again: lightskin muscle gays prove to be the most useless, unintelligent, and dangerous cohort of folks in the black queer community. https://twitter.com/levimarsman/status/1246994976770318338

I share almost 40 mutuals with this person. I don’t find most of the mutuals the brightest of the bunch so i would no sooner trust their ability to dispose of such a clearly antiblack person than I would give a child trigonometry.

I want to think about what holding lightskin and/or “fit” gays accountable means/looks like to y’all. I will not be spending the time making this a “teachable moment” b/c I’m actually no longer interested in being in community with them. for those who are: what does that mean?

what does it mean that you are friends with and/or follow someone who predicates your inherent value on the hue of your skin, your BMI, your bank account?

so many of you are scared to ask these questions of your friends/mutuals because you already know what it will reveal.

as Audre Lorde told us your silence will not protect you. your blindness will not make this go away. I hope you find the courage to expect better from the people you think are worthy of your friendship and virtual or material support.

nevertheless, what is truer: the everyday blackqueer couple is not married, is not lightskin and fit; fat blackqueer people are being loved, darkskin people are being loved. the majority of the blackqueer community does not look like them. yet, they overrepresent blackqueerness.

the system of overrepresentation that places the set of aesthetics which that man and his husband stand-in for/as are not reducible to that man and his husband but are constitutive of a power that overdetermines their material and virtual life.

that power relies on antiblackness, which determines material access, overall life-chances, representational and libidinal economies.

what was asked for is an acknowledgment of that power and how it works materially.

instead, he has weaponized that power against us.

lightskin muscle gays continue to do that and what it has suggested to me is that they care more about their power than my life. that means that the conscience, the moral compass that dark, fat/unfit folks beseech and assume to speak to is in fact not present.

it is not my job to make it appear—I’m neither the therapist you can afford nor the mother who didn’t abort.

however, those who are in community with these people need to consider how to not be committed to their moral rectitude is to be complicit in antiblack violence.