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@leikeliscomet 's side blog for Black history, theory and culture | she/her

[stemmehistorian]

Intro Post

Welcome! This is a side blog for interesting Black texts I've found. Will mainly post and reblog Black British history and culture, Black theory and Black lesbian history. Feel free to read and share! NO TERFS, NO RADFEMS, NO ANTI BLACK RACISTS & NO COLOURISTS! Anyone can follow and interact but any weird antics will get you blocked!

Guide (IN PROGRESS)- You can also type these in the search bar

Black British + the Diaspora Black British Black American Ghanaian Zimbabwean Jamaican Trinidadian

Black Lesbian Stud Stem/Stemme Femme/Fish Masculine of Centre

General Black LGBTQIA+ Black Lesbian Black Gay Black Bisexual Black Trans Black Queer Black Intersex Black Asexual Black Aromantic

Decades 1800s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Misc Not History Quotes Masterposts PSA

[stemmehistorian]

Out of all my sideblogs this is my most calm one in terms of restrictions cus there aren't that many. I don't have very strong opinions outside of bigots and bots following cus I just made it to share theory, articles and pictures I found and that is something that should ideally be accessible for anybody. Knowledge is power etc etc.

That being said, I can see all your comments and reblogs. If you are a white or non-black person of colour and i see you screaming in my mentions about how being queer absolves you from being antiblack and how wrong these Black theorists are, tagging Black specific posts as 'POC' and 'BIPOC', tagging Black lesbian specific posts about stud and stem as butch and futch when the author said they dont use those terms, making Black ace and aro posts about yourself with no care about the racism the Black ace or aro author was describing or to summarise, being a prick, I wont hesitate to block you.

I know some of you were raised to believe your opinions and thoughts are inherently more important then every Black person you meet and that you are the most special person in the room and I'm here to tell you that you aren't and you never will be on this page.

In conclusion: let Black people have things.

[stemmehistorian]

Once again reminding white people and non Black POC that this is my literal history and culture blog made for the sole purpose of sharing theory and information about Black queerness, Black history and Black culture. There is no race DNI on this one because I actually want white and non Black POC to read these sources and share them. Stop harassing me and other Black asexuals on the Black ace blog. *THIS PLACE*, NOT THE BLACK ACE BLOG FOR BLACK ACES, *THIS PLACE* IS LITERALLY THE BLACK PEOPLE EDUCATION CONTENT BLOG THAT YOU'RE DYING FOR. Stop being so fucking greedy.

[stemmehistorian]

This doesn't apply to all the white and non Black POC I've dragged for being antiblack btw. Find other token Black person to educate you. I'm not sharing my sources with klan members pls

[stemmehistorian]

For this reason, Black queer activists have always had to be invested in dismantling white supremacy as the source of both anti-Blackness and queer antagonism. Meanwhile, white queer activists have been invested in upholding white supremacy, because they continue to benefit from a system that affords power to whiteness because they continue to benefit from a system that affords whiteness and white people, even when they are also queer. What is true of whiteness in every space, even in "progressive" and "inclusive" spaces, is that it will always work to create some form of exclusivity as a means to reassert white superiority. Therefore white asexuals often claim asexual queerness as a property, just as whiteness itself is claimed as a property, a space that others are barred from entering into. The belief that Black people can never disengage from an easily accessible and consumable sexuality is incredibly damaging to Black people as a whole, and uniquely so to the Black asexual. 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.

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lense on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture, Sherronda J Brown (2022)

[stemmehistorian]

'I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly because of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to their sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There's an element, it has always seemed to me, a bewilderment and complaint. Now that may sound very harsh, but the gay world as such is no more prepared to accept black people than anywhere else in society.'

- James Baldwin, The Village Voice (1984)

[stemmehistorian]

Once again reminding white people and non Black POC that this is my literal history and culture blog made for the sole purpose of sharing theory and information about Black queerness, Black history and Black culture. There is no race DNI on this one because I actually want white and non Black POC to read these sources and share them. Stop harassing me and other Black asexuals on the Black ace blog. *THIS PLACE*, NOT THE BLACK ACE BLOG FOR BLACK ACES, *THIS PLACE* IS LITERALLY THE BLACK PEOPLE EDUCATION CONTENT BLOG THAT YOU'RE DYING FOR. Stop being so fucking greedy.

[stemmehistorian]

Intro Post

Welcome! This is a side blog for interesting Black texts I've found. Will mainly post and reblog Black British history and culture, Black theory and Black lesbian history. Feel free to read and share! NO TERFS, NO RADFEMS, NO ANTI BLACK RACISTS & NO COLOURISTS! Anyone can follow and interact but any weird antics will get you blocked!

Guide (IN PROGRESS)- You can also type these in the search bar

Black British + the Diaspora Black British Black American Ghanaian Zimbabwean Jamaican Trinidadian

Black Lesbian Stud Stem/Stemme Femme/Fish Masculine of Centre

General Black LGBTQIA+ Black Lesbian Black Gay Black Bisexual Black Trans Black Queer Black Intersex Black Asexual Black Aromantic

Decades 1800s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Misc Not History Quotes Masterposts PSA

[stemmehistorian]

Happy Emancipation Day!

On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Britain played a key role in the dehumanisation, oppression and trading of West African slaves. The British Empire was built on this slavery. The British Government paid slaveowners and their descendants reparations up until 2015, whilst descendants of slaves, including the Windrush Generation, were given nothing. Slaveowner statues and streets named after them still exist in the UK to this day.

Emancipation Day is celebrated by various West Indian countries that were colonised and brutalised by the British Empire: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Belize, the Bahamas, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Guyana, Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands.

It is also celebrated by Black people in other parts of the diaspora such as Canada, the USA and South Africa.

Never let the British state forget or wash their hands of what they've done.

[amberlin1]

Hold on. There's another trini here? Cuz it's august 2 now, im assuming this was posted yesterday

[stemmehistorian]

I'm not Trini 😭 I am West Indian tho. Kittian and Ghanaian!

[stemmehistorian]

Happy Emancipation Day!

On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Britain played a key role in the dehumanisation, oppression and trading of West African slaves. The British Empire was built on this slavery. The British Government paid slaveowners and their descendants reparations up until 2015, whilst descendants of slaves, including the Windrush Generation, were given nothing. Slaveowner statues and streets named after them still exist in the UK to this day.

Emancipation Day is celebrated by various West Indian countries that were colonised and brutalised by the British Empire: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Belize, the Bahamas, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Guyana, Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands.

It is also celebrated by Black people in other parts of the diaspora such as Canada, the USA and South Africa.

Never let the British state forget or wash their hands of what they've done.

[weirdtvland]

Fredi Washington for Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life issue, 1933.

[stemmehistorian]

The blog is officially stemmehistorian now :D

[stemmehistorian]

I really decided to make a history sideblog and name it 'TARDIS' I'm never beating the allegations oml

[undue-traveler]

Feel like now is a good time to share that back in high school when I was a nice lil Gentledyke but just didn't know it yet, my junior prom date was incredibly into doctor who so I photoshopped a prom pic of the two of us into the tardis as a gift to her

[stemmehistorian]

I really decided to make a history sideblog and name it 'TARDIS' I'm never beating the allegations oml

[stemmehistorian]

The Black House, Holloway Road, London 1973 -1976 by Colin Jones

[stemmehistorian]

The Black House, Satan loves you graffiti, Holloway Road, London 1973 - 1976 By Colin Jones

[stemmehistorian]

Ahsshshdlhh I'm a day late but HAPPY WINDRUSH DAY! In 1948, West Indian immigrants came to the UK on HMT Windrush to help rebuild the UK after WWII. From then, immigrants from many West Indian countries like Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia, Trinidad etc. came to the UK, but also immigrants from African and South Asian countries too.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the British government increased throughout the 1950s-1970s, including increased policing in Wet Indian communities by the Met Police. In 2018 there was the Windrush Scandal, where the British government detained and deported the same Windrush members they invited decades back. The individuals, their families and the community have never been compensated for this. We're still waiting for justice.

The modern UK culture you see now, from the music, the dialects and slang, the food... is heavily influenced by the Windrush. Multicultural London English and Black British Vernacular are blends of Pidgin, Patois, Creole and Arabic. The many shops, stalls and restaurants across London and throughout the country were set up by the immigrants that first arrived and are the reason you can get items from across the globe just around the corner. The UK's ska and rock and roll age was birthed from reggae and rude boys. Learn about the Windrush. Celebrate them. And fight for them!

[forever70s]

children and families at a Juneteenth celebration in Sycamore Park (1977)

via Black Archives