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The extreme focus on what he has done for straight cis Black men though is seriously marginalizing. It reproduces queerphobic misogynoir. Audre Lorde would not be doing this mess. You don't see Barbara Smith doing it. Time to move along and let him be in the past.
I appreciate the pushback and context. I really do. My aim is/was to show how differently someone can be seen in one bubble or another.
Yes, patriarchy is a bubble. We can agree on that. But I thought we all agreed it was a shitty one, and so I am surprised to see you uplifting it the way that you are.
I’m gonna tell you like I’ve been telling NB people lately - That’s an in house conversation. One black people have been having for decades & continue to have - like us now. This new public discussion about the many sides of him offer no clarity
I love what Jay Smooth said tho: Back in the 80s and 90s a lot of us found it easy, and believed it necessary, to say things like "but at the end of the day he fights for us***!" and ignore all the asterisks that had to come with that "us," ....
...all the fully human fully black people that were always left out of that "us." In 2018 I don't see how that flies anymore. We've got whole new generations of us, out here fighting for us, with no asterisks needed.
No asterisks needed. That’s my new jam
No asterisks needed. I need that tshirt.
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