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Subject Matter Expert

from Queer Core: Behind the Music by QueenEarth

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I have worked so many jobs. When I took my artful passions and turned them into a polished resume, I found myself amongst some slightly younger millennials at start ups.

I’m cool enough to be a good “cultural” fit, but too Black and way too Queer to be sitting with the cool kids at lunch. For me, that meant a glass ceiling in many places, but never one when I am in the front of the room, at the mic, on the sticks, at the wheel, behind the curtain. I will continue towards my passions forever.

I hope to find us wherever I go. I often do not.

When I was making this video, I wanted to find stock photos and images with Black people, women, and Queer folks doing the same things that I do, that I have done, that we do everyday. But too often, we are not in the room, we are not assumed capable, or there is no pipeline, or the powers that be look for candidates in places where we aren’t found. And marketing doesn’t often show us. Or they do. Any we are tokens, short term solutions to societal problems. There are even more people who are excluded. This isn’t about me.

The systems are designed to be walls to access for some, and roads for others. What if we did more by changing the way we have always done things? Repairing problems with innovation and more voices.

When I have a chance to help someone like me, a “cool kid” , an expert in themselves and their call, their roots, and their future, I give props. Do you have a foot in the door somewhere?

This is for those of us wearing all the hats, “crushing it” in our own skin, in our true selves. I hope more folks find themselves while they are chasing their dreams. May we never forget where we come from and progress together. #subjectmatterexpert

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I show up
Nice Clothes
Talk a good game
Domain knowledge
Soft skills
Subject matter expert
All of it
Sales pitch it to you
Train it
teach it too
Build it
Make it beautiful
Spill it
Tell the story
And the strategy
If you want me too
Lay across these lines
Of the product and the service

It’s all words
In the weeds
Or at 30,000 feet
All this jargon
Just a test
To see I can speak
Your language
I code switch without anguish
Double consciousness
When rent turns to mortgage
We can’t plan on broken promises
From the boardroom to the block
Be consistent when you stand
When you got
The gift of gab
And a mic up in your hand
Cardboard dreams
Dancing in my head
Spray the can
With some hip hop
In your hands

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from Queer Core: Behind the Music, released November 27, 2020
Written and composed by M. Smith
Bass, guitar, keys by QueenEarth
Produced, mixed, and performed by QueenEarth
Mastering by Blakwater House, Baltimore, MD

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QueenEarth is an acoustic singer/songwriter and emcee. She shares her music through events for social justice and community education. Her showcase, QueerCore: Behind the Music, was created to make safe space and feature stories of LGBT heroes, audiences, and allies. ... more

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