An MKR Poem
photo-actress Kandyse McClure as Battlestar Galactica's Lt. Anastasia Dualla-Adama
Fracked up
Jacked up
Makes me wanna act up
To keep me from blowing up
'Bout how you hate me
Berate me
Constantly denigrate me
My African-American family
There's other transpeeps like me
Out and proud as can be
From sea to shining sea
Sharing your DNA history
Praying to be free
To match mind and body
With our gender identity
That's our reality
Want to live our lives
Without the shuck and jive
Not struggle to survive
Ready and eager to thrive
Sick of your jealousy
Your faith-based hypocrisy
Taking out your anger on me
About our jacked up society
Just because I changed gender
Doesn't make me a pretender
I'm a phenomenal contender
My Blackness I refuse to surrender
Don't care if you think
It's fracked up
Jacked up
Or I just need to shut up
Because you think I should be
In my birth body
Deny my true identity
To make your insecure azz happy
Keep chomping on the Hater Tots
Ashamed of being transgender I'm not
No more tears, anguish and strife
Cause I'm honestly living a life
That's not fracked up