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the owner of this blog will be taking a break from posting on it for mental health reasons. don’t worry, i will definitely come back. but in the meantime, i thought i’d give you some homework

If you’re polysexual/polyromantic,

what prompted you to id as ply over bi/pan/lesbian/gay/straight/etc?

do you use any other lgbtq+ labels? how do your identities intersect?

did you use to identify as something different? what’s the story there?

how do you feel about the lgbtq+ community? has it treated you well?

attach a picture of yourself if you feel like it (picrews definitely count)!

i love you all 💖💚💙

[gothic-ghost-orchid]

Oooh this sounds fun! Okay:

I identified as straight for most of my life because no matter how much questioning (years worth of it) I did, no other label seemed to fit me and I knew I liked men at least. When I finally found polysexual after another intense period of questioning, I finally felt that catharsis people talk about when they find the label that “clicks.” Even though I know now that bi doesn’t necessarily mean only attracted to men and women, lots of people still see it that way, or include attraction to GNC and non-binary people as an afterthought. But really what it comes down to is, bi doesn’t feel like home for me now because it never felt like home for me before. 

I use lots of labels! Since finding polysexual, I went from IDing as polysexual, to feeling like it wasn’t 100% right, to finding more specific microlabels that fit me and still IDing as polysexual now! Here are the ones I most commonly use: torenflexible, demisexual, omnisexual and of course, polysexual! Here are other terms that I’ve found which fit me and I like to varying degrees (some of which I literally just found tonight!): diversesexual, polyromantic, androgynoromantic, androgynosexual, androgynoaesthetic, demisexual, pluralian, varioriented, sketchsexual, pulsaric, citrinian, flinic, finic, penultisexual (sort of)

Honestly I have mixed feelings about the LGBTQ+ community. I have felt both heavily welcomed and heavily excluded by it, especially when a lot of people are really against microlabels, and microlables are the only way I’ve really been able to comfortably understand and label my orientation

Here’s a picrew of me!

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Miles is black and Latino

Y’all white or mestizo latines treat this like it is a foreign concept. As if there is no black people in y’all countries and it is starting to piss me off because it reeks of anti-blackness. Black people do not disassociate from Miles because he is Latino. Y’all disassociate because he is black.

Jefferson Morales nee Davis is African American. Rio Morales is Puerto Rican. Jefferson changed his name to his wife’s to avoid scrutiny from his and his brother’s criminal pasts. If you read a comic book that a lot of you claim to have read, you would know that.

So Miles is African American and Puerto Rican. But wait. That is not biracial. Those are ethnicities.

Rio is Puerto Rican. Boricua. Puerto Rico was colonized. Not just colonized, but the people who were there and still may be there but it is extremely unlikely are the Taino. Genocide happened.

Still following me? Good.

So Puerto Rico and several carribean islands brought millions of slaves. Now the Taino may still exist but it is very unlikely that anyone is purely Taino because genocide. So there was a point in the island history were the population was 80% of the population was mixed and black. White people saw the revolutions around them and freaked out so they instilled a law that ensured that anyone with a drop of European blood is white. So the demographic of people “identifying” as white increased to 75%. Key word is identify. Now given the Latine and Puerto Rican communities anti-blackness, racism and colorism went rampant. We are talking sterilization of non-white Puerto Ricans and the works. Truth is that the whole island is more black than white or Taino. From the culture to the fucking genetics.

Now we get to Rio. Look at this woman and tell me if she identifies as white.

Tell me.

Does she look white to you?

I am waiting.

She probably, most likely is Afro-Boricua. So if she is Afro-Boricua. Miles is half African American and half Afro-Boricua. He is black. Now if you have a problem with that, you are probably racist fam or you hate black people. I have seen you asshole call for Miguel as the true Latine when he was white as snow for 20 years. He did not get darker until after Miles debuted. Like for real. Look at this shit.

“But he celebrates his culture”

Bull fucking shit. Whatever Wikipedia article you read about Miguel basing his costume off of Dia de la muerte is a fucking lie. Truth is that he got drunk in Mexico during day of the dead and bought a shirt. He doesn’t celebrate shit nor does he embrace his culture. But he may be white Latine.

Now you want to complain that I am taking Miles away. No. You can’t accept that he is black. That is the issue. Be honest. And before you cry foul and say you don’t have representation, bull fucking shit.

America Chavez had a book and none of you supported. Sam Alexander has a book and again, none of you supported. Anya Corazon aka Arana aka Spider-girl and none of you supported her. Ava Ayala? Humberto Lopez? Jaime Reyes? Victor Mancha? Fabio Medina? Half the fucking new X-men? Antonio Stark(Oooh, you didn’t know that the Ultimate Universe the same universe that Miles is from had a half-Latine Iron Man)? You are represented. The issue is you don’t want to buy a fucking comic book or read them.

But you don’t see yourselves in Miles Morales without taking away his blackness. You probably would do the same to Victor Alvarez in spite of him literally making Spanish Harlem his turf. He is too black to be Latine is what you racist assholes would say.

Y’all just don’t like Black People and hate that Miles is black and Latine. It confounds you. So you listen to what Americans see as Latine as a race when it’s not.

I’m tired of y’all.