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i see a lot of my black mutuals in pain and struggling mentally lately so if any of you need it here's a post of mental health resources made by a black woman specifically for black people struggling right now... i love you all so much please take care of yourselves
In the wake of JK once more being a total jk, hereâs a (non-exhaustive) thread of works by Black trans writers.
Donât Call Us Dead - Danez Smith, poetry about Black masculinity, police brutality, gender and queerness. Probably the best book of poetry Iâve ever read. Smith has several collections available and you should read them all.
The Deep - Rivers Solomon, a speculative fiction novella about the descendants of murdered slave women. Themes of trauma and memory. Really beautiful writing. Their sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts is equally unmissable.
Redefining Realness - Janet Mock, the memoir of Mockâs childhood and adolescence as a trans woman before she transitioned. Mockâs second memoir, Surpassing Certainty, focuses on her life in her twenties.
Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender, a YA novel about a teenage trans boy (at the start of the book), Felix, as he further questions his identity, tries to find love, and works on his artistic future. Everything that makes YA novels great.
Reacquainted with Life - KOKUMO, a debut about Black trans womanhood and the power of her voice and body. This work is so hard to describe. Ferocious? Lively? Witty? Completely different to literally any poetry Iâve ever read? All of the above and more.
Mannish Tongues - jay dodd, a poetry collection about Black youth, queerness, religion, family, and gender. I hate how pretentious the word âvisceralâ is, but itâs pretty accurate here. doddâs collection The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is also phenomenal.
Pet - Akwaeke Emezi, a YA novel about a Black trans teenage girl and having to confront the existence of monsters. Emezi also has an acclaimed adult novel out, Freshwater, and I believe their new adult novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, is out in August 2020.
trigger - Venus Selenite, poetry about being Black, trans, queer, and unapologetic. This one is hard to get hold of, but worth it if you can. Selenite also co-edited and is featured in Nameless Woman, an anthology of writing by trans women of colour.
Surge - Jay Bernard, a poetry collection written in response to the 1981 fire at New Cross Road, as well as Grenfell Tower and the Windrush Scandal. Bernard is one of those poets who can use 10 words to say more than most of us can in 1,000.
Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color - ed. Venus Selenite, Ellyn PeĂąa and Jamie Berrout, this one includes several stories by Black trans women and is, as a body of work, completely invaluable. The stories here range from semi-autobiographical and romance to sci-fi and speculative fiction.
Resilience - ed. Amy Heart, Larissa Glasser and Sugi Pyrrophyta, an anthology of writing by ŠAMAB trans people. Again, this anthology is not specifically dedicated to Black trans people, but it includes work by KOKUMO and CHRYSALISAMIDST, amongst others. This book is super varied, with short stories, poetry and personal essays.
Consider ordering these, where possible, from independent Black owned bookstores.
You can also financially support Black trans people through donating to organisations such as this and these.
Important addendum: I tried incredibly hard to find published works by Black trans women, because trans women are the focus of JK Rowlingâs tweets and indeed an overwhelming amount of violence and bigotry in general, but Iâm sure itâs no surprise to anyone that Black trans women are enormously discriminated against by the publishing industry, and are routinely denied a platform for their work and their voices. Literally, when you Google âblack trans woman authorâ, you just get Janet Mockâs author page. I think all of the books by Black trans women in the list above, with the exception of Janet Mock, are self/indie pub.
I have trawled through online indie and radical publishing magazines, message boards, and nearly 100 lists of âtrans authors you must read now!â and I would charitably say that about 1% of people featured in such lists are Black trans women. Obviously, Black trans women are writing, but the lack of available platform for their work is a huge barrier to their voices being heard. If anyone else has recommendations for work by Black trans women, whether itâs a physical book, an online chapbook, an Insta account of poetry, or anything else, please add it, because there must be so much more than Iâve managed to find.
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Washington, D.C., officials painted âBLACK LIVES MATTERâ in 35-ft tall letters on the street just blocks from the White House
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Resource is from victoriaalxndr on Twitter!
The google doc has loads more information than just these books, so definitely check it out, and HERE is a list of black-owned bookstores, and HERE is another list of anti-racist readings from bookshop.org, which is a small-business-owner alternative to amazon. buy your lit local, my friends.Â
65 LGBT Books by Black Authors
In honor of Pride Month obviously, hereâs my next list! Please continue to add authors and books to this list!Â
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Giovanniâs Room by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long the Trainâs Been Gone by James Baldwin
Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
Just as I am (Invisible Life #2) by E. Lynn Harris
I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris
Hood Witch by Faylita Hicks
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery
A Dream so Dark by LL McKinney
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney
The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner
Queer Africa - Selected Stories
The Yellow Brownstone by Lisa K. Stephenson
Freedom in This Village by E. Lynn Harris
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado
In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar
Mogul by Terrance Dean
Potomac University Series by Rashid Darden
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
Letâs Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces by Michelle Sewell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell**
If We Have to Take Tomorrow by Frank Leon, White Roberts, and Marvin K.
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology by Joseph Beam
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Donât Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien
Burnt Men by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun**
She Called Me Woman edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu
B-Side and Other Misheard Lyrics by L.M. Bennett
For Sizakele by Yvonne âFlyâ Onakeme Etaghene
Black Power Barbie Volume 1: Love Lives of Heroes by Shay Youngblood
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff
Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin
Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon
Blackbird by Larry Duplechan
B-Boy Blues Series by James Earl Hardy
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
**I could not find links to buy both of these books, so if anyone is able to please add them to the post!
Letâs act together to fight racism, injustice, and police brutality. People are dying because of the color of their skin, and we canât stay silent and ignore it. Black Lives Matter.
Please donât comment that âall lives matterâ - saying black lives matter in no way means other lives donât matter. It means black people are dying at higher rates from police violence due to racism and police brutality, and saying all lives matter is completely dismissive and insensitive of that fact.
Iâve already listed funds to donate to in my IG stories, but Campaign Zero and NAACP Legal Defense Fund are ones Iâm donating to outside of Minnesota. There are many resources online to educate yourself and those around you with facts like blacklivesmatters.carrd.co and mappingpoliceviolence.org.
Insensitive, inflammatory comments will be deleted. Racists, please unfollow.
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Hey folks, this is not your typical post about incorrect quotes.
I want to address a serious issue today, and most of you probably know whatâs been going on in the US.
The killing of George Floyd started another serious and necessary debate on Police brutality in the states. (And I think not just there. Every country is affected in some way or another.)
My heart doesnât ache, no. My heart is bleeding and crying out of pain about what has been going on for days now. What people have been going through for years and years. This is not the first case of police brutality against POC, nor the second, and it probably isnât the last one.
It happened so many times already that I canât count them all. Our world has lost so many beautiful souls to this never-ending issue. Additionally to this, we lost so many brothers and sisters of color who were part of the LGBTQ+ community too. Even though it is pride month, I canât enjoy and celebrate it as much as I want to.
But now is the time to act. Now more than ever! We all have a voice, and Iâm sure as hell using mine. And I want you to do the same.
40 Ways you can help right now shows you different techniques and approaches to support the #blacklivesmatter movement in various forms.
Everyoneâs able to do something. Even if you donât have the money to donate, or youâre not from the US, share articles, draw attention to it in some way. Being silent about this puts you on the side of the offenders.
I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand with all of you!!! Credit goes to @sfbucketlist on instagram for these 40 ways you can help right now.
Thereâs a common conception that âneutralityâ, or silence around these issues, is apolitical. That in failing to take a public stance onâŚ
Iâve written a fully sourced post on Medium which should help you to debunk the most common bad faith arguments against Black Lives Matter and the current protests, using data and citations. It also includes an anti-racist reading list and donation links.
Rainbow smoke from this thread. Based on the comments, itâs a prism in the sun out of frame
Friends, follow me on instagram as Iâll be posting more on there: instagram.com/sixpenceee
releasing the gay into the atmosphereÂ
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White people:
Donât be an âoptical allyâ and donât let what you are sharing or doing right now be about you or your voice. We need to amplify black voices. We need to be a partner. We need to be out of the spotlight. We need to show support beyond just posting a black square.
Educate yourself. Read. Listen. Do the work.
