#double minority

[visciously-face-fckd-by-a-cactus]

do you identify as: *diagnosis not required*

cis/straight, neurotypical

cis/straight, neurodivergent

queer (gender), neurotypical

queer (gender), neurodivergent

queer (sexuality), neurotypical

queer (sexuality), neurodivergent

queer (both gender and sexuality), neurotypical

queer (both gender and sexuality), neurodivergent

Voting ended onNov 19, 2023

this is by no means comprehensive, as this app has a skewed demographic to begin with, but I'm just trying to decide on whether this is a worthwhile topic for the women and gender studies project I'm doing.

[amidalc]

also pa.dmé doesnt get married without a prenup

[robyn-these-hoes]

Happy International Women's Day 💕🚺

[vildflowers]

Double minority: Ethnical minority and being queer

I’ve just started working on my bachelor thesis in social work, but I’m struggling to get the research question right. I want to focus on people that’s in an ethnical minority as well as being lesbian, gay or bi (in Norway). I would very much like to include trans people, intersex and asexual, but it’s just an 8000 word paper. And since I have to relate this to social work and social workers, there’s not enough room to give trans people, intersex and asexual the room it deserves. Does anyone have any tips or pointers? Something you feel I defiantly have to include? Very open to suggestion, just keep in mind that it’s not from a North American point of view.

[wearewcc]

In 39 years, US physics doctorates went to 66 black women—and 22,000 white men

"It was hard, especially as a woman of color, to sit in my classes and not have anyone look like me."

[pattyg1992]

Ignorance and Hypocrisy in the Black Community

So I’m a double minority: black and gay. I’ve seen and read on the history of violence and hate toward both groups of people. This has given me plenty of reason to want to support both because I have my own personal stakes in both. I’m even able to have empathy for groups I have no relation with and still be just as supportive: women, other minorities. 

While being part of the African-American and LGBT communities can be nice, especially having an identity I can be proud of, like any group, they’re capable of having their own flaws. I’ll start with the Black community.

We started the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s which in many ways led to the fair treatment of other races and sexualities, who’ve started their own moments.  However, within this minority there is a vocal minority. I’ve seen it among family, and friends or even strangers on the internet. First there’s the homophobia within the community. Sure it exists in every community but any marginalized group should never be comfortable trying to marginalize another group. Having a shared experience of discrimination should unite other groups but it’s not always the case. 

The black community has always used religion as their reason to be homophobic but I think it goes beyond that. I’ve known plenty of atheist blacks with the same attitude. The primary reason for it is that many, (especially the men) are afraid of the Black community being portrayed as weak. In their eyes, being gay is automatically associated with being feminine. It shows Black men as incapable of leading. In a way it’s as much sexism as homophobia. How our community deals with it has a lot to do with why so many Blacks who are LGBT are less visible. We feel more of the pressure to hide who we our to maintain a united front.  It’s not a coincidence that a majority of Black men hide their faces on the gay dating/hookup apps. Many even deny they’re gay or bisexual but downlow. The community is surprisingly even more intolerant of other communities dealing with racism, because they’re afraid we’ll be forgotten in the rush for equality for all.

The rise of anti-Asian hate is one example. I hear plenty of people complain that Asians have been just as racist as us (ironically parodied by both Asians and Whites about us) and that we shouldn’t help them in their time of need because they’ve done nothing for us. What many people, in every community, Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic refuse to realize that you can’t have true equality until everyone has it. Ending racism isn’t like a domino, where one group achieving true equality first will lead to others getting equal treatment later. It has to happen all at once. At best we’d just achieve model minority status, and look how well that’s worked with the Asian community. Everyone is equal or no one is.

Based on the views and opinions of certain people in the Black community, if given a choice they would basically create a world that’s just like now. Except Blacks would be in power and not Whites. Racism would still exist towards all the others and issues like homophobia and sexism still a problem. If it’s just a matter of just being in charge I’m not sure the Black community going from a minority to majority will benefit anyone. And that’s true no matter what group is in charge.

[hezzydaddy]

How about we talk about people telling me I'm not half Puerto Rican?

I'm mixed. But I like to represent both sides though...