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Image ID: pdf file of a word document that reads as follows: "How do your views of Blackness and sexuality affect how you treat Black characters that are canonically queer? Do you feel like you have to have “more proof” in order to accept that a Black character is queer? Why? Do you feel like your Black characters have to be bolder about their sexuality in order for it to be valid? Why? Why do you not hold your nonblack characters to this standard? Do you feel like your Black male characters have to be feminine in order to be acceptably gay? Did you even notice you did that? Do you feel that being masculine would make them threatening, or less gay? Why? Did you even notice you did that? Do you feel like your feminine Black male characters are somehow “less Black” if they’re not stereotypical? Did you even notice that you did that? Do you feel like your Black female characters have to be masculine? Why? Did you even notice that you did that? Do you feel like your Black character has to be the top, and does that come with an automatically “dominating” personality? Why? Is it like this for all your Black characters? No, there’s nothing wrong with writing a Black character that is also a dom and a top. It happens. However, what matters is the why, and also, this next part: And are these dynamics specifically made around a paler, maybe white character that plays a demurer role?" END ID
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