Status Updates From The Rainbow Ain't Never Bee...

What has been, and still is, needed is for mainstream and privileged communities to go into the communities that raised them and taught them these perjorative views and to teach them differently.

I actually had the chance to meet Kaila at the Louisville book festival so I'm really excited to read her work. I just started, still in the introduction, but I already really like how the author used For Colored Girls within her title and shares how the publication was essential to her personal self discovery journey.

Seeing the book on her aunts shelf and beginning to question how black women/she identifies with

The racist and sexist practices propagated by white LGBTQ+ Pride attendees, as well as the huge police presence at today's festivals, are both stark indicators that Pride festivals have lost their way.

A queer-identified individual who is politically neutered and socially compliant, whose politic does "not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions, but upholds and sustains them, while promising the possibility of a demonilized gay constituency and a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption." (Duggan, The Twilight of Equality)