Violet Collective

Dedicated to the celebration and empowerment of all lesbian woc.

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Submissions are now open!

Some ideas to get you started:

Share your personal coming out stories

What does it mean to be Out in your racial and/or cultural community?

Do you have words of support or encouragement you’d like to share with closeted lesbians of color?

Is Coming Out important, or is it overly focused on in our community?

Is Coming Out a similar experience universally or is it different for women of color? 

These are just a few examples of how you can approach the subject. Expand on any of these or create your own, and let your voice be heard! If you have questions about submitting Click here to see if they’ve been answered, and if not send an ask!

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Submissions are now open!

Some ideas to get you started:

Share your personal coming out stories

What does it mean to be Out in your racial and/or cultural community?

Do you have words of support or encouragement you’d like to share with closeted lesbians of color?

Is Coming Out important, or is it overly focused on in our community?

Is Coming Out a similar experience universally or is it different for women of color? 

These are just a few examples of how you can approach the subject. Expand on any of these or create your own, and let your voice be heard! If you have questions about submitting Click here to see if they’ve been answered, and if not send an ask!

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Remember to spread the word!

Our introduction post has slowed a little on notes. Remember that for Violet Collective to reach the women it is meant for, we have to ensure that news about this project reaches a wide audience. We want as many lesbians of color as possible involved!

Please reblog the post if you have not already, and encourage your friends to do the same. If you are not a lesbian of color spreading the word is the perfect way for you to support us!

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Lesbian Women of Color Unite!

Violet Collective is a new zine dedicated to the celebration, empowerment, and support of all lesbian women of color.

Many lesbians of color feel that there is no place for us within overwhelmingly white lesbian communities or lesbophobic qu**r communities. Often times even attempting to navigate these spaces can prove to be an isolating and discouraging experience. Violet Collective is a safe space for all lesbians of color to come together and form a community of our own. We hope this zine will serve as an escape from the subtle and overt racism, eurocentric standards of beauty, and continued erasure we face in other aspects of our lives, and even within the lesbian community. Dedicated to the ideals of sisterhood, strength in community, and consciousness raising through open dialogue, Violet Collective will provide an outlet for the joy and pain that comes with being a woman of color and a lesbian. Violet Collective aims to include essays (on race/ethnic communities/what it means to exist in the world as a lesbian), artwork, music and book reviews, and everything in between. Our mission is to give a voice to those who are silenced and told that in order to be accepted they must hide parts of themselves. Our mission is to celebrate what it means to be women of color, what it means to be lesbians, and how we exist when the two intersect. Our zine is still in the planning stage, but soon we will open submissions for posts to be featured on the blog (short essays, art, etc) Be sure to follow and spread the word about this exciting project! 

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Paz in Tracking Our Way Through Time, Janet S. Soule, 1984.

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If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to one of them, “No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome,” because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black. Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are antihomosexual, or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.

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Excerpt from: Movement in Black : The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, Black Lesbian Poet and activist, working with Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center, the Black Panther Party,  the Black Women’s Revolutionary Council and various LGBTQ organizations.

Read more here.