Status Updates From The Black Flamingo

When a black person says
they're only into white people,
that's internalized racism.
When a white person says
they're only into black people,
that's fetishization, which is also
a form of racism. If their skin
or racialized features matter more
to you than the person within,
that's racism.

Men are sandcastles made out of pebbles
and the bucket is patriarchy: if you remove it,
we fear we won't be able to hold ourselves
together, we pour in cement to fill the gaps
to make ourselves concrete constructions.

I go to the LGBT Society.
We sit in a circle and go round
saying our names and pronouns:
he/him, she/her, they/them.

How do you want other people
to refer to you?


A trans man called Seth,
with the pronouns he/him,
says he wishes his trans identity
wasn't questioned
with regard to his body.
"I wish people would understand,
some men have vaginas."

I always thought education
and money was going
to earn me respect,
but a successful black man
is a threat. Pulling me over
for driving a nice car.
This isn't what I wanted
for your moving day
but this is what it's like
to be black in this country
or anywhere in the world.
They interrupt our joy.
Our history. Our progress.

Don't let anyone tell you that you are half anything.
You and Anna are simply brother and sister.
Don't let anyone tell you that she's your half sister.
Don't let anyone tell you that you are half black and half white. Half Cypriot and half Jamaican.
You are a full human being. It's never as simple as being half and half.

Kilka dni temu napisałam że szkarłatna ćma to najlepsza książka jaką kiedykolwiek przeczytałam ZMIENILAM ZDANIE! TO jest najlepsza ksiazka jaką kiedykolwiek przeczytałam (jeszcze jej nie przeczytałam ale ciii✌️🤫)
Mam ogromną nadzieję że jak przeczytam resztę tej książki to nie zmienię zdania


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