Stop making moodboards and aesthetic posts that don’t have a single woman of color in them.
Stop saying things such as “only true lesbians/bisexual women are fans of shows like The X Files or fans of white female celebrities like Gillian Anderson or Alycia Debnam Carey”.
Stop expecting lesbian, pansexual, bisexual, and queer women of color to consume the same media you as white women-loving women do. Stop expecting them to put up with white-dominated wlw spaces and wlw content. Stop being deliberately or unconsciously exclusive when you write humorous posts or community-centered posts.
Any wlw space that is racist is exclusive and unsafe. Not every wlw is white. Women of color who are also lesbian, pansexual, queer, or bisexual are subject to the intersections of white supremacy and homophobia, particularly if they are black and/or trans. Stop fawning over racist media and racist celebrities in the name of “representation”. Stop upholding white wlw characters over women-loving female characters of color.
Stop mourning white wlw characters while simultaneously praising the brutal deaths of black lesbians and other sapphic woc characters. Stop forgetting that immigrant wlw, wlw who are refugees and who are fleeing war and persecution, and wlw who have not grown up with Eurocentric cultural norms will adhere to the same things white wlw adhere to.
Stop prioritizing media representation over the safety and wellbeing of the most marginalized members of the wlw community, aka women of color. Start paying attention to them. Frankly, wlw spaces that are racist, antiblack, and imperialistic are useless and serve no purpose in healing, solidarity, or community building.
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