celestial bodyshaming.
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blessed be those who shoot back.
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One group of whites saw black people as meant for abjection, the other saw black people as meant to be pitied.
Both groups were dominating the stories and lived experiences of Black folks and Hurston was standing up for Black people as fully-formed people who don’t center whiteness.
Both groups were dominating the stories and lived experiences of Black folks and Hurston was standing up for Black people as fully-formed people who don’t center whiteness.
February 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One group of whites saw black people as meant for abjection, the other saw black people as meant to be pitied.
Both groups were dominating the stories and lived experiences of Black folks and Hurston was standing up for Black people as fully-formed people who don’t center whiteness.
Both groups were dominating the stories and lived experiences of Black folks and Hurston was standing up for Black people as fully-formed people who don’t center whiteness.
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100% I think when a lot of light Americans hear "listen to Black women" they hear "listen" like how we tell kids to listen, which is obey. Whereas if many more ACTUALLY listened to Black people, especially women, as faithful narrators of your own experience, they'd also be much less caught off guard
February 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
100% I think when a lot of light Americans hear "listen to Black women" they hear "listen" like how we tell kids to listen, which is obey. Whereas if many more ACTUALLY listened to Black people, especially women, as faithful narrators of your own experience, they'd also be much less caught off guard
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Facts. The selective amnesia in these takes is exhausting. The refusal to name how we got here, how Black women have BEEN warning, organizing, and holding the damn line, isn't just an oversight...it's a pattern. It tells me they’d rather frame this moment as inevitable than admit the role...
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Facts. The selective amnesia in these takes is exhausting. The refusal to name how we got here, how Black women have BEEN warning, organizing, and holding the damn line, isn't just an oversight...it's a pattern. It tells me they’d rather frame this moment as inevitable than admit the role...
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...of white backlash, media complicity, and the sidelining of our voices.
It demonstrates how respectability politics can be weaponized to smooth over hard truths for an audience that refuses to sit with accountability. I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.
It demonstrates how respectability politics can be weaponized to smooth over hard truths for an audience that refuses to sit with accountability. I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
...of white backlash, media complicity, and the sidelining of our voices.
It demonstrates how respectability politics can be weaponized to smooth over hard truths for an audience that refuses to sit with accountability. I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.
It demonstrates how respectability politics can be weaponized to smooth over hard truths for an audience that refuses to sit with accountability. I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.
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If they can’t show simple goodwill to Black and Trans people then why should we show goodwill to them?
December 13, 2024 at 7:09 PM
If they can’t show simple goodwill to Black and Trans people then why should we show goodwill to them?