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things could be so much better

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disabled trans femme running on canned iced tea - artist-speedrunner-photographer - adult - trying to be more active on here and failing lol



the-future-of-football
@the-future-of-football

Ten: That is Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Falcons. Every day, architects went to work, sat down, designed this thing, and thought, “I am not drawing a butthole.” Taxpayers read the news and nodded: “We are not funding a butthole.” Construction workers labored for years, seething through gritted teeth: “We are not building a butthole.”

And then one day, they realized they’d built a butthole.

Juice: you know what i always say

buttholes are like assholes

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TheBlackNerd
@TheBlackNerd

Remember when the news cycle was black people being shot by police all the time

now imagine you have a mental disorder that traps you in loops of thinking and then you have to still be a normal person and go to work

and then you're just supposed to pretend shit like that doesn't affect you for the rest of your life


TheBlackNerd
@TheBlackNerd

it's just wild to me that black people are raised in a society where a not insignificant amount of people (both regular people and people in power) believe that you'll grow up to be a criminal or you're not as smart as others or you act completely differently because of your skin color

and then you have to carry that with you for the rest of your life


TheBlackNerd
@TheBlackNerd

imagine being like 7-years-old and you have to think about school and videogames but also that people will just hate you for being a different skin color

that's fucking crazy


EinAston
@EinAston

It's actually insane how much society downplays this and calls us the ones in the wrong for "trying to incite shit" when we call this out


TheBlackNerd
@TheBlackNerd

I wrote about this earlier this year
https://medium.com/@theblacknerd_23078/identity-invalid-cb65739b12f6

but when you're one of the only or the only black person in majority white spaces, you can feel it. You know you're different. People treat you different.

And if you don't measure up to whatever stereotypes they know, it's "why are you different"

"Why don't you act like this?"
"Why aren't you like this?"

Even in more progressive spaces, as a black man, you're still measured up to white male masculinity standards, even if you've never benefited from them