#protect black womxn

[olowan-waphiya]

About the Campaign

The Aim:

We are seeking 30 acres of land with healthy soil, ideally with a previous history of agricultural use. The land should be within 20 miles of Denver, CO and grant us both water and mineral rights. The land should be valued equally to all members of the ecosystem that occupy it. We intend to use this land to grow food for our communities throughout Denver and as a place of education and healing. The land would be owned by the organization, FrontLine Farming, but would also be open to collective use in our BIPOC community.

Now is the Time:

Black, Brown and Indigenous Farmers across the United States have been systemically excluded from access to land whether through outright intimidation and theft, loan discrimination or laws such as Heirs Property Rights. Land in the United States was stolen from Indigenous Communities and while BIPOC communities represent a quarter of the US population, they own less than 5% of farmland and cultivate on less than 1% of the land. Yet those who have historically cultivated the land and comprise the over 2.4 million farmworkers in the United States are people of color from diverse communities and foodways. They are descendants of Africans brought here, immigrants, refugees and people who have continuously brought their agricultural knowledge and skills to feed nations.

We have used our radical imaginations for our vision of coming back to the land and are ready to bring this vision to life. To acquire our own soil and land will fortify our efforts to honor our ancestors, to educate our community, to generate independent economic systems, to manifest equitable policies and systems change, to lead by example, to understand history and to create our future. It is a way to co-create generational wealth for our communities, and more importantly, shared power.

Acquiring the land that we envision requires moving money and resources. We are seeking support from philanthropy, local and national networks, and donors. The funds raised from this project will aid our vision and goal.

Frontline Farming

We are a BIPOC-led farmer advocacy and food justice organization that strives to create greater equity across our food system on the Front Range of Colorado. We support and create greater leadership and access for Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Womxn in our food systems. We achieve these goals through growing food, listening, educating, honoring land and ancestors, generating policy initiatives and engaging in direct action.

In 2021, we distributed 26,000 lbs of farmed produce through various programs such as our CSA, Healing Foods and SNAP/WIC recipients. We also advocate for farmers and farm workers alike to ensure that the people who grow our country’s food have access to basic rights and protections that are already afforded to other workers in the state.

[mythiccheroacademia]

to all you black womxn out there, I have your back and I love you

[papaartistakabettyrose]

[sbrown82]

[burymyart]

FREE POSTER honoring the life of Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza who was an Afro-Latinx Trans Womxn found dead in her cell on RIKERS ISLAND on June 7, 2019. Layleen Xtravaganza was a member of the house-ballroom community House of Xtravaganza and was known for walking the category of realness at balls. She is the 10th reported Black Trans womxn to be killed this year. We ask you to honor all Trans womxn, incarcerated womxn, Black livelihood, and call for prison abolition. REST IN POWER, LAYLEEN! As with all our posters, please feel free to print, wheatpaste, & disseminate at will (burymyart.tumblr.com). R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment

burymyart.tumblr.com instagram.com/RISEindigenous

[elusivelara]

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER 

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[mzeyevee]

Here’s a WIP for an illustration I’m finishing up today and can’t believe I forgot to post. More stuff I forgot to post coming soon ;)

[kayla-charmanderrr96]

At all costs!!!! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 This includes trans and non-binary black folx. unfollow me if you disagree.

[goldenxduchess]

Reminder this is a DaBaby, Tory Lanes, Kanye West, and Black womxn abuser/manipulator hate blog.

[rapeculturerealities]

While the right to an abortion is still protected by Roe v. Wade, abortion rights advocates fear that S.B. 8 will effectively isolate a pregnant person from receiving abortion care in Texas — eliminating abortion rights for 85 to 95 percent of all birthing people in the state, according to providers. What’s more, advocates say, people of color, who already experience higher rates of unintended pregnancy, higher maternal mortality rates, and unequal access to quality reproductive care and social services, will bear the burden of this law.

“Black womxn live in a state where there is already little to no support to provide care for any newly created family units,” said the Dallas-based Afiya Center in a statement. “[Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] and [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] are already overburdened and not fully funded for 100-percent participation. The [Child Protective Services] system is overloaded. Communal support is overextended. And lawmakers have decided that the best course of action is to make the ultimate decision on whether or not to have children.”

For Indigenous, immigrant and undocumented pregnant people, who represent some of the most marginalized groups in Texas, access to abortion is deeply entangled in other structural and historical issues. Many already experience some form of abortion prohibition, according to advocates, and S.B. 8 only serves to further cement this reality.

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[merrrrrrrrry]

paulithepsm RESCUE THE WORLD, PROTECT BLACK WOMEN.

Is a statement on a cap by @jwilliamwashington that I’ve been wearing for about a year now. And today I’m proud to say that we’ll be releasing a limited collaboration JWW x PSM run of 100 black caps!!

The conversations I’ve had from wearing this proclamation on my head became the impetus to my creativity. The process of making music with the intention of celebrating black womxn was truly cathartic.

Black men, we have to do more to honour, respect and protect our queens. WE GOTTA DO BETTER! As a black man, I am taking a stand today and want you to know I SEE YOU, I HEAR YOU, I LOVE YOU!

Men, take a moment and listen to the women in your life. Be patient and be kind. Hear their stories. Their trauma is our trauma. Their healing is our collective healing.

The first track from the project ‘BGM’ ft. BTL First Lady, @milomel is out today.

And the full EP released via @BackToLifeNYC + Limited edition cap is available for pre-order, Only on #Bandcamp.

All net proceeds will be donated to the #SAYHERNAME Campaign @aapolicyforum

#blackgirlmagic #rescuetheworld #theblackwomanisgod ✊🏿✨

[mythiccheroacademia]

please respect black women in real life

[koriandrsgar]

hi titans fandom, k*ry nation, and basically anyone else.

i cant tell you guys who to and who not to follow, but i just want to say beware of some of the users you are following on here. i had k*ry fans in mind when making this post but this can apply to anyone who uses social media. this is interesting to me personally because, recently, i’ve been stumbling into the topic of online toxicity, protecting ourselves, and whether online safe-spaces no longer exist. and that includes protecting ourselves from trolls/bots because there’s been an influx of them over the past few years and we’re all aware that both tumblr and twitter is a playground for them.

that being said, the reason i’m posting this is because there is a specific k*ry fan account on here that identifies as an african womxn and preaches pro-tr*mp & anti-black rhetoric, and they have a history of bot-esque posts and activity. while i understand that people are allowed to have different opinions, regardless of their identity, please pay attention to their content and ask yourself questions before engaging. are their posts original? does a majority of their posts always include links? are they always from twitter? are the pictures they post edited by other people? do they have a consistent expression towards their interests? is their profile pic ever the same person when they change it or is it a random person each time? how recently was their account created? how active was it until now and how has it changed since then? and lastly, do they interact with people through means other than retweeting/reblogging?

there’s an account (that i’ve blocked) who posts a lot in the k*ry tag (and associated tags) and im almost 100% sure that they’re a bot that began leeching onto the st@rfire controversy. they started off innocently and literally became a right-wing extremist overnight. they're elitist, anti-blm, spread covid conspiracies, and they're pro tr*mp. while i understand that it’s possible to like someone who has different views, i just find it extremely troubling that they give constant exposure to an actress who feels strongly about said topics. to me, that spells danger. not only for other people who have differing views but for the actress herself. so please, if you come across that account, you’ll know exactly who i'm talking about. all i ask is that you block them, protect yourself and others, and continue to operate that way for any account you're suspicious of. 

we’re living in very bizarre age of internet technology right now, especially when it comes to the rise and radicalization of right-wingers. just be mindful that bots and the spread of false information is a common factor when it comes to mass sh*oters, hate crimes, right-wing extremism, and etc. bots are capable of targeting, gathering information, and weaponizing it. so please, just be very careful with who you promote on here (: thanks.

[veridium]

fuck it, queer meta.

About a year ago I wrote one of my first and largest meta posts about why I consider Cassandra a prime example of queerbaiting despite her being a character who explicitly says she is heterosexual. This lead to quite the day of inbox hate mail from people throughout the fandom. Most were upset I used the “q slur” and left it untagged as such in the big DA meta tags. I can imagine for those folks, the substance of what I had to say mattered little as a result. 

I deleted most of those messages and my responses soon afterward. They upset me greatly even as I took it all in stride. However, given that it’s been about 365 days since that fiasco, and some interesting events have happened with regards to current and former DA writers, I thought it would be “fun” to write a recap and reflection on why, generally, I still feel the way I did when I wrote that post. With some changes and growth, of course. 

The gist of it is, as we have come to learn in past, recent, and ongoing discourses in fandom, that much to the chagrin of a lot of folks in this fandom: BioWare, and in this instance DA writers, are not your SJW Icons. Furthermore, they never should have been, or should be, considered as such. 

The gist (part two) for me, is: for as much as diverse characters, worlds, and societies are being uplifted by Games these days, the counterbalance of bullshit is still there. And I think it survives most sturdily in the kind of logic the BioWare writing culture throughout the years. This sense of egalitarian, “of course” logic, that appears to make socially deviant identities normalized but really just falsely positions those identities as meant to be in lock-step with the norm. Representation to gaming, and most of media writ large, all-too-easily falls into the trap of “we want what the privileged have,” which it to say, we want our existence to be a no-brainer, even if it means we lost the essence of why our stories are so profound, important, and necessary to do justice. 

I really can’t imagine accepting the way characters like Cassandra were written because I don’t accept the writer(s) who wrote her. Why?

Come with me, and we’ll be, in a world, of pure fuckery...but with citations...because I’m an Academic and that’s my roll.*

*Please see tags for pertinent content warnings before clicking.**

**if you reblog and tag this shit with “q slur,” I will take all the reserves of understanding I have as a DA fic writer for all of the enraged womxn in the series and express it accordingly. And, as a femslash-oriented author, I can promise you: that expression will be consumptive. 

Hm, I wonder, what with the predominant writer for her character inquires on Twitter for “lesbian fanfic porn” recommendations for writing “research,” but seems to be unable to hire appropriate creatives to write, consult, etc. for the project. 

Or that the writers room made, and continues to make, space for a writer who continually does Black and queer characters dirty with his mediocre-at-best work, in both game and novel form (because, plot twist, he’s a shit writer) (1) (2) (3). 

Or that the writer’s room, and specifically Ga*der, attesting that the development of the Qunari was based on Arab cultures around the time of “Medieval Europe,” which is somehow his way of getting out of the thematic botching of the Qunari language, social structure, etc. from Islamic tradition. 

Or, the writers who intentionally shaped the story so that Vivienne, one of the limited number of Black women characters in the entire series to have a role as an ally, to be a red herring of an distrustful and conceited antagonist, to the point where her treatment by fandom has been incredibly racist, heinous, and lazy for years.

These are a few of MANY reasons, with thorough exposition, why the veneer of “progressive inclusion” studios like BioWare claim to be authentic. Having “diverse” writers in the room -- and I’m using that word incredibly tenuously here -- didn’t change the result of any of these harmful scenarios. In fact, it created them. This, combined with the tale as old as time: toxic fandom culture with white, anglo-centric, cisheterosexual masculinist ideals at the fore, have gotten us here. 

So, do I hold all of the reasons why I am angry about Cassandra’s character writing the same way now, as I did then? No. Certainly not. In fact, there are parts where I would correct myself. On the other hand, the thesis for me remains largely preserved: I revile G*ider, I revile that he gets the accolades he does by fandom for his “diversity” of characters when he exploits, erases, and uses slippery morality to get out of admitting he has shortcomings in his work. I hate that the exaltation for representation still funnels itself onto the heads of white writers and predominantly white-staffed studios. 

And, underneath it all, I am mad that some of ya’ll see no problem with that. Because what does it matter, if you do not come from communities, cultures, and coalitions that get the brunt of this misrepresentation? What does it matter if it angers a lesbian fan that the writers who have a long history of misusing and conveniently copping themselves out when they write women and queer characters, seem to use that “expertise” as permission to do what they are supposedly combating?

G*ider, the hero himself, is on written record saying that it should not be second guessed as to why Cassandra is straight, just as he thinks it should not be second guessed that Dorian is gay. Yet, when he asked on Twitter if there was some moral significance to people modding character’s sexuality (in this specific instance, Dorian, actually), G*ider said that in the end, people’s mods “do not change” what he wrote, and that unless they claim their changes “supercede” canon, there’s no harm done. 

So, really, I’m just over here like -- is this ya’lls hero?

Why in the fuck would someone be modding a gay character to be bisexual or heterosexual, if they didn’t somehow believe that version “supercedes” the canon rendition? Secondly, where is the attention to the fact that, in an ensemble of multiple romanceable characters, Dorian has to be the one that has to be sexually and romantically accessible to those outside of his canonical realm of attraction?

I mean, for fuck’s sake, it’s the whole virtue grounding his companion side quest, the fact that he is estranged from his Father who tried to magically change his orientation! This is a crucial part of Dorian’s entire journey to serving the Inquisition, and serving Tevinter as a dissident.

But, you know, it doesn’t change what G*ider wrote. And he’s correct, it doesn’t change what he wrote, which he got credit, money, and esteem for. It doesn’t change that if you load up the base game, Dorian’s gay. In G*ider’s head, that is the protective force: the parts where he has ties, and not the culture of the fandom, the culture the fans who helped fill his pockets from that game have to dwell within. This isn’t revolutionary, this isn’t good-faith representation. This is getting a piece of the rotten-sweet pie and saying “let bygones be bygones, you toxic, funky heteronormative assholes!”

But, where are my manners. I’m getting heated, aren’t I?

Basically, if you condemn queer fans for calling out queer bating -- or any marginalized fan for throwing up the alarm for bullshit -- and your first reaction is to side with folks like G*ider who got theirs and said screw everything else, fuck off. Literally, fuck off. I call Cassandra’s circumstance queerbaiting because she’s one example of writers getting their cake and eating it, too. If they are so aware of just how much of their fanbase is marginalized folks, they don’t get to say they don’t have fingerprints on things like queerbaiting. You don’t get to be acclaimed and excused for the shit you say you are combating, which is the source of that acclaim. And if your claim is happy ignorance, then you definitely don’t get to blithely equivocate when fans do ask you why the story happened the way it did. 

I also just want to keep in mind here that there’s a deductive conclusion to be had about this, given how La*idlaw explicitly stated they endeavored to make Cassandra extremely hot, “really enticing.” That conclusion is: 

(1) Either they aren’t/weren’t nearly as attuned to their queer audiences as they generally claim to be, or 

(2) They were, and had no intention of developing compassion or empathy passed G*ider talking out of his ass about why Cassandra was developed as straight. Which, ultimately, does coincide with conclusion (1) more than not. 

No matter what, the contour to the conclusion is: wow, a taste of nauseating objectification, in the BioWare writer’s room. Who knew!

It’s no wild accusation to make to a writer like him and his colleagues, that they don’t know how to handle sapphic, wlw, and/or queer-related storylines, especially with women. Especially when the answer seems to be, “well, it was decided before I took the lead, and in any case, why question it! You wouldn’t question a gay character’s orientation!”

But that’s just it, you complete and utter turnip. People did question Dorian’s sexuality. People do question Dorian’s sexuality. That fantasy world of equal bearings is as insincere as it is out-of-touch. And why not, when, as you said, 

it doesn’t change what you got paid for.

The ethos seems to be crudely reflexive: people’s phobic interpretations and alterations of the canon do not matter, but then again, why would you even question why a character is straight? Why would you question my narrative vision, in all of its beautiful shittery?

It’s all a game of dodge, ya’ll. Dodge, dodge, dodge. With a strong and acidic dose of vanity. 

So. In summation, folks: I could care less for your false equivalences. I could care less about my contribution of queer content fucking up your good time in the meta tags. Obviously you aren’t there to actually engage in creative, exploratory thought, so why bother reasoning. There is more to the possibilities of queerbaiting than stringing along a could-be, would-be, should-be queer storyline directly. There’s knowing your audience enough to exploit your good graces with them. There’s benefitting from a charade of liberal progressive clout. There’s the ability to foresee that queer people will cathect to a given character, and not only denying an experience they could have, but denying it so harshly that the character says they can’t love yours because you’re female. 

And I am so, so, so sick of these people continually enriching themselves off of the “nobody’s perfect” grace. To me, that grace is the promise of good faith, and the intention to do right by people. When that isn’t there, the grace isn’t going somewhere where it’ll be appreciated, that it will be nourished by. I mean, fucking hell, people, this is rainbow capitalism: don’t you taste it?

That’s that, then. “Cassandra and Queerbaiting Rant,” one year on. An extra dose of salt, just for the haters. 

[glittercake]

Happy Pride Everyone!

Please support and uplift the voices of the Black community in this trying time. Share, donate and sign petitions. Speak up about this injustice, acknowledge your privilege and USE it to protect and help them.

To the Black community, I wish you unending courage, hope and determination. You are strong, you matter. My heart extends to you all and I love and support you. 

[bespokecurry]

I always say that Nashville is ATL for white folx. Nashville has grown a lot since my parents first moved me here from Denver, Colorado in 1997. Black folx who had migrated from the south now wanting to return. Nashville has always been a city to protect whiteness. Let’s talk about it openly and honestly the growth in Nashville has happened because white folx have begun to migrate here because of gentrification. White folx move to this city because they believe it is a place where they can be dominate. Where they can escape Blackness. They think cowboy boots and hats, country music, honky tonk. Why do you think those aspects of pop culture represent? They are buzz words. A friend told me he was talking to an older white man from TN visiting in Cali abs he actually said that Nashville, East Nashville in particular, needed just a little more gentrification. I snickered but was unsurprised. When the history of the city is built on the backs of Black folx. We are the exact folx being erased, killed, vilified in order to let white folx know they are safe. Our governor told the world unmasked we are open for business. I stepped in a elevator the other day and an older white couple visiting the city as tourists refused and I refused them access to the elevator. This city has always had the cool within in but not without including the large body of BIPOC creatives that thrive and work in this city. Not without including the communities that still continue to be systematically discriminated against so hipsters in East Nashville can thrive. I watch business after business open up here even during a pandemic. Most of them are mediocre. Gumbo bros for example, or say a white womxn running ramen shops who treats her people like trash. These people have been given and are continuing to be given opportunities in this city all while Black folx and entrepreneurs are still be discriminated against. So the next time you go to rave about this city, or if you are thinking about moving here think about how you can benefit the BIPOC folx in this city because I’ve had enough and most of y’all looking fraudulent AF, Nashville is the stuff of performative anti-Blackness. (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM17_lWlchM/?igshid=i1sjz4kzpcs2