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May 17 - May 27, 2023
in retrospect I can see that the negative response to my video was a clear symptom of a racist and sexist culture that was viscerally offended by the idea of a black woman talking about her lived experience.
I mean, I really am sorry if people are offended or they are upset about it, but I think that if you don’t see anything of yourself in it, then I don’t think it should be offensive.
bigotry is not a shortcut to criticism.”
“With intersectional feminism, it’s our responsibility as white women to recognize that when there are people of color or people who are queer—we need to prioritize your
voices and let you speak the loudest and learn from your experience, because we haven’t been listening,” Jill said to the table. “So please, Jessica, finish your thoughts.”
“Be who you needed when you were younger.”
Facing a new direction doesn’t mean there’s not another long road in front of you.
I was RACIST for saying Donald Trump was unfit to be president—clearly I had some unfair bias against orange people!
I at least wanted the catharsis of having fully explained my position.
No matter what you do, people who are dedicated to seeing marginalized people as second-class citizens will be upset when marginalized people insist that they are not second-class citizens.
Let me put it plainly: Fuck Donald Trump and his rampant racism, sexism, xenophobia, Nazi apologism, climate-change denial, and unending desire to send our country and the entire world straight to hell in a handbasket decorated with a Confederate-flag pattern. Seriously.
Even if you have all the connections in the world, you still have to show up and do the work.
An opinion stops being “just an opinion” when it supports the mistreatment or oppression of others,
People are very bold on the internet; they are not bold in person.
A person’s racial identity doesn’t define them, but it does play a part in who they are.
Instead of asking why women can’t be bothered to hand out their number to every dude with a fresh Cricket Wireless plan, why can’t sensitive-ass man-babies learn how to take rejection without resorting to full-blown temper tantrums that end in physically harming women minding their gatdamb business?
“It’s okay for a movement to be focused on a specific group or cause. ‘Save the rainforest’ doesn’t mean ‘Fuck all the other trees.”
It’s always strange to me when people start dictating what you must or must not do to be a good black person, a good feminist, a good advocate. Do I have to keep a tally of my activist points to prove I’ve earned a moment of rest?
In her 1988 essay collection, A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde wrote, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Too often, people want credit for doing the right thing instead of just wanting to do the right thing.
Womanist—coined by the writer Alice Walker, a term to describe an alternative movement that seeks to broaden feminism to better cater to and include women of color.
