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I love that there’s inclusion of women without the “vagina pants” as a nod to the women who don’t have vaginas. Also the pants are different sizes and colors which is dope.

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The quote that I’m referring to is from Bell Hook in her writing Is Paris Burning about how colonization has made it be the white audience is comfortable with dictating the images of black people and people of color. I find it very interesting that this goes for every racial minority, especially Native Americans. When thinking about it, there is rarely any image that depicts the life of or has a Native American that is after the 1800′s or who do not live on the reservations.

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𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩.

Lena Waithe and Kerby Jean-Raymond, Met Gala 2019

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priv·i·lege

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Most of the people that I have seen complain about political correctness in a highly negatively, are people that are people that think that their freedom to continue their actions they are comfortable with. Social media has made an opened platform for everybody, including the people who were scared to have their voice heard and those of whose voices were silenced. I would think to see that something unintentional offended would want someone to clear it up and not do it the same way to communicate their true intentions. But, I guess not.

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When reflecting on my thoughts when I wrote this, I think of Audre Lorde’s work, The Master’s Tools. I think because the view of feminism was bad or evil, mainstream or lifestyle feminism today has been developed for people to digest and get behind without understanding, recognizing, and addressing the politics and movement behind feminism. And the turn to using the master’s tool of capitalism into feminism, the messages and the work that is getting put into the Women’s Movement, are pushed to the side as extremist.

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I wrote this based on an article titled, The Making of a New Anti-Racist Feminist Working Class, on the history of the Women’s Movement. Bell Hooks discusses this topic in her book, FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. Through history, the image of a feminist has been a middle to an upper-class white woman, and many have not talked about how people from the lower class and of color have different problem and issues. Even though the women in these demographics were usually around them, working for them. 

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Laverne Cox wrote an essay on her website about her thoughts on gender and race. She mentions that the devaluing of black women affected her negatively of embracing her beauty of being a black transgender woman. This quote is my comment about Laverne Cox statement. Returning to my comment, Katherine McKittrick’s Stay Human pops up in my head of how blackness has been extracted from human, which contributes to the problem. To recognize the beauty of black women is acknowledging that we are human.  

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Cont. Africana Woman Paper

The needs of a black woman, be it physical, mentally, financial, opportunity, etc., are at the lowest priority in this society, but still, black women strive to be the greatest they can be and supports the many communities that they are a part of. And because of the high rates of incarceration of the black men, black women have been put into the position of caretaker for everyone else.

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Cont. Africana Woman Paper

During high school, I was in a group of black girls who were mainly the only black people in honor and AP classes in my grade. One of my friends was a dark-skinned black girl that did not like her skin and was treated differently from our other friends. She did not want to be with anyone black because she said she didn't want her children to be dark. All of the negative perceptions of black women and the colorism that goes on in the black community have major effects on future black women.

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Cont. Africana Woman Paper

The majority of the paper was about how the Africana woman was viewed at different vantage points from the opinion of the students. With this section, I thought of the fifth point in the Ten Point Program, for the call for black people to acquire an education that would give them a knowledge of self and their position in the world. Which is what a realized when reflecting on my education black history.

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The quote is from the beginning part of my paper about Who an Africana Woman is? where I had to describe the type of education I received from school about black women in America. When I was writing this paper, I realized how the black woman contributes to American history is concealed and the image of blackness or of a black person is usually a black man.