#Antiblack erasure

[kainekillinggod]

ok but racism and fatphobia in the queer community is crazy btw. Like sometime you gotta ask,

Are they butch/masc or are they a poc? Are they fem or are they white? Are they androgynous or are they skinny? Is their hair style choice non conforming or is it just not straight/fluffy? Honestly sometimes I see some strange things being said up in here, and irl too. I just. Idk mann

[ohara-n-brown]

The way people talk over Black Autistic people is... Mind-Boggling. Truly.

There are so many people in the autistic community that genuinely believe that them and Black Autistic people have the same experience, and that everything Black Autistic people go through they go through as well.

That's NOT TRUE.

Black Autistics face more questioning and doubt than White Autistics do.

Yes, all Autistics face doubt.

But when White Autistics face doubt they're often told 'You aren't autistic' - as in YOU in specific are not Autistic.

Meanwhile when Black Autistics face doubt we're often told 'You CAN'T be autistic'. Not just 'You aren't', but you can't.

As in 'You physically, biologically CANNOT be autistic because you are black'.

Do you see the difference?

I've had multiple people say to me 'I didn't know you can be black and autistic', or 'I didn't know black autistic people existed.'

Our mere existence as an entire GROUP is called into question. Because of our race.

No one will ever say 'I didn't know you can be white and autistic' because Autistic Representation revolves around Whiteness.

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And yes, 99% of people with autism had communication issues.

But if you're a white autistic person you have never had to decode micoagressive racism through the lens of your autism.

- Especially at risk of your safety or life.

Allistic black people already have to carefully choose our behavior and wording with law enforcement under threat of imprisonment or outright on-the-spot execution.

Now imagine having to navigate conversations with law enforcement while also autistic.

Especially knowing that most of the time when a mentally disabled person is killed by law enforcement - they are usually also black.

Elijah McClain and Ryan Gainer - both autistic AND BLACK. Osaze Osagie - also black.

So even if you say that all autistic people experience this, it's very clear that Black Autistic people face it to a higher, more dangerous degree.

We are not 1:1. We are not the same.

This doesn't even factor in things like having to learn to codeswitch or speak AAVE. Or how predominately black schools have less resources for their autistic students.

Or how many professionals in mental health DON'T diagnose black people because they've never studied the Black Autistic experience, and thus cannot spot it.

Or how many Black people that ARE identified to be neurodivergent are instead labeled with ODD or BPD instead.

There are so many layers and factors to this that cannot be ignored.

The autism community needs to get better at understanding intersectionality. We need to get better at representing Autistics of color for ALL levels.

And y'all need to stop talking over Black Autistics. Our experiences are not the same. And that's okay.

[terfism-unmasked]

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[notchainedtotrauma]

Pain must be recognized in its historicity and as the articulation of a social condition of brutal constraint, extreme need, and constant violence; it is the perpetual state of managed depletion, of broken bodies and shattered persons, of soul murder and kinlessness. It is the embodied experience of stolen life and social death.

from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

[punkeropercyjackson]

Ay ay hold up i was thinking about why aroace Hobie from nonblacks bothers me and it hit me:Their reasoning for it is that going against romance is anti-socialetal norms so i get where they're coming from but also.It's so fucking colorblind and tonedeaf considering Hobie's black and so dark skin he's almost black the color and how strong his facial features are plus how wicks are considered 'dirty'-There's an extremely long irl history of potraying black people as unromantic be it by making us sleazy or just straight up uninvolved and i am NOT letting y'all do it to Hobs when deadass the FIRST thing we learned about him is that he's Miles' ROMANTIC rival over Gwen and then when the movie came out he had just as much interest in him he did her and nobody on the crew's ever debunked Gwobie or Hobiemiles so with the exceptions of my fellow black folks,y'all 'Hobie is older brother-coded' fuckers can shove it.Idgaf that you want aroace rep,use someone who's not meant to show black people are attractive and good s/os despite what society says about us.You are not immune to propaganda or white queer privilege

@thisismisogynoir @mayameanderings @desi-pluto @punknicodiangelo

[panicinthestudio]

How the Model Minority Myth Helped End Affirmative Action, August 19, 2023

Ellen Wu, author of The Color of Success, discusses the latest Supreme Court decision that has effectively eliminated the use of affirmative action in college admissions. In a live interview on Twitch, Wu explains how the persistence of the 'model minority' myth has minimised the role racism plays in the persistent struggles of non-Asian minority groups — especially black Americans, and how it was the primary tool in dismantling affirmative action. Join hosts Samir Ferdowsi and Dexter Thomas on Twitch for more: twitch.tv/vice . VICE News

[sharpened--edges]

While I was writing this to you, Janet Napolitano, the former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, assumed her new post as the twentieth president of the University of California system, the first woman to occupy the office. The revolving door between institutions of policing, bordering, surveillance, incarceration, illegalization, militarization, and schooling is not new. Indeed, in San Diego, where I am based, Alan Bersin was superintendent of public schools from 1998 to 2005, after three years of running U.S.–Mexican border law enforcement for Attorney General Janet Reno under President Clinton. After his stint governing schools, Bersin governed the border (again) in 2009, this time for the Obama administration, working as ‘border czar’ under Janet Napolitano, then Homeland Security secretary, now UC president. However, it would be a misguided comparison to describe the bodies of faculty and students as analogous to the bodies of detainees and deportees and migrants and suspectees. It is not analogous power but technologies of power that recirculate in these imperial triangles, for example, debt financing, neoliberal market policies, information systems, managing noncitizen populations, land development. If we consider triangular connections between war abroad and refugee management within, antiblackness and the maintenance of black fungibility and accumulation, and militarization and Indigenous erasure throughout empire, then we can understand why the governors of war and the governors of schools can have similar résumés, without pretending that the governed suffer through identical conditions.

la paperson, A Third University Is Possible (Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 37–38.

[everyday-is-brighter-with-you]

[ ID: Tweets from jia whose handle is @heartkiss_ on 28 October 2023 reading:

what is happening in palestine and sudan and the congo are not disparate causes that require dividing our attention, it is the same fight, several groups are facing occupation without coverage while palestine is being scapegoated, standing with palestine is standing with the rest

it's similar, in my mind, to how standing with haiti when they are repeatedly made an example of on the world stage is never solely about haiti, but about standing with the carribean, with enslaved africans, and with indigenous peoples across the 'new world' in general

corrections, as growing up in the imperial (imperial is censored with an exclamation mark) core has skewed my perspective: 1.calling congo "the congo" has imperialist (imperialist is censored with an exclamation mark) implications 2. while it's fair to link western black struggles to palestine the erasure of genocide on the african continent is more complicated than I thought

we can't conflate what is happening in congo or sudan to palestine, there is a history of northern african countries and countries in the middle east denying the atrocities there due to antiblack sentiment, we ought to highlight that erasure in discussions about global solidarity

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[ca-suffit]

Akasha isn't black. This fandom feels too comfortable with ME erasure.

and u feel too comfortable being antiblack.

are u this anon again?? bcuz now the weird tone makes sense, if this was the agenda underneath it all along.

there is no reason to hate on black ppl to uplift ME ppl, what's fucking wrong with u??

akasha has been black within official canon for over 20 yrs now so ur going to have to deal with that forever. not only was she black in the qotd movie, she was played by a black woman (aaliyah) who died young at the time of the movie's release. nobody is ever gonna erase all of that from this fandom. it matters to ppl for a *lot* of reasons and it happened. take it up with the og casting director of that movie if ur so mad bcuz idk what else u want me to say here.

obviously ME ppl should have proper rep but skimming right over all the other ways u could talk about this, from anne rice's racism to just mentioning this by itself as an issue??? u went straight to being antiblack about it. think on that for a while and do some fucking healing.

[txttletale]

Hey I saw the posts you made about people calling you anti-black and when I looked back at the post about say her name and Brianna it seemed reasonable to me but as I understand you've since apologized and gone back on that take. Can you explain why using the say her name phrase was wrong for Brianna? I promise I mean this in good faith I just want to learn.

sure -- simply, the group that were doing that made no effort to acknowledge or show solidarity to the Black women who began the hashtag & in fact denied any knowledge of its history, which is at best pathetically ignorant of vital recent protest history and at worst deliberate erasure of antiracist struggles.

the primary mistake i made was abstracting out a specific complaint made by Black women about a specific group and their actions (trans action block and their chant sheets) into an abstract debate about 'whether protest movements should study and use each others' tactics' -- in doing so, i took those specific and situated comments out of context & in bad faith to argue against them on the terms of the latter argument. worst of all (in my personal opinion), i responded to people, esp. Black women, telling me i was wrong with reflexive disdain & dismissal, instead of actually investigating the matter and trying to understand where the viewpoint came from. i did no investigation, i had no right to speak, & yet i did anyway -- and as a result i acted racistly & unconscionably! it was this post that helped me realize specifically why i was wrong & shitty so i recommend reading it if you want more context / understanding.

& by the by: whenever i acknowledge this publicly i get people (usually anons) saying "oh, it's a shame you caved to callouts / bullying on this" & to that i say: fuck you, don't condescend to me. i've been called out for spurious bullshit lots of times (including, like, last week) and if i genuinely believe i was right i will always stand my ground. i've gone back & apologized on this instance because my rhetoric & behaviour was, in my own estimation (the only estimation that matters to me) antiblack, and that's that. no other reason.

[indigenous-gender]

If you were wondering why many lesbians of color are fighting back against identity policing and rightfully calling it out as white supremacy, it is because this rhetoric is dangerous, harmful, and antithetical to our liberation. Invalidating lesbian manhood is rooted in antiBlackness and antiIndigeneity. Excluding lesbians of color for our race and culture is colonization in action. Excluding trans lesbians of color for our cultural gender and sexuality and for being trans in a way that subverts colonial gender systems is racist and transphobic. here is a fantastic article that talks about African gender and sexuality and highlights the existence of male lesbians or lesbian men. As an Indigenous person of triracial descent, I am proud of my Indigenous cultural gender and sexuality, and I will not allow white supremacists and queer assimilationists to erasure the history and cultures of my ancestors. Male lesbians and lesbian men are STILL HERE. We are proudly Black, Brown, and Indigenous! This is our tradition!

https://africasacountry.com/2014/03/africa-has-always-been-more-queer-than-generally-acknowledged

[frankiensteinsmonster]

Unfriendly reminder that if you're antiblack/indigenous/POC, be it for race, traditions and practices, cultural diet, Anything

You need to get the fuck off my shit, this is an Afroindigenous blog. Colonizer opinions under the guise of moral standing aren't welcomed here. Community is intersectional and responsibility. If you're excluding and attacking, causing harm to, and pushing for the erasure of a group of marginalized people and their traditions, you're not community. You're just part of a demographic. Community protects and supports each other. That's the whole fucking point.

[akajustmerry]

hot take rant but i am honestly getting pretty exhausted with takes about the Kardashians' Blackfishing that don't acknowledge the initial orientalist exotification Kim experienced in the public eye as a result of her Armenian heritage and her sex tape. Kim Kardashian isn't white and she never looked white and that's a huge part of *why* and *how* she was able to skew her racial ambiguity (which isn't that ambiguous to SWANA folks) toward Blackness and Black features. her natural features weren't white in the first place. Missing from every discussion about how the Kardashians were able to Blackfish and profit off racial ambiguity is because they came up in a period when SWANA people were ostensibly erased in post-9/11 culture and this low visibility (apart from harmful stereotypes) led to a collective ignorance over what ppl from the region actually looked like which placed the Kardashians in a position where their features were fetishised, but their identity erased - creating the perfect "blank canvas" condition for them treat their bodies as racially malleable. People who perpetuate racism can also be victims of it. Antiblackness is not exclusive to white people, and the Kardashians are not white people. I'm not in any way saying that makes their appropriation of Black bodies okay, but you cannot talk about how they got away with it without discussing the simultaneous cultural erasure and fetishisation of SWANA and Armenian identities in the wake of the Armenian genocide and 9/11, AND the colonial whitewashing of SWANA peoples in the US.

[notchainedtotrauma]

I think that one of the things that happens both in Du Bois and in C. L. R. James is that at one moment they are addressing the slave, the ex-slave, the fugitive — then suddenly this figure has been translated into the narrative of the worker. And in the worker’s narrative, the very figure that I’m concerned with, the Black female, the fungible life, the minor figure, totally falls out of the frame of what constitutes the political notion of struggle. The “everyday resistance of enslaved women” in the context of a slave economy, for example the refusal to reproduce life, has never been considered as a component of the general strike. Yet, they too were involved in a fundamental refusal of the conditions of work and intent on destroying an economy of production in which their wombs and their reproductive capacity were conscripted along with their labor.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

[punkeropercyjackson]

There's a special kind of demonic energy in 'Gwen's Peter was trans' niggas.They'd really rather have a dead trans kid with not even 10 minutes of screentime be the rep instead of the fem mc who's character and story and design were carefully crafted to be a trans girl and who's arc involves freeing herself from just existing for said guy and his Variants.This movie is about Miles and Gwen and the first movie was about Miles entierly.Spiderverse ain't another Peter Parker series and they spoonfed us that from the start in the text AND irl.The Mcu is filled with bad queer rep for what little it has but the Spiderverse crew are actual allies-Gwen MOTHERFUCKIN' Stacy,THEE old school Spiderfam girl,being canonically transfem is not up for debate and she's a better character than 65 Peter anyway and Hobie's the only actual transmasc Spiderman we got and he's a better character than Peter too.This ain't your story,it's OURS.Stick to your queerbait if you can't respect that

[kouhaiofcolor]

Yo I have to jot this down before I forget and it might come out a bit wild but. I feel like w the way humanity operates so collectively in antiblackness (esp misogynoir), reparations as they align w black culture may be due more to black women than black people. Specifically bc of how antiblackness has become more misogynoir than anti black in general. And then ofc the bigger issue & controversy that justifies this imo, is the way Black men have found it lucrative to participate in the erasure & social abuse of their own women and people. Nowadays Black men are the most active group literally washing, rinsing and selling Black culture to non black ppl at our expense. I don’t think Black men have any equity in what we’re due anymore.

Nbdni, pls. Black discussion.