#queer black women

[genderqueerdykes]

"Prison cells are disproportionately stacked with poor, disabled, Black, and Brown people; Black trans women, who are often at the intersection of all of these identities, are the most overrepresented group inside prison walls. A study by the National Center for Transgender Rights and the National LGBTQ Task Force found that almost half of Black trans women in the United States have been incarcerated. Once inside, their abuse rates are extreme. The abolitionist group Black & Pink surveyed 1,100 queer and trans people in lockup, and one out of three described being assaulted by prison staff. Groups like Black & Pink and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) have made themselves known to the system, so the system must employ ever more devious ways to cloak the abuses."

Toshio Meronek, January 2023. Excerpt from the introduction of the book Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, authored by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major.

[sensualnoiree]

welcome to taurus season bby 🐂 🌱

[manicpixiedepressedwitch]

kelela for true laurel magazine lensed by myles loftin

[storyweavingspider]

So (IG @)Zozo.azura and I met last month, and after trading IGs I realized I've had her art up on my bedroom wall for over two years.

Sooooo we decided to have a cosplay/photoshoot date as her characters!! 💖

We did human versions of Maiize and Zozo, two of her original demon characters. Please go look at her artwork bc it's so good and this date was so so fun. 🥰

[anonil88]

POV: You're video chatting with the butch/masc vampire before going to bed.

+cis het men please don't touch this+

[l3xistentialism]

I looked pretty good last night 🍇

[lesbian-empire]

sapphic love letters

Addie Brown to Rebecca Primus (1860s)

"O my Dear Friend how I did miss you last night I did not have any one to hug me and to kiss. Rebecca don't you think I am very foolish. I dont want anyone to kiss me now . . . no kisses is like yours."

“I never shall love any person as I do you.”

“Wishing that I was in your loving arms and you would be imprinting sweat [sic] kisses.”

Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus were two free Black women who met in Hartford, Connecticut. Brow worked as a domestic servant to support herself as an orphan, while Primus taught recently freed Black people and built a school in Maryland. The two exchanged over 150 letters (though only Brown's were salvaged). Their love and adoration for one another gives us an amazing insight on the history of women who loved women.

Rebecca Brown (first image) & Rebecca Primus (second image, middle with large, flowery hat)

Sources [i] [ii] [iii] [iv] & book: Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends

[blackpunkwrld]

Happy pride month!! Here’s some queer ppl 🌈

[bigheartedbibliophile]

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Summary: 👩🏿👩‍❤️‍👩👩🏿‍🔬

Read: April 2021

Grace Porter works harder than most people. She has to, as a queer, black woman in the astronomy field. Her whole life, she’s been planning for her dream career. She has been in school nearly her entire life, and now, with her PhD. in hand, finding a job should be easy, right? When she wakes up in Vegas to find that she’s married to a random girl and doesn’t get the job her professor said she was a shoo-in for, Grace realizes she needs a break. She leaves her entire plan behind to truly get to know the woman she married - and herself. This book is about self-love, mental health, and finding your place in the world. It’s about being okay with not being perfect, finding your family, and choosing who you want to be.

I laughed. I cried. I'm still crying. This book was so well written and so relatable. This book will rip your heart out and sew it back together. 💖

[chipswsauce]

18+ Black Queer Women discord server!

I made a server for 18+ black queer women! ✨

We are super friendly, welcoming and we want to grow our community and find more black queer women 🧡

If you want more black queer friends as a black queer women/nb person, or trans you are welcome :))

Want to join? Pls dm and I will send you the link :)

🌸

Need to be 18+

Pls have ur age in your bio!

[shawtyfromdirtydocks]

Stop building communities online and focus on your local community. Especially black queer folk in red states. Yall must find each other cause nonblack queer folk aint gon always be on our side and we know this. Hunker down and hold tight, bust most of all, stay safe and keep your ancestors in your heart and fist.

[sensualnoiree]

🦁

[manicpixiedepressedwitch]

[burgundyheartz]

11/03/2024

Tomorrow might be the last day I get to go to the gym and go grocery shopping. I now have a fear of getting shot in the head while walking on the treadmill because the color of my skin is too threatening and my childless uterus is too much of a threat to the average man.

Or maybe it's because they don't want me to steal their jobs, instead, find a "black job" and stick to it. Maybe I'll be a DJ, or a drug dealer, a black job, right? Or maybe I'll be rotting in a casket, shot by a white man with "mental health issues". Rotting in a casket because I might be one out of millions of black women who die during pregnancy because I was being "dramatic" about the pain. Or maybe my husband will set me on fire and end my pain and suffering.

Maybe my black job will be staying inside for the rest of my life because no matter the results of this election, they will retaliate.

[blackqueernotables]

Amythyst Kiah: Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter.

[lcperry]

Recently did a collab with other creatives at Serendipity! 🩵 We talked about LGBTQ+ inclusion in publishing & our own experiences as LGBTQ+ creatives. Feel free to read the article here #WritingCommunity! 🥰 (Also let’s connect on IG! (@/Lcperry614)

https://bookstr.com/article/open-pages-open-identities-5-creatives-discuss-lgbtq-inclusion-in-publishing/