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Sim Barr

Passing

Just read this 1929 novel by American author Nella Larsen. The story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends + the discovery that one is 'passing' in a mixed race marriage.

Born in Chicago, Larsen was part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s + 30s. She wrote 2 novels during this time.

Photographs are by Carl Van Vechten

A film adaption of the novel was made in 2021 by Rebecca Hall.

#passing#nellalarsen#harlem
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Nonilex

Okay, yeah, you all know that I don’t share any information that might identify me. Not in this America. Still, some things are more important than #privacy.So here is a nugget.
Funnily enough, we are all full blown #atheists.

Anyway, please read a #NYT #GiftArticle that includes my closest relative & friend #MarkRoudané about historic #NewOrleans, #Creole culture, #FamilyMythology & the deep weirdness of “#passing”.

#AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #history #truth #fact
nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/creo

The New York Times · Pope’s Family History Offers a Glimpse Into the American Creole JourneyBy Campbell Robertson
Omar Moore

White smoke, Black pope? Perhaps Pope Leo XIV is the Blackest pope you’ve never seen. According to several reports his maternal grandparents were Black. (Someone will say, “I don’t care what color the pope is.” Yet some of those people don’t say that same thing when the pope is white.)

#pope #popeleo #popeleoxiv #passing?

Mik

#Passing is survival.
Not all trans people want to blend into the normative male/female population, but sometimes we need to. Society is often enforcing norms of gender appearance and expression. To appear trustworthy, competent and acceptable, we sometimes have to go through great lengths. Imagine applying for a job, standing in court or walking through a hostile environment.
I'm proud of being queer, trans and non-binary. But I also want to learn passing, for survival in these situations.

🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona :flag_lesbian:

Are you #cis #binarytrans or #enby?

Do you want people to guess your gender/pronouns based on how you present (aka on things like clothing or other gender-markers) even if they may sometimes get it wrong or do you want them to ask them every single time (even if they may not always do that for people who look very cis)?

Please boost to help create a bigger and thus more representative dataset.

(I suspect this might be one where the answers of binary and non-binary trans people might be meaningfully different and would like to have some data on that; cis people are interesting as well and can serve as a control-group. Also: It might be interesting to see whether there are more than two binary trans people on Fedi. 😉︎)

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