A shorter cap or tassel were absolutely out of the question here, as was a gold braided brim. That would’ve made it an admiralty fez

Fezzes are cool now.

Really isn't the fez ID in itself?

Thanks, I always wondered about the Moor connection.

"Empress" Verdiacee "Tiari" Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah (the article missed aa few of her names or self proclaimed honorifics). Now thats a name I haven't heard in probably two decades(and one she continued to add onto and embellish throughout her life), but reading the article immediately made me remember just how absolutely batshit crazy she was. I grew up in Northeast Louisiana and remember her stirring up problems at various civic meetings for years. I can't believe anybody would ever take anything she said as serious, because she was so clearly mentally ill that even as a kid I picked up on it. But somehow they did, and she even led a movement for the "town" of richwood to secede from the city of Monroe, taking with it a good portion of the more densely populated areas but almost none of the tax base to support the basic civic infrastructure. You can probably figure out how the next two decades plus looked for residents there.

Point of contention: just because they're not recognized doesn't mean they don't exist, clearly they do, and if they officiate their own documents as well this is a bit different than SovCits I think about, this sounds like a group of people attempting to assert rights that aren't recognized which is a little less unhinged.

Actually I work with someone who is she/they.

My bet is this picture originated as a “look how good mine came out” type of post somewhere else

Very stable genus

It's true a lot of them come from there. One abducted her own kids from a child protective services visit even.

Maybe the lead in the water

The frigid northern wind blows up their nose and into their brains.

Masculine Michigan?

It really is the Florida of the north. The "upright wang" to 'America's dong' of FL.