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Gotta wanna needa getta have a Bojangles I’m the only one that really know my angles hair is hard to comb they call it naps I call it tangles i stay on top like a muhfuckin shangle oops I meant shingle never been the type that likes to mingle lol that’s probably why I’m single 🌊

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[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

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[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[laiariblackadder]

You could have brought up all of this without bashing black queer figures. Just celebrate your people without being us up. It's not that fucking hard.

[nyokoko]

Like the utter disdain in the tone and the dismissiveness of what OUR queer figures went through to get the scant rights ALL people who come to America enjoy today is CRAZY WORK. Like you could easily celebrate and uplift your own queer cultural figures without taking pot shots at Black folks. And a lot of y'all on this fuckass website use your supposed anti-American stance to be largely antiblack pieces of shit and it's not cute and you're not as subtle as you think.

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