April 5, 2013 | by Kai M Green— "I have experienced the demands of Black masculinity and the responses to my failure to perform properly are not alI that different from the experiences of failed masculinity that I felt within Black lesbian communities. But it is true, I am now a young Black American Male. People usually assume that I am somewhere between the age of 15 and 20. I'm 28. The world is unkind to Black bois. The world is unkind to Black girls. But the way our gendered bodies are policed is different."