your portrayal and sexualization of BIPOC does not exist in a vacuum. your fetishization of our culture is not lost on us, and neither is your savior complex, and it never has been.
(art src) Samuel Jennings' "The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks."
do we forget saartje/sarah baartman? the exploitation, sexualization and dehumanization of black bodies for entertainment? any black girl, cis or trans, even if we don't identify as female anymore, can't forget. even if we want to