February 2012
Anonymous asked: I'm, I think, Hispanic and White, but I was adopted at the age of two by an African American family. I know that I am not black, but I'm immersed in to the culture, and what affects my parents, affects me. I have two brothers, and one sister. They are all biologically my parents children, and I stand out, but only by the color of my skin. With everything else, I identify with them, I...
Anonymous asked: I think the "transethnic" issue is a little more complicated than that when you take passing into account. What if a passing native american or black person identifies as white? And it also kind of dismisses the experience of people who were raised in a culture outside of their own heritage and have adopted that culture.. if that makes sense. I'm not saying that someone claiming...
Anonymous asked: some observations for your last anon: anyone who "identifies" as another race, at least on tumblr, is usually white, and never actually cares about issues affecting POCs. they only care about being "discriminated against" based on their identity. same goes for people who just choose to "identify" as "trans-abled," or say they feel like they should be...
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
BOOM.
(via str8nochaser)
Welp. (via notesonascandal)
Anonymous asked: stupid question probably, but, is it possible for a person to identify as another race? it's said to be possible to idenify as another gender, or even an amputee, or feel more connected to animals than people, so, why does no one ever mention identifying as a different race? Is it close minded to say that's not possible, or if this is real, is it good or bad that it might clash with...
mickyalexandria asked: Ooooh what's the book going to be about?
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“Let me spoil all of the Oscars for you. Outside of “Best Actress”, a...”
– Erin Gibson (@gibblertron)
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Starting a new book >
“There will be a complex constellation of emotions attending Viola winning for...”
– @Toure live-tweeting the oscars
Anonymous asked: In response to those who say white authors can't consider black feminism or issues is their writing... I recently read a book written by a white feminist who dedicated a whole chapter (out of 20 or so covering the whole of feminism) to discrimination faced by racial minorities in the white schooling system and how this effects their futures.
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“Its not even about black feminism vs white feminism with me. feminism doesn’t...”
– NWF in response to this question
secretlivessecretloves asked: Could you make this rebloggable? its not even about black feminism vs white feminism with me. feminism doesn’t operate on a binary. there is a difference between someone writing about their experience and saying “this is my experience, i’m going to open the floor for others to add on to the story” and someone acting like their NON-INCLUSIVE concept of femininity &...
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Race and incarceration in the USA: the effect on...
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here are the rates of incarceration for men by age and race/ethnicity (Blacks here exclude Latinos; Asians and...
Anonymous asked: Hi! This may seem like a dumb question but which locations are part of the western world? The countries that had colonies? The whole EU? Or onle the Europeen countries that were not part of the Soviet Union? What about Israel? What's with Japan?
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i've been thinking about this a lot lately
I don’t understand the resistance within feminism for some feminists to accept critiques on feminism. Telling feminists of color that white feminists “just can’t help it” or “just don’t understand” WOC enough to write about feminism from anything other than a straight, middle class, cis white perspective is completely ignoring the long documented work...
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“If it was a real race, the white,straight dudes would’ve started running 400...”
– Elon James White on affirmative action, via the Melissa Harris-Perry Show, MSNBC (via seriouslyamerica)
just watched this on TV actually. Right before they discussed affirmative action, they talked about The Help and the disney-fication of the jim crow south and the commodification of black...
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Gay Judge Refuses To Marry Straight Couples →
Dallas judge Tonya Parker says she won’t conduct any marriage ceremonies until she and every other gay person in Texas have the same right to marry. When she turns straight couples away, Parker tells them: “I’m sorry. I don’t perform marriage ceremonies because we are in a state that does not have marriage equality, and until it does, I am not going to partially apply the law to one group of...
Anonymous asked: IMO white feminist authors not including portions of analysis of black feminism vs. white feminism perspectives is not because they are ignoring it, but because how could they ever properly understand it enough to write about it? They might understand the idea of what they are going through presently and historically, because it's similar (one was controlled, then burned as...
Anonymous asked: do you think there is privilege of geographical location/nationality? i started thinking about this because of the ever growing hegemony of us culture all around the world and because of the north america centrism of internet. i feel like, for example, on tumblr everybody is assumed to live in the usa (or maybe canada) and certain issues, such as ones relating to the us presidential election, are...
rain-queen asked: Here's something I'd like to hear (read) your thoughts on. A lot of aspects of Black Feminism resonates with me, as does some of what I know about the Chicana movement. However, I still feel disconnected in some ways from both because while women of color in the U.S. experience similar forms of discrimination, there is still a vast cultural difference to be accounted for considering that...
Anonymous asked: Do you think it would ever be possible for the various facets of feminism to unite into one larger movement? I mean, assuming that the stereotypically white, middle class to upper-middle class movement made legitimate efforts to become more inclusive and eschew its divisive history. Or do you feel that the damage has been done?
On Non-Blacks being Black Feminists
pssincerelyadventure:
See here…..
My mostly white women and gender studies class, after reading the Combahee River Collective, wanted to know if they could be Black Feminists because they cared about all those issues and wanted to end oppression and liberate women etc..
I said no. I stand by no. Mainly because, I believe it was Patricia Hill Collins, had a valid point. Black Feminism is...
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“Such encouragement for girls to be more assertive was not the norm at the...”
– Morris / Perceptions of Black Girls in Classrooms
Educators spend more time trying to force young black girls into what they feel is “acceptable” femininity that actually ENGAGING with them about the school work becomes secondary to making sure they are “ladylike”...
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Saying that your goal was to write about...
So Ariel Levy, writer of Female Chauvinist Pigs came to my campus the other day - as you may (or may not) know i’m not the biggest fan of her book. We’re talking about her in class, and our disappointment in her talk and lack of fleshing out the ideas in her book. Now, we’re not arguing that her book is utterly useless, over-sexualization does in fact happen in America. But when...
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“The tendency of African American girls to assert themselves in classrooms and...”
– Morris / Perceptions of Black Girls in Classrooms
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“The historical exclusion from White, ideal models of femininity and the...”
– Morris / Perceptions of Black Girls in Classrooms
its funny because this quote can easily be interpreted to mean that this is a *good* distinction. Like “black women don’t feel included in traditional forms of femininity, but that’s okay because it makes them stronger.”...
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African-American Boys Receive Less Attention,... →
socialworky:
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the...
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“If I had the choice between wearing a burka and a playboy bunny symbol, I would...”
– Ariel Levy (writer of female chauvinist pigs)
I’m listening her talk live at my school and she definitely just inferred that wearing a burka is just as oppressive and objectifying an associating with playboy
(and of course that all playboy bunnies are oppressed)
oh, and apparently after i...
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“The stain of racism and sexism is not just for women and people of color. It’s...”
– (via unapproachableblackchicks)
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“You are not “all for gay rights” if you follow it with a “but, we should shield...”
– feministdisney [click here to read the rest of the post]
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
“improve the image of biking” by not photographing any Black, Latin@, or Asian people.
How more blatant coud she be? :/
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my mom grows...
Anonymous asked: Re: your Rick Santorum post and the comment that so many people in America consider him a legitimate candidate in spite of his views. I have to point out that you've gotten it wrong. Many Americans consider him a legitimate candidate BECAUSE of these views. Sad, but true.
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Who Picks the Oscars? White Men. →
I mean, i’m sure no one is surprised by this - but these are the things we should be looking at and critiquing more harshly and actively. When organizations like the oscar selection group has a disproportionate amount of privilege on their board - these are the tastemakers that dictates the popular culture of society. Popular culture is never going to adjust unless we start...
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On marriage equality
of-praxis:
sinidentidades:
Lately, I’ve been getting asks asking me to detail why some of the more radical queers are so “anti-marriage equality”. Well, first off, I can’t really speak for everyone in the community, so I’m just going to give my perspective on it. A lot of radical queers aren’t the biggest fans of marriage equality for a number of reasons. Some aren’t seeking state sanction of...
“More women, and especially black women, are behind bars as much because of hard...”
– Why So Many Black Women Are Behind Bars
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
(via daniellemertina)
strugglingtobeheard:
baddominicana:
genuineeeegenuinee:
My classes are going to make me pull out my hair, pretty sure of this.
Some white guy in the class, interrupts this young woman talking about separate schools for students who are deaf/students with different impairments to talk about “well what if we started separating schools based on hair color?” I cut him off so fast, “do not...
Reblog with the most backhanded compliment that...
baddominicana:
cupcakesdreams:
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thegoddamazon:
super-eklectic1:
magnolia20:
shercock-block:
dovahcuunt:
corgisandboobs:
chronically-awesome:
thatchris:
techsgtjenn:
unbindingme:
You’re dangerous. You could abuse me and make me like it.
I knew you could be pretty if you just tried.
For a fat dude, you don’t sweat all that much.
“You don’t look...
I knew that the TV Version of Their Eyes Were...
newmodelminority:
was directed by a woman because of the ways in which the camera lingered on Janie after Jody hit her in public.
By the camera lingering on her, it was HER moment. Not like in The Color Purple when the camera lingered on Mister when he hit Celie. #ummhmm.
the subtle things you notice when trying to deconstruct the implications of a male centered society… when a...
you know what I realized?
people get REALLY uncomfortable and even upset when I, or my friends, explicitly bring up race or racialized things. I even notice it on my blog but its way more visible in real life when you can SEE facial reactions and eye rolling. The odd thing is… no one realizes that when you live in dominant society as a marginalized group - most of the conversations, topics, things people discuss are...
Watchabagond:
Excellent discussion between Tavis Smiley, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer
fumblingtowardshappiness:
Viola Davis to Tavis Smiley: ‘That Mindset You Have is Destroying Black Artists’
man, what a place to be. But I think there is a self delusion here that bothers me. She says that Caucasian actors know that humans are messy, and that Black Americans are more concerned with image and...