Folake, an immigrant to Poland from Nigeria in a traditional Polish folk costume from Opoczno region

When my father came out to me as gay, I was eight, but I understood, roughly, because I had seen THIS ONE EPISODE of The Golden Girls. 

I think I actually said “Oh, like on the Golden Girls.”  Which was not what he was expecting. But this show made it super simple for me to understand that:

Being gay was intrinsic

People were discriminated against for being gay

People shouldn’t be discriminated against for being gay

And that, under the circumstances, was all that I really needed to understand that his coming out was a big deal, important and scary for him, but also something to respect and support, even if it meant changing our family.

The beautiful trans women from POSE on FX

This may seem like a compliment but its not our job to save this country. Black women voted against Tr*mp at 98%, it’s white people (both men AND women) who didn’t fall in line. White people fuck up this country then look to Black women to fix it like lol nah, I’m good. Reparations first and then I’ll see what I can do.

Anyways Jaboukie says it best (again) but this is how y’all sound when y’all say that