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khalebsalah submitted:
My name is Khaleb Salah Sojourner. I’m a queer, slam poet, model, designer, world traveler, activist, painter, and have the most intense desire to save the world… let’s learn from each other.
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Absolutely, I’ll clarify.
To return the comment y’all so ungraciously deleted, what I said was this:
Clarifying question: Does this mean y’all are also officially enacting a ban on fake afros too? Or is it just simply not ok to appropriate Mexican culture but ok to appropriate Black…
“If you can’t have a
dialogue about race and racism,
things you don’t experience and
just don’t know anything about
other than what your white peers
tell you, without getting angry and
defensive, perhaps you shouldn’t
be playing black music”
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THAT FOREVER
Real talk, I support Tom and Co. in all their other non appropriative music related endeavors but I’ve never set foot at HF due to the personal problems the existence of the event itself pulls up for me…the 2 most glaring being brown people suffering from hella internalized oppression and many a privileged hipster homo dancing at a small space in what used to be an unsafe part of the mission {i still avoid it out of habit} feeling cultured because they’re dancin to soul which is only fresh and engaging to them because they grew up without it in their households (and it doesn’t require much rhythm to dance to)
oh the ideas that come to me in my sleep…
*that shit needs to be able to fit in your bag so you can cruise and fuck people casually, right?
-facetiously- this is what gay culture is, no? craigslist, grindr, cruising, and bath houses? its life’s little privileges and aloof detached behavior, consuming is sexy… swallow that shit because if you spit you’ll insult someone.
What would it look like if the LGBT movement had a racial justice agenda? Well, for starters, we’d see our struggle for equality tied to other movements for justice, not just by analogy. So, for example, there’s been a noticeable silence about Trayvon Martin on most of the mainstream gay blogs, probably because most (white) gay folks don’t see the case as “our issue.” But as Zach Stafford recently pointed out here on HuffPost, gay folk should care about Trayvon Martin because all of us who are “outsiders” — whether because of sexual orientation, gender non-conformity, or race — can be targets of violence.
When we say that the gay right movement is the new civil rights movement, we’re playing into the divisive racial politics of NOM. We have to do better than “gay is the new black.” We have to see that the fight for sexual equality hasn’t replaced the fight for racial equality, because that’s not over. When the LGBT movement moves beyond shallow slogans like “gay is the new black” to embrace a racial justice agenda that sees our struggle as tied to others, then we’ll have truly won a victory against opponents like NOM that can only see “gays and blacks” as an easy place to drive a wedge.
"Moving Beyond ‘Gay Is the New Black’: NOM’s Divisive Racial Politics and the LGBT Movement’s Need for a Racial Justice Agenda
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I have seen discussion on a number of gay blogs but I guess those aren’t the “mainstream” ones the commenter is referring to in this essay.
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I absolutely abhor the mainstream - lol! J/K! Who are we kidding? It’s the WHITE gay movement - white voices, white faces and nothing else allowed.
75% of anti-queer violence is against queer PoCs but I see nothing but white faces on “It Gets Better” or on the news when it comes to violence against queer peoples.
It’s not so much appropriating the struggle of Black Americans when white gays say “[white] gay is the new Black” as much as stealing, erasing, trivializing, editing, twisting and tearing apart Black people’s struggles in the world.
White gays trivialize the mass murder (the ever-justified police brutality/self defense)/abuse/marginalization/sexual assault/ETC^1000 of Black Americans, whether queer or cis+hetero today when they dare to be so stupid and racist as to compare being white+gay to being Black+cis/hetero, never mind Black+queer. The white gay movement is not Kosher at all. It’s unhealthy for all, and incredibly dangerous for PoCs in the world.
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CHUCH! All of that
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i know this is an obstuse concept for “liberal” “conscious” “radical” white queers who are used to getting drunk and abandoning their wits, manners, & panties to grasp but being drunk does not hinder my ability to honor consent, boundaries, and/or have safe fun
Read moreRULES OF CONDUCT FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE [IN QUEER BARS]:
1) Keep your display of affection (kissing, handholding, embracing) to a minimum. Your sexuality is unwanted and offensive to many here.
2) If you must slow dance, be as inconspicuous as possible.
3) Do not gawk or stare at lesbians or gay men, especially bull dykes or drag queens. We are not your entertainment.
4) If you cannot comfortably deal with someone of the same sex making a pass at you, get out.
5) Do not flaunt your heterosexuality. Be Discreet. Risk being mistaken for a lezzie or a homo.
6) If you feel these rules are unfair, go fight homophobia in straight clubs, or:
7) Go Fuck Yourself.
"- QUEERS READ THIS: I HATE STRAIGHTS (via mattachinereview)
FOR REAL THOUGH!