gotta start a poetry thread
(1) The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart by Eloisa Amezcua: https://poets.org/poem/witch-reads-me-my-birthchart
rules about this account
i dont consent to any posts from this account being collected, screen captured and/or scraped.
im over 18, like by a decade at least, so you gotta be 20+.
black people are welcome to follow. everyone else message me why you want to follow me.
will add as i think of more shit
i completely forgot to do the intro post
black / autistic / nonbinary / lesbian / w C-PTSD
name: lex or tony
pronouns: they/them
i write, love musicals/theatre, do a whole bunch of side projects/learning due to hyperfixations, and am (apparently) unlearning a whole bunch of shit that stems from childhood so! tread lightly
someone on the bird site asked what their black followers want their nonblack followers to know and ill share mine here (though i will admit i was thinking specifically of yt people at the time):
learn to put your body between black people and violence. chances are the violence will stop or lessen if it sees that you might be the target. it will not stop for me.
family shit, homophobia like alluded to but not specific
theres been a surprise sapphic storyline in this very religious very southern show we're watching for family night and my heart is basically always in my right shoulder blade bc of it
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family shit
i have successfully moved to the floor with my computer only facing my sister (possibly, and only because i was comfortable saying it was so i could stretch my back) so we shall see how it goes
family shit
literally typing this now cause shes across the room, i have several gender dysphoria tabs up, and i cant sit away from her cause she'll take offense, so i mean technically i will be done here for a while i guess
i hate being sick, it really gets me messed up about productivity doesnt equal worth and all that
its a lot of us in here, and for the most part, we get along so like, it makes me think collective housing is definitely what i want to do in the future, i just have to like disavow myself of the belief that all labor isnt equal or some shit
"If they were black..." statements tend to be used to demand more force and build up of the state apparatus, rather than to grow tangible support for black liberation. You should be worried if you hear people talking that way.
Any hypotheticals around blackness tend to be tricks of the skillful oppressor who knows invocation of blackness is too handy a tool not to keep in the arsenal.
black nonbinary lesbian autistic + bipolar + C-PTSD
dont come to me with bullshit
must be over 20 to follow thanks