like. are white queers even aware that Black queers who aren’t Marsha P. Johnson exist?
Do they know more Black queers have been born since then? Do they know that people are pretty chill with studs’ masculinity in Black spaces and it’s mostly a casual thing? Do they know that the whole “Black people are homophobic” stereotype is way more complicated and nuanced than they think, and way less accurate than they assume (and also their fault because widespread homophobia is some colonizer bullshit)?
Do they know intersectionality is an internal experience as well as an external one? Do they know femmes can have short hair and mascs can have long hair without it being gnc because that’s not how Black genders are perceived? Do they know what a gnc Black woman really looks like, or do they just assume all Black women are a little masculine? Do they know visibly queer Black people in the US have to worry about what will happen and how they’ll be perceived when they get pulled over? Do they know my Blackness is a huge part of both my gender and sexuality, and stud was the main term I used for both for a long time?
Do they know how many Black queers feel excluded from the queer community because white queers don’t care to learn? Do they know how many times we’ve tried to tell them about our cultures and identities just to be ignored? Do they know they’ve stolen almost all of their “gay slang” from Black people and call it ghetto when we do it but cool and trendy when they do it? Do they know we all used butch once, but then they decided Black people couldn’t anymore, then they tried to take stud from us too? Do they care that they have repeatedly tried to gentrify us out of our own language? Do they know not all studs are ok with being grouped in with butches, and some even resent it because butches are always the default and no one talks about studs?
A lot of people draw Spock with green or greenish skin, often because Vulcans have green blood and they want to make him look more alien, but this is widely regarded as antisemitic as his actor (and Spock himself if you count beta canon) is Jewish and green skin is a common trope in antisemitic caricatures (think goblins or stereotypical halloween witches etc)
This has been an ongoing discussion among star trek fans for at least several years now
As a Jew, all of that, yes (although it’s been a discussion for a lot more than a few years)
When people try to use the blood reasoning to draw him green, I like to counter with this. You aren’t drawing humans bright red. And there are countless animal species with red blood who show no signs of pink or red in their skin either. He’s got a human-like olive skin tone, so calling it “accurate” to draw him green is just incorrect also. So there’s not even a lore reason for drawing Spock green; it’s just antisemitism.
It is antisemitic to draw ANY Vulcan green, however, not just Spock. Vulcans and Vulcan culture right down to the live long and prosper gesture are very much based on Jewish culture. Leonard Nimoy and Gene Roddenberry did that on purpose, and Leonard talked a lot about it.
I could function in a society that had an actual nightlife that isn’t synonymous with just clubbing. Where are the night markets what if I want to go to the library at midnight
