i cannot STAND people who think u can be racist to white people omg all of u need to DIEπππππππππππππππππππππ
@mymymarcelle i feel this so deep in my bones as an indigenous australian dating a black person, thereβs no escaping white queer peopleβs casual racism and misogyny ++ the transphobia towards masculine black/blak (indigenous australian) people
@tsz_28@MoonCattHQ@butchgelyan while itβs not used only against black lesbians now, the term was originally used specifically to target black lesbians. itβs evolved, but still.
and to elaborate on the use of the word in the novel - the author claimed to have heard the term while on a night out in new york city, but this has also been up for debate because another time the author claimed to have heard it when listening to a queer radio program
while i do agree that black lesbians have every right to claim the slur theyβre talking about in this thread i do want to point out one thing without belittling those feelings ! 1/2
the term theyβre using actually comes from a book in 1906 that described two lesbian women as βbulld*kersβ which was THEN taken by the red light district in harlem (a predominantly black area). so this statement is technically right and the word was used then but didnt start then