Award winning Writer. Bestselling Author of All Boys Aren’t Blue. 2020 Root 100 honoree - book agent @whimsicallyours film/tv - Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. They/Them
Oct 3, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Tariq Nasheed doesn’t want liberation, he wants the power to oppress like a white man
You can’t be pro-Black and attack Black women regularly
You can’t be pro-Black and patriarchal
You can’t be pro-Black & anti-queer
His hatred of some Black folks is a tool of white supremacy
Black women and Black queer people square up daily against anti-Blackness.
He feels that any checking of cishet Black men is anti-Black which is dangerous and part of that “protect the image” at all cost logic.
Drapetomania: “Runaway Slave Syndrome”
American physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright observed black slaves who fled from captivity and saw an illness. He named the illness, “Drapetomania or the disease causing Negroes to flee” #BlackHistoryMonth
It’s was reported that an entire swimming pool was drained because Dorothy Dandridge took a swim in it.
The New Frontier hotel in Vegas also drained an entire swimming pool because Sammy Davis Jr took a swim. #BlackHistory#BlackHistoryMonth
Nov 10, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Many of us who are LGBTQ go through a second adolescence because our first (5-18 yo) is about suppressing identity.
So when we do get into our 20's we make A LOT of mistakes that most attribute to younger people because we never got to be younger people in our true identity.
Suffice to say, If you are LGBTQ don't be so hard on yourself if your life doesn't mirror the heterosexual timeline of love, marriage, career, and kids because many of your years were stolen from you. So take time to live them.