#cameout

#LesbianVisibilityWeek is coming to an end so here are some #mixed #lesbian public figures.

#JasminSavoyBrown (Actress) - “I never #cameout. I just started posting pics of my girl & I a few years ago. I knew when I did it would hinder opportunities & it was scary, but I thought, “Do I want to work with those jerks anyway?” No! So if I miss out on that job, that’s ok. Ill get better ones. I’ll never know who’s passed over me & discarded me for being me but that’s ok. I’m in great company. Everything is double-edged, positive & negative, but me being comfortable in my skin as a #biracial #queer woman, being happy, that’s most important. I know being true to myself inspired others. I’d prefer that over a stupid job.“

#AudreLorde (ICON - writer, feminist, librarian & activist) - "Frances & I began living together when the kids were 6 & 7; so we raised them together & we decided very early on that we had to arm them the same way we armed ourselves. We lived in Staten Island which is probably the most regressive borough of New York City. It was green, had a lot of space which are things we needed. But we decided that the position of strength was one of knowledge & so we spoke to them about what they could expect. About the fact that we were #lesbians, what it meant & what they could expect. We spoke about what it meant to be an #interracial family too.”

#Kehlani (Singer, Songwriter, Dancer) - "I finally know I’m a lesbian.” She knows she carries “privilege” as someone who passes as “cisgender presenting”in the industry. "It’s tougher for #trans artists. Black #gay men. Black masculine gay women. I’m lucky. I don’t walk down the street & people go, ‘She’s into women’ because of the way I present. That’s privilege. There are many artists who were at the forefront but weren’t able to make the strides that I have, being 100% myself, because of the way they present, the biases & phobias of society. All the beautiful Black trans women in my life that I’m able to witness, not only living their true power, but be courageous, fearless, fiercely educate everybody around them. They do it so effortlessly, it comes off easy to people who don’t know them. But I know its hard.”
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