#thotty speaks

[thottybrucewayne]

WHY ARE YALL SHIPPING MALCOLM X AND JAMES BALDWIN???????????

[bootleganimevhsfansub]

Is this a safe space? Good. Teenage Gojo is so fuckin ANNOYING OMG. Like He really seems like the kind of person I would have fuckin HATED in high school.

Like, I'd have called his mama all types of bitches and whores if our paths ever crossed!

[thottybrucewayne]

I hate that the "Gen Alpha can't read." conversation so much because people are taking this as a chance to call children stupid and their parents monsters instead of having a very real discussion about how the education system is flawed by design, covid fucked up everything socialization wise, these parents having little access to child care and more work hours leads them to lean on things like tablets and phones to watch their kids more and more, teachers are more overworked and underpaid than ever leading to them leaving the profession in droves and that's only like the surface level issues. There's a myriad of factors at play here, not just that "The kids are spoiled screen-addicted brats with no imagination and their parents are childish spoiled millennials who just let coco melon handle everything."

[thottybrucewayne]

2010s Black Tumblr didn't die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people's askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.

[thottybrucewayne]

Does anybody know of any etsy alternatives that's not redbubble or something like that?

[thottybrucewayne]

You have to recognize your capacity for harm. You cannot omit the harm you've done to others to remain "good." Anybody can be a bigot. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can harm anyone at any time even those who have been harmed themselves. The world is not made up of victims and villains only, this is life, not a Saturday morning cartoon and you are a human being who can or maybe even has hurt others and you HAVE to acknowledge that to learn to be better.

[thottybrucewayne]

I don't think people realize that critiquing the media you enjoy is fun too.

[thottybrucewayne]

Yeah, this is why we need to be having discussions about transmisogynoir and general antiblackness within the lgbt spaces online cause what do you MEAN you couldn't think of a comparable situation when Black bloggers are literally being shadowbanned and sniped left right, and center? Do you know how many Black trans women have been harassed off of tumblr? Just during the summer of 2020 alone? I'm not about to waste time talking over things that have already been said but like, again, what the fuck is wrong with yall???????

[thottybrucewayne]

I love bald baddies. Shout to the bad bitches that are bald.

[thottybrucewayne]

Okay, sure you love "feminine rage" and "the monstrous femme" but are you normal about Black women in media who are anything other than the sassy supportive best friend?

[thottybrucewayne]

For as much as I love Paris Is Burning (1990) (It was foundational in my getting into ballroom history and learning more about the ballroom scene in my area when I was in my early 20s), I feel like we barely mention its spiritual sequel How Do I Look (2006) even though it gives a much better look into ballroom and how the popularity of Paris Is Burning affected the scene. It also touches on the issues participants of the og Paris Is Burning doc had with the handling of the og doc and the way the mainstream has been trying to exploit the ballroom scene since the second they found out about what it is. While Paris Is Buring is a deeply important part of our history, it should NOT be your first and last stop when learning about ballroom culture.

[thottybrucewayne]

Critique is literally the life blood of art for the love of god, listen to me!!!!!

[thottybrucewayne]

I need yall to know that online activism isn't the end all be all and we should encourage and support people who take action irl as much as we can. Stop criticizing and condemning forms of protest people are taking irl if all you do is click a button a day and barely even wanna do that.

[thottybrucewayne]

I'm getting sick of yall a lil bit. Shut up.

[thottybrucewayne]

I said it before but, I don't understand the concept of "compassion fatigue" concerning ongoing genocide and the violence of colonization. I felt this way during the George Floyd protests too, when white people were coming out here saying they were "tired" from protesting and boycotting and reassuring others that it was okay to "take care of themselves by ignoring the discussion if it was too painful to have."

I think y'all are more tired of being inconvenienced than any "compassion fatigue" because, at least for me, I can't fathom looking away for any reason when I see this level of human suffering.

[thottybrucewayne]

Do yall know about the Black Trans Oral History Project? It's a project headed by Black trans scholars meant to spotlight Black Trans Voices. They currently have three forthcoming recordings under B. Trans Oral History Project, they also have collected tons of Black trans stories from the Tretter Collection Oral History and NYC Trans Oral History Projects.