#Black Feminist

[genderqueerdykes]

whats feminist about dragging other women for their appearance. what's feminist about calling other women ugly. what's feminist about mocking women with facial hair. what's feminist about mocking women with small or no breasts and equating their worth to their boobs. what's feminist about abusing fat women and mocking them for how clothes look on our bodies. what's feminist about saying women's body's have to be 1 specific size and shape or else the person isn't a woman. what's feminist about boiling women down to whether or not they're beautiful and making that be their ultimate worth? what's feminist about harrassing a woman, or anyone else, who wants or needs to take testosterone HRT because testosterone is "evil" and will make them "ugly"?

what's feminist about saying someone can't be a woman because they don't have the same face shape as you. what's feminist about saying that athletic cis women have bodies that are disgusting and "too much like a man's to be a woman". what's feminist about demonizing and antagonizing women who are sex workers. what's feminist about telling butch women who are happy that they're being misguided by the patriarchy for being masculine. what's feminist about demonizing and isolating women who have healthy sex lives? what's feminist about criticizing women who don't want to have children and equating that to their end all be all in life? what's feminist about treating a woman like a failure if they don't have children?

what's feminist about oppressing, abusing, manipulating, hurting, isolating and brainwashing women?

nothing. none of this is feminism. don't let that word leave your mouth if you can't conceptualize that abusing women will never be feminist, even women you personally don't like.

[janellemonae]

Today marks the release of #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence. This powerful book provides an analytical framework for understanding how Black women are killed by the police too and it explains how—through Black feminist storytelling and ritual—we can effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for a gender-inclusive approach to racial justice.

https://www.aapf.org/shn-book

[lesbianlenses]

Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master's House

[blind-seeing]

While there is overlap I think it is very important to distinguish only fans from sex trafficking. There's like, degrees to this stuff. Both part of a larger issue but selling boob pictures is not the same as . Well I am not going to share all the horrific details.

I'll say, I have a friend who did only fans and I have an ex who did. Prostitution for a while.

Both were upset and traumatized by the experience but one dealt with guys being creepy online and the other one dealt with kidnapping and attempted murder . so like. Can we stop acting like it's all the same pls

And you can start out with a simpler form and be groomed / coerced into a more escalated form of violence but I think we need to discuss like the specific issues and maybe have frameworks for combating them instead of immediately jumping to the most extreme examples like "only fans is bad because some people get murdered doing totally other things "

Let me reiterate one more time because this is tumblr. There's a huge overlap. And one even has the potential to turn into another. But not every situation is the same

[shamanize]

Prevailing standards of beauty dictate that no matter how intelligent or beautiful a black woman is, those whose features are most African must "get back". In binary oppositional thinking, Blue-eyed blonde thin white women could not be considered beautiful without the "other"- black women with African features of dark skin, broadnoses, full lips, and kinky hair.

Race, gender, and sexuality converge on this issue of evaluating beauty. Black men's blackness penalizes them but, because they are not women, they're self-worth does not depend as much on their physical attractiveness.

In contrast, part of the objectification of all women lies in evaluating how they look. Within binary thinking, white and black women, as collectivities represent two opposing poles.

Judging white women by their physical appearance and attractiveness to men objectifies them, but they're white skin and straight hair simultaneously privileges them in a system that elevates whiteness over blackness.

In contrast, African-American women experience the pain of never being able to live up to standards of beauty used by white men, white women, black men, and, most painfully, one another.

Black feminist thought

[noirsisterhood]

A strong and supportive Black woman - my thoughts on these stereotypes and muling

[tjeromebaker]

Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become essential text on Black women's lives.

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women’s lives and contains work by many of feminism’s foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new…

[chxxms]

everytime a lesbian on twitter tweets about how being in a lesbian relationship is healing to them in some way, in the replies u see nothing but men replying with lesbian domestic violence statistics and how lesbians abuse each other the most which have been proven multiple of times to be false. it’s so unhinged and evil because i know damn well straight men do not give a flying fuck about lesbians going through domestic violence in their relationships. they are using it as a comeback when they see lesbians online talking about the ways they show up and love on each other in their relationships like the ways jealousy comes out in men is so deranged go and seek help and leave lesbians alone.

i saw a beautiful video of a stud asking her girlfriend if she wanted to marry her and had it up on display in new york which had a lot of retweets. i saw a man quote tweet it and tried to make a joke saying how lesbians beat on each other?? like hello?? how is that a normal thing to say?? as i said men are deranged and jealous of lesbians

seeing straight women do this as well is so confusing to me cause it’s like girl….. anyways let me not start with them

that’s my reminder to delete that app because no matter how many times i try to curate my tl page and block and mute people i keep seeing the bullshit and it’s tiring i don’t even be seeking that shit out

(ngl i’m very lazy and don’t care for the spelling errors and grammar mistakes soz)

[forthewayward]

[tortoisewithoutashell]

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[oracle-cassandra]

Did anyone hear about there being skincare makeup now? And are these companies legit? Is this a real thing that actually works like skincare and looks (at least a little) like makeup??

What are your thoughts about this, especially if you're a Black woman

[seenmirage]

[lesbianlenses]

Luisa Teish in This Bridge Called My Back

[blind-seeing]

Black feminist thought

Stereotypes are not meant to reflect reality but rather to disguise and mystify objective social relations

African-American women's status as outsiders becomes the point that other groups used to define their normality

Ruth shayes: it will not kill people to hear the truth, but they don't like it. And they would rather hear it from one of their own than a stranger. Now to white people , we are always strangers, and, not even that - we are supposed to be dumb strangers, so we can't tell them anything

[grrrls-against-the-patriarchy]

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful