According to Kimberly Springer, a queer black female sexuality means to be eccentric, strange, or unexpected. Springer gives examples such as being silent is surprising as a stereotypical black woman who is loud and hypersexual. She brings to our attention that black women's first identity was from being a slave. And consistently assigned the identity as Mammy or Jezebel status in today's society. Black women are supposedly loud and bitchy so to add lesbianism to the mix is just the cherry on top. But a queer black female heterosexuality is a sexual person whose wants and needs are self-defined. She reiterates how she is the opposite of such stereotypes in her daily life as a lady. The black females sexuality will continually be predetermined by everyone, but black women remain exempt from the privilege of having individual identities.
Springer states as an asexual black lady her daily existence goes against her conditioning. Her queer theory is all about challenging her heterosexual privileges. By noting the downfall of labeling queerness as an identity or even political. I agree we need to start the dialogue that reinvents black sex in ways that do not contradict ourselves. Society Being silent just tells society mainly our culture that it is okay to keep quiet and In conclusion, she asks the question can black women achieve a truly liberated black female sexuality? I say yes more on an individual level due to the large majority groups already taking on stereotypes as their culture and belief systems.
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