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White Bitch

[Originally posted on my Livejournal, Saturday July 22, 2000 at 1:53 pm, from a copied AOL Instant Message, mildly edited for clarity]

Bluest0: what made you think i was white? ...just curious won't get mad no matter what you say

TrevorBrklyn: your first response to me....

Bluest0: what did i say?

TrevorBrklyn: and on the internet its not alway to easy to detect race

TrevorBrklyn: i dont chat with womyn online, so i thought if its someone responding to me it must be some white bitch

Bluest0: some people say i speak like a white person ( which is like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard for me to hear), i was just wondering if i write like one 2.

Bluest0: damn

TrevorBrklyn: i get that too. my best friend loves to tell me how white woman i am.

Bluest0: just a brotha to sista thing why would she be a bitch?

TrevorBrklyn: the white woman is my anti-thesis, enemy, never got along, alot of bad energy there

TrevorBrklyn: like the dynamic you read about on my tour

TrevorBrklyn: that little white bitch said just cause i was angry i assaulted her

Bluest0: i see clearly what you mean

TrevorBrklyn: in my career i have intimidated many a white woman

TrevorBrklyn: being an intelligent dark-skinned gay black male is not easy

TrevorBrklyn: in corporate america

Bluest0: i have observed that a lot with white women they will take things to a very dangerous level very quickly and without true cause,

brothas really should watch themselves

Bluest0: most brothas learn that the hard way

TrevorBrklyn: yeah and imagine here we were in a foreign country

Bluest0: what country again?

TrevorBrklyn: Switzerland

Bluest0: you know, it my experience, they don't just do that to brothas, they'll do it to anybody, it's just that brothas are not aware, because it's not the way sistas behave

TrevorBrklyn: i dont think brothers are not aware its just they can get caught out there

TrevorBrklyn: i am very aware of siddity white women and their ways

Bluest0: this white chick drove me home one night told me she knew a white guy who lived across the street, then told me the guy had raped her, i was ready to go with her to the police station for emotional support

Bluest0: then she says, i was drinking and he should have known better

Bluest0: i'm like NO white chick, you should have known better

Bluest0: just a little story

TrevorBrklyn: well that is white privilege

TrevorBrklyn: the right to be flighty and stupid

Bluest0: true that..

Bluest0: so.... do you prefer white men?

TrevorBrklyn: i dont prefer anyone now a days

Bluest0: guess i don't either.

TrevorBrklyn: black men have not done right by me either i was never "BLACK" enuff

Bluest0: really?

TrevorBrklyn: or "MAN" enuff

Bluest0: i ....occasionally get people who don't like me based on speech patterns once i know that, i deal with them as the idiots that they are

TrevorBrklyn: well i get that all the time

Bluest0: our people can be very hard on homosexuals

TrevorBrklyn: can't be an intelligent niggah, then if your a faggot forgetabout it

[Afterwords: I stand by my using the term "white bitch", not to encourage misogyny, but to embrace my genuine disdain for whyte women collectively. At this time I had so much trauma from whyte womens, Julie Crosby and her false but deadly allegations against me in Switzerland. Amy Van Aarle and her under-current of bad vibrations. She always seemed to think someone was coming for her, and I was barely even studying her, just trying to avoid her energy.

Even the whyte girls, because they were so young they were barely women, who got me fired from a gig for calling them out for promising a client something I knew the agency couldn't deliver. The most curious thing for me is that prior to interacting with whyte womens in usually some kind of working dynamic, I never really had much consideration for them. But repeatedly they showed extremely bad behavior towards me if they felt they had the least bit of authority.

So in the year of our lord two-thousand "white bitch" was the embodiment of my relationship to all whyte womens.

I will acknowledge that this may have been shocking and a bit surprising to Bluest, I have never been one to mince words, I attempted to give her a bit of context, but I wasn't going to apologize or pretend to be politically correct to mask my general animosity to whyte womens, which in large part started because of THEIR perceived insecurities.

Both of our relationships to Black straight men also seemed tentative and problematic, its so interesting to me to hear a perspective from a straight Black woman about their experiences with straight Black men. Bluest gets into it more in the part of our chat that isn't posted here, but like myself I felt she wasn't the biggest fan.

Coming from a Black straight woman her question about me preferring white men is suspect. It seems to be laced with this built-in nationalism where Black people always think we should choose Blackness over everything else, even if patriarchal Blackness has dogged you out. I am not with that, full stop. I don't think my Blackness is reduced in anyway by whom I choose to date or fuck. I feel its extremely problematic to continue to have interactions with someone who is openly hostile and despondent towards you.

As I have written about lately I had a very antagonistic relationship with Black men since I was a child, their apathy and sometimes open hostility to who I was based on how they perceived my performance of masculinity, or who I chose to love. Black men were never even a romantic consideration for me due in large part to once again their own behavior.

I find it reductive to even attempt to equate my dating other races as an indicator or a lacking in my allegiances to Blackness. My own nephew pointed out to me that Uncle Trevor you're #ExtraBlack, meaning that this young person saw that I might be slightly over-compensating for the fact that I was queer, femme and didn't necessarily talk Black, by making sure everyone knew I was BLACK AS FUCK!

Lastly I am most amused that both Blue and I struggled with the acceptance of our Blackness based on how we performed it. We were both clearly educated, cultured and respectively both white collar workers. We had interest beyond the mandated Black-approved topics, and actively had friendships and even romantic dalliances outside of the race.

As Gloria Naylor pointed out in her book the Women of Brewster Place, Black isn't any one thing, Black just is. And it is perfectly acceptable for a Black person to choose how they will manifest their Blackness, because at the end of the day in this country, they will always be Black ergo their interest are also Black.

It is silly to me that due to patriarchal white supremacy that those of us who are not cis straight whyte men fight amongst ourselves, perceive unfounded threats and creat animosity where there should be collaboration and friendship. In this piece I have talked about groups who are collectively disparaged for being "other" and not being the default which is white manhood. It doesn't elude me that we have drank the Kool-Aid and have ended up fighting each other when we all have a common enemy.

White women, straight women, Black women and queer people all face discrimination with nuances of difference, it would behoove use to come together and work to dismantle the hegemony that would seek to set us against each other as we fight for scraps from the masters table. There is plenty for all of us, and we would do best to acknowledge we can all get to the promised land if we link hands and try to get there together.

[Photos by Brown Estate]

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I tried testing out the colour palette that I have chosen and incorporate it into my poster concepts. I found the colours to be engaging and easy to read with text.

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16 and 52!!

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or 

*yes these are stock photos because im trash with words leave me alone*   

and 52:  

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[xtrablak674]

When Did I Become Black?

Was having a very interesting conversation with my nibling this morning, about the lack of Puerto Rican culture that was cultivated in their household and how their Boricua-ness would be gone by the next generation, if it wasn't gone already.

When did I become Black? If I was being honest, other than a cookout or two a year, we weren't really overtly Black in my household either. It is such a curious thing to think about because I am known as the #ExtraBlack uncle to my nieces, niblings and nephews. I was more likely to get Frankenberry for breakfast than anything remotely ethnic.

For all intensive purposes, I was raised American. Watching American television shows, going to American schools, participating in American extracurricular activities, all the while speaking English. I guess the obvious thing is to unpack what exactly is American, if I am looking through a childhood lens, it would be popular culture that seemed to be practiced by everybody else, no matter what their social economical background.

I grew up in a time when even though cable had just began to peek its head out, we were all watching the same television shows at the same times. We bought similar food at the supermarket, we ate out at the same places, the Chinese restaurant, the pizza shop, my mom bought her meat at Butcher Boys like everyone else in our small town.

My mom never made black-eyed peas with neck-bones or fish and grits, a unique dinner meal for us was pork chops and applesauce, the very same thing I knew the Brady family ate on television. And for all intensive purposes my peers were having the same thing at least I assumed they were. The most unique thing my white friend Robert bought to school in his homemade lunch was fruit roll ups, which he always shared with me if I made a funny face for him. I was one of the free lunch recipients but both Black and white kids got free lunch.

My local public elementary school was pretty dichromatic, you were either white or Black. Even looking at the low-resolution class photo, there are maybe some Latinx folks in the class, but the only colors that come through clearly are white and Black. There are about four kids who may be "other" albeit at the time I had no idea of what that other could be, my interaction with Latinx kids was severely limited, I remember meeting a Latino cousin at a family picnic in the park and I thought he was so cool, more-so for just being something different than what I normally experienced.

Dr. King was on the peripheral of my existence, no portrait of him hung in any of the homes I was raised in. My mom did have a bust of Nefertiti, but she felt like a white lady to me, I didn't know any Black women who looked like that. I can clearly recall my mom's dashikis, but I just thought they were comfortable shirts, not a statement or a symbol of defiance against The Man. I guess the Blackness was there, but not in such great amounts to make it distinctive against the homogeny of Americanness.

Seriously, I am not the first person to ask what qualifies as Black, an albeit its such a huge part of my identities today, its like I said in another essay, "I Never Made It About Race, America Did". As I told my nibling, I hadn't really considered my race other than the altercation I had biking through this neighborhood in my town and being chased away by white boys being called a nigger. My race didn't really come to the forefront until I moved to the Bronx after my mom died, and it seemed like I entered an episode of Oz because everyone was grouped by where their ancestors came from, not the fact that we were all just American kids trying to figure out puberty and the world around us.

It was at this time Asians came to my awareness and Latinx became much more prominent, I then also learned that there were special groups of white people like the Albanians who terrorized my Bronx neighborhood. But city-life was much different than life in a small town, we had gangs in a city, a whole new vegetable, as I entered junior high school and I was terrorized by Decepticons, who were not ten foot tall talking robots.

Colorism was introduced to me way before racism, which is curious because colorism is racisms first cousin. I remember repeatedly being called out for being dark-skinned usually by people who had complexions just like mine. Meaning my Black peers or more-than-likely their parents had drank that white supremacy Kool-Aid that sought to divide us as far back as the plantation up into current times.

Very early I learned that my complexion wasn't as desired as my brothers medium browns or my mixed first cousins very fair complexions due to their whyte mom, my Aunt Cynthia who was married to my mom's youngest and only brother. The call was coming from inside the house, which did lead to me thinking less of myself and wanting to be lighter like my siblings.

I am gonna stop and post this here, but this feels like a topic I can explore a lot deeper because in my head I haven't answered the question I put forth at the top. I didn't answer my own question in my essay, I think the topic is much more complicated than I initially thought and that Blackness was something I came into slowly over a long period of time, not necessarily because I wanted to, but because I was forced to.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

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do you guys happen to know what the ladyworld or together through time font is?

Sorry this ask took so long to answer! I delegated it to someone else originally and then we all forgot.

The font for Ladyworld is called Black Tulip ITC, and the font for TTT is, I think, Powerlane ExtraBlack or Marbold.

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