Yo Being Black And Depressed Is Hard As Fuck. Being Black With Anxiety Is Hard As Fuck. Being Black With

yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

I HAVE HAD ELIJAH MCCLAIN’S PETITION PINNED TO MY PROFILE FOR THE PAST ALMOST TWO MONTHS AND HAVE BEEN REBLOGGING IT ALMOST REGULARLY AND IT STILL HASN’T REACHED IT’S GOAL SO NOW I AM GOING TO BOMBARD EVERYONE WITH THE PETITION TEN TIMES A DAY YOU BETTER SIGN IT AND SHARE IT AND REBLOG IT EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT. HERE IS THE PETITION . 

not liking men makes things so lonely especially because I go to lan all girl’s school like even though I have friends who are also queer I’m not comfortable in my own queerness so I don’t even want to discuss things like that

Quick rant about African homophobia but the fact that white people will really say "ooh X country hates gay people, they're so backward and barbaric" is incredibly insulting.

As far as Africa is concerned, homophobia can't be disconnected from Christian colonizers. The erasure of queer history can be tied to them and has led to some of the most radical shifts toward homosexuality I've ever seen.

Take Uganda, everyone's favourite homphobic punching bag. Few would believe that Uganda had a gay king. If you've only heard of Kabaka Mwanga through European writings you would believe that he was gay (which the Europeans claimed he gained from the barbaric Arabs) However, some modern Ugandan scholars believe he was bi as he slept with his wives and male pages. The missionaries used this narrative to claim he was possessed by demons leading him to burn Christian martyrs.

While the killing of the martyrs was obviously wrong, the British used his sexuality to undermine his power and colonize Uganda. ( This was around the same time Oscar Wilde was put on trial ) This is just one example of the British weaponising homophobia as they spread it throughout Uganda.

Other examples include the erasure of lesbian marriage in certain tribes and the condemning of male wives and female husbands (given my lack of resources on them, I can't say they were trans but they certainly didn't fit the mold that colonialism forced on them) The fact is that modern homophobia in Africa can be traced back to colonialism and Christianity.

While this does not mean Africa was a woke™ haven, it does show how insidious remarks about it's homophobia can be. With the knowledge that these attitudes have been stoked throughout the past two centuries, it becomes easier to divorce African identity and homophobia. This goes against the stereotype that non-white communities are socially regressive, often having sexist/homophobic structures.

This doesn't absolve any Africans of their homophobia but rather seeks to explain some of it and add nuance to the discussion of LGBT rights in Africa.

TLDR: Colonization erased queer history in Africa. this doesn't absolve Africa of its homophobia but it's necessary to understand the role of colonization in it

reminder that mermaids cooperate with cops, are run primarily by cis people, only support kids, and are just generally Kinda Not Great. if you wanna donate to some uk trans orgs:

if you’re in the uk google your city / county + trans & see what comes up! any grassroots org both needs ur money more and will do better things with it

gendered intelligence are based in england

transgenderNI are in northern ireland

scottish trans are in scotland

books beyond bars send books to incarcerated LGBT+ people in the uk

alternatively, search 'trans' + 'donate', 'paypal', 'gofundme' on twitter & give directly to trans people

and set up recurring donations if you can! we need money even when transphobes aren’t trending!