by Khalil Somadi
On one level or another, from one vantage point or another, Sisters want a sneak peek into a Brothers' psyche; and Brothers want a sneak peek into the psyche of Sisters.
I think it's only natural; after all, we ARE the only two components of human existence!
But we are more than our reproductive design.
We are social beings.Thinking personas. We are sexual creatures, to various and individual degrees. And we are entwined... even when we are most separate.
We are, (often unconsciously!) bisexual, with overt leanings to heterosexuality.
Or maybe our SoulRhythm beats prominently to the cadences of same-sex attraction.
Maybe some of us are drawn equally to either soul & sexual stance.
And their are even more variations than those!
The common denominator however, must be love.
I'm happy to say that all does not seem lost for us, regarding this love!
These days more than ever I have been privileged to become acquainted with sisters and with brothers operating toward genuine understanding and appreciation of one another. And they are doing it with their feet planted firmly in honesty-- to Self and to One Another. And they're doing it with as much respect for one another's sameness as for one another's differences!
That
takes
guts!
But people of any substance have always had to have courage, which is what created their substance in the first place; and committing to complete honesty comes out of that too.
You see along with the openness that honesty encourages, comes also the extinguishing of negatives like misogyny,
penis envy,
homophobia,
respectability politics,
suppression of female sexual expression to escape the label of amoral pariah,
assexuality as emotional self-defense...
All those things that sequester us sister and brother counterparts from one another.
It's not what you do; its how you treat others who do differently.
"It's not what you're called," as Maya Angelou has so eloquently said, "it's what you answer to"!Love in a Black community of Kindred!
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