Lets transition from the emerging transracial movement creeping into the society
To my left is Martina Big, a German model and actress known for her extremely large breast implants, born 17 May 1988. In January 2017, Big had a medical treatment that transformed her into what is seen to be a black woman. Martina Big travelled to Kenya, where a local clergyman baptized her and, where by her own testimony was declared her to be a "true African woman." She was baptised in February 2018 renamed as Malaika Kubwa. Her baptismal name Malaika Kubwa; in Swahili, Malaika means angel and kubwa mean big.
I begin this as Shaun Flores, I am trans logic, formerly of the social justice warrior variation. I have now become part of the trans logic community. We report from the lense of the transracial woman Martina Adam. Why this is important is due to a new social justice movement tagging alongside a newly emerging trend of transracial.
I am a young black man and I can not change my race, first of all for those who say race is a social construct, yes, but it is as real in its construct as its imagined reality has come to life. Claiming of the black culture once again in love with the black culture, but not the black experience. you can not change your race, You will not face the same experience as a black woman faces of the world that mocks her and wants her downfall.
Martina Big in sentiment reminds me of the infamous Rachel Ozodeal who believed she was black and has always felt black, then my question is, what is it to feel black? what is it to feel white? Her book was a fantastic read, its important to read out of our context.
There should be a new term applied, racial dysphoria because alongside dysphoria delusion is one of the main undiagnosed illnesses.
However Rachel Dolezal has done a lot for the black community, does that mean she should be accepted in our community? Not at all, you are an ally from the outside. I recognise what you have done but like Martina Big step back
If you can change race you can change gender, that is untrue. Both are social constructs.
Race is a biological construct grounded in facts and is passed down in genetic traits from parent to child it can not be changed, it is a permanent fact and a lived reality.
Gender is a social construct, a cultural category that is mutable with time. A prime example is what was once considered manly is not considered masculine in contemporary society. Cultural categories are flexible.
However, a black man can not become white as much as he wants to be. The same way Michael Jackson because he bathed in bleach could not become a white man, skin colour (melanin) is a mere fragment of the biological makeup of a black person in comparison to a white person. Michael Jackson's history was complex, he hated his black features due to an emotionally, physically and mentally upbringing from his father who hated his "negro nose". In contemporary society, Michael would suffer from a sort of "racial dysphoria".
Martina Big has done nothing for the black community and I feel the attention she gets is adding to the comical caricature perception of black women. I do wonder if it is an act This is where I say trans has gone too far to oversimplify and say you can be trans race is a gross injustice to the other genuine trans movements that are happening out there.
The other side will argue and say you can change your race, but this is what is alarming we are moving away from what society has been grounded on which has been factual reasoning. We now reside in a post-truth age that values emotions, feelings and lived experiences over the truth and what's objectively real, but subjectively felt and not universally applied.
In conclusion, the transracial movement is slowly moving and creeping into the social justice movement. What is worrying is that as a black man it seems I must be a gatekeeper to blackness, a category that is monetised, capitalised, bastardised, mocked and loved culturally but not the people who made the actual culture. Martina Big is mocking black culture, to wake up and feel like a "black woman", her appearance does not make her black, let's define her mental condition for what it is, "racial dysphoria". Our blackness is a deeply woven biological category with a seed spread in the various black culture. I won't stand for Martina, but Rachel Dozeal she gets a pass, but once again they can not be black, she is an ally. Rachel Dozeal presents a far more complex case which I will explore in another article.
Martina Big in sentiment reminds me of the infamous Rachel Ozodeal who believed she was black and has always felt black, then my question is, what is it to feel black? what is it to feel white? Her book was a fantastic read, its important to read out of our context.
There should be a new term applied, racial dysphoria because alongside dysphoria delusion is one of the main undiagnosed illnesses.
However Rachel Dolezal has done a lot for the black community, does that mean she should be accepted in our community? Not at all, you are an ally from the outside. I recognise what you have done but like Martina Big step back
If you can change race you can change gender, that is untrue. Both are social constructs.
Race is a biological construct grounded in facts and is passed down in genetic traits from parent to child it can not be changed, it is a permanent fact and a lived reality.
Gender is a social construct, a cultural category that is mutable with time. A prime example is what was once considered manly is not considered masculine in contemporary society. Cultural categories are flexible.However, a black man can not become white as much as he wants to be. The same way Michael Jackson because he bathed in bleach could not become a white man, skin colour (melanin) is a mere fragment of the biological makeup of a black person in comparison to a white person. Michael Jackson's history was complex, he hated his black features due to an emotionally, physically and mentally upbringing from his father who hated his "negro nose". In contemporary society, Michael would suffer from a sort of "racial dysphoria".
Martina Big has done nothing for the black community and I feel the attention she gets is adding to the comical caricature perception of black women. I do wonder if it is an act This is where I say trans has gone too far to oversimplify and say you can be trans race is a gross injustice to the other genuine trans movements that are happening out there.
The other side will argue and say you can change your race, but this is what is alarming we are moving away from what society has been grounded on which has been factual reasoning. We now reside in a post-truth age that values emotions, feelings and lived experiences over the truth and what's objectively real, but subjectively felt and not universally applied.
In conclusion, the transracial movement is slowly moving and creeping into the social justice movement. What is worrying is that as a black man it seems I must be a gatekeeper to blackness, a category that is monetised, capitalised, bastardised, mocked and loved culturally but not the people who made the actual culture. Martina Big is mocking black culture, to wake up and feel like a "black woman", her appearance does not make her black, let's define her mental condition for what it is, "racial dysphoria". Our blackness is a deeply woven biological category with a seed spread in the various black culture. I won't stand for Martina, but Rachel Dozeal she gets a pass, but once again they can not be black, she is an ally. Rachel Dozeal presents a far more complex case which I will explore in another article.
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