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So if IвЂ™m going to live my body as a black woman, why not live it as BeyoncГ©, the most beautiful and perfect and powerful black woman in the world? Who cares about remaining in an oppressed class when youвЂ™re literally THAT beautiful and perfect? Who cares about spending hours on hair, makeup, nails, etc.

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It doesnвЂ™t seem practical to me to wish for no-body or something like that because being free of my body is not something I want, actually. For empirically un-pretty people such as myself (let me just say that this isnвЂ™t self-deprecation-my composition is literally just not up to par), you spend a lot of your time wishing you looked like other people in the most pedestrian ways. Why would you wish for a вЂњnormalвЂќ super hot body if youвЂ™re already normal and super hot? That doesnвЂ™t make sense. I think that one of the many luxuries of being a pretty person is being able to think about what it would be like to live outside your body and become someone/something else because youвЂ™ve already achieved the goal in the regular world. I would be satisfied if things were just easier. What I do resent and do not enjoy is that I personally have to work a lot harder, I think, than other people. I enjoy being a/presenting as a woman, or rather, I think itвЂ™s the easiest and safest of all the options available to me. I donвЂ™t resent being a woman so much that I wish I was any body different.

Yeah, it sucks that I have to represent my whole race, and yeah, it sucks that black women are beneath the bottom of the totem pole, but when it is good, it is oh, so good. And I donвЂ™t mind! I know thatвЂ™s my lot in life and thatвЂ™s how I have to live my body, but I wouldnвЂ™t change that for anything. Most of my beauty labor comes from doing the most to get the bare minimum to be out in the world. I have to be a tally in the вЂњproвЂќ column. Every time I step out of my apartment I become the avatar for every metaphorical negress that people have in their heads. I feel like black people know this, or at least this individual black person does. I cannot waste any more energy on wishing the world were a better place because the world will never be a better place, but you, my dear, just have to do a better job of adapting to it. IвЂ™m not interested in changing the world. What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? (List as many as necessary today. What do you need to say? (List as many things as necessary.)Д«eyoncГ© makes me happy to be alive. What are the words you do not have yet? (Or, вЂњfor what do you not have the words, yet?вЂќ)