i...really can't stomach the YA takes today. over-archingly the YA community fails to recognize that queer black people are human. even people with their performance face on doing virtue signaling thing have been active in suppressing queer black people in the past...

you see certain convos that are too close to the heart to even entertain them amongst an anti-black community that has dehumanized you repeatedly. your topic of the day is SupPORt gAy BlACk BOYZ. tomorrow you will be trying to destroy us or giving support to people who do

in conclusion the YA community does not have the range to both have a conversation about representation and lend concrete support to queer black people. the YA community does not care about queer black boys. even people who pretend to care see them as an opportunity

i mean it's great that you care for 2 hours of the year. wonderful that when it's hot you feel the need to write a thread about a book that's...been around. now do something. help someone. change your patriarchal way of thinking. actually stop being abusive the other 364 days

you all have been ACTIVE and i mean ACTIVE in supporting awful, demoralizing portrayals of black boys and queer black boys for YEARS. you've been active in silencing us and KICKING queer black men out of your ranks. today you wanna switch it up? develop a value system.

you're patriarchal in your understanding of queerness and gender. you make no room for black trans women in your feminism or queer outlook. you enforce white supremacy by elevating white gays over all. when a black queer person expresses pain you immediately find a way to dismiss

you are only able to call an anti-black or homophobic spade a spade when you have a crowd of people behind you and it becomes this big controversy, at which point you repeat a take that's been done to death. otherwise you're quiet about what queer black people deal with daily.

just...do something. otherwise shut up. yall make so much noise and say nothing and do nothing and you're patriarchal and limited as hell. and annoying. ask your cool publishing FREIINDZZZ why they're not picking up books by queer black authors

is this not the kind of book yalls buying habits have supported? is this not just a more explicitly racialized version of the contemporary gay love stories y’all love to read? have you not opened the market for this? do not @ me on this thread unless you’re a gay black man

what in the cognitive dissonance is happening here. you all eat up interracial love stories and fantasies about royals and rebels that are coded in this very way and romanticize tyrannical empires and abusive boys. this is what you like. why are you all of a sudden fake mad