velvet or silk? tea or cocoa? silver or gold? thunder or lightning? autumn or spring? moon or stars? peanut butter or jam? pancakes or waffles? vanilla or jasmine? lemon or lime? cough or sniff? cold or warm? red or blue?
Anok Yai photographed by Ivar Wigan, CR Fashion Book Issue 13 . Fashion and sittings by Daniel Gaines. Makeup by Brittany Whitfield. Hair by Hos Hounkpatin.
Stop associating women of color, butch lesbians/gnc bi women, and trans women with violence and aggression. Not a single person in the groups listed is inherently mean or angry or scary or intimidating. Stop using language that correlates them with sexual roughness (i.e. “step on me queen”, “kick me”, punch me in the face”, etc). The only way to humanize someone is to give them the room to be fully fleshed and multidimensional instead of diminishing the full spectrum of their personality and presence.