Understanding Transracial Identity

Transracial Black women like myself have a more beautiful understanding

of Blackness than cisracial Black women, and that's what I wanna

talk about today, especially because of all the propaganda

nowadays telling

Black women to hate themselves. Someone that chooses to

present as a Black woman every single day, that's incredibly

beautiful. One of the most common questions I've been

asked is, "Are you planning

on getting any medical procedures to help affirm your

transracial identity, like melanin replacement therapy,

things like that?"

And the answer is no. Trans Black women are Black women,

regardless of what our bodies look like.

I don't need to change my skin color or my hair or my

makeup or any other physical characteristics to prove to you

that I am Black. Saying that I need to pass as Black is actually

transrace phobia. It is TERF rhetoric, transracial

exclusionary feminism.

One second. Oh, and by the way, free Palestine.

My Starbucks identifies as Duncan. Inshallah. Shabbat shalom.

All that good stuff. So I do want to educate everyone on what

it means to be a

Black woman trapped inside a white woman's body, trapped inside an

Asian woman's body, which is what I personally am.

Which means I am both trans Asian and trans Black.

Transracial identities are valid.

My pronouns, which are currently ni hao, are valid.

All identities are valid. So if you are here to

actually listen and learn, you can stay, but do not call me

white. I do not identify with my race assigned at

birth.