Thread by @nolan_syreeta

Being Black & #disabled has been a journey for me to process being seen as a strong Black woman yet it juxtaposes against disability seen as weakness in our society. It has felt disallowed at points to be proud of my disabilities or to even recognize disability beyond visible 1/

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disabilities. I am so grateful for everything that I have learned over the past few years that have helped me to come to this place I am in now and all the amazing people who have been there for me along the way like @Tinu, @manijadegarcia, the @DisInHigherEd team and
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so many more that I could stream together. Being bisexual and Christian has been hard like hiding something I am proud of because I know how the Christian community feels about the LGBTQIA+ community with exceptions for accepting churches. The conflict that lies inside of me 3/

creates emotional stress and that emotional stress is translated to physical pain by #Fibromyalgia at times. I want to be able to talk about being with a woman or marrying a woman without my mom cringing in disgust, but I can't change that. Being bisexual, I awkward at times 4/

when events for Black Lesbians in San Diego are posted for women who love women... Am I so different that I deserve to be exclude for loving women, men, and gender nonconforming people? It is like the way I practice my sexuality is not accepted even in the LGBTQIA+ and it is 5/

like #BiVisibilityDay2021 that work to combat bi-erasure and thank you to @ZoriAmber for all of your research. I also identify as Indigenous from a tribe that is not recognized federally and a tribe that doesn't recognize me. They said to me in email that not everyone raised 6/

on the reservation is a part of our tribe, but I know that my great grandmother was 100% Native American and that I have the right to call myself Indigenous. Yet, I wonder if I really do and it is something that I am still working on within myself. 7/7