The Shy Enquirer

January 22, 2012

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Shit White Queers say to Black Queers

written/directed/starring Pandie & Takiaya

I wanna draw particular attention to 2:25-2:50, wherein white radicals yell at police while black people near them get the backlash

This is really cringe-y and good and important and I’m surprised/angry/not really surprised it’s taken this long to show up on my dash. Really want people to reblog this, and I never ask that.

I’m kinda not into the origins of this meme but at the same time this is beautiful and important and I am glad it happened.

Yeah! I’m interested in the specificity of ‘black queers’ as opposed to say queer people of colour but yeah, useful incarnation of this meme, for self-reflection for me. I’ve gotta pack and go to sleep I’m just internet-cramming because I won’t have any for the next couple of days, so lazy blogging/reprinting the opinions of others:
There is a transcript by youarenotyou, who says “I think it’s really important to point out that this accurate video about racist queers is getting significantly less attention than THIS “Shit White Radical Queers Say” video, which barely touches on ANYTHING oppressive in queer communities (and absolutely not racism, despite the acknowledgement of whiteness in the title) but instead focuses on silly shit like “all the radical queers are gonna be there!” “are you a unicorn?” “when did you move here” “ugh hipsters”

Y’all are we actually interested in examining how oppressive dynamics play out in radical spaces? Or just laughing at ourselves for how much we love cats?”

Although also I think that Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged, City-based) “Radical Queers” Say to Each Other addresses queer masculine privilege in some interesting ways so I don’t write it off as totally self-indulgent affectionate self-mockery but yeah, tired, opinions, goodnight.

I can’t speak for the creators but black queers have a largely specific experience that is different from other queer POC or the similar forms of domination might come from different angles. And why can’t there be a video that focuses on black queers instead of queer POC? POC are not a monolith.

Yeah totally, I’m just struggling with the meanings of black and brown in US and Aus contexts, and rewatching this, a lot is specific to black experience and some is more general. Also personal context for my reblog of the video: we were discussing this in my house yesterday and my housemate referred to this video as being about queer people of colour and I was like ‘I thought the title referred to black queers’ and we were kind of muddling through our recollections together. In the Australian social justice culture we’re a part of blackness is different to in the US - I hear it more often used referring to Indigenous Australians whose collective experience is different to African Americans’… Is this making sense? It’s 2am and I can’t sleep ahh. It is confusing trying to read cross-cultural stuff in a video that contains both US American and Australian accents. I don’t know where to anchor my understanding.

2:04am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZVSpYyF7DiGf

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