“If ‘we gotta be friends first’ is your love language, this one’s for you. I wrote about 8 years of Black queer love, polyamory, and what Miss Major taught me about chosen family 👇🏾
The movie industry has always had a knack for stifling creatives of color, particularly Black women. Now, newly in powerful positions, Black women directors have been presenting fresh narratives and taking their rightful place in the industry.
When you realize that Warner Brothers said "Delete that shit" and the BBC chose to keep it...baby this is why I'm not debating nothing about modern racism. Full grown adults made a lot of choices
I never see my kind of weird on screen, so I’m building it. Black. queer. poly. chaotic. healing. Brooklyn. Animated Series.
No AI here. Just artists who love the process. Consider this the first look 🎬 Stay tuned...#Blacksky
Who’s a queer Black character you wish had their own spin‑off show, and what would it be called? #lgbt
Being Black with ADHD can feel like a full time performance. The masking, the code switching, the overachieving so nobody calls you lazy, until you finally break down and realize your whole personality was built around hiding your symptoms.
If you're a #Blacktrans man and read as a cisgender man in most rooms, what defines your manhood? I unpacked this with a friend recently. Here's a recap 👇🏾 #lgbt
Naomi Campell hit us with the "I knew him but I didn’t know him, I was there but I wasn’t there, don’t come at me but also leave me alone."
The state uses prison to test drive the harshest anti‑trans rules first, on people who have the least ability to fight back. #lgbtnews
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
The Netflix Reality Check documentary just dropped, but Reddit has had the receipts for YEARS. The internet is forever. #ANTM
Black queer and trans church kids who deconstructed their faith but still know every gospel run, this is for you.
In Episode 1 of Assigned Sex, I sit with 2 PKs and a minister-of-music’s kid to talk faith, gender, and what happens when God’s house can’t hold your whole self. #lgbtq #blacksky
Friendly Reminder: Anti-trans and pro-Black can’t coexist. Being pro-Black includes all Black people. Yes, even the ones you pretend not to see.
#BlackTransMen #LGBTQ #BlackSky
Launched a Black History Month series on Black trans and genderqueer history and the folks doing the work right now. Read, repost, and tell me who deserves their flowers next 👇🏾
assignedsex.substack.com/p/black-tran...
Racist white people and transphobic Black people speak the same language. Both terrified of difference. Both addicted to control. Both using scripture to hide insecurity. assignedsex.substack.com/p/either-we-...
I know there’s enough Black engineers, PMs, UX designers to build a TikTok alternative that stays independent. The REAL question is: Can we keep it from getting bought out? Or is capitalism just gonna capitalism?
If you’re #blackintech & interested or know someone, drop their @. #Blacksky
Facebook spies too, but TikTok’s algorithm tracks your face, voice, movements.
Aug 2024: they updated the policy to collect data on trans, nonbinary, and citizenship status. Most people missed it.
NOW people tied to the current admin own it.
So I had to tap out. 🤷🏾
The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color.
All. People. Of. Color.
Trans joy is not an attack on you.
Trans existence is not a debate topic.
Trans life is not your moral emergency.
5 reasons Black trans joy gets treated like a crime:
1. You’re proving their beliefs aren’t solid
2. You’re a mirror they never asked for
3. You’re revealing their real fears
4. You’re showing what control costs
5. You’re proof freedom is contagious
#lgbtq #transisbeautiful
Full piece: 👇🏾
This iPhone update got my ADHD brain fighting for its life.
I’m cutting back on coffee and honestly this might be my villain origin story.
For everyone doing quiet, unglamorous healing in the background: what’s the title of this chapter of your life?
I’m in my “Learning to Receive” chapter and it’s real uncomfortable.
#Blacksky
I’m dating my body with consistency, and my body is showing up with results.
If you’re a part‑time creator juggling a full‑time job, this is for you.
What’s the hardest part: coming up with ideas, being consistent, or actually pressing “post” and letting everybody see you?
#Artists
Friendly Reminder: If you’re a Black, Brown, queer, trans, or disabled artist, you never really get to step outside politics. Your work either names what’s happening or helps erase it.
Intersectionality is why Black, brown, Indigenous, immigrant, Muslim, disabled, queer, trans and other marginalized communities clocked ICE as lethal years ago.
Everybody loves Black culture until it’s time to listen to Black disabled, Black fat, Black trans, Black broke folks.
#Blacksky
the black diaspora hurts cuz:
it's not fair other poc can have intact cultures that couldn't be destroyed through assimilation and imperialism but black Americans had to rebuild everything only for what we make to be discarded, looked down on, and appropriated by everyone not just white people.
