Unfashionable to say, but if I had to pick a survival tribe... it would cut across identity lines completely.
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And that's even with the full realization that if I were Too Black I would be cut off from that space as well. Shrug. Intersections are hard
and also, to be clear/honest, that's not bc I've never occupied black queer spaces. But as a not-very-femme-presenting(?) cis black man...
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from an assimilated middle class background, I often felt like I was tripping over my own privilege in those spaces, feeling not-woke-enough
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I think where we feel most comfortable can be as much abt where our privilege is coddled as where our oppression is eased, sadly.
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