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I think I’ve seen more Black transfemme memorial tribute art than I’ve seen art depicting Black transfemme characters. Like yes representation is the bare fucking minimum but. do you have any idea how little Black transfemme art I see that isnt the “five o’clock shadow” type or Marsha or because yet another one of us got killed and it’s in tribute?

There’s an omnipresence of white trans folks in popular trans art because whiteness is the currency of attention online and everyone else gotta pay the BIPOC Attention Tax, and even if you specifically look for it, often algorithms and censors that target all transfemmes but disproportionately affect transfemmes of color will make it hell to find unless you know EXACTLY what/how to find it.

Part of why I share my modeling photos, or even my selfies like I do, is bc so many people like me never get to see others that look like us even within our own marginalities. That it doesn’t stop at being white, or petite, or abled, or cis. That there are other people even more like us within our marginalities, that we aren’t fucking alone in a society that uplifts the same types of people to the “top” even within a marginalized group.

So, first off, mad props to @laughing-instead-of-crying for bringing this convo to where it could happen.

This is why I do NOT tag nsfw on anything that comes across my feed.

Personally, I feel like the tag should be used for things like photos of corpses. Hate crime reports and posts. Real actual stuff that would cause a negative reaction in just about anyone.

But naked bodies? Nudity should not be considered nsfw. Ever. YES, EVEN PORN. It's just sex. There is nothing wrong with sex and we need to stop acting like there is if we're EVER going to get past villainizing people's bodies just for existing.

And yeah, the nsfw tag system, or any categorization by tag, honestly, is also a tool of mass-identifying posts to be culled whenever needed. If they can nuke a transfem's entire post history, everything they ever made from just a username you can be damned sure they can do it to a whole tag, too.