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7. What are some lessons you’ve learned from your family, culture or history?
Black people are different and similar everywhere. I can go anywhere in the country and simultaneously know and not know what the fuck another black person just said to me. Society doesn’t listen to black peo- ple enough to get shit right. Everybody has fucked up internal colonized shit they never seem to work on. Adopting radical politics only goes so far. Everybody needs to take black history and educational courses. You’ll learn a lot about yourself and us.
8. What are some other creative or political pursuits you have got going on?
I’m working on a series of paintings that focus on black people in kink. I never see black people in latex magazines or even in fetish porn. I wanted to see it, i want it to surround me. I want to explore the different ways black people are liberated sexually. I want black people loving on each other and making each other cum in latex, leather an bondage. To be blunt I feel like we’re all socialized to have hard-ons for eurocen- trism. It’s who you choose to date, fuck, think is attractive etc. People say it’s all a matter of preference but it’s not, especially when you have initialized hatred for your own looks. Kink is how i found punk. To me it was always the music that went with fetish gear. It’s kinda all relative to me in a sense.
9. What are the moments you feel most powerful, and what powerful vibes or lessons can you pass onto our readers?
I feel powerful when I’m not around white people. I feel powerful when I’m alone making shit. I feel power- ful when look back at childhood/teenage heroes ( franky morales, mike “murda” johnson, zach, the black ranger) that made me feel good about myself. I feel it when I look at pictures of my grandparents. I feel it when i watch black movies non-black people have never seen. Also when i hear black music non-black people don’t listen to. I feel it especially when people think they know who i am but have no idea how deep the well goes.
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