#the trouble with white women

[shewhotellsstories]

“When white women are confronted with the possibility they can be perpetrators, and not only victims, of oppressive actions and they burst out crying, antiracist work grinds to a halt. A white woman sobs, and the room falls to her feet. These tears seemingly perform a self-baptism. They cleanse the sufferer of any past wrongs and invest her with a martyred authority flowing from the realm of allegedly indisputable truth: her own hurt feelings. Some of the sanctifying innocence widely afforded to white women when they cry can be traced back to an original wellspring: the inkpot of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

-Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women

[nedfelix]

We can recognize white feminism at work today wherever we see the elevation of a woman, of any race, to the top of the hierarchy on the grounds that she will allegedly redeem it. “The future is female,” an Instagram-friendly slogan proclaims in a sleek sans serif font, heralding in both word and image that progress hinges on the female sex. The phrase sounds new, but it isn’t—it was rediscovered via a 1975 photograph of TERF singer Alix Dobkin wearing the phrase on a T-shirt shortly before she was a ringleader of the protest against Olivia Records because of the presence of Sandy Stone. Yet the slogan is also a slicker version of something Margaret Sanger might have said while insisting that the world’s progress pivoted on the quality of women’s births.

Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory to Feminism. For context, Sandy Stone was a trans woman who later became one of the founders of trans studies and theory.

[annemarieyeretzian]

Things I was grateful for in July 2023: LUSH Happy Skin facial exfoliator, LUSH Gummy Bear shower jelly, LUSH Sympathy for the Skin body lotion, LUSH Soother toothpaste, LUSH Golden Pineapple lip scrub, LUSH Lip Service lip balm, Sour Patch Kids (my movie candy of choice), a showing of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with my family, the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack, mini golf at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Buccaneer Bay with my family, a deep-fried Smuckers pb&j, a vegan corndog, ArtCurious by Jennifer Dasal, The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair, The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller, a postcard from @parrnesan on vacation, Sprinkles Cupcakes s’mores cupcakes, Good Omens season 2, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Crowley and Aziraphale Funko Pops, Frostbeard Studios’ Bookstore candle, and Hozier.

[thehumanarkle]

I cut it a bit closer than I hoped, but I did manage to finish 10 books in 2022. And here they are, in one of my patented Ten Things posts.

The Reactionary Mind - Second Edition by Corey Robin

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards

DC Pride 2022 by Various

Vampirella vs. Reanimator by Cullen Bunn

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice

[sher-ee]

Project 25 is no joke.

Read it for yourself here:

There is not one Republican that I know that would want to live under these constraints and constrictions. This is extreme and frightening.

[dkettchen]

Brennan gave us some real scrungly asshole woman rep this season w his creepy, scary powerful, black-pilled radical feminism fairytale princesses huh

[ghcstofutopia]

what sure gets me about radfems is how they lose me every step of the way, even beyond the transphobia, because they genuinely do not give a fuck that i was not particularly hurt by anyone "male"

[troublefemme]

I swear to god, if I'm ever in public with a baby crying (as all babies do, because the world is overwhelming and they're tiny) and an old person comes to yell at me about it, I'll start crying on cue, immediately, screaming and crying just like the baby and I'll cry so loud it will catch everyone's attention, fuck old people who choose to bully moms for their babies being babies

[doodelli]

apparently terfs and other bigots use the spelling ”kweer” mockingly

on this blog i am referencing the comic strip krazy kat, very affectionately and very queerly

this century-old fictional character has had a more positive impact on the rights of women and lgbtq folks than some transphobe with a sideblog on tungle dot com and don’t you forget it

[aviaris]

also re: last rb, it’s notable that seeing older depictions of lesbians is like the single biggest boost to my self image that i’ve ever had. i was miserable trying to find a place for myself within womanhood 8 or 9 years ago, wrestling with the realities of my body vs the popular aesthetics of the time, but when I realized that the way my body is naturally is a thing that gay women can find attractive… it’s helped me make peace with a lot of things. not all at once, but, we got there. ☺️

[shewhotellsstories]

“White women gained authority as civilizers by contrast with Native women, who were portrayed as backward creatures trapped in prehistory who dragged their children down with them. Breaking the tie between Native mothers and their youngsters thus seemed imperative to white reformers. Few reformers realized the truth [Alice] Fletcher had discovered: that many Indigenous cultures were free from patriarchy, and women enjoyed considerable agency, responsibility, and freedom in their tribes.”

-Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women

[area51-escapee]

It’s really interesting because I’ve been around tumblr since around 2011/2012, and started seeing more social justice related stuff around 2013/2014-2017 and during that time. Trying to explain how the general demonization of men on this site was harmful to multiple groups and not at all helpful to feminism would get you labeled a bad feminist at best and a hateful anti sjw alt right MRA type at worst. At that time I really only remember the anti sjw accounts being the ones to bring up the topic of how it was harmful to various groups and how yes, there are real problems that men face that people should care about, and I’ve noticed that has changed a lot in the past couple years, especially with people drawing attention to how a lot of “all men are inherently bad” posts are coming from terfs who aren’t just talking about men. I think it’s really genuinely very refreshing to see and I’ve never liked generalizing a whole group based on a thing they cannot control. A person’s actions are much more important that an aspect of themselves they were born with.

[squeeb100]

i genuinely really like soul eater i promise but that doesn't stop some of the bullshit from making me want to turn inside out

[barbiebutgayer]

-Kyla Schuller, The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism-

“Yet from the nineteenth century to the present, white feminists have broken through appalling barriers for themselves by reinforcing the barriers faced by others.”

[cardinaldrama]

You know I could totally be one of those "positive masculinity" blogs aimed at well-intentioned (usually straight white) men and put my own spin on it I've just concluded that there aren't a lot of social problems this group faces that can't be solved by like. getting their ears pierced and painting 3 of their fingernails a light teal.

[silver-lily-louise]

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