Discrimination is never okay
Nov. 21st, 2025 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seeyatI black cosplayer, Squidkid1111, Ashley… died of cyberbullying. They were a brilliant, creative human making amazing art and they were discriminated against for their skin color. Another amazing black cosplayer, Jahara Jayde created a stunning Frieren cosplay and I just dug back to their original post only to see tons of “frigger” and “niggen” comments under their beautiful work. We live in a terrifyingly discriminatory world. I feel powerless.
I did think of possibly starting up an auto-response movement. Any time someone says something discriminatory or racist, choosing a simple phrase, everyone can remember like, “discrimination serves no purpose but to make insecure people feel strong.”
Anything people can all remember and comment… or even creating an algorithm bot… to automate that response en masse.
Ash was a super talented person. I look back at their work and see passion, joy, expressiveness and a fun and lovely human. I know my own desires to find community and feel love and how they overlap with my cosplay interest and I just… I’ve attempted suicide too many times.
I feel disheartened, frustrated and numb… I want to celebrate all the black cosplayers who wear what they want and all the men who dress as women and vise versa. I kinda want to scold a friend of mine when he complains about race changes in shows and live actions or whatever. I don’t know what I feel or truly want to do… I just.
…maybe this is another personal photography goal. I want to empower people to express themselves in whatever way they love. Non-traditional, anti-establishment, taboo… whatever, long as it’s not actually “against” anything and just focuses on activism and empowerment of quiet voices.
I don’t know what I will do. I know what I’d like to do. I also want to shoot portraits for trans people just being human beings in their personal hobbies. I’ve been thinking that for… a year and a half or more, now.
My heart is already heavy at the moment. I just want some rest.
I did think of possibly starting up an auto-response movement. Any time someone says something discriminatory or racist, choosing a simple phrase, everyone can remember like, “discrimination serves no purpose but to make insecure people feel strong.”
Anything people can all remember and comment… or even creating an algorithm bot… to automate that response en masse.
Ash was a super talented person. I look back at their work and see passion, joy, expressiveness and a fun and lovely human. I know my own desires to find community and feel love and how they overlap with my cosplay interest and I just… I’ve attempted suicide too many times.
I feel disheartened, frustrated and numb… I want to celebrate all the black cosplayers who wear what they want and all the men who dress as women and vise versa. I kinda want to scold a friend of mine when he complains about race changes in shows and live actions or whatever. I don’t know what I feel or truly want to do… I just.
…maybe this is another personal photography goal. I want to empower people to express themselves in whatever way they love. Non-traditional, anti-establishment, taboo… whatever, long as it’s not actually “against” anything and just focuses on activism and empowerment of quiet voices.
I don’t know what I will do. I know what I’d like to do. I also want to shoot portraits for trans people just being human beings in their personal hobbies. I’ve been thinking that for… a year and a half or more, now.
My heart is already heavy at the moment. I just want some rest.
