EM POC ONLY!!!

This is home for me.

I love all of my comrades on c/em_poc, but I wanna especially give a huge shoutout to @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net for doing a lot to help me keep my composure. I don’t know if they quite realize how much I appreciate them!

Each and every single one of you makes me feel less alone through these struggles, though.

I hope all of you are well! sankara-bass

  • Rania 🇩🇿
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    Cis white men: obsessed about ancient rome and greece because strong alpha male
    Queer whites: obsessed about them because uhm actually they were super gay
    Reality: they’re obsessed about them because they think they were white

    • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]@hexbear.netM
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      yes!! exactly! and its not like they study the actual history. the celebrate a fantasy version of ancient Greece free of misogyny and slavey. like I cant tell you how many queer people I’ve heard say things like “I don’t want to go to work, I want to be gay and write poems all day, eating grapes, like i should be doing in ancient Greece” GIRL Sappho didn’t do actual work because she had SLAVES, you’re fantasizing about being a slave owner right now. same thing with white queers who call themselves achilleans. like sapphic is less bad because it has an etymological reason for existing, it has a history. ACHILEANS are white queers who are obsessed with tic tok “retellings” of ancient greek myths that they think are canon. no joke raina i have met dozens and dozens of these people and they are insufferable

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        When learning English I used to turn on those youtube videos of tumblr posts being read and I got blasted with white queer fantasies of ancient Greece, if they were back then they’d either be slaves or slave owners.

        also side note it’s Rania not Raina