My Gender is Black

octopodesinmybutt:

queeranarchism:

Hari Ziyad on black existence and the ideology of gender identity under whiteness.

“I am not saying that my experience is the same as a Black woman’s, or a Black trans person’s. I am simply trying to emphasize the importance of recognizing how none of us Black folk can “conform” to manhood and womanhood as those constructs have been formed, nor can we even “conform” to queer, trans and non-binary genders that way either––the way that makes the state recognize us as human.”

My Gender is Black