings and reveal them to you safely implies he believed y'all had that sort of open and vulnerable relationship. Which meant he needed to be equally vulnerable and open to hearing an honest reply from the very demographic that suffers some of the most at his Being At The Top Of The Hierarchy. Essentially, once he treated you like Confession, he was in position to hear the Priest's Answer. If he didn't want an honest answer- and you gave him a very well thought out one- he shouldn't have asked.
Because admitting to that fear is admitting that he is a afraid of losing the benefits that come with being racist, benefits from white supremacy. I appreciate that he was honest! HOWEVER, while you can be kind in reply, there is no real, self-respecting answer one could give that didn't involve replying that his fears are based in racism. That his fear is insignificant and not justified at all in comparison to the violence and damage done to those whose necks are stepped on to maintain that hierarchy.
So, tldr: I'm sure he's a nice guy but fuck his feelings on this one. You have nothing to be sorry about. You were more than gracious and direct. He wanted an answer, he got it, now he must live with it. Hurt white feelings ≠ continued oppression.
Important PSA if you have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer - it installs Microsoft Copilot, even if you've removed it in the past
I went to right-click a file today and was met with an "Ask Copilot" prompt, despite having diligently removed every trace of the scourge from my computer any time it's ever been installed in the past. When I went and looked in the program list and indeed found "Copilot," it said it was installed today, 4/16/26.
Enraged and confused because I have Windows Updates turned off for this machine, don't install anything unless I can check what's in the patches, and haven't ran any updates since the end of March, I went rooting around in the logs and found that the culprit was... the latest update for Acrobat.
I went to their stupid support website, and their stupid chatbot confirmed it:
Honestly Acrobat is a terrible PDF reader/viewer anyway, it's just been installed on this computer since college and I hadn't previously bothered to remove it. But if you're in the same boat, or if you have previously been forced to use it for work/school, please be aware that this POS puts Copilot back on your computer without permission or notification.
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thinking about cowboys but BLACK ones who were formally enslaved men who became ranchers and how it's a part of black history despite white America trying to erase such a concept. some ended up revolting against their slavers. plus black cowboys often faced erasure and discrimination despite picking up the job.
