devilbunnii:

nellyybabe:

mixed-apocalyptic:

virtuheaux:

sindels-scream:

ourqueenfelinefatale:

quietinthechaos:

ourqueenfelinefatale:

yelnatszeroni:

biomerge:

i’m
about to lose my fucking MIND AT THIS COMMENT

Lupita’s a Latina but y’all staying silent about her

Quick question: Why didn’t yall care about getting your own “Captain America”, “Iron Man”, “Superman”, “Wonder Woman”, “Batman”, “Thor”, “Avengers”, I👏🏿 CAN👏🏿 GO👏🏿 ON👏🏿

Quick answer FOR FOREVER the same as Asian people. We’ve all been waiting for our people to be seen as more than side kicks, to be able to be seen as love interests and not exotic foreign woman that gets with hero white male. Or not just be the Asian male who can only tell jokes and will never be seen as a romantic lead. People can wonder when they will achieve a success and opportunity like Black Panther. But sure say how others haven’t stood behind you all. How everyone is riding your “coat tails” bitch you should want other minorities to succeed. You should want them to be able to attain opportunities. Not say fuck everyone else stay the fuck down and shut up.

Yet you only start talking about it when black people finally get something. That’s the only time these damn convos come up. Just like every February when it’s Black History Month, “why ain’t there such and such month” when Google is two clicks away from showing you that that shit been there. And when I say “riding our coattails” I mean yall expect us to do all the work for you and when we put our issues first you get all pissy and outraged. But newsflash, we ain’t your mules and our success in one thing doesn’t make us equivalent to white ppl. I ain’t saying fuck everyone else, but fuck you if you think we should lift you up even over our own selves. 

Coco and Ferdinand came out and we didnt come out our face talkin about “whoa whoa aint we about due for an animated nigerian movie??” every Black person i follow on this site gets excited af whenever ANY non-white racial group gets good representation and WE always call out erasure of other non-white groups when we see it BUT WE ARE NOT YOUR GODDAMN WORK MULES non-black poc are so fucking obnoxious, STOP EXPECTING ALL YOUR SHIT TO COME OFF THE BACK OF OUR HARD WORK we only hear yall run your mouth when you see black people making progress, its not our fault you assholes dont fight for shit until you see us with something you think yall should just get automatically bc how dare Black people get it first when we’ve been fighting for it since day one

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And y'all don’t say shit when black people in your ethnic groups get left out.

Y'all want Latinx representation, but no Afro-latinx representation. Y'all want Asian representation, but not Afro-Asian/Black Asian representation. In fact, Black Panther released in East Asia and people are complaining that there are too many black people and it’s boring/irritating/making them drowsy.

Let’s also not forget that Black people have fought for Latinx and Asian rights despite a history of both communities engaging in anti-blackness or trying to be classified as white in many cases.

Black people, women specifically, coined intersectionality and the term People of Color to include non-black people in struggles against discrimination, the lack of representation, and so much more and still expect black people to do the rest of the work for them, as well.

If you want representation, fucking fight for it and create your own movements and on your own time, not just because Black people finally have something that represents them. We will still continue to support y'all but we not supporting this shit. If y'all want representation, fight for it but don’t try to fight for it by overshadowing and overreaching because we finally have some.

Y'know, you don’t have to volunteer for a drag. You can just sit back and scroll on.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

*whispers* don’t forget how much we stand by other groups when they’re wronged in entertainment, too. The ONLY reason why I knew Doctor Strange was a whitewashed disaster was because a BLACK GIRL I follow was like, “Nope. Hard pass. Here’s why.” I’m not familiar with the comics at all but because of the black nerds I follow I knew what the fuck was wrong with it.

Did the same with Ghost in the Shell. Did the same with Death Note. Do you know how many black nerds wept over the missed opportunity of Iron Fist? Do you know how many of us are out here creating hashtags and writing think pieces about representation for ALL POC? Do you know how many times we share the voices of other POC because they’re the ones directly effected?  

Don’t act like we ain’t here for other groups ESPECIALLY while we’re celebrating our own successes. That’s just a low blow, to be like, “When’s it my turn,” instead of, “Congratulations.” 

Don’t be that person.

Don’t hijack our joy. 

Edit: Also pretty tired of being made to feel like we don’t do enough. Like folks always want us to prove that we’re there for them then get mad when we get a win and have the audacity to be happy about it. 

umbra-puto:

anybody: *makes a headcanon for a character being lgbt+*

straight people: why can’t you make your own gay characters? leave the canon straight characters alone :(

anybody: *makes a lgbt+ character*

straight people: why does everyone have to gay?

Yeeeeeep! Folks be like, “If you want more representation make it yourself” then get mad when you do 🙃

Here’s my schedule for Anime Detour! I’ll be in artist alley taking preorders for “magnifiqueNOIR” and I’ll have all kinds of new prints and other fun crafts with my partner :) HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!

We’re off to Shuto Con this weekend and are more than ready for their magical girl theme! We’ll be doing panels and we’ll have a table in artist alley full of our books, crafts, magical girl prints, and we’ll also be taking preorders on “magnifiqueNOIR” throughout the weekend! Come check us out!

My thoughts on Hidden Figures. If you haven’t seen it, please, go and do so. The article is kinda spoilerish, but nothing huge is revealed.

queerlyblack:

queerlyblack:

I need to see two black women fall in love on screen

I can’t watch black media without it being tailored for straight people. I can’t watch queer media without it being completely white. I’m sick of having to imagine what a relationship would look like outside of these constricting boundaries. 

All of my queer black friends are imitating heterosexism in their relationships because that’s what they’ve been conditioned to accept as “normal.” Ideas of what it means to be dominant and submissive are predicated on heavily on masculinity being the pinnacle of control and assertion. It’s like if there’s no dom/sub then it’s not a “real” relationship. But in order for someone to feel strong, their partner must be perceived as being weak. 

This constricting, binary way of thinking is toxic and often goes unchallenged, especially in the queer community. It’s painfully obvious that the lack of black queer relationships in the media has created a vacuum in which we feel pressured to mimic the dominant society’s practices. We can do better. Discussions about people at the intersection of blackness and queerness is something that doesn’t get talked about enough and I’m over it. No more silence.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll bring it up again.

When I was 18 years old and experiencing my first girl crush, I actually thought I couldn’t be into girls. Not just because I was worried over people’s reactions, but I actually thought queerness was a white thing. Because that’s all I ever saw. Any LGBT character I saw in the media was white. So I actually thought, “This isn’t a thing with black people.”

Well, I suppose I should take that back, because on rare occasions the sassy gay black friend made an appearance, but heaven forbid that character actually got shown in any meaningful relationships beyond giving the heterosexual friend advice.

And I suppose there’s the exotic black woman. So being into girls just added to her sexiness. 

But an actual meaningful relationship? HA HA HA HA HA HA! 

Hell, even the Stonewall movie whitewashed the black, queer characters, and that was supposed to be a movie based on actual history. And this movie was released in 2015. Imagine what kind of impact that could’ve had on the black, queer crowd, to see those people on screen aiding in the LGBT movement. But nope. Guess we’re meant to be sassy friends or exotic eye candy. 

I’ve been in a relationship with the same woman for 14 years. Tell me again how my relationship isn’t meaningful?

So this is random but it’s part of my NaNo story so it’s in my head.

When I was coming out (I was 18 at the time so 2001) I actually, legitimately, thought that being gay was a white thing because I couldn’t think of any black queer people in my life who I could look at. To my knowledge there was no one in my family, the one girl I knew of on my block was labelled “confused” because she was bisexual, and I couldn’t think of any positive representation in the media at the time.

Representation is so important.

I hate the mindset of, “We need more diversity” then something comes out that attempts to have some diversity and the response is, “Well it’s not representing ALL diversity therefore it is shit.”  

Do we need more diversity in our media?

Yes.

Do I expect one show to have every single type of person in it?

No.

But I just want SOMETHING, you know?  So when a show like Urbance has an awesome looking dark skinned cast (which, yes, skin color is a thing in the black community where people who are darker than others don’t think they’re as attractive, so yes, thank you, for cool looking dark skinned characters) that’s reason to celebrate, not crucify it because, “It’s missing some stuff” or “are they really PoC because future world where everyone looks like that.”  

Everything is missing some stuff, the point is to try.  You don’t have to cram in every kind of minority, I just want some representation that’s different than the norm.  I’m black and part of the LGBT community, I’m not going to get pissed off if I find a great cast of black characters but none of them are gay.  I can remember growing up watching great shows that had a predominately black cast that didn’t touch on LGBT issues, but hey, that didn’t mean that they didn’t touch on issues that were important to me.  Same can be said for every form of media you can think of.  I’ve seen great shows that empower women of color but not lesbian women of color.  I’ve seen great shows that talk about LGBT issues but don’t talk about race.  The point is to celebrate the series that try to have diversity, even a little bit, and not just the one sassy black friend or the hip swinging gay guy, but actual characters with a story to tell (and that’s characters with an “s,” as in more than one)  

So let's not give these shows a hard time because they don’t have every single minority group in one sitting, especially when the show is still developing and could very well introduce said person who is part of said group that’s missing.