#black queer writer

[cyarsk52-20]

The anti LGBTQ "groomer" conspiracy has led to a severe uptick in violent incidents. O'Shae Sibley was murdered by hate for doing something joyful. Y’all homophobic biiiiches need to be looking at your own households or should I say church holds because we all know the real groomers are: those white conservative male pastors!

[cyarsk5230]

A ball is happening at the gas station where O’Shae Sibley was killed.

[cyarskaren52]

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reeciecolbert Heartbroken over what happened to O’Shae Sibley. We live in such a cruel, vile world. Rest in peace O'Shae 🙏🏾

Reposted from @keithboykin O’Shae Sibley was a 28-year-old Black gay dancer who was murdered for dancing to a Beyonce song at a New York gas station Saturday night.

His 51-year-old neighbor, who is also gay, had warned Sibley about being so open about his sexuality, but Sibley was not afraid of the homophobes.

It’s sad and outrageous that we live in a world where masculinity is so fragile that it will not allow people to live their lives freely.

[theoffingmag]

Black people have always had to prepare themselves, their children, their communities for the impact of state violence. This, too, is an imagination of some kind, the preservation of the very people being hunted by the State. In this way, Black, Brown and Native communities have deeply powerful, futurist imaginative power.

Aurielle Marie, “The Other Side of Imagination”

[mermaidchansons]

So I went to the Gray Man premiere in hopes of asking Chris Evans if he accepts scripts.. He walked onto the ‘gray’ carpet and waltzed pass by. I ain’t even mad lol. He looked fine as hell ignoring us. But here’s pics of me looking cute asf. I’m manifesting working on a rom-dramedy with Mr. Evans in the future.

[rats-nonsense]

Intro Post (main blog)!!!

THE ORNITHOLOGY SOCIETY (ARG CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS): https://www.tumblr.com/we-know-what-you-are

Name(s): Rat/Alistar

Age: 15-17

Gender: Ambonec

Labels: Ambiamorous queerplatonic-/laurian-angled aroace

Pronouns: Any pronouns; except it/its and harmful neos

Interests:

• Video games (Minecraft, Resident Evil, Detroit: Become Human, My Friendly Neighborhood, Chilla’s Art games, etc.)

• Music (Lovejoy, Tally Hall, Miracle Musical, The Stupendium, AJJ, etc.)

• Science (mainly chemistry)

• Literature and art

• TV shows (The Owl House, Steven Universe, The Amazing World Of Gumball/TAWOG, Octonauts, Adventure Time, etc.)

And more!

Extra info:

• I’M BLACK!!

• Systems welcome!

• Tone tags appreciated!

• Posts will be random!

[blackqueernotables]

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs: the first scholar to research the Audre Lorde P apers at Spelman College, the June Jordan Papers at Harvard University, and the Lucille Clifton Papers at Emory University during her dissertation research. The Winton Chair in the College of Liberal at the University of Minnesota

[writersxanon]

writing a book is so hard lol I’m over it 😭😭

like it’s easy… BUT…. IT’S HARD. why is that 💀

[idolomantises]

I’ve said this before, but I always found stories that frame heaven as “evil” and hell as “good” (or less bad) to be genuinely boring. I like more nuanced approaches to each realm.

I understand that for a lot of people, Christianity is a religion they like to criticize and mock, but I feel like if you don’t even understand the fundamentals of the religion, why even attempt to critique it?

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: The Inspection stars Jeremy Pope & Gabrielle Union on collaborating with Elegance Bratton on his deeply personal film

Exclusive Interview: The Inspection stars Jeremy Pope & Gabrielle Union on collaborating with Elegance Bratton on his deeply personal film

Pier Kids filmmaker Elegance Bratton makes his emotionally potent narrative feature debut with The Inspection, opening in US theaters from A24 on Friday, November 18th, following its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival. Dedicated to his late mother, the impactful drama is inspired by events in Bratton’s own life, with Jeremy Pope starring as a Black queer man in his…

[cyarsk52-20]

This is absolutely horrible. People should be able to live and exist freely. 😞

[cyarsk5230]

unapologetic and open displays of joy in an oppressive system is an act of resistance. it is revolutionary.

[cyarskaren52]

Praying for O'Shae's loved ones. I can't fathom the rage they must be feeling. Yet another light snuffed out simply for shining. I have no personal ties & I'm sick from the senselessness of his death. May the murderer never know another moment of peace for the rest of their days.

[theoffingmag]

May that audacity inspire you to create more safehouses and support systems in your writing careers and institutions for fugitive thought. May you scrutinize the world more often, more closely. May all of this be a step towards building a newer, freer world.

— Aurielle Marie, "To New Beginnings"

[artigas]

I’m really happy that Black Sails is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, but (predictably) some of the takes I’m seeing online are so busted. It’s wild to me that anyone would complain about the fact that Anne Bonny kisses Jack after she’s developed this life-changing relationship with Max. It’s absolutely wild to see anyone roll their eyes or feel uncomfortable about the fact that Flint has sex with Miranda when he returns to her in season one or that Max is most likely a lesbian but actively has sex with men for pay and knows how to make that pleasurable. It’s crazy to me that some of the very audiences who claim to want queer representation feel so discomforted when they actually see the mess and seeming inconsistencies of queerness that they asked for.

The reality is that there are lesbians who have had (and will have!) meaningful, mutually-gratifying, and deeply sexual relationships with men. There are gay men who’ve enjoyed having sex with women, who are gay as the day is long and nevertheless feel sexually attracted to a woman or two and are nevertheless gay men, full stop. There are gay cis men who are happily married to trans women. There are femme dom tops and butch bottoms and there are mascs afab people who like femme boys. There are non-binary people and trans men who actively identify as lesbians. There are ace and aro people who enjoy thinking about and engaging with sex — sometimes in fiction and sometimes in real life. Queerness, in fiction and in reality, defies neat categorization. That is the beauty, power, and (perceived) unorthodoxy of queerness.

Now, I’ll say this — do I think the straight men behind Black Sails were actively thinking deeply and insightfully about the paradoxes and fuckery of queer identity when they wrote Black Sails? No! By their own admission, Steinberg and Levine have owned up to the fact that some of the writing of the show was really hinged on their own blind spots as people who are not (to my knowledge) members of the queer community. If I want to be generous, I think that the beautiful mess of Black Sails is that, in not feeling like experts enough to designate specific identity labels to any of their characters, the writers stumbled their way into more authentic representation of lived queer experience, which is to say that the notion that James Flint was actively thinking of himself as a gay man was anachronistic. As many lesbian archivists and theories have noted, the notion of a queer identity — as in, queerness is who you are, not what you do — was patently unthinkable for most cultures in the past. In other words, the idea that Anne Bonny operates in the eighteenth century as a lesbian and thus would not willingly engage in relationships with men is not only untrue of the series, but untrue of most recorded lesbian experiences in the real world. The notion that a lesbian would operate her entire life without engaging sexually or romantically with men, for instance, is a very new privilege that some of us are very lucky to enjoy, but it is not true for the vast majority of human history — hell, it’s not even true of our present world.

This is all to say that think that there’s something really funny about how we want queer characters to fit into neatly organized boxes. This isn’t a new problem, either. When the show was still airing, the BS fandom would get itself into tizzies about wether or not Flint is gay or bisexual, wether or not Anne Bonny is a lesbian, wether or not Silver is queer when his only canonical relationship is with Madi, etc etc. We’ve been having these discourses for years and I don’t know. I get that much of it is fueled by how badly some people want to see themselves represented in media, but . . . well. The siloing of queer characters and queer narratives into neat little boxes has never felt very authentic to me and nine times out of ten, it’s also just so damn boring.

[gisellelivesunderabook]

Here are some books by black queer authors!! Happy Black History Month!!!

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