Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality: The Anti-Black Roots of Queerphobia

Joshua Ben-Escher

This program will provide a base understanding of how the world's concepts of gender and sexuality are deeply colonized, and how transphobia and homophobia (among countless other social issues) are rooted in anti-Blackness. We will finish with a Q+A session and methods to work on dismantling these concepts in our own minds.

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Resources Mentioned

• University of California San Diego LGBT Resource Center

• Contact Joshua Ben-Escher:

  • On Instagram

  • On Twitter

• Black Lives Matter MasterList (Google Doc)

• Cultural Appropriation Meme

• Sounds Like Bisexual Witchery (Facebook group)

• If emojis can be flirty, they can also be racist (Instagram Post)

• “None of us are above colorism and fatphobia…” (Tweet by Black, Puerto Rican, non-binary speaker Dana White)

• True Colors United (Organization working to end LGBTQ+ homelessness)

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (National organization of groups working to end white supremacy)

• Undoing White Supremacy Austin (Austin, TX organization working to end white supremacy)