#queer people of color

biyuti:

there is something grotesque about all the random people saying that marriage ‘equality’ should be on the same level as ensuring the basic survival of trans kids (see this for context)

i wonder how many of them clicked through to see that the tweet was written by a trans woman of color?

literally get the fuck out of my face

if you cannot understand why making sure that trans kids (and adults)

have roofs over their heads, have food in their bellies, and clothes on their backs

needs to be prioritized over and above marriage ‘equality’

Reasons once again to not trust that mentality of, we’ll do the easier, less controversial stuff first and get to you later. Cause everyone who gets pushed lower and lower on the list is always the most marginalized in whatever community.

It makes me even question the emphasis on “rights,” and that’s pretty sad. Rights can be granted and taken away. And these rights are important, but they’re relative luxuries compared to basic survival needs.

Like yeah I understand that you want visitation rights if your partner is in the hospital, but at least in the u.s. access to & safety in a hospital is a fucking LUXURY. Knowing you won’t be deported or assaulted or sterilized. Having access to a real hospital because you aren’t homeless or in prison or uninsured.

The first rights anyone needs to be fighting for are the rights of survival for the most marginalized in your community. Again, it’s pathetic that that’s even a question.

This white gay bourgeoisie agenda needs to step waaay back.

Golden girl ☀️

*insert rap lyric about having ‘that gas’ or something* ⛽️⛽️⛽️

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banamak:

ba namak is seeking contributions for a new zine dedicated to radical queer, trans*, and/or gender non-conforming Iranians in the diaspora. Much of what’s available to us is centered around our assumed salvation in diaspora (à la Reza Farahan), away from our supposedly oppressive homes/families/culture, with little room for articulation of a specifically queer sense of Iranian being in the world. We are always either violently closeted or gloriously liberal, with no possibility for a queerer materialization for those of us who perhaps didn’t struggle with the concept of the “closet,” didn’t understand ourselves as either gay or straight, or aren’t interested in fulfilling orientalist fantasies of who Iranian queers should be. ba namak is interested in collecting material about being an Iranian queer in diaspora. We will take submissions from anyone who is Iranian, though we are invested in centering the lives and experiences of marginalized Iranian queers - poor and working class folks, refugees, bi- or multi-racial Iranians, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, etc. We are unequivocally against and bored with: nationalism, Baha'i bashing, Islamophobia, Persian chauvinism, or other forms of ethnic, racial, religious, or national identity built through anti-blackness, anti-Arabness, or any other position that upholds white supremacy.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• diasporic aesthetics
  
• refusals to calls for resiliency
  
• navigating queerness and being bi- or multi-racial
  
• intergenerational nostalgia and affects
  
• queerness in Iranian serials
  
• capitalism and “model minority” fallacies
  
• spatiotemporal dynamics of the diaspora
  
• racialization, colorism
  
• emigration/immigration/refugee movements
  
• assimilationist/anti-assimilationist survival tactics
  

We are seeking critical essays, artwork, personal narratives, and poetry. Please send submissions as attachments (.doc, .docx, .jpg, .png) with a short bio to Tahereh Aghdasifar at [email protected] by July 29th, 2016. For more information, visit banamak.tumblr.com.

Calligraphy by Paradise Khanmalek.