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https://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the-root-100.jpg?fit=800%2C450800450When I look at this list, I’m fortified knowing that increasingly we are not being asked to choose between our blackness and our queerness as the movement moves forward. We are no longer being asked to do the work, but keep our faces in the shadows.