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Why Black Women are “Divesting” from “Blackistan”.

Divest~ verb

to deprive (someone) of power, rights, or possessions.

Source: Oxford

Blackistan~ noun

group think based on dysfunctional ideology usually rooted from black America but may also branch out of the black diaspora collective. Such dysfunctions may include but are not limited to intra-racial mysogyny known as mysogynoir, glamorized criminality, glamorized poverty, toxic masculinity, and homophobia.

*defined by lemoncholy-me

The Black Women Divestment Movement ~noun

a movement calling black women to action to defend, protect, and preserve their dignity as women as opposed to preserving the public image of their male counter parts and/ or the “black community”. The BWD Movement seeks reciprocity for the manual and emotional labor of black women and seeks the safety, freedom, and empowerment of black women and girls. This movement may also be referred to as Third Wave Womanism. 

*defined by lemoncholy-me

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STAR WARS AND BAD FAITH INTERPRETATIONS: This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, as a way of me looking at in-universe events and characters through different lenses and as interesting exercises for myself, and came to a head for me when I was reading Empire’s End by Chuck Wendig. Throughout the books, there are smaller scenes of various characters who are used as illustrations as to how the galaxy is faring in the wake of the Empire’s fall, including a young orphan boy on Naboo:

While reading this section it reminded me how easy it would be to interpret this in bad faith–look at how the Naboo are failing this child!  Oh, he’s too difficult for them, so they just shove him aside because they can’t be bothered!  Look at how the Naboo are ostracizing someone who only ever tried to help the galaxy and was manipulated and taken advantage of by a Sith Lord, but instead of having empathy for him, they shun him and make him miserable! The people of Naboo are judgmental fucks who deserved what they got! Now, obviously, I don’t actually believe this and I think it runs pretty counter-intuitive to the narration of the scenes, which is about showing how damaged the galaxy is after the Empire and that it takes a lot of time and effort to heal from it.  But I could still make a bad faith argument about how the Naboo are really shitty and arrogant and only want to people people who fit into their pre-judged mold. I could make another bad faith interpretation argument about Padme Amidala as a character–they let a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD RUN THEIR PLANET!?  What the fuck, they trained her for combat, they put this impossible responsibility on her shoulders, including being responsible for going to war (which she did, with the Gungans), she’s practically a child soldier!  There’s no way she can handle that pressure, emotionally or mentally, but Naboo doesn’t give a shit about the mental health of their children! I mean, look at Padme in Revenge of the Sith, where she’s increasingly isolated because she doesn’t actually talk to anyone, none of the handmaidens stuck by her when it got difficult, none of her family is there for her, nobody from Naboo gives a shit about her, because they taught her that she can’t fall apart, that she’s not allowed to be fragile, she has to suffer in silence!  That’s why she’s all alone, because Naboo is fucked up and taught her all that. Again, obviously I don’t believe any of that, but I could make the case for it, when watching those scenes.  I could tie it together with Mapo and Jar Jar from Empire’s End and make a case for Naboo being the fucking worst who should be dragged loudly and publicly. Then there’s The Mandalorian.  Who has a set of religious beliefs and rigid dogma that he refuses to bend on and that everything that happened to him was his own fault, because he’d dragging the child into all these dangerous situations, he is literally endangering A BABY.  He’s so stupid that he doesn’t even try to take the tracker off the baby??  What the fuck, he doesn’t actually care about the welfare of that child he just kidnapped and refuses to give back, he only cares about what his wants. Because that baby has a family out there, but fuck that religious zealot Din Djarin because he stole the baby from them and refuses to give him back to the parents who LOVE HIM AND WANT HIM BACK. I mean, he won’t even take off his helmet in front of the baby WHO NEEDS TO SEE HIS ACTUAL FACE TO BOND WITH HIM BECAUSE BABIES NEED TO SEE ACTUAL FACES.  But his religious zealotry is more important than the baby’s wellbeing that he stole. For fuck’s sake, he can’t even find a caregiver or the baby, just LITERALLY LOCKS HIM IN A TINY STORAGE LOCKER AND LEAVES HIM ALONE FOR HOURS.  He’s literally locking the baby in a cage.  He barely ever holds the baby, he doesn’t get the baby any real toys, he doesn’t give him any skin to skin contact, all the baby has are LITERAL CHOKING HAZARDS TO PLAY WITH, he makes the baby walk for HOURS instead of picking him up to carry him, just lets him get nearly fucking eaten by a tooka, isn’t even FEEDING THE BABY, who has to forage for himself and Din just STANDS THERE while the baby chokes down that frog and is like, “Whatever.” He’s teaching the baby to be violent and angry, that’s why the baby chokes Cara Dune, because that’s exactly what this fucking dogmatic religious militant is teaching him. Again, I don’t actually believe any of that and it ignores a lot of what Din actually does/says and what the baby actually is capable of handling.  But I could make a bad faith case for all of it.  (And this is not a finger pointing exercise on my behalf, because genuinely everyone is allowed their own views and reactions towards Star Wars–so long as they’re not being a dick about those views.) So, you know, the point I’m rolling my way around towards–this happens a lot with the Jedi.  Context and narrative intention is often stripped away or made up to paint them as zealots and kidnappers who don’t give a shit about their own people or others.  That they’re choosing to be in this war, instead of how they were literally drafted into it, how the war chased them down and how they couldn’t just let people die when they could do something to try to help.  How the Jedi have repeatedly said that emotions are valuable, they’re normal, but you need to get a grip on them, because canon has also repeatedly demonstrated that people get really hurt when half-trained psychic space wizards don’t have their shit together.  Or how the Jedi kidnap children from their families, when we’re repeatedly shown that the galaxy is dangerous for Force-sensitive children and also, when people say no, the Jedi listen.  I mean, they have a secret list of Force-sensitive children, if they were kidnapping them, just go get them, no need to have a hidden list.  Also, the Bardottans said no and the Jedi stopped going there. If I’m willing to extend good faith to the people of Naboo and to Din, especially for complicated circumstances and that religious beliefs should be allowed to people and that adoption is a MAJOR theme in Star Wars, then I should be willing to extend that good faith towards the Jedi, too.  So, ultimately: The people of Naboo’s circumstances and actions are worthy of understanding and sympathy and good faith. Din’s circumstances and religious beliefs are worthy of understanding and sympathy and good faith. And, the Jedi’s circumstances and religious beliefs and actions are worthy of understanding and sympathy and good faith, too. All of them are worthy of the benefit of the doubt, a look at what they actually say and do in the canon, the context that goes with it, and understanding for how they’re doing their best in a galaxy that’s often putting people into impossible choices.

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