#cari fletcher

[janployshompoos]

PRETENDING Fletcher

[moonlightsapphic]

“For white folks especially, not looking like you're oppressed is equivalent to not being oppressed. That's why they look at Black people in certain positions of middle class lifestyle and say, ‘Well, you're you're not discriminated against.’ That's why they don't count microaggressions as racism historically. That's why they don't look at neocolonial situations as colonial even though they clearly are, because it doesn't look like obvious racism. It doesn't look like obvious white supremacy. That's why white people are like this. And that's why again, you know, white queers have racism envy. That's the term I'm going to use. Straightforward, white queers have racism envy. They think in their heads that the kind of social currency you get from being obviously discriminated against is something that could be wanted, desired, sought after in any serious way, which in itself is racist, is anti-Black. The idea that not only you being straight-passing is something that maps onto exactly what being white-passing is, but also that this is some sort of crime against the marginalized community and some sort of indication of your having special powers over other people. I mean, that's just queerphobic and based off of how you read that, it's racist.”

—Elliot Sang, Mysogyny against bi women

[millybrowm]

what’s bonkers to me is the number of so-called “progressive” people using “this political climate” as a way to tell women they’re not allowed to express themselves and make their own choices about their sexuality. sabrina carpenter shouldn’t be publicly kinky (if we can even call it that!!) because of the political climate. what will men think? FLETCHER shouldn’t share about her relationship with a man and her new understanding of herself as bisexual because of the political climate. what will straight people think?

if you genuinely believe people with marginalized identities should limit their self expression because people in the privileged classes will possibly misunderstand or use their expression incorrectly, you’re just repacking respectability politics.

[midsummerafternoon]

for now we'll both keep on pretending - fletcher (x)

[kumishona]

Soooo 2025 has been fun so far

[cloudwardhoe]

Bisexuals exist (I am one) but a woman who was pretty celebrated in the WLW community dropping a terrible song about being in love with a boy during pride month and acting like you’re doing something radical is a choice.

I kissed a boy And I know it wasn’t what you wanted to hear And I know it wasn’t on your bingo card this year Well it wasn’t on mine I kissed a boy

Girl…shut up

[lightcastlenineteen]

That queer singer/women’s football connection 🔥

[sarkopterygia]

Not every criticism of bi women's behavior is about biphobia.

Many bi women feel insecure in their queerness, fear that they're not queer enough because they are in a relationship with a man or generally date men.

I'm sorry you don't feel queer enough, but it's not my role as a lesbian to validate your queerness. You are valid, you are still queer, but you seem to prioritize and center your validity over the very tangible danger others face in the LGBT community for being visibly queer and therefore at risk of homophobic and transphobic violence and systemic life threatening discrimination.

You keep saying you are afraid "the big bad queer community" will exclude you for being with a man, and it's a euphemism because really you mean "lesbians" in particular. Most LGBT people are bi actually. You outnumber lesbians, we couldn't "exclude" you if we tried----and we're Not trying. We simply do not relate to your experience. Why insist on demanding validation from lesbians?

Queer singer Fletcher who built her whole career singing about loving women to an audience of lesbians and bisexuals just released a song called "Boy" about how she fell in love with a boy and the new album will be called "Would you still love me if you really knew me?".

In pride month.

Presenting it as a brave liberating moment against the big bad lesbians. In June, the month dedicated to our fight against systemic homophobia and transphobia---which, newsflash, bi people are ALSO subjected to. How is that respectful to the community in any way? How insensitive and dense and desperate for publicity do you have to be?

Pride is a protest. Pride is not a generic "love is love" celebration. There are actual people at risk, in danger. This is not the time to center "being valid".