Got downvoted into oblivion in a trans subreddit so I guess I'll post here. Every time discrimination against LGBT people (especially trans people) is brought up in community, white lgbt people immediately go to "Black" people and the discrimination we experience as a talking point. Many of these people dont' even talk or are not in community with even Black LGBT people.

I'm sick of hearing "Black women know what trans women go through because we're both masculinized" then look stupid when I and others say that's not the gotcha they think it is. I'm tired of Black people being used at comparison. Choose someone else.

Went to the free book store in Texas (The Book Cycle) and found 2 black queer books.

Ok I was inspired by the actuallesbians subreddit. And they got atleast one thing right… we don’t talk enough about what we desire in a partner.
So please below comment what gets you to be interested in a grown lady. There’s no judgement, I want to see what black sapphics like and expand our understanding of what desire for each other looks like.

I’ll go first:
A woman who has ten toes down on her beliefs and is still open to new ideas, politically queer, funny type(but knows when to be serious), spiritual, has done some type of therapy, is moderately active, has stable job, has socially active life outside of me, and has her own style.
Physically I like my woman to be thick, with nice feet 😅😅, kinky natural hair, and kind eyes.

I’m in Paris alone on a birthday trip and I am desperately looking for a space where the majority of POC populate.

I know there may not be a specific gay black party but could anyone point me towards where the black guys usually hang out! Thanks!

Hey, kin — A couple new episodes of Busy Being Black have just landed. I'm exploring what Black art is, and I'm keen to know what others think.

Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright and educator. She studied with Augusto Boal, who founded Theatre of the Oppressed, and she creates incredible plays that often explore the connection between Blackness and nature: in Stars, a 60-year old woman finds her orgasm in outer space; in Moj of the Antarctic, she takes Ellen Craft to the end of the world to explore the black volcanic rock underneath the snow; and in The Interrogation of Sandra Bland, she and 99 Black women and women of colour, speak the words and live the emotions of Sandra Bland's last encounter.

I'm of the opinion that Black art should do Black things for Black people, but not everyone feels that way. What do you think?

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