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luna-is-out-there · 5 months ago

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As far as I know, the trans lady currently in charge of my local trans support group is a person of color. (She's awesome and beautiful and I'm so proud of her and glad that the old folks there chose her to take over🙏)

There are so many more people in our community than the two or three in the now very fucking old Stonewall fables.

saying this for my non black queer followers but: black queer folk have always existed, we've always been around, especially when it came to defending and fighting for our communities rights.

it sucks to see us never included in queer centered art or post, but we exist.

#Idk if art of people with different skin tones is a part of modern classes in art #but they weren't back when I was in school in my tiny white-ass European country and took every art course I possibly could for a decade #I think the closest media to me I'm aware of that has people of color is a fanfic my partner has been slowly writing #There's this polycule friend group in it that's loosely based on people they've met #they're side characters but my partner loves them #Of course one of the POV characters is from our home country because they're doing write what you know for once #but yeah that's the closest I'm aware of at the moment. You're right it does feel kinda empty in general.#We don't try much to represent POC. I don't think we know how and that makes us too scared?#(At least that's how a lot of white cis people are about trans people. But I've seen people learn their way around the fear with help🤷‍♀️)#(My partner's page is allthewaydownhere and the fic is This Is Why We Fight (I think)(I've been off tumblr for a long time))#I think making friends helps (for white people who need to learn). Being in cities can help with that.#I could 100% use some more friends of color to actively chat with but lately life has made it hard to maintain relationships in general #so that's gonna have to wait until I'm eventually vaguely functional again

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