Tag: Crystal LaBeija
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La Belle of le Ball: An Ode to Crystal LaBeija (a Poem)
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My mother told me, “Never stay where you’re not wanted”, a betoken for the fate of navigating as a black faggot in America. Disallowed from the streets because my blackness didn’t allow my “smart ass mouth” to find allegiance, in gender binaries constructed to promote misandry and misogyny to advance…