[ID: Nine screencaps from Taskmaster. The Taskmaster house is shown, with the message, "If you found this FASTEST, choose one contestant to LOSE 5 POINTS." Inside the house, Sue Perkins says regretfully, "Only because I've never met him before, and he's young and beautiful, and he'll get over this - Sam Campbell!" Later, in the same room, Susan Wokoma says, "Do I just choose a name? Erm, Sam Campbell!" Later, in the studio, Greg Davies asks, "Sam, it only feels right I should get your comment on both women turning on you like snakes?" Sam says happily, "Yeah, it's just exciting to know people are talking about me." End ID.]
Pass the pineapples amongst you for 15 seconds while the Taskmaster shuts his eyes and has a little think. When the Taskmaster opens his eyes, he will say if he thinks you are holding a pineapple behind your back or not. If he accuses you wrongly, you will get a point.
About Online Threats Abuse & Misogynoir Towards Black Women in the Entertainment Industry...
Susan Wokoma appeared on the Woman's Hour on BBC Radio recently and she bravely spoke out on the letter of support she and Somalia Seton put together to support Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, as well as speaking candidly on the effects the online abuse that Black women face have...
I IMPLORE people in these fandoms, especially where harassment of Black women happens to listen to this podcast to understand what it does.
Listen below:
There is a very white tendency to either make the focus their own sympathetic reaction to a Black woman entertainer being bullied/harassed like this (crying or feeling bad for it happening to them) or minimize what's happening. "It's only one or two" or "They'll probably never see it."
And I get the tendency to want to either distance or somehow equalize it to the harassment white women face, as well...but there is a particular nastiness that comes with misogynoir that gets at literally wanting to dehumanize and punish a Black woman for existing.
The intention is to destroy them completely, rather than put in place.
Anyway, I encourage anyone who cares about Black women in fandom to give the segment interviewing Susan Wokoma, a listen.
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[ID: Four screencaps from Taskmaster. Sue Perkins and Susan Wokoma stand side by side in front of two empty plastic buckets. Envelopes are stuck to their boiler suits with velcro. Sue says, "You're easier to look at than I am." Susan replies, "I will not have you say that. Take that and put it in the bin. I would want to stare at you." Sue says, "God, that's really good of you." End ID.]