Also, my thing is like why does it seem like interracial only means “white + minority”? I hate that Hollywood’s rhetoric is that interracial couples, for some reason, can’t exist without the presence of whiteness, and it’s ESPECIALLY prevalent in queer media because it’s all we ever really get (at least in terms of western media, i can’t speak for other countries but I assume it’s definitely different for the more homogenous countries and such).

Queer people of color characters are allowed to exist in media but it’s more digestible and palatable for predominately white audiences having that QPOC be coupled with a white person and/or be written colorblindly and to not explore the intersectionality of their race and sexuality and gender expression. That’s like the only type of rep we get in mainstream media and it’s long drawn out.

If anything, can we at LEAST see interracial relationships between minorities, like black + latino or latino + asian or black + asian or even indigenous + ANYBODY??? There’s just too many possibilities out there for interracial couples representation for these folk keep using the same damn “white + racially ambiguous minority but most likely mixed with white” formula!!!

I for one liked phone fruits. Your digital fruit basket

I’m biracial so any relationship I enter is interracial by default 😭😭😭

We are all waiting for that show that centers black lesbians
We need it

As a black lesbian, as I got older and comfortable with myself it got really exhausting seeing interracial lesbian relationships on popular television. So I turned to black lesbian youtube series plenty of those shows just needed funding to take off. Glad you brought up the capitalism aspect! Now im completely checked out of all lesbian shows that was listed because of the constant swirl propaganda. It would be great to see more black lesbian representation.
You should make a video about how different black lesbian/queer culture and popular/ white queer is

OMG finally a more complex analysis of Bette and Tina's sperm donor situation. I actually thought the white liberal reaction to Tina's reluctance actually reflects some post racial ass ideas about white people having Black children. Yes Bette is biracial but her white passingness and her white ass social circle would mean that a visibly Black child is raised in a white environment. Obviously I've been waiting to talk about this forever lmao.

1:09 okay but Willow Smith and Hunter Schafer would EAT. I see the vision.

There’s definitely a specific type of interracial lesbian couple that the media prefers to display. It’s rarely a dark skin unambiguous Black femme with a non-black woman (especially if the other woman is masc).

There’s a level of cultural understanding that I desire, and only another Black woman would get that.

it took me so long to even consider the idea that internalized racism had ANY effect on my preference in women, and i think thats partly because so little queer media actually focuses on intersectionality and racism. this was a great video!!!

"Black girl with 3B curls" so damn true

As a biracial person (notably not black though) I'm always hesitant to engage with any videos about interracial relationships, but as usual you have a nuanced take and it's addressing the systemic issues and exploitation rather than the individual occurrence of interracial dating. I've had classmates cite incredibly flawed studies about mental health issues and increased violence perpetrated by biracial people when compared to monoracial people in academic papers at my university, so to see a discussion like this that doesn't do that is really nice <3 thank you

7:05 "two birds with one woke stone" 💀

There are a bunch of ‘homophobia exists but racism doesn’t’ works of fiction but I don’t know of many or even ANY (although I’m not as educated as some) that are ‘racism exists but homophobia doesn’t.’  Like I’ve never seen two black women in a romantic relationship deal with racism, but not homophobia. :/

Unfortunately it's bc yt ppl won't watch things without yt ppl in it and they're the majority so that's where the money's at 😪

baby...you need to do a deep dive on Thai gl industry

lol as a mixed babe (creole) i’m always in an interracial relationship and at first i felt like dating white peole was going against the grain because im black and “not supposed to” but as i’ve grown i actually think it’s the opposite. i was just playing into a game that ultimately prioritized white women above the rest because i was the ethnic one and i felt like it was my duty to radicalize as many white women as i could through the use of my body, which was harmful and dehumanizing to my own blackness. i’m looking back on what racist lessons i unknowingly absorbed and trying to unlearn them is a fucking handful since it penetrates every aspect of my life as a enby lesbian of color.

I wish there was more black masc gnc/nonbinary lesbian representation and relationships shown more in tv to make me happy as a blk non-binary lesbian myself I’d be so happy to see someone like me in a relationship on tv.

First kill was so bad it was good

a non white mixed race lesbian couple you missed was the bold type

To add another layer to this, White audiences don't consume Black media and art, or POC/Global majority media, unless it's presented in a very specific way that satisfies their gaze (e.g. slavery, poverty stories from African, melancholic East Asian media). For example, many White people wouldn't watch Insecure, because they don't think it's for them, so a culturally Black lesbian show wouldn't get a very wide audience either 🤷🏾‍♀