Queer, Black, Trans

Leo/22/They

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The Art of Kiki’s Delivery Service (2006 art book)

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More punks 🤎

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Snow at Ginkakuji Temple, Hasui Kawase, 1951

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Henning von Gierke https://www.henningvongierke.com

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Rolf Ohst

Amnesia, 2016

Oil on canvas

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Tesfay Negga- Nude in blue

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Those evenings when the hills sang with voices like bells // Part 37

October 9th, 2022

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auditory processing issues

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Ah, yes, my fave response is “fair enough”. Even better, fake laughing at someone’s joke even though you didn’t hear or understand the punchline.

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<- TOILET THEY CAN

BUT! NOT

CATS 🚫 GET OUT!!

🚫 PAST

HERE!

KEEP

CLOSED!

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while we here my favorite mugs

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Somebody airdropped this to me in class…

[annoyinger]

It was your teacher

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

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I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

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Enough of us do not even realize how much of a post-colonial white-supremic world we still live in. Things like racism, the gender binary, homophobia are all concepts and inventions of the european influence on us globally.

Too many times I have read about a pre-colonial culture (the fact that I even have to say pre colonial 🙄) where I read that certain things were or were not common practice until Europeans arrived and forced their culture on everybody and then used Christianity to justify it while they were enslaving, raping, kidnapping, and committing genocide. And there are actual poc who can’t see pass the eurocentricity of literaly EVERYTHING because it’s what we were raised to think and believe and were never exposed to anything that would suggest otherwise.

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[jadenvargen]

gently, gently…