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Hey guys, I'm your girl, Kiki Palmer, and today I want to talk about the commercialization

of communities or the commodification. Specifically, I talking about the trans community and I'm wondering what exactly

feels like it makes sense and people are learning and what feels like it's being used as a fad.

So I'm bringing on T.S. Madison and I want to hear all about it from her perspective as a black trans woman.

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You know it's your girl.

Baby, this is, this is Kiki.

Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah.

Okay, so Sharon, I'm excited to talk about this with you because obviously anything and everything can be commercialized.

Yes.

And it makes me think about, um, it makes me think about actually the movie Edward Scissorshands.

Oh yes, yes, yes.

As a kid, I was kind of like, okay, the motherfucker got Souser Hands.

Excuse me.

But then as time went on, like, and obviously a couple of Reddit threads, I realized that it was

actually about the commodification of uniqueness or just being you, being different, standing

out, and how at first you can be, you know, people can come at you for being whoever you

are, whatever your culture is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then very quickly it can become like, ooh, I love it. Right. And kind of, you know, speaking to like what is the fine line of not necessarily just commercializing something, but making something feel, let me, making something normalized because it's important. Right. Especially when we're talking about communities where people are marginalized, being killed, being hurt, etc. The commercialization of it sometimes makes it feel more relatable. People are educated. They can understand more. But then also it could create this thing where everybody's just like, I'm in it. You know, and it's like where do you draw the law? Like a fat. or appropriation or, you know what I'm saying? Of course. So I'm curious from you what has been like witnessing the commercialization of just blackness. I know that was a big one. Well, you know, I've been black my whole life. Really? So, I mean, obviously I've seen the fats and the trends and, you know, they come and go.

And it's just, you know, it's kind of funny.

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