Step Up For The Black Queer Community This Pride Month:
Pride has become an altogether unique cultural phenomenon. There’s the barrage of social media stories, mostly looking to accrue social capital; the excessive assortment of kaleidoscope-esque products, features of corporate co-optation; the vaguestatements from public figures, which seem to consistently lack any tangible meaning. And then there’s the noticeable absence of any form of racial consciousness, no recognition of complicity in anti-Blackness .
To be certain, pride takes on many more connotations: a bold expression of identity, a subversion of norms, a means of fostering community amongst those marginalized due to non-normative gendered and/or sexual practices. The word has been uttered as a cry against injustice, an ode to former lives lost, a self-assured promise heading forward .becomes a reminder.
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