Status Updates From Yearning: Race, Gender, and...

White female bodies become the site where the non white man finds solace

Colonialisation made us the colonialised

Stylish nihilism; like the sound of this title

Very important page

Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

Language is a place of struggle

Hopefully, this chapter will be a revisit from margin to centre.

To achieve this end we must be committed to a politics of difference that recognised the importance of making space for the marginalised

Power comes from writing that enables us to think critically about everyday life!!

“Marginalised groups may lack the inclination to engage in certain ways of thinking and writing because we learn early that such work may not be recognised”! THIS!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Many feminists, especially women of colour, are rethinking the idea of difference in ethnography and cultural studies!

All works of art exercise an ideological influence

Unfortunately there is a subordination of art to politics

Art is the cultural arm of the black revolution

Art mediated the harsh conditions of poverty and servitude. Art was also a way to escape one’s plighg

Old folks shared their sense that we had come out of slavery into this free space

ISLAM

“Solidarity between black women and men” (thanks to white feminism) “has diminished as more black men have uncritically accepted assumptions that block women are advancing at their expense” really important because white women have created this because of the power they have yielded despite being faced with sexual exploitation. Arguably my favourite quote, so profound and on the nose.

Positive masculinity in workplace

Excellent page describing a person’s predisposition to sexism

Black men are subjected to a binary reading of either good or bad

Interesting perspective on censorship

We need to create a discourse on race that others and interrogates whiteness

Sexism delegates to females the task of creating and sustaining a home environment

commitment to feminist politics was a corrective process