QTPOC Tumblrs!
- Asexual POCs Unite
- API Queers at UC Davis
- Black Gay Problems
- For 2Spirits
- Fuck Yeah Asian Dykes
- Fuck Yeah Black Lesbians
- Fuck Yeah FTMs of Color
- Fuck Yeah MTFs of Color
- Fuck Yeah Jot@s
- Fuck Yeah LGBTQ Asians
- Fuck Yeah LGBTQ Cubans
- Fuck Yeah LGBTQ Latinxs
- Fuck Yeah Queer Latinxs
- Fuck Yeah Queer People of Color
- Fuck Yeah Stud on Stud
- Hot Asian Dykes
- Queer and Asian at SJSU
- QPOC in Like
- QTPOC Chicago
- QTPOC DMV
- Queer and Asian at UC Berkeley
- Soy Quien Soy: Trans* Empowerment Collective
- Trans POC
- WOC Who Like WOC
I can’t seem to find any general tumblrs about two-spirit, queer Native Americans, MTFs of color, or y’know, basically everything that’s not in this list… Help?
HEYYYY THERE’S ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT TO DONATE!! OR TO JUST GET THE WORD OUT
THEY ONLY NEED $2034.00 MORE
COME ON PEOPLE!!
Help fund this documentary featuring trans people of colour!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/assignedsex/assigned-sex-a-documentary-film
I started a queer/trans* poc book club/reading group!
goodreads.comYou guys should totally sig boost this post.
Throwing a Queer/POC/Women's Tinychat Party!
Well, I’m thinking about it, pretty sure it will happen and I will host it, possibly tomorrow night.
To attend, you have to either be queer, a person of color, or a woman, and aware of privilege and intersections in case we end up talking about serious subject matter… but we could totes end up just talking about tv shows, movies, games and makeup and shit.
Get fancy! Put on a wig and/or cool makeup! Wear a fucking tutu if you want. Get dolled up as little or as much as you want and show off your tinychat party gear on webcam!
Bring a snack and show us what you’re eating or drinking. Basically it will be a sleepover through a computer screen.
SO WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DOING THIS
SIGNAL BOOST: HELP ME CREATE THE NON-FETISH POC MEDIA BLOG LIST
okay y’all, here’s the deal.
i’m basically working on a list of POC photo/media blogs that acknowledge the source of the content they reblog/recieve and are not out to turn subjects into fetishes.
what do i mean by this?/ give me an example
take the tumblr 18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W for example, a blog that reblogs and posts a lot of pictures of black women. have you ever noticed how the minute this blog reblogs a picture the original credits/information disappears and up pops “18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W” in link form?
have you ever peeped their mission statement where it says
This blog is a display of my greatest weakness: black women and particular types. I like what my friends call “strange things” about black women…like their collar bones, big hair, nappy hair, curly hair, bald head. The only thing that can top those things is a good smelling woman… Since I can’t smell them thru the www, I’ll be satisfied with the visuals. So right now, this blog is just a collection of images that have piqued my interest or satisfied some desire by forcing me to shake my head and punctuate my temporary disbelief in the momentary satiation with a “GOT-DAMN”. Yeah; nappy haired, big haired, curly haired or bald headed sistrines. Yeah, got-damn. Yeah; sistrines with pronounced collar bones. Yeah, got-damn. Yeah; sistrines with an antiquated fashion sense and a futuristic sophistication. Yeah, got-damn.
as athinkinganimal astutely put “If that isn’t some objectifying bullshit, I don’t know what is”.
this sort of behaviour when it comes to POC media oriented blogs really has to end. we need to hold blog owners claiming to represent us accountable for not doing shady problematic shit. we can have blogs that celebrate the beauty of POC existence without the mods going “i collect these pictures because when i look at them blood rushes to places and my body says YEEEAHHH BAYYYBEEEE!”
or taking credit for pictures that are not theirs in order to promote their own blog
yeah no that’s hella gross.
so if you know of blogs that are
- POC only {people of color, as in non-white}
- collects and posts photos and other forms of media
- maintains correct attribution of sources for photos posted and reblogged
- is receptive to being told the actual source for a photo or piece of media
- and doesn’t fetishize the subjects that comprise the theme of this blog
then please send the name of the blog to my ask bog, or you can put the link in my fan mail. i will compile a list, put it on a page of my blog which will be viewable by all.
i should note: if you’re a mod for a POC themed blog and want to submit to the list, know that i will be going through your blog with a magnifying glass in my hand. i will be looking to make sure you haven’t removed credit from reblogged or posted photos, you are receptive to people asking for credit on their photos and subsequently ponying up, and you are not a fetishizing type of person.
so is everybody clear on that?
alright cool. submit away.
“Compared to averages for the entire U.S. population, transgender people are 10 to 15 times more likely to be incarcerated, two to four times more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted while in prison or jail, and four times more likely to live in extreme poverty, with a household annual income of under $10,000. Forty-seven percent of trans people have reported not getting a job due to their gender identity/presentation, 97 percent have experienced harassment at work or in school. Trans people are 25 times more likely to commit suicide and 16 times more likely to be murdered. Nineteen percent of all trans people have reported being homeless, and over 40 percent of Black trans people have experienced homelessness. More than 50 percent of Black trans folks have reported being pushed into sex work or selling drugs in order to make an income at point in their life. Some 38 percent of African American trans folks report experiencing police harassment, 15 percent report being physically assaulted by police, and 7 percent report being sexually assaulted by police.”
—KEEGAN O’BRIEN
Jamaica – Transgender women call for equality
actup.org
Two transgender Jamaicans, Whitney and Tiana Miller, have joined J-FLAG’s We Are Jamaicanscampaign, which seeks to encourage respect and understanding for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. We Are Jamaicans is a participatory video campaign (http://www.youtube.com/user/equalityJA), which was launched on January 17, 2013 by J-FLAG to raise awareness about LGBT identity and community.
We cannot effectively reduce the incidence of violence against women in Jamaica if we continue to ignore socio-cultural factors that make violence against women permissible. Transgender Jamaican women are often not included in our vision for women’s rights in Jamaica despite their vulnerability to violence and discrimination. The voices of transgender women in the We Are Jamaicans campaign is in an effort to bring visibility to their lives and to not limit our definition of ‘woman’ to genitalia. In her video, Whitney stated that Jamaicans “are not accepting of people whose gender identities don’t align with their biological sex,” (http://youtu.be/O9iNYKqttc4). Tiana Miller, whose video can be seen athttp://youtu.be/GCHppSFrDYE said she does not have life easy in Jamaica. “I feel alienated, always being bashed by society, but that doesn’t change who I am,” she said.
J-FLAG is encouraging Jamaicans to recognise that we must embark on implementing a more multifaceted programme to address violence against our women and girls. It is important that we recognize and appreciate the need to create support systems for victims and their families, encourage honest conversations about gender, sex and sexuality, and teach mutual respect for each other. The campaign is funded by the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition(CVC) through its Global Fund Vulnerablised Project.
