Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on this day in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/hayford-adelaide-smith-casely-1868-1960/
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
Happy Pride Month everyone! Can I just vent for a second and get something off my chest?
I’ve been struggling with this lately but honestly some of my recent encounters with people in the LGBTQ+ community have left a really bad taste in my mouth
Over the last few years I’ve seen so much blatant racism from some gay folks… like last Christmas Eve when I was visiting the US another Latin American literally told me to “go back to Mexico!”
I’ve also seen strangers online who are gay or trans just casually dropping the n word over and over it’s wild to me… like in what world do you think being part of one marginalized group gives you a free pass to be racist to others?
How am I supposed to build solidarity with someone who is just a rude racist asshole? You can’t build solidarity when the other person doesn’t even want it has zero class consciousness and is perfectly fine stepping on others
US Latinos have a superiority/inferiority complex with us. They know they aren’t one of us becuse of the cultural divide and get very angry about it, so they start acting like having US citizenship makes them inherently better
One thing to remember is that most issues and racism from the lgbt community comes from the white part of it. Building solidarity with poc lgbt folks is much easier as they suffer not only from queerphobia but also racism from their white counterparts and are much different. White people will be white no matter what other marginalized identity they may have. That’s not to say that there’s no shit from poc lgbt people but that goes for every group. And it all goes that if anybody is seen as a valid target for anything then nobody is safe. If they refuse to grow (speaking of individuals) then drop that specific person.