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Di you think dark skinned feminine men and/or bottoms are discriminated against in the Black gay community? What’s your experience been like? Try being dark skinned and a tall bottom. It’s the worst combination you can have in the black LGBT sphere. The latest posts from @BlatinoBottom. The nearly-century-old church is near what was once Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood.

The community, which grew from African Americans migrating from the South, included dozens of Black-owned businesses and a well-known music and night club scene. There’s a ridiculous myth floating around that gay men can’t be rugged – particularly guys like me who identify as bottom. I’d like to set the record straight and get a few things off my chest. While opinions and experiences vary widely, many members of the gay community have shared insights into what bottoming actually feels like, ‍shedding light on an intimate aspect of ‍sexual pleasure that is often shrouded in mystery.

To be completely honest with you, I was supposed to write this review last week. A woman whose stubborn assurance, wisdom, and refusal to shortchange her own self-worth is larger than life. The legend exists somewhere between the two. By 14 she was already a traveling performer, singing in cabarets and tent shows around the South, her tours dotting across the region as sharecroppers worked harvest.

As an adult, she spent decades touring the country, becoming a stunning showstopper.

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Ma Rainey threw at least one illegal queer sexy party broken up by the cops that we know about. Both Bessie Smith and Rainey were known to play with masc and femme gender performance at different stages of their respective careers. In the film, Ma serves as a gateway for a young Bessie Smith, teaching her the world of underground speakeasies, sex clubs and gambling rings — both women remarkably handsome as Black femmes in lingerie and flapper dresses hang off them.

They gots to prove it on you.

After a morning of withstanding scandalized glares from the Black upper middle class at her hotel and outright racism at the hands of white Chicago police and her record producers, Ma finally has time alone with her girlfriend Dussie Mae Taylour Paige , a dancer in her band. She wraps Dussie in her arms, slightly caressing the underside of her breasts while both women sway to the music.

Each next one more hot than the last. Even sitting at home I had to look away, embarrassed by my blush. Ma Rainey died in of heart failure in Rome, Georgia. Her death certificate labeled the most notorious Black woman of her time as a housekeeper. Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle's former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other.

During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter , Instagram , or her website. All year I have been waiting for two things: This movie and your review of it.

Carmen Phillips is writing about it. Viola Davis is incredible, but this role should have gone to a fat Black actress. I agree. And I wish the fat suit had at least been mentioned in this review which was otherwise great. Dr CP, I know I am not the audience this piece is written for, but I am so grateful to have the opportunity to read it. Beautifully written, you encapsulated so much in each line!

I love your writing so so much. Oh, Carmen, I hope your family members are doing all right! Carmen, I hope your family members recover smoothly and fully from COVID and that you are able to get the rest and support you need. I was so struck by the intimacy of how this scene between Dussie and Ma was shot.