indie | omi | aphro

little cowboy: cory & kim, presumably 1950s or 1960s.

Black trans women aren’t monolithic; there are black trans women who are super badass and high femme but there are also black trans women who are butch, who are punk, who are a nerdy girl who hasn’t gone outside in weeks just like how white trans women are.

Ever wonder why trans memes only ever feature white girls? And rarely feature black girls? I certainly know a few black trans women who would love memes for them. It doesn’t need to be about the black experience to be for black trans women. You can have your little puppygirl memes with a black girl, they don’t need to be consigned to memes about natural hair or locs or racism or rap music.

Black people exist beyond the confines of anti-racist talking points. Black trans women exist beyond the confines of transfeminist talking points. If you don’t personally know any black trans women, analyze why that might be; are you making your presence a safe and comfortable place to rest for black trans women that you KNOW face tons of hardship? Or do you not care about actually giving them a safe harbor in your company and instead only care to use them as a cudgel in arguments.

And a little while ago I was talking about a lot of specifically White artists doing surface level to invasive "Research" purely so they can have the OPTICS of looking like they care about representation. They care more about LOOKING progressive and anti-racist by creating brown paper dolls (both of those conversations are on the same wavelength)

and it's even worse when a fellow Black user goes "we just need more original Black characters." and yet don't realize that yes...we are making own on Black characters. people still ignore them. people still see it as "forced diversity". and some be thinking we can't do both, making Black edits and creating original Black characters. as if those who make Black edits don't have or care about original Black characters.

if i see another person look at that scene and frame it as some cutesy ship material i'm just going to block on sight. already hated that ship because it's never really acknowledged by the fandom that it's just abuser/victim but tried not to be too mean about it because it's just a ship and people can have different interpretations. BUT.

leaks/spoilers and mentions of sa under the cut