I identify as genderqueer. What might that mean? Being genderqueer or nonbinary is not the same for everyone. Yet, I describe myself as a socially femme Black individual affected by misogyny. My pronouns are them/them.

jawn

/juh-ôn/ 

noun

1. Can be used to describe any person, place, or thing. Derived from a Philly dialect.

lib·er·at·ed

/ˈlibəˌrādəd/

adjective

1. Freedom from social constructs as well as ideologies unaligned with community and womanism

I am free. Not free-ish. Not free sometimes. Ultimately liberated and carried to deliverance. And I am a jawn. A person who carries a piece of home everywhere I go.

Alice Walker's 1983  definition of a Womanist:

1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “you acting womanish,” i.e., like a woman. Usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered “good” for one. Interested in grown up doings. Acting grown up. Being grown up. Interchangeable with another black folk expression: “You trying to be grown.” Responsible. In charge. Serious.

2. “A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or non-sexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women’s strength. Sometimes loves individual men, sexually and/or non-sexually. Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist, except periodically, for health. Traditionally universalist…

 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

4. "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender" 

Womanism is inclusive activism accountng for all aspects of community and the people and environment that consists of such.

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