#transneu

(I love tumblr but some of y’all a little too white sometimes)

i cannot speak my dialect around white without havin’ to assimilate unless i want people to mock me or just laugh at everything i say, even if i’m actually mad. other times, i just feel like i come off as rude to white people. in english i see examples of my native dialect be used as a “incorrect examples” of Real English. the reason i write in my dialect is so i don’t lose it bein’ surrounded by so many white people who only tolerate me as long as i throw my culture away. usin’ “is” instead of “are” in African American English (AAE) is the most common feature in the dialect i’d argue it’s part of what make it so distinct, along with the accent as well. i will not be fooled by white people bothered by grammar, cause 99% it’s racism they probably don’t even know of.

intersex & transneu

transmasc & transfem

[pt. lokono tgi flags. end pt.]

flags coined by an indigenous queer belonging to the tsalagi and mvskoke nations, requested by an indigenous queer who belongs to the lokono nation

the purple hues across these flags are used to represent pride and celebration of one’s queerness as well as heritage, and these things affecting eachother. the yellow and reds used are representative of connection to the earth and people, as well as strength. the blues and greens used are representative of water and the sky, as well as wisdom. the center stripe features a dark background which stands for solidarity and resistance

the white used in the patterned stripes across flags connects both physical and spiritual as well as peace within oneself. the symbols used on both version are taken from lokono symbols and artwork and represent connection to nation and humanity as well as strength in heritage

You're more than enough and always will be. We deserve a #Blacktransneusoftlife too!!

Fam: "Oh, like the gray shirt nigga emoji?"

Me: "... Yes...? Like... Like that!"

first, there’s the inability to conceive of genders outside of binary specificity. i tend to struggle with this too as a black transneu, as i feel like sometimes whenever i present as neutral or draw myself that way i feel too masculine. black people inherently be seen as masculine by society, so that extra layer of internalized racism make neutrality hard to easily pinpoint in myself. i should not have to forcibly binarize myself to make genderin’ myself easier.

second, it make it easier to make neutral people who see themselves as gendered out to be doin’ too much or even “recreatin’ binaries”. i cannot stress how many times ive seen neutrality (falsely attributed to as androgyny) be treated as exclusively a white, skinny, young people thing and use the social genderin’ of racialized people as a reason why neutrality is impossible or some progressive, utopian, perfectionist fantasy and that “positive” or “unbalanced” androgyny (which is just androgyny) is more realistic. they’ll try to claim regularly gendered things like clothing, pronouns, nicknames like “girl” or “dude” are actually neutral because xyz, despite us (and trans women, too, when not wantin’ to be called “dude” or “bro”) voicin’ our discomfort to be associated with those. they push their equally harmful ideas about genderlessness and agender people onto transneus: “neutral = genderless, so you must not care about gender at all! that means i can push whatever i want onto you and you can’t say anything cause you’s supposed to not care.”