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Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted
Just came across this image on Pinterest. Thought of this thread.
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When I first read this when the OP posted I was like hmm.. I really could not share what I thought of it, I don't think anyone here or who is posting here would have read it and said or thought:
"I hear ya Snow, I get it"
I feel this way because it's clearly visible that WOC do not hang out on BFP, and if they do well we eventually leave. We leave because when we do express things in a non white washed way then it upsets people. So I now leave those convos for the right space and the right people.
I am unsure what the intent of the person who posted this image on Pinterest had, the OP did not have anything other than a collage, that I am assuming this WOC made and then posted it on her Pinterest or that she found it somewhere on Pinterest, shared it because it resonated with her.
I don't read it and see her as *freaking out* or not stating something that is fact. I do read it and see her words aren't soft, they aren't academic they are just her words. Maybe I am unsure because like I stated I don't know her intent other than she seems frustrated and maybe this was a way to express it.
All that is just a guess.
I do agree though, a white femme, will be more likely blend in than a Queer Femme of Color. That's been my experience. I know this and can say this with actual truth because as a light skinned Femme of Color the priveledges that sometimes get passed on to me are not the same ones my sisters who's cocoa skin are given. It's pretty fucked up but it happens....
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