#ive been waiting for someone else to show up 😭😭 im like the only brown person there usually. these 'queer spaces' are NOT inclusive enough

[decolonize-the-everything]

You know how I've been talking a lot about uplifting Black women cuz they do the most work and often speak on equality and liberation from the perspective their own intersecting identities which inherently includes liberation of others and how its white supremacist nonsense not to value Black women in every space they can be in?

How there will be no salvation without solidarity?

I went to a queer meetup today and finally met the woman my gf befriended a few weeks ago. She's a total sweetheart and when my gf told her what I blogged about she took out a list from her phone that listed a bunch of ways she wanted to do community outreach and said we should build those things together. She said that she made the list awhile ago but is finally in a place to follow through with it and our area is still lacking so we should do it!

This stemming from the conversation we were having about better serving the needs of queer poc and performative safe spaces as we, the only queer people of color present, not only had a white woman try butting into our (personal and private) conversation before we could even sit down but then watched as the rest of the queer group interacted and talked and had fun around a table while we were left to entertain ourselves squished together on a couch across the room.

Anyway I'm incredibly excited. I'm literally about to do some research and organizing and brainstorming right now.

It took me 5 minutes of knowing her to have a new community outreach project focused on the most marginalized members of our community. If you aren't giving Black women legitimate space to speak up and have a voice in your community then you and your community are in fact missing out.