if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that
sorry to hijack your post, but imo this also applies to colourism dynamics, even if you have a full cast of colour. like i can only confidently speak from the south asian context, but RAMPANT colourism in the community has given rise to and perpetuated these same stereotypes of people with darker skin being more aggressive and sexually promiscuous than the “reserved, civilised” light skins.
This applies to your wlw and mlm ships as well. If the lighter or white one is always sweeter, nicer, softer, more innocent, or more feminine and the darker or poc one is always meaner, louder, more aggressive, more sexual, or more masculine then you’ve got a problem sweetie and that’s racism.
If you reblogged this from me then please reblog this addition too!
Is your Black female character always fetishized to be masculine and brutish in the wlw ship? If paired with a nonblack character is she always the big, muscular one and the lighter skinned one dainty and femme?
Do you even support actual Black creators in your respective fandoms or are you just playing with brown paper dolls for diversity points?
2010s TV show | 2 seasons (Ongoing)
Available on YouTube S1, S2
Romance, drama, slice-of-life
Plot points:
Lesbian core friend group
Pursuing romantic connections
Infidelity (sleeping with a married person)
Threesomes
Pregnancy
Juggling starting a family, and one's career
Cheating
Co-parenting
Gender-less parenting
Detailing a past traumatic experience: DUI second-degree murder
Mentions of suicide
Death of a character
Struggling with grief (death of a romantic partner)
Acting scene (featuring use of pills and a gun)
Polyamorous characters
Marriage proposal
Parenthood
Conversations about divorce
Conversations about intimacy and commitment
Conversations about soulmates and varying relationship dynamics
Conversations about sex: safe sex practices, sex toys
Set in Los Angeles, California, USA
Multiple black, queer characters
Created by a black, lesbian (Alexander King)
Multiple queer-in-real-life actresses (Stray, Miko Rounds, Alexander King, Darien Janay)
TW//: Mentions of suicide, traumatic past experiences, DUI second-degree murder, suicide attempt
Black sapphic characters:
Bisa [lesbian] (Darxia Morris)
Jamila [lesbian] (Stray)
Jazz [lesbian] (Miko Rounds)
K'wame [lesbian] (Alexander King)
Nia [lesbian] (Darien Janay)
Sam [lesbian] (Cole Lawson)
Kiara (Kiara The Voice)
Giselle (Priscilla Walker)
Ace [polyam-lesbian]
Reese [lesbian] (Court Sullivan)
Ava [lesbian] (Tessa Evelyn Scott)
*Tripp [transman] (Jrue Luna)
Connections:
Sam x K'wame [black lesbian]
x Bisa [black lesbian]
x Ace [black lesbian]
Jamila x Nia [black lesbian]
Jazz x Tripp [black queer]
K'wame x Nia [black lesbian]
x Kiara [black lesbian]
x Mya [interracial sapphic: black x white]
x Giselle [black lesbian]
Reese x Ava [black lesbian]
Sex & Nudity - Moderate
Opening scene is a couple making out under sheets; one character is in lingerie
Couples kissing and making out
Mention of sex toys ('strap')
Pregnancy
One-night stands
Intimate foreplay scenes
Violence & Gore - None
Profanity - Mild
Use of the words fuck, bitch, shit, ass, etc.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Mild
Social drinking
Rolling a joint
Use of pills
Frightening & Intense Scenes - Mild
Confronting cheaters
Detailing a past traumatic experience: DUI second-degree murder
Acting scene (suicide attempt using pills and a gun)
'Black asexuality shatters centuries-old beliefs, upheld by caricatures like the Mandingo, the Jezebel, the Mammy, and more. Accepting the existence of genuine Black asexuality would require those who hold so tightly to these myths to do the work of dismantling them. But many people do not want to let go of the racist sexual stereotypes because they are comforted by them, they are comforted by what affords them their social value. The Black asexual threatens to upend everything they think they know about Blackness, and everything they think they know about themselves as allegedly superior. Black asexuality threatens their worldview, which means it ultimately threatens their world.'
Enough wlw stories about running your fingers through their long soft hair and more wlw stories about applying body cream to their brown skin, retwisting their locs, doing their cornrows, oiling their hair, combing their afro, plaiting their hair, washing their ha-
[This is a SFW lesbian blog, I'm an adult, please be mindful]
nothing special, just thought tumblr would appreciate me accidentally recording bits of 'Superdyke' while I was listening to red wine supernova by chapell roan ahaha
