blackboyjoy: starsona:misstransatlantic: “When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she tol
blackboyjoy: starsona: misstransatlantic: “When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.” Yall better not be pretending that Janelle Monae doesn’t fucking exist They be so loud with their Black queer women erasure -- source link