#BIPOC rock

[mannyblacque]

LINK WRAY t-shirt in Wendell & Wild (2022).

#wendell and wild #link wray #wendell & wild #jordan peele #black lives matter #indigenous lives matter #bipoc rock #bipoc representation #representation matters #rumble #native american heritage month

[stickto-otherartists]

Camille Léon and her band captured by Colin Medley in Montréal || 09.27.23

#colin medley #me #aphrodite #my art #toronto #rock #music #alternative #box braids #pop montreal #montreal #music festival #canadian music #alt rock #post punk #band of colour #BIPOC band #BIPOC rock #black punk #punk #my playlist #Camille Léon #pop montreal 2023

[mueritos]

being in a social work masters program as a marginalized person who is ages ahead in theory and experience in comparison to your (white, privileged, rich) cohort is a fucking minefield. solidarity for all and every other marginalized person in these fucking micro aggressive and liberal ass social work programs.

#muerto talks #i mean like yea. of course this would happen #didnt matter if i went to nyu or school in philly #white women flock to social work programs because theyre not smart enough for nursing programs #sure youre not commiting elder abuse as an rn but youre a mandated reporter in communities youve never spoken to until now lol #its been quite isolating here and im not afraid to be myself and speak up in class but the fucking thank yous i get from white women #make me wanna bite a rock man #id much rather u call me a slur at this point #at the very least my field placement is in a bipoc space with bipoc staff #godspeed to all other marginalized people in these masters programs........

[commiepinkofag]

‘Get off our backs and let us live’

Miss Major is still fighting for trans rights after 50 years of resistance

her latest project – a sanctuary for trans and gender-nonconforming people that she built on the property where she lives in the southern conservative state. She first called it House of GG, after her initials, but recently renamed it Tilifi, which stands for Telling It Like It Fuckin’ Is, something Miss Major is exceptionally good at doing. Next door to her house, connected by a path she painted bright yellow, is the Oasis, a guest home where she invites trans leaders and loved ones to stay, with a singular goal: to rest and relax. “I’ve gotta make joy here, because it doesn’t exist in the normal world,” says Miss Major … Visibility, she says, means the deaths of her people are now counted, but it doesn’t mean their lives are being saved and protected: “We got gay marriage, yay! But that doesn’t affect transgender people. The girls are being murdered more and more each year.” She rolls her eyes at the order of the LGBTQ+ acronym: “The T should be first. We’re integral.” … “They want us to live in the 1950s. No. Get off our fucking backs and let us live. They try to push us back – well, that means we gotta put the gloves on and fight again,” she says. “We have to get rid of the people in charge – the 70- and 80-year-olds who hold us down, who want to try to suppress us. You get rid of them, and we can build up, and move forward. People have to organize and get it together, and we also must vote.” She adds: “I know the world I would like to live in. It’s in my head, but I try my best to live it now.”

by Sam Levin/The Guardian, June 22, 2023 [📷 Miss Major in Little Rock. Whitten Sabbatini]

#telling it like it fuckin’ is #trans #bipoc #miss major #queer history #lgbqti #tlgbqia #lbgtq #2023 #trans visibility #pride month #little rock #arkansas #stonewall #activism #activist #Tilifi #house of gg

[honeyvenommusic]

hey so a friend’s apartment just burned down in a devastating fire.

i’m so glad he & his dog are okay but the situation is terrible. they’ve called the destruction a total loss. i can’t do much but want to help & he said it’s cool to share so…

he’s also created/heads a really cool online magazine for and showcasing queer punks, bipoc & poc, and women in the rock scene. it’s been so cool to see it take shape over the years + he’s a dope artist himself so if you want to send some aid / support his work, his & the magazine’s @‘s are the same on ig too

cashapp: $altpnk

venmo: altpnk

paypal: paypal.me/delicatepunk

please share and thank you!! 🖤

#help if you can #spread if you can tysm #punk rock #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #trans #afropunk #black punk #bipoc #poc artist #alt music #nonbinary

[crippledwithrage]

Stop saying "you're so strong and brave! You're such a great activist!".

I shouldn't have to be. I'm wasting my years fighting for my human rights against people who won't pick up any other book if it saved their life.

I'm so goddamn tired and I'm scared to death.

#trans #ftm #trans ftm #transgender #neurodivergent #disabled #bipoc community #lgbt #queer #ffs i hate it here #pick up a fucking book you ignorant shits #y'all aren't even creative #imma start throwing rocks at ppl

[violentvioletsky]

No one from the era wants to admit this. But, I will. The hatred of Nu-Metal in the 90s and early 2000s was mainly a covert form of racism. How so? Hip Hop is a genre that was birthed out of Black culture. The easiest way to keep POC from entering a mainly white scene is to vilify all aspects of their culture.

I grew up in the hood in Southern California which was (and still is) a predominantly BIPOC neighborhood. Like James Spooner from Afropunk, the first subculture I was exposed to was Hip Hop. It was the 90s and my older cousins and siblings were all into stuff like Public Enemy, the Fugees, NWA (my cousin had a HUGE poster in her bedroom covered with kisses, LOL), and Naughty by Nature.

Anthrax did a song with Public Enemy and then Boo Yah Tribe did a song with Faith No More and folks in my town went WILD. It was a gateway for many into subcultures like Punk, Hardcore, Metal, and Goth.

It isn't a coincidence that many began vilifying Nu-Metal (and, yes, Tripp Pants too as it was a crossover of 90s Hip Hop fashion and Goth/Alternative fashion) as being for poseurs once people in my part of town started taking an interest in alternative and goth culture.

#racism in alternative culture #racism #bipoc #black goths #roxyvail #black punks #afropunk #black alternative #tripp pants #nu metal #rap rock #rap metal #1990s #90s alternative #90s goth #90s metal #Youtube

[open-your-heart-and-your-eyes]

BIPOC PEOPLE IN THE ROCK MUSIC INDUSTRY

Post inspired by, and is an extension of this lovely post about POC emo icons by @rpf-bat. If I get anything wrong, please feel free to correct me. I’m going to try to keep the bios relatively short and sweet so I don’t write an entire essay. All my information was found from Google/Spotify search results or my pre-existing knowledge. Feel free to DM me for specific sources. Fair Use for educational purposes, no copywright infringement intended.

Acrassicauda: Iraqi metal band from Baghdad. Andy Capper and Gabi Sifre wrote Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda about the band’s formation and their fight to be able to play the music they love.

Booboo Stewart (Vic Lakota from The Relentless in Paradise City and American Satan, Seth Clearwater from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Jay from Disney’s Descendants, among many others): Blackfoot, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman): biracial- Kenyan and white (quick side note: Morello has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Harvard, which I thought was really cool).

The HU: Mongolian metal band. They’ve worked with the likes of Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach (The Wolf’s Totem), Lzzy Hale of Halestorm (Song of Women), and Danny Case of From Ashes to New (Yuve Yuve Yu).

Jose “The Metal Ambassador” Mangin (radio personality/host and interviewer, Sirius XM): Mexican-American. Is often hosting on Sirius XM Octane and Liquid Metal.

Meet Me @ The Altar: Pop punk trio made up entirely of BIPOC musicians Edith Johnson (Black), Téa Campbell (Black), and Ada Juarez (Latinx). Three of their popular songs are Hit Like a Girl, Feel a Thing, and Garden.

Nandi Bushell: Zulu and white. The twelve year-old drummer has collaborated with Roman Morello, Tom Morello, Jack Black, and Greta Thunberg on Roman’s song The Children Will Rise Up! She has also played with the likes of Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Roger Taylor of Queen, Ringo Starr of The Beatles, and Matt Helders of The Arctic Monkeys (and likely more that I’m missing).

Joe Hahn (Linkin Park, Mr. Hahn): Korean-American. The man behind the band’s turntables and keyboard. Linkin Park’s Cure for The Itch on their album Hybrid Theory (2000) specifically highlights Hahn on the turntables within the first minute.

Ayron Jones: African-American. Jones is gaining traction in the scene. Two songs of his I’d like to note are Spinning Circles and Mercy from his 2021 album Child of the State. He has toured with the likes of Shinedown (and makes a hilarious feature in one of the band’s Tiktoks) and will tour with The Pretty Reckless and Black Stone Cherry this year.

BIPOC ICONS

Chuck Berry (The Chuck Berry Trio, Sir John’s Trio) Black. Widely successful, influential singer and guitarist known for Johnny B. Goode, You Can Never Tell, and No Particular Place To Go. Berry’s legacy is still deeply felt in his contemporaries today.

Prince (Prince and The Revolution, “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince,” 3rdeyegirl, Madhouse, 94 East, The Family) Black. Groundbreaking, inventive, and androgynous artist known for hits like When Doves Cry and Purple Rain. Prince has also written songs for others like Sinead O’Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U) and The Bangles (Manic Monday).

Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsys, Kings of Rhythm, Jimmy James and The Blue Frames): Black and Cherokee. Acknowledged by many to be one of the greatest (if not the greatest) guitarists of all time.

Slash (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Spinal Tap, Road Crew, and entirely too many others to list): biracial- Nigerian and white. He’s the guitarist for Guns N Roses, whose hits include (but are not limited to) Welcome to The Jungle and Sweet Child O’ Mine. He joined his bandmates of Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum in the early 2000s to form Velvet Revolver, recruiting Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots for vocals. He continues to release music, especially with Myles Kennedy of Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators and Alter Bridge (see Driving Rain).

Robert Trujilo (Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Mass Mental, Infectious Grooves): Mexican and unspecified Native American descent. Trujilo replaced Jason Newsted as guitarist for Metallica, starting as a full time recording member with St. Anger (2003).

Carlos Santana (Santana): Mexican-born Latinx. A legendary guitarist, Santana’s song Smooth featuring Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas is still an incredibly popular hit to this day. A prolific part of the song is Santana’s guitar work at the beginning of and throughout the song. The riff is considered to rather iconic to rock music as a genre.

Freddie Mercury (Queen): Indian Parsi, born in Zanzibar. Mercury is also considered to be an LGBTQIA+ icon by many. He was a groundbreaking and charismatic performer (not to mention his prolific appearance and fashion). His absolute powerhouse of a voice behind Queen’s innumerable hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champions earned Mercury a deity-like status in both the music industry and pop culture as a whole. He continues to influence and inspire many in the decades since his death.

To all my BIPOC beauties/handsome people:

You exist in this industry. You belong. Do not let anyone in this scene erase or invalidate you.

#rock and roll #rock music #bipoc #bipoc representation #bipocartists #modern rock #metal #hard rock #queen #freddie mercury #carlos santana #santana #metallica #guns n roses #jimi hendrix #chuck berry #ayron jones #linkin park #nandi bushell #meet me at the altar #the HU #sirius xm #tom morello #rage against the machine #audioslave #american satan #paradise city #acrassicauda #poc #people of color

[ddoubleblindd]

Kirti is one of my absolute favorite catgirl designs for Everyone's a Catgirl! Everything about her is perfection.

Art by HP Parker Illustrations.

#everyone's a catgirl! #vitiligo #bipoc #bipoc characters #catgirl #she puts souls in rocks and then uses them to cast with

[vegitoswife-archive]

amita often forgets to routinely shave her face, causing her little facial hairs to really lengthen. she's reminded when vegito tells her that her whiskers are looking cute (which he sincerely means).

#poc selfship #bipoc selfship #self ship #canon x oc #oc x canon #canon x self insert #dragon ball oc #ship ;; amito #my art #( idk if it's because of my genes or what; but it's like my face is trying to grow a beard lol ) #( if society wasnt dumb & if the hairs didnt get annoying; maybe i'd try to rock it )

[mpaizsounds]

Adjenai - Make Me Feel (2021); EP

Arrangement & additional production Favorite track: Fear Is A Liar < LISTEN HERE >

#adjenai #singer songwriter #pop #pop vocals #rock #female fronted rock #women of rock #blues rock #los angeles music #los angeles indie #BIPOC music #queer music #queer artist

[mannyblacque]

I watched this last night because I noticed Jordan Peele was involved. I was just expecting a fun stop motion animation movie.

I was not expecting:

Racially and ethnically diverse cast ✓

Positive trans portrayal ✓

Anti for-profit prison message ✓

Kick ass afro-punk soundtrack ✓

It makes my heart happy to see so much positive portrayals of diversity set to rock music by BIPOC musicians. 🙂

#wendell & wild #jordan peele #keegan michael key #afropunk #protect trans kids #diversity #wendell and wild #for profit prisons #representation matters #bipoc representation #lgbtq representation #punk rock #black history month #amplifymelanatedvoices #amplify black voices #bipoc rock #bipoc #key and peele #key & peele #trans acceptance

[overexciteddragon]

Punk is whatever the state fucking hates so I'm sorry to announce to the functionally conservative but contemporary punk isn't leather jackets and punk rock from the 2000s, it's hyperfemininity, it's transsexualism, it's kinky leather harnesses, it's polyamory, it's Black female rappers, it's reading books from the library, it's pirating media, it's sharing your Netflix and Prime and Spotify passwords, it's patching up your thrifted clothes with cute embroidery until they're in tatters, it's "borrowing" groceries from corporations that make up inflation that doesn't exist, it's supporting small weird freaky artists on Etsy instead of buying the newest Official™️ boring low effort promotional image enamel pins, it's drawing and writing the raunchiest most disgusting and freaky porn you could possibly fathom, it's showing off your tits or top surgery scars in public, it's cis women packing and cis men tucking, it's dykefags and fagdykes and boylesbians and girlgays, it's paying for OnlyFans of trans people fisting themselves, it's making up new genders and sexualities and romantic orientations and editing whole new flags for them, it's refusing to label yourself for the gratification of a government that wants to know under what misspelled drafty legislation they should legally kill you

Punk is being/supporting whatever the state currently fucking despises and wants to burn off the face of the earth, not whatever you think is Punk Aesthetic. If you wanna be punk just to look like you were born in the 80s instead of actually BEING PUNK by supporting the degenerates and the freaks and the sex workers and the BIPOC and the transsexuals and the faggots and the dykes, burn your fucking $800 corp bought leather jacket because you're not Hobie Brown you're just a fucking poser.

Punk is fighting the system beside the ones the system is fighting against, Punk isn't a Pinterest moodboard.

#punk #queer #personal #I SAID IT

[mueritos]

so i guess im getting into crystals and gems? talked to my therapist about the ones i bought (black obsidian star and round rose quartz i believe, and also a bismuth keychain). she told me she wouldnt recc obsidian to anyone but for me it works out cuz im mexican (teehee) but to be very careful if that shit fractures cuz it cuts like crazy. anyway. idk where to start with all these gems and crystals and im def interested in something that can just ground me? idk. i love rocks too. so does anyone have some resources on where to start with crystals/gemstones, any rituals/practices, etc?

#ive always been kinds turned off by seeking witchy and gem stuff but the more i learn about my ancestors and have interacted wirh tarot well #the more i wanna get into it #i was exposed to it by yt folks but the only people who i felt had genuine connection to energy and stones were my bipoc friends #id love to learn more #plus i love rocks #so if its resources tied to indigenous ancestry thats a plus #always trying to find ways to connect to my indigeniety

[crimsoncelestia]

fallen kingdom - available now!

#punk rock #punk aesthetic #alternative #artists on tumblr #small artist #small business #sharp #bipoc #lgbtqia #lgbtq owned #black owned

[buttermag]

as a new climber, there is a general tendency to focus one’s efforts toward constant progress. but as Nana shared, if you come from a marginalized group, it can be difficult to find yourself in a safe enough space for that ‘push through’ mindset to be effective.

#enby #enby pride #climber #rock climbing #bouldering #queer climber #bipoc #bipoc athlete