#blackqueer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackqueer, aggregated by home.social.
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@neverbeenshy, Black Royalty, wrote:
If your understanding of Africana spirituality doesn’t include queer people you’re not as anti colonial as you think.
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@neverbeenshy, Black Royalty, wrote:
If your understanding of Africana spirituality doesn’t include queer people you’re not as anti colonial as you think.
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@neverbeenshy, Black Royalty, wrote:
If your understanding of Africana spirituality doesn’t include queer people you’re not as anti colonial as you think.
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@neverbeenshy, Black Royalty, wrote:
If your understanding of Africana spirituality doesn’t include queer people you’re not as anti colonial as you think.
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@neverbeenshy, Black Royalty, wrote:
If your understanding of Africana spirituality doesn’t include queer people you’re not as anti colonial as you think.
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Je suis une artiste et travailleuse sociale franco-sénégalaise installée en Californie. Artiste autodidacte, j'ai commencé par des coloriages et à doodles. J'utilise maintenant l'aquarelle, l'art numérique et l'animation.J’apprends l’HTML(pour partager toutes mes passions sans contraintes) et le stop motion (l'animation de médias mixtes m’enjaille)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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Je suis une artiste et travailleuse sociale franco-sénégalaise installée en Californie. Artiste autodidacte, j'ai commencé par des coloriages et à doodles. J'utilise maintenant l'aquarelle, l'art numérique et l'animation.J’apprends l’HTML(pour partager toutes mes passions sans contraintes) et le stop motion (l'animation de médias mixtes m’enjaille)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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Je suis une artiste et travailleuse sociale franco-sénégalaise installée en Californie. Artiste autodidacte, j'ai commencé par des coloriages et à doodles. J'utilise maintenant l'aquarelle, l'art numérique et l'animation.J’apprends l’HTML(pour partager toutes mes passions sans contraintes) et le stop motion (l'animation de médias mixtes m’enjaille)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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Je suis une artiste et travailleuse sociale franco-sénégalaise installée en Californie. Artiste autodidacte, j'ai commencé par des coloriages et à doodles. J'utilise maintenant l'aquarelle, l'art numérique et l'animation.J’apprends l’HTML(pour partager toutes mes passions sans contraintes) et le stop motion (l'animation de médias mixtes m’enjaille)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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I am a Senegalese-French artist and social worker fresh in the Bay Area. Self-taught artist, I began with coloring books and doodling. I now use watercolor, digital art and animation. Lately I have been learning HTML (to have a website and share about all my passions with no space contraints) and and stop motion (mixed media anim’ makes me happy)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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I am a Senegalese-French artist and social worker fresh in the Bay Area. Self-taught artist, I began with coloring books and doodling. I now use watercolor, digital art and animation. Lately I have been learning HTML (to have a website and share about all my passions with no space contraints) and and stop motion (mixed media anim’ makes me happy)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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I am a Senegalese-French artist and social worker fresh in the Bay Area. Self-taught artist, I began with coloring books and doodling. I now use watercolor, digital art and animation. Lately I have been learning HTML (to have a website and share about all my passions with no space contraints) and and stop motion (mixed media anim’ makes me happy)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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I am a Senegalese-French artist and social worker fresh in the Bay Area. Self-taught artist, I began with coloring books and doodling. I now use watercolor, digital art and animation. Lately I have been learning HTML (to have a website and share about all my passions with no space contraints) and and stop motion (mixed media anim’ makes me happy)#BlackQueer folks#ReproductiveJustice folks#Decolonial #BlackArtist #Introduction #qtbpoc #Blackqueer #MastoArt #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackNerd
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💥Announcement! Sunday 18.01.2026💥
🔥🌲Christmastree burning at Kinderbauernhof Wagenplatz🌲🔥
Sunday, 18.01.2026 | 4 p.m. | Wagenplatz Kinderbauernhof (children's farm) Adalbertstraße 69, 10997 Berlin
Arrival: Bus 147 Adalbertstraße | Bus 140 Waldemarstraße/Adalbertstraße | M29 Adalbertstraße/Oranienstraße | U1, U3, U8 Kottbusser Tor
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=15086
Bring a tree and bring your friends!
Delicious soli drinks and food to keep you warm!
🌲 bring a tree , get s drink for free 🍻
Access to Wagenplatz via the car park next to the farm
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💥Ankündigung! Sonntag 18.01.2026💥
🔥🌲Weihnachtsbaumverbrennen auf dem Kinderbauernhof Wagenplatz🌲🔥
Sonntag, 18.01.2026 | 16:00 Uhr | Wagenplatz Kinderbauernhof Adalbertstraße 69, 10997 Berlin
Anreise: Bus 147 Adalbertstraße | Bus 140 Waldemarstraße/Adalbertstraße | M29 Adalbertstraße/Oranienstraße | U1, U3, U8 Kottbusser Tor
📣 Aufruf: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=15086
Bringt einen Baum und eure Freund*innen mit.
Köstliche Soli-Getränke und Speisen, die Dich warm halten!
🌲Bring einen Baum mit und erhalte ein Getränk gratis🍸
Der Zugang zum Wagenplatz ist über den Parkplatz neben dem Bauernhof
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Designed to be a closed door, Basquiat's work holds no warm welcome for those who approach it with a narrow eurocentric gaze...
from Outlaw Culture by Bell Hooks
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Via CB
Let's celebrate our 2SLGBTQIA+ sisters and brothers openly
#blackwomen #blackLGBTQ #LGBTQ #blackqueer #blackfeminists #blackauthors #blacktheorists #blackeducators #blacksocialcritics #blackamerican #blackmastodon #blacklove
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@mirandaimani_
You are not pro [Black] if you are not:
Pro [Black] LGBT+ people
Pro [Black] disabled people(1/2)
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackqueer #blacklgbtq #BlackDisabled #blackatheists #blackinmates #blackhomeless #blackunhoused #the92percent #wegotus #blackmast -
Settle Down S01E01 released in 2025
"Mason is an expert on queer relationships and a matchmaker with a booming success rate. When it comes to love, he knows all...except why his own relationship is on the rocks."
I felt resistance watching this so I'm pushing myself to continue watching it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19883272
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackcanadian #blackqueer #blackLGBTQ #blackpodcaster #blackpoet #blacklove #blackmastodon #tv #greattv #blacktv
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The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructuresE N J O Y
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The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructuresE N J O Y
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The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructuresE N J O Y
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The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructuresE N J O Y
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The TOP #5 being:
#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/
#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/
#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructuresE N J O Y
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Another drawing I chose for the « Joy as an act of Resistance » art show.
Inspired by my playing sessions with my big sister and what we were imaginating. I really love how my drawings translate on Procreate.#MastoArt #BlackArt #BlackArtist #BlackFedi #BlackQueer #Procreate #DigitalArt #Childhood
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TransActual are looking for people to join our (volunteer) board of directors.
We’ve decided to expand the size of our board of directors in order to make it more representative of the communities we serve and so that there are more people to support the work of our growing organisation. In particular, we’re keen to receive applications from Black trans people and Trans People of Colour.
More info: https://transactual.org.uk/volunteer/
#QTIBPOC #QTIPOC #QTPOC #BlackTrans #BlackQueer #Trans #NonBinary
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TransActual are looking for people to join our (volunteer) board of directors.
We’ve decided to expand the size of our board of directors in order to make it more representative of the communities we serve and so that there are more people to support the work of our growing organisation. In particular, we’re keen to receive applications from Black trans people and Trans People of Colour.
More info: https://transactual.org.uk/volunteer/
#QTIBPOC #QTIPOC #QTPOC #BlackTrans #BlackQueer #Trans #NonBinary
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TransActual are looking for people to join our (volunteer) board of directors.
We’ve decided to expand the size of our board of directors in order to make it more representative of the communities we serve and so that there are more people to support the work of our growing organisation. In particular, we’re keen to receive applications from Black trans people and Trans People of Colour.
More info: https://transactual.org.uk/volunteer/
#QTIBPOC #QTIPOC #QTPOC #BlackTrans #BlackQueer #Trans #NonBinary
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TransActual are looking for people to join our (volunteer) board of directors.
We’ve decided to expand the size of our board of directors in order to make it more representative of the communities we serve and so that there are more people to support the work of our growing organisation. In particular, we’re keen to receive applications from Black trans people and Trans People of Colour.
More info: https://transactual.org.uk/volunteer/
#QTIBPOC #QTIPOC #QTPOC #BlackTrans #BlackQueer #Trans #NonBinary
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TransActual are looking for people to join our (volunteer) board of directors.
We’ve decided to expand the size of our board of directors in order to make it more representative of the communities we serve and so that there are more people to support the work of our growing organisation. In particular, we’re keen to receive applications from Black trans people and Trans People of Colour.
More info: https://transactual.org.uk/volunteer/
#QTIBPOC #QTIPOC #QTPOC #BlackTrans #BlackQueer #Trans #NonBinary
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👇🏾Tags for the people👇🏾
#demisexual #transmasc #omniromantic #polyromantic #polyamory #queerplatonic #androgyny #qpoc #headcanon #fantheory #blackqueer #enbian #genderfluid #transition #bipoc #queerbipoc #transman #genderconfirmation #aceheadcanon #gayheadcanon #transheadcanon #fanficrecs #drabble #originalart #ocs #fanart #poc #BlackMastodon
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👇🏾Tags for the people👇🏾
#demisexual #transmasc #omniromantic #polyromantic #polyamory #queerplatonic #androgyny #qpoc #headcanon #fantheory #blackqueer #enbian #genderfluid #transition #bipoc #queerbipoc #transman #genderconfirmation #aceheadcanon #gayheadcanon #transheadcanon #fanficrecs #drabble #originalart #ocs #fanart #poc #BlackMastodon
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👇🏾Tags for the people👇🏾
#demisexual #transmasc #omniromantic #polyromantic #polyamory #queerplatonic #androgyny #qpoc #headcanon #fantheory #blackqueer #enbian #genderfluid #transition #bipoc #queerbipoc #transman #genderconfirmation #aceheadcanon #gayheadcanon #transheadcanon #fanficrecs #drabble #originalart #ocs #fanart #poc #BlackMastodon
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CW: Long post, essay on white supremacy and gender binarism
THE TIME HAS COME AT LAST! A little over 3 months ago, I made this post promising I’d write something about gender binarism and white supremacy: https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/111426260719689474
Well, that essay grew in scope and has now become a three-parter! The first part will be about the history of the ideology known as gender binarism, the second part will be about the gay rights movement, and the third part will be my own analysis of how these issues are showing up in present day digital spaces.
PART ONE
We will begin with a couple of articles. The first article is here:https://minorityafrica.org/colonialism-gender-trans-identity-africa/
I highly encourage you to read this article, but it discusses how pre-colonial African societies held varying, highly flexible ideas about gender and gender norms. Femininity and masculinity were both quite fluid. However, Western colonialism purposefully destroyed these cultural practices in an attempt to homogenize these societies’ behavior to force them to become “civilized”. Violence, shaming, and criminalization were all used as tools to accomplish this. Today, modern African countries still bear the scars of that colonialism, with transmisia being just as common as it is in the West.
The second article is here:
Once again, read it for more information, but this article examines various examples of how some indigenous societies in North America and Asia treasured gender fluidity. Not only did cultural practices include those who lived gender fluidity, they also emphasized the importance of such people in spirituality and storytelling. Despite resistance from these indigenous societies, Western colonialism marginalized these practices and attempted to repress these people as much as possible.
Both of these articles show us how Western colonialism, as well as white supremacist patriarchal ideals of masculinity and femininity as rigid and based in anatomy, were forced upon many indigenous peoples and ended up trampling their relatively flexible gender categories. This, in a nutshell, is what is meant when we discuss gender binarism. It is a Western ideology that forces white, “civilized” gender norms on the racial Other, who is depicted as savage, immoral, and deviant.
PART TWO
In this part, we will be looking at the origin of the gay rights movement through the lens of the involvement of two key trans people of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.Let’s do some reviewing. In this article you will find a brief summary of how both Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera became friends and were closely involved with the burgeoning gay rights movement, including their presence at Stonewall and founding of S.T.A.R. :
https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship
You can see in this article a mention of how they experienced resistance within the more mainstream gay rights movement. We will expand on this in the next article:
https://www.liberationschool.org/our-armies-are-rising-sylvia-rivera-and-marsha-p-johnson/
This article is MUCH more in depth. If you’re only going to read one article from this post, make sure it’s this one. While difficult to summarize, I want to draw your attention to a few essential elements. First, the members of S.T.A.R. were predominantly working class and what we would refer to today as trans people of color. Second, they openly allied themselves with the Young Lords and the Black Panthers in a show of solidarity against white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. Third, the white middle class mainstream gay movement was openly hostile to the members of S.T.A.R. due to that movement’s white supremacist attitudes and adherence to respectability politics, even going so far as to ban Sylvia Rivera from speaking at a Christopher Street Liberation Day in 1973, the first iteration of what eventually became Pride. (She spoke anyway, and you should watch the video, it’s quite stirring: https://vimeo.com/234353103)
Looking at these historical examples, we can see that the gay rights movement suffered immensely from its allegiance to white supremacy and assimilationism. These destructive allegiances fractured the movement, and we see the results today. We have achieved marriage equality (except for disabled folks), the pet issue of white middle class gays, and an ongoing trans genocide simultaneously. Trans people of color suffer the worst, and while we have since then elevated Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as founding figures of Pride, the Pride parades of today are capitalist white supremacist celebrations of assimilationism with corporations and cops involved in almost every city. Pinkwashing and homonationalism run rampant.
To close part two, you can read more about Marsha P. Johnson here:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson
and Sylvia Rivera here:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera
PART THREE
For part three, some analysis of my own. Today in the queer community, we are still grappling with the legacy of gender binarism and white supremacy. The fact of the matter is, you cannot dismantle the gender binary without dismantling white supremacy. If you read the history you will see: gender binarism comes from white supremacy and colonialism. The gay rights movement has largely failed to recognize this fact, and our efforts to, as Sylvia Rivera put it, fight for “Gay Power” have been limited and sabotaged by a stubborn adherence to white supremacy. The gay rights movement of the 70s should have heralded the vision, power, and passion of the members of S.T.A.R. and joined their efforts in coalition building, instead of marginalizing them because they were less palatable to the establishment. All because they were poor, not white, and less “polished” (read: civilized).And we see the legacy of white supremacist Western colonialism even in our queer digital spaces today. For example, I and many other queer and trans BIPOC before me have been raising the alarm about white supremacy on the fediverse for years. We have been speaking at length about how our issues should be centered in digital activism as well. How has this call to action been received?
True to form, white queer and trans people have been extremely hostile to us, claiming that we are participating in transmisia in our efforts to make the fedi a safer space for everyone. To those people I have this to say: it is impossible for you to truly fight transmisia without divesting from white supremacy, the system that invented and forced transmisia on the world. You who fail to align your activism with the struggles of colonized peoples can only ever be agents of white supremacy and therefore agents of transmisia. Many of you will declare your allyship with the colonized and oppressed communities of color, but your actions prove the lie behind your words. False allyship to the colonized and oppressed is just another white supremacist and transmisic tool of destruction.
To close, I will be blunt and specific. For all of you who claim that Ro or WelshPixie are puppetmasters and that those of us working in solidarity with them are members of a cult or are deluded by their manipulations, I have this to say:
You do not have my permission to deny my fucking agency any longer. I am fully capable of speaking for myself as a Black nonbinary transfeminine person. I do not need you or anyone else to tell me how to think or what to believe. I have read the history and I can see the truth, plain as the nose on my face. Furthermore, it is my opinion that any person who examines the facts and is able to renounce their allegiance to white supremacy and gender binarism will believe as I do.
Shame on you for denying my agency! Shame on you for betraying your queer and trans comrades of color with your white supremacist and transmisic ways! Shame on you for participating in a mass disinformation and harassment campaign against those of us FIGHTING to be a part of this community!
Reading the history of colonialism, white supremacy, gender binarism and the gay rights movement and looking at what’s going on now, I have one question.
What’s changed?
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #QTPOC #BlackQueer #WhiteSupremacy #Pride #MarshaPJohnson #SylviaRivera #Colonialism #GenderBinarism
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Hello there all! eva here, admin of BQL. I am back to you now with a brief fundraising post. I am so so so grateful for those that have already donated!
As it stands now, we have lost a few of our monthly contributors since October, leaving us a little short of what we need to cover server costs and pay our mods.
If we can get ONE MORE person to sign up as a recurring Mod Sponsor ($25/month), we will be solvent. If you are able, you can donate to that specific campaign here:
https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife/contribute/mod-sponsor-67246Alternatively, if that's a bit steep, we have several other tiers available on our general donations page here:
https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlifeRegardless, boosts are always thoroughly appreciated 💕
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ #MutualAid
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❥ Hey there! We're the Cosigning Collective, a polyfragmented DID system of 200+ members. Call us Keaton/Kitten or CosCol! We're bodily 19 years old, Black, and neurodivergent.
❥ We've got a lot of interests, but we'll mostly be posting about the following: Writing, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Psychology, Film, Children's Cartoons, Classical Performance (Band/Choir/Piano), and Advocacy.
❥ We're also big fans of the MCU, The Magicians (pre-S5), Teen Wolf, and The Witcher, and we'll probably reblog stuff about that here!
❥ Anyways, we'd love to meet new people. Just be aware that we do have AvPD, so we might take a while to respond~!
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Greetings upon all who see this message! eva here, admin of BlackQueerLife.
A little over a month ago, when I started this server, a number of people were asking me if they could donate to help pay for server costs. To those who were curious: you now can! We have an account with Open Collective where you can make tax-deductible donations on a recurring or one-time basis. This would allow us to cover server costs, pay to have mods so it's not just me running the place, have a translate button, upgrade the server, etc.
The link is: https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
I wish we had been able to come out with this right away rather than waiting several weeks, but I chose Open Collective because I have seen multiple orgs online and off blow up due to lack of transparency where funds are involved. Open Collective allows transparency and openness about how and why funds are spent. I think taking the extra time is worth what we've gotten.
I have always said that I want to run BlackQueerLife the right way, and I think Open Collective is the best way forward for us. Any boosts and/or donations would be thoroughly appreciated!
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ
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Hey, an instance for black queer folk that needs a bit of exposure to get the word out about it. Please boost if you have friends who've felt alienated by the nazis you tend to find on other, unmentionable servers. https://blackqueer.life
Admin: @tillshadeisgone
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UPDATE: For those who asked, we have an Open Collective page if you are interested in donating! It's https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully.
We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks.
When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users.
This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places!
However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research.
This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings.
Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to.
So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much!
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ
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CW: Ranting about Bluesky
Man I'm so mad about the shit they are doing over on Bluesky. So many cool Black folks are over there and the dev team is just so incompetent and so apathetic. I mean, there's a reason I'm here and I'm planning to stay here but I just feel for my people over there bc we can't get a fucking break.
Right-wing fascist shitheads are flooding the place just like every other place and a lot of the yt liberals in charge are just playing along like nothing is happening, leaving the community in the dark.
So on the one hand I'm so damn pissed for them bc they don't deserve to keep getting let down like this over and over by rich and powerful useless white turds in suits. A lot of my folks don't have shit IRL so a digital community matters so much more for us. And these worthless pieces of money wearing skin keep roping them in and just letting them suffer.
On the other hand, I'm so grateful for what we've got here. I seriously don't know what I'd be doing if I was still stuck suffering in their shit so someone could sell my data and dump truckloads of money into blackrock. I feel like I escaped fr. Shout out to y'all.
P.S. damn y'all were not kidding about how a longer character limit makes you wanna just let fly! Thanks for reading all that!
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I can't remember who and of course I can't search my own boosts (🫡) but earlier in the year someone shared this store that does these really cute enamel sliding pins, kind of like a health bar for your mental health. Got a couple for a friend, but held off from completing my order because it was on pre-order till this month. And now that I've checked back in, this really caught my eye, so into the cart it goes.
Anyway! It's a Canadian shop called Bibipins, and the owner is Black, queer, and disabled, and now they sell compression items too.
#TTRPG #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFriday (I mean, it's for businesses, right?) #ADHD (what's a good catch all term for nD people?) #Neurodiverse #BlackQueer #Canada
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Been thinking while out dealing with my medical situation that when I get back fully here, I'm posting more Queer Black content. My love for the once underground ballroom and House culture, especially the trans House mothers, means I'll start there first. I wish I had chosen family like that. My Queer self would've thrived in a House. That'll be my #BlackJoy #BlackFriday contributions for a good while.
#BlackMastodon #Queer #lgbtqia #BlackQueer @[email protected] @[email protected]
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Elegance Bratton's Closet Picks: Criterion Collection:
"While in town for the New York Film Festival premiere of his acclaimed new film THE INSPECTION, writer-director Elegance Bratton stopped by for a trip inside our films closet!"
"THE INSPECTION on now available to rent on demand, & to see more of Elegance's work you can head to the Criterion Channel"
#EleganceBratton #TheInspection #BlackQueer #LGBTQ #BlackMastadon #CriterionCollection #Cinephile #Cinema #Film
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Elegance Bratton's Closet Picks: Criterion Collection:
"While in town for the New York Film Festival premiere of his acclaimed new film THE INSPECTION, writer-director Elegance Bratton stopped by for a trip inside our films closet!"
"THE INSPECTION on now available to rent on demand, & to see more of Elegance's work you can head to the Criterion Channel"
#EleganceBratton #TheInspection #BlackQueer #LGBTQ #BlackMastadon #CriterionCollection #Cinephile #Cinema #Film
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Elegance Bratton's Closet Picks: Criterion Collection:
"While in town for the New York Film Festival premiere of his acclaimed new film THE INSPECTION, writer-director Elegance Bratton stopped by for a trip inside our films closet!"
"THE INSPECTION on now available to rent on demand, & to see more of Elegance's work you can head to the Criterion Channel"
#EleganceBratton #TheInspection #BlackQueer #LGBTQ #BlackMastadon #CriterionCollection #Cinephile #Cinema #Film
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Elegance Bratton's Closet Picks: Criterion Collection:
"While in town for the New York Film Festival premiere of his acclaimed new film THE INSPECTION, writer-director Elegance Bratton stopped by for a trip inside our films closet!"
"THE INSPECTION on now available to rent on demand, & to see more of Elegance's work you can head to the Criterion Channel"
#EleganceBratton #TheInspection #BlackQueer #LGBTQ #BlackMastadon #CriterionCollection #Cinephile #Cinema #Film