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[bellabangscom]

6 Shopping Secrets Brands DON'T Want You to Know! - Bella Bangs

6 shopping secrets piss a bunch of brands right now. Hopefully, none of my brand's sponsors are looking at this. So, in today's article, I'm going to share

6 shopping secrets piss a bunch of brands right now. Hopefully, none of my brand’s sponsors are looking at this. So, in today’s article, I’m going to share with you a couple of secrets that I’ve learned from the back end of the industry. Stuff that you can do as the consumer to get the best deals.

[vivegene]

There's this strange idea that gay black people can't exist, especially femme women. Our sexuality is always presented for someone else, so even when I am read as gay, it's often for a straight man’s lesbian fantasy. I have to go through a lot to be read as not straight, even when working as a go-go dancer in queer spaces. Street harassment is a constant. The more femme I am, the more entitled strangers seem to feel to my body and attention. The other week, upon ignoring holleration from a group of older black men, I got, 'You would give us the time of day if we was white, huh?' Not two blocks later, some white dude with cornrows gives me, 'You would suck it if I was black, huh?' That's being a black femme in a nutshell.

Leila Hofstein