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December 29, 2012
acesoldia:
How long has Dinah known Batman=Bruce?
From Gail...
How long has Dinah known Batman=Bruce?
From Gail Simone’s run on Birds of Prey, issue 79. I love Canary more every issue
Again, this page shows why I love working with Ed Benes.
So MUCH amazing stuff is happening on this page…Batman seemingly a giant as he walks away from Canary due to a trick in perspective. The deliberate staging so that they are never eye to eye. Canary’s determination to protect her sisters, and her resignation at Bruce’s intentional loneliness…Ed can draw emotions many artists can’t.
He’s spectacular at fight scenes, but it’s pages like this where I think he shows his mettle.
From Birds of Prey #72
Don’t try to back talk Vixen,...
From Birds of Prey #72
Don’t try to back talk Vixen, Helena.
You will LOSE.
melancholysoup:
I got new bat girl comics for christmas because...
I got new bat girl comics for christmas because I ran out of night wing ones to read and they art is so fucking good omgfsdlgkldfja
This picture is backwards and adorable. :)
deensey:
A tired batcat retreats to his cave, where he hangs...
A tired batcat retreats to his cave, where he hangs his cape up for another night. Until the batcat signal shines again! (or his human gets bored) #batman
Ha!
December 28, 2012
APE IN A CAPE: About the Term 'POC'
I use it a lot when discussing race, even though I admit sometimes its usage gives me pause.
But several times lately, I have seen many people express that they don’t like the term for reasons that make a lot of sense to me (because it expresses ‘white’ as the human default, and because it lumps…
Here’s the short version: Terms like “People of Color” and “Women of Color” were created to be political designations, not ethnic identities. It’s the antithesis to the concept of whiteness and oppressive reality of white supremacy so that “People of Color” may stand in solidarity with each other, as we have been made into “minorities” as a result of white supremacy. Also, in doing so, we “People of Color” then become the norm instead of the racialized ”Other.”
Here is part of the article so that we can get to the main bits:
“In 1977, a group of Black women from Washington, DC, went to the National Women’s Conference, that [former President] Jimmy Carter gave $5 million to have as part of the World Decade for Women. There was a conference in Houston, TX.
This group of Black women carried into that conference something called, “The Black Women’s Agenda,” because the organizers of the conference—Bella Abzug, Ellie Smeal, and what have you—had put together a three-page “Minority Women’s Plank” in a 200-page document that these Black women thought was somewhat inadequate.
So they actually formed a group called Black Women’s Agenda to come [sic] to Houston with a Black women’s plan of action that they wanted the delegates to vote to substitute for the “Minority Women’s Plank that was in the proposed plan of action.
Well, a funny thing happened in Houston: when they took the Black Women’s Agenda to Houston, then all the rest of the “minority” women of color wanted to be included in the “Black Women’s Agenda.” Okay?
Well, [the Black women] agreed…but you could no longer call it the “Black Women’s Agenda.” And it was in those negotiations in Houston [that] the term “women of color” was created. Okay?
And they didn’t see it as a biological designation—you’re born Asian, you’re born Black, you’re born African American, whatever—but it is a solidarity definition, a commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been “minoritized.”
Now, what’s happened in the 30 years since then is that people see it as biology now.
…And people are saying they don’t want to be defined as a woman of color: “I am Black, “I am Asian American”…and that’s fine. But why are you reducing a political designation to a biological destiny?
That’s what white supremacy wants you to do. And I think it’s a setback when we disintegrate as people of color around primitive ethnic claiming. Yes, we are Asian American, Native American, whatever, but the point is, when you choose to work with other people who are minoritized by oppression, you’ve lifted yourself out of that basic identity into another political being and another political space. And, unfortunately, so many times, people of color hear the term “people of color” from other white people that [PoCs} think white people created it instead of understanding that we self-named ourselves. This is term that has a lot of power for us.
But we’ve done a poor-ass job of communicating that history so that people understand that power.”
Wow, that’s some food for thought right there.
Who would win in a fight: Genocide or Doomsday?
Probably Doomsday. But I do like both as just engines of destruction.
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