#internoirism

please, celebrate your black and/or intersex loved ones. show them that you care. read stories about black intersex existence like the stories of Kenya and Tatenda [link] (names changed. note: the language in this article is. a bit dated.), learn how colonialism has affected black intersex people in different ways [link], and please support places like the national museum of African American history [link], and support black and queer small businesses.

support creators, teachers and academics like Sean Saifa Wall [link], Lynnell Stephani Long, Sunn M'Cheaux [link], FD Signifier [link], Zay Dupree [link], and many more.

further reading:

blackpast: the largest encyclopedia of black american history [link] ASALH: the founders of black history month [link] black lives matter [link]

Your alter/part/whatever you call them is not black if the body isn't. They're just darker skinned. And yes, me and so many others will get uncomfortable when you say they are.

Same with intersex. They can totally present as intersex in headspace, but don't say intersex only slurs or claim it for the whole body unless you are intersex bodily.

I even see this shit in some of the damn community resources I'm compelled to use on my posts, because unfortunately most other resources online are unnecessarily gendered, or medicalized, or a term is so niche it just doesn't have a page somewhere on most of the internet, fucking whatever... sometimes you really have to grit your teeth and work with lesser evils— until a better option makes itself known, anyway.

Firstly, both stereotypes come from the idea of "large genitals = masculine"* and that black people are "inherently masculine" compared to white people.

*(Which is also intersexist. People on the agenital spectrum are not "inherently less masculine" nor are people with clitoromegaly or pseudophallus "inherently more masculine". And obviously black people can be on the agenital spectrum too.)

Secondly, when it comes to the labia stereotype, it likely stems from African cultures who would practice labia stretching as a part of their culture.

And thirdly, it promotes this idea that labial hypertrophy is "negative" in non-black people who are socially imposed as female. And since white people are put as a beauty standard for black people, it makes black people in turn think "oh, these white people want smaller labia, so I should want that too, right?" - which means black people with labial hypertrophy are either fetishized, masculinized, or made to feel ugly.

For context I am half white and half black, and visibly brown. I am not white passing in the slightest. My mother is white. So this is very much racism but still

I mean she already kinda acted like this but it's definitely increased since testosterone started having visible effects.

It's all really weird because as a little girl I was masculinized because I'm black and have ncah which made me pretty hairy and have a deeper voice than what's expected for pericis women/girls. But the second I find out I enjoy being masculine and hairy, I'm told I'm scary and aggressive and that I need to feminize myself (in the case I'm not already being forcibly feminized)

When I was little I was also very sexualized because I went through puberty so early due to ncah and had large breast before starting middle school (I don't remember if you're American, if not middle school starts at like 11 or 12 years old). But now I'm seen as both sexually aggressive if perceived as a cis man, and desexualized once someone knows I'm trans because of how masculine I am unlike my peers who are transmascs and/or trans men that oversexualized because are feminine

It's such a weird position, having people jump back and forth between two harmful extremes when they think it's convenient. I hate that my mother sees me as a threat. I hate that my peers see me as a threat or as a whiny little boy trying to overcompensate for something.

(apologies if the parentheses seem condescending or something, I don't mean for it to come across like that I'm just trying to convey as much information as possible and don't know how else to fit it in)

This is androqueerphobia, intermisogyny, and andronoirism. It is very disheartening how Black and brown intersex folks are treated.