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Ayyy don’t worry they’re not mutually exclusive identities https://twitter.com/chiamxka/status/1357864780300619776
For me being a black woman is a collective, communal, cultural, and political identity. I *am* a black woman and there is community there and I love it. I describe and understand myself as a black woman which is distinct, to me, from being a ‘woman’
I’ve also talked about this with a lot of other black queers and it always resonates so really you’re not alone
Black womanhood is something I never want to be disconnected from, not ever. I love black women and I love being a black woman and always stepping deeper into that- and that doesn’t invalidate me as a non-binary person
And in many ways black womanhood feels like a more clear identity for me, where nb is just a term I use to try snd encapsulate my experience of gender. I want to be clear I have no issue with being nb or describing myself that way! But it mainly describes what I am *not*
A black woman is what I *am* non-binary describes an incongruent relationship to gender as it was mapped on to me- it describes that I am *not* a binary gendered person, it describes a *lack* of relationship not the presence of one
Again black womanhood is very much a communal and also experiential identity. It’s based on my own history and experiences but also legacies of those who made me. Furthermore I’d argue black womanhood has never been the same as ‘womanhood’ and wasn’t designed to be
We’ve always very deliberately been locked out of notions of womanhood as they are prescribed and imposed and dictated and so as a person who isn’t cis black womanhood feels queer unto itself *to me*
My own experience of black womanhood, isn’t cis and does not preclude womanhood. Anyway- I like to think about identity in relation to community. Subverting the Cartesian model and shifting “I think therefore I am” to “We feel therefore I am” and how that connects me-
To other black women, other queer black people, and other black queer women and every overlap therein
