PVs- DR. Artist Marcia XIt's Trans Awareness Week, and I think back to the Black Trans Flag, the dominance of whiteness in this queer space, and the lack of care white ppl have for their Black queer siblings
I've been here for years, let's go down memory lane
I posted this flag on July 14, 2020. It didn't end well. From my archive, I can at least post my responses to ppl being angry with me about the flag
"I don't understand. The black bar just adds adds a space for visibility for black trans and non binary folks. I seem to understand that non binary for white ppl has to be the bar. And that extra visibility for Blk folks means there's non for non binary aka white ppl. It's not a zero sun game and also like is said in the post... I didn't design it"
"So. Blk folks can't have added visibility within a flag unless it's as an ammendment
If that's how wp are reading the chevron on the pride flag then that makes me uncomfortable"
"That flag has started a super demeaning discussion now
'oh it would be from pv'
Imagine hating when Blk non binary and Trans folks advocate for themselves and get demeaned for it.
BLK Trans women are no longer w us a rate we can't understand. No one on here talks about it.
It's too much and I don't have the bandwidth and now this.
Ppl are treating that flag post w such VIM"
"And without the slightest bit of irony are WP discussing where and how Blk and POC should be represented on the flag. 'here's ur corner, now shut up'"
White queer were coming up with mock flag designs that would allow for Blk ppl to be represented bc "Just because youre a minority grou doesn't give yu the right to shit on other ones"
Then this person blocked me, realized they didn't even understand the flag, and apologized to their followers and never sent one my way
and Yes I am starting #BlackMastodonHistory bc I and others who have been here for years have dealt w some shit
Mx. Alba 
@CaribenxMarciaX thank you so much for this thread! This is the first time I see this flag and as a non-binary person my first knee-jerk reaction was "hey that white bar represented me and its gone!" but then I read through the rest of the thread and realised... Why shouldn't non-binary be represented by a black bar? Black is as good a colour as any other that's not culturally linked to masculinity or femininity. So yes, I will stand for this flag.
slowest storm 🌬@MxAlba @CaribenxMarciaX
I remember this discussion too and I remember that I saw no reason why nonbinary people should not identify with a black bar instead of a white one, as I understand it, in the science of physics, the white reflects all the colors and the black absorbs all of them, so black is as good as a symbol as white for nb, only that the black bar can represent Black people, and the white bar can't. so win-win - with the black bar!
thank you Marcia X for telling that piece of fedi history, back then I just scraped on the surface..