#without the slavery and misogynoir

[pinacoladamatata]

I need to be up in 4 hours and here I am, writing fic

[pumpumdemsugah]

I'm extremely bothered by the way I've seen other Black women talk about misogynoir and Megan Thee Stallion. Some of you are acting like her body is all those ugly things and not that she's targeted because society has pinned those things to her. I feel like some Black women are at the point where they believe the race science about Black women's bodies and it's because many of you are misogynist. I don't see this racist behaviour towards Black men when people are being racist about their bodies. You understand it's a racist smear campaign to justify police brutality but the gendered version happens to Black women some of you are so close to saying Black women are hypersexual big darkies.

People seem to understand that when a Black boy or man is shot by police, they focus on his body to invoke racist rationalisation not because he was any of those things and often they lie. Some of you are so hyper focused on Femininity you're making up shit with regards to Black history. The whites were arguing if we even counted as people, them thinking we're not proper women was because of the idea of the uncivilised Black savage, not because of genuine gender confusion. The uncivilised needed them to enslave us for our own good. How have we marginalised the role of slavery in how Black women are seen because you want to be disingenuous about the nature of how and why Black women are masculised to make a vague statement that won't scare the whites ?

Women that are hypersexualised aren't treated with kindness or dignity, they're seen as public property that doesn't have the right to complain about anything, which is the way Black women are seen. Many of you have decoupled misogyny and racism when talking about Black women and it's crazy. Do you like yourselves?

Even though the likes of Taylor Swift is taller than Megan, people talk about her like that because she's a curvy tall sexual woman that's a part of a group of women ( Black women ) that are hypersexualised because of the legacy of mass rape during slavery and the sexual abuse of Black women after. Let's recentre that

Slave masters argued that Black people could not feel pain and used that as the basis to experiment on enslaved Black women by cutting them open without anaesthetic and cracking the heads of Black babies open. What part of, they want to abuse us are some people not getting ? I don't think some people really understand what the word dehumanisation means. The hyper-visibility of Blackness means we get targeted, not because we are big Black animals. Some feel like big Black animals and desperately want to normalise your self loathing as a quality of Blackness

Find self respect and focus less on getting attention on social media. I'm sick and tired of seeing slavery and gender brought up in the same sentence only to watch people use buzzwords to say Black people are built big and scary and not talk about white supremacy, the mass rape of enslaved Black women...fucking anything that will make the white people you want to pay attention to you feel bad so you stretch " doesn't fit eurocentric gender norms" as a stand in the fact you internalised race science about your own body and want to drag all Black women into your self hatred instead of learning to see being a black woman as a fundamentally normal way human beings exist.

Talk about yourself and other Black women like people not political props to project self loathing onto

[neotrances]

anti-trans laws have nothing to do with blacks though, US laws apply to everyone you sound conceited.

i dont really care to argue with you because you are clearly uneducated on this topic and im not debating anything with people that refuse to look at reality, below are some documentaries, books, articles, series, and in depth studies on what i mean when i say virtually every law in america has been shaped by black people and our fight for equity and true liberation, it’s all connected and to think otherwise is just anti intellectual

• black americans and shaping the law : a full time line of all instances of african americans impacting our law ( videos, articles, links to documentaries and studies )

• the black codes, public facilities, jobs, purchases, and social outings impacted by racism ( article )

video on laws as a result of the black codes

• founding of democracy through black liberation ( article and free books, please use your phone reader or ad blocker to avoid paywall )

• connections of transphobia and antiblack racism in relation to white supremacy ( article and studies )

• medical history in america and racism ( article and studies )

another on the origin of medical eugenics

• african sexuality and gender before and after colonialism ( articles and free books )

• black people and the disproportionate rate of human trafficking, history of laws in the sex trade ( article )

another on the socioeconomic implications of human trafficking statistics

• testing dummies in the medical world, how black americans have been used as living subjects without consent and how this reflects in modern medicine ( article )

another on black experimentation

• impact of antiblack racism on american society ( articles, studies, videos and documentaries, all free )

• lawyers did not have to pass “the bar” until black people began studying the law, a history of how hurdles were created to prevent black people from being in our judicial system ( article )

a document detailing “the bars” racist origin

• bias in the judicial system as a result of chattel slavery ( synopsis with link to free book )

• gynecological roots in slavery, how birth control contraceptives and abortion were tested and studied on enslaved black woman ( article )

another historical study, another on abortion

• race and education, the creation of tuition and lottery’s for schools in effort to keep people of color out ( article )

another on stats of segregation in schools, and another directly about tuition practices ( please use your phone reader or phone reader to avoid paywall )

• antiblackness fueling gun violence and mass shootings across the country ( video )

• sexual violence, sexually transmitted disease and misogynoir : an extensive history and study of reproductive health regarding black women ( article and studies )

• the loop hole of the 13th amendment, legal torture, slavery, and abuse all because of race ( documentary )

i hope you change as a person one day and realize we aren’t enemies and you’ve been taught to hate and discredit us by people who would gladly do the same harm onto you ( that they are starting to do now ) that they’ve done to us for the entirety of our existence in america, im not being conceited, im trying to make you understand we are on the same team

[chiekodivine]

ahhh i’m sorry but as a black femme i have to point out that if a black man is only into white girls/non-black girls that man is carrying internalized racism, and, is misogynistic as hell. i’ve literally heard them verbatim say that they get with white girls because they’re easy. then they expect black women to be jealous of that. why would i be jealous of you treating another woman with the same misogyny you treat me with??? this whole black women are aggressive and masculine thing is such bs. black men themselves are heavily masculinized, and this dates back to slavery before black women were being taken as slaves as well. the rhetoric that black people are monstrous and aggressive is white supremacist ideology. when they needed more slaves, black women were then seen as being closer to a man than she was a white woman. black women and black men are both over sexualized. young black girls are called fast, treated differently for being curvy and are made to mature much quicker due to gender and racial socialization. black boys are sexualized for their genital size and are fetishized. black women hold black men accountable and they can’t handle it, so they go to white woman and other races of women because they think those women aren’t smart enough to see through their bullshit. like fr though, guys will say they won’t date a black girl because she’s “aggressive” and too “masculine”, yet say things like “i love latinas they’re so fiesty and spicy”……guys will say they have a thing for asians because they stereotype type asian women as “docile” and “submissive” while also calling white women “easy” and “snowbunnies” (which reduces them down to animals, and the breeding like bunnies rhetoric is gross). it’s all double standards based on proximity to whiteness, misogynoir, and the male gaze. because all of those characteristics scream misogyny to me. how can one thing be okay for one group but not the other??? why would white women be interested in men who see them as breeding bunnies, especially when it’s coming from dehumanizing black women. it’s interesting because i’ve seen many theories for this. it’s been said by many black women that black men want the same amount of power as white men, the ability to act without consequences. white women are the closest thing to white men and it is this proximity to power that boosts their egos and inflates their sense of entitlement.

just more of my puzzling thoughts

[genderisareligion]

The whole “if Black women can be women, transwomen can be women too” is very violent and disrespectful to black women. But have you ever thought where these arguments come from? Me and one of my friend (both black women) had many discussions on how black women experiences have been weaponize to destroy feminism, while the destruction is sold as a genuine antiracist politics and I want to share with you parts of our analysis on this topic.

“The racism suffered by women is deeply linked to femininity AND exacerbated sexualization. This is not good. To make a human being just meat to be consumed in the dirtiest way. But even the most hygienic way is horrible.”

“Do you know an example where this is more brazen? Prostitution! White women were "worth" more, while black, Asian and indigenous women were the cheapest. Note that we are talking about an exploitative situation, but when posing the issue of race, the ruling class states that an oppressive situation is linked to the person's color/region. Thus, the white oppressed cannot see their common chains, because the other just by being black carries the "evil", the dirt... Constantly associated with slavery and prostitution.”

“Yup. And stereotypes are diverse. Black women were not seen as compassionate, for example. Racism weighs heavily on black femininity, it adds an explicit animalistic tone, it dehumanizes without softness.”

“Yes, and parts of the black movement still use misogynoir against black women themselves. For example, in the US, decades after the end of slavery, black women could only find work as domestics, while black men could not work (it is worth remembering that work in our society is a way of dignifying MAN). So many black men invented that black women were masculine, privileged (because they got the only job that, as we know, is a slave inheritance) and wanted black women to stay in the kitchen mimicking femininity because they felt threatened.”

Not fitting into femininity standards because they are also filled with white supremacist expectations never meant that black women were never seen as women. It just shows AGAIN how white supremacy and male supremacy are interconnected, because while the domination of women originated the other power hierarchies, it was racism that deepened them.

These arguments used by TRAs are nothing but a repackage of all misogynoir black women face to serve their agenda at the expense of black women!!! They are tokenizing and simplifying complex experiences that don't belong to them. Black women have always forced to choose between race and sex but it isn't only an unfair demand, it's an explicit form of misogynoir. We can't choose what part of ourselves have more weight and falling into this trap always means being used by racist white feminists or sexist black men. Or in this specific case, to protect white males of transgender movement.

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Thanks to you and your friend for the solid takes 💜

Y’all it really gets me that your average black woman can look at the world and how complexly it’s treated her and especially once in communion with other black women come up with such brilliant analyses and explain everything so well, and yet still people are confused as to what we mean by misogynoir

Anon mind if I include this in my magazine about intersectionality in a few months?

[fromchaostocosmos]

I tend to do break downs of conspiracy theories and their roots in antisemitism and the history behind it. That said I do try to also address and talk about other forms of hate that are expressed in conspiracy theories often.

I feel that I been remiss in not talking about something that I feel is large factor of the moon landing conspiracy theory.

The conspiracy theory in that USA faked the 1969 moon landing and we have either never been had a human physically on the moon or that having human land physically on moon and explore happened at much later date then 1969.

We know now much of the details that went into making that 1969 moon landing happen. The roles of the various staff at the precursor to NASA and who did what. We also just how much an important and integral of a role was played by African-American women, specifically. And that without these women the moon landing would not in any way have happened.

This conspiracy theory does not just roots in antisemitism, but it is also soaked in anti-Blackness and misogynoir. This conspiracy theory literally erases Black women. It erases their many contributions to the fields of Math and Science, to our understanding of the world and how it works, and to fundamental fact that while white men might have walked on the moon, it was Black women who made it happen.

This conspiracy theory, that is filled with hateful rhetoric, strips agency not just from the Black women who on the moon mission, but the many Black women whose scientific and mathematical breakthroughs and achievements during WW2 were used. Or whose calculations as human computers during the war were also used later for moon mission.

But it doesn't end there because it also erases the many Black women who followed in their footsteps and joined NASA to work on other projects becoming engineers, mathematicians, scientists, and other such jobs. Making breakthroughs of all kinds that been built upon and given over important data that we still rely upon even today.

This pernicious eraser is so disgusting and how hidden it is, is what makes it so dangerous.

Because when you are confronted with conspiracy they don't hit with part no you get hit in face with antisemitism either via dog-whistles or out right which is also dangerous.

But this sort sly sneaky taking away of or downplaying achievements and contributions made by a marginalized group is a way that those in power can further marginalize them and take it beyond. Because they can say " what is X group doing for us, look they make no contributions to society, they just take and take, they are a stain and drain on society as whole" etc.

We already know similar rhetoric has been used in horrific ways against African-American both in the past and sadly still in the present.

We have seen what happens what that racist bigoted rhetoric is used to frenzy people and for policy making.

Being that I'm Jewish, I'm also intimately familiar with that type of rhetoric as well for it has so often been weaponized against Jewish people throughout our history.

I felt that as someone who often breaks down conspiracy theories and explains the bigotry that they are rooted in I could not ignore this factor of this conspiracy theory. Especially now as Florida and other states are doing their best to have revisionist history in regards to African-Americans, anti-Black racism, Chattel slavery, race politics, and so much more.

(If you would like to learn more about Black women and moon mission)

[gncrevan]

Black History Month Anti-Racist Reader [updated]

in honor of Black history month, i wanna share all the free PDFs i have that pertain to anti-racist theory. this is by no means an exhaustive list of all the important texts out there, just the ones i have in my collection. i believe in free dissemination of important content. that said, please use your spare money this month to support Black educators, Black creators and mutual aid funds that benefit the Black community.

Race & Colonialism

Various Authors - Racism in America: A Reader

David Rogers and Moira Bowman - A History: The Construction of Race and Racism (flyer, quick overview)

Barbara Fields - Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America

W. E. B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk

Walter Rodney - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Edward Said - Orientalism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cheryl Harris - Whiteness As Property

Feminism & Gender

Angela Davis - Women, Race and Class

Kimberlé Crenshaw - Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

Kimberlé Crenshaw - Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex

Kimberlé Crenshaw - Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected (flyer)

Audre Lorde - The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (speech)

Audre Lorde - Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

Mikki Kendall - Hood Feminism

María Lugones - Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System

María Lugones - Toward a Decolonial Feminism

Chandra Mohanty - Feminism Without Borders

Chandra Mohanty - Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Jessie Daniels - The Trouble with White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism and the Intersectional Internet

Moya Bailey and Trudy - On Misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism

Eugenics

Robert Wilson - Dehumanization, Disability and Eugenics

Angela Davis - Racism, Birth Control and Reprodutive Rights

Sanjana Manjeshwar - America's Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization (article in the Berkeley Political Review)

Ann Winfield - Resuscitating Bad Science: Eugenics Past and Present

Philip Jenkins - Eugenics, Crime and Ideology: The Case of Progressive Pennsylvania

Jonathan Simon - The Legacy of Eugenic Thought in Contemporary Judicial Realism About American Crime

Laura Appleman - Pandemic Eugenics: Discrimination, Disability and Detention during Covid-19

Prison Abolition

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Davis - Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry

Angela Davis - From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prisons

Angela Davis - Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition

Angela Davis - Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist

Cassie Miller - The Biggest Lie in the White Supremacist Propaganda Playbook: Unraveling the Truth About ‘Black-on-White Crime'

Mary Koss and Mary Achilles - Restorative Justice Responses to Sexual Assault

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(also this is just a link to my readings folder which includes these and more texts about politics, sociology, history, as well as the psychology of trauma)

[tressasinterlude]

𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓 #𝟑: Female Public Figures Dating Men with Questionable Views That Contradict Their Image & Alleged Politics

𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: These rant blog posts are really just reflective of my thoughts at the time that I make them and are posted here because I need an outlet to release all of this shit I have going on my busy ass mind. That’s it and that’s all. Now let’s get into it..

This rant was greatly inspired by none other than Ms. Robyn Rihanna “Tell Your Faves To Pull Up [in regards to social injustices directly affecting black people]” Fenty and her openly colorist boyfriend, A$AP Rocky. Aside from the fact that Rihanna tends to slip under the radar and is never held accountable for her problematic ways due to her conventional beauty (i.e. Her heavy usage of anti-Asian slurs, particularly targeted towards Chris Brown’s ex gf, Karrueche), it’s very alarming that a woman who has an entire makeup brand with a campaign based around the inclusivity of ALL black women is publicly flaunting a beau who once said that DSBW do not look good with red lipstick.

And yes, I’m very much aware that Rakim said this tasteless comment over 8 years ago but from the looks of it, not much has really changed with him. Don’t @ me about it neither because I don’t care.

Also peep how he compares a hypothetical darkskinned woman to a man (Wesley Snipes) while trying to explain how his antiblackness isn’t wrong because he said something about white women as well. Gaslighting at its finest. Don’t you just love it! 😀

Furthermore, you would think that somebody of Rihanna’s level of stature would know not to associate themselves with someone as messy as A$AP Rocky but... Stupid is what stupid does, I guess! I can’t even begin to place the blame on him anymore because he’s revealed his true colors and we all have made the deliberate choice to either accept it or don’t and have discontinued all support for him. Unfortunately, misogynoir is never the dealbreaker for most people and the hatred for [dark-skinned] black women is so engrained in society that it’s frowned upon when we publicly speak out against it. Very ass backwards if you ask me but that’s society for you. Now, enough about that. Let’s focus back on Ms. Vita La Coco.

As a woman who claims to be a girl’s girl and is always presenting herself to be someone who is the epitome of a pro-black feminist bad ass, it just makes her alleged activism come off so disingenuous when she’s also laying down with the same man that actively attacks the demographic she’s supposed to be standing in solidarity with. It’s “Black Lives Matter” on the IG posts but your vagina is getting moist for a man who openly stated he doesn’t relate to what goes on in Ferguson because he lives in Soho & Beverly Hills. Ferguson being the exact place where a 17-year-old black boy’s lifeless corpse laid on the hot concrete for FOUR hours after he was murdered by a police officer. He couldn’t 'relate' to the fate of so many black men, women, and children who are murdered or seriously injured from state-sanctioned violence because they’re poor and he is not or so he thought.

But then again, what can I really expect from a woman who identified as being “biracial” until as recent as roughly 6 years ago? What can I really expect from a woman who called Rachel Dolezal a ‘hero’ for cosplaying as a black woman? I’d be lying if I said my expectations for her were high in this regard because sis has always shown us she was lacking in this department. And just for the record, this is not a personal attack on Rihanna at all for the die-hard Navy stans in the back. I admire her latest fashions and bop my head to her music just like the next person but she’s getting the side-eye from me on this one.

Trust and believe me though, she’s not the only woman who I can call out for being a hypocrite. Of course not! This stone can be cast at a few others. So without further ado, why don’t we bring Ms. Kehlani Parrish to the front of the congregation? Prior to Kehlani’s recent declaration of identifying as a lesbian, her last public relationship with a man was with YG. Yes, the same YG who felt it was necessary to say him & Nipsey had ‘pretty light-skinned’ daughters to raise in the middle of his deceased friend’s memorial. By the way, Nipsey’s daughter is not even light (or at least not in my book anyways.) She’s a very deep caramel tone just like her father which makes what he said even more moronic. Yes, the same YG who thought it was clever idea to use slavery as an aesthetic for a music video to a diss track about 6ix9ine. And yes, also the same YG who has derogatory lyrics targeted at bisexual women. Just to end up sweating the red carpets with one. I swear the jokes just continue to write themselves.

This raises the question once more; How high of a pedestal can I really put a multiracial woman who has a song titled ‘N*ggas’ and when received backlash for the song in question, she used the ultimate ‘I’m mixed’ copout while not having a visibly black parent in sight?

It’s also kind of suspicious to me that many were not privy to Kehlani’s secret romance with Victoria Monét (pictured bottom right) until Victoria did an interview with Gay Times revealing she fell in love with a girl but they subsequently broke up because Victoria had a boyfriend and that girl was pregnant in a polyamorous relationship. Fans began to speculate because both Victoria & Kehlani previously candidly spoke about their sexual orientations, Kehlani had just had Adeya and they both were seemingly close. Their short-lived fling would later be confirmed when Victoria released the song ‘Touch Me’ on her last project and Kehlani hopped on the remix. Meanwhile, Kehlani’s relationship with Shaina (pictured bottom left) was very overt and all over her Instagram feed from my recollection. And as you can see, Shaina looks absolutely nothing like Victoria. They look like the complete opposite of eachother in every aspect which is kind of alarming(?) to say the least because why is it that the women she proudly claims as her partners tend to have a very racially ambiguous look such as herself but her ‘sneaky links’ on the other hand are undoubtedly black women? Again, it could just be me jumping conclusions. You know, I’m kinda good for that however something tells me I’m not. Y’all be the judge of the material though.

Last but not least, I’d like to touch on Ms. Raven Tracy very briefly. I was very weary about even including in this segment and if I should just put her in a entirely separate blog post with other women who openly date abusers despite their checkered past (alongside Nicki Minaj & her r*pist murderer of a husband, India Love & Sheck Wes etc.) being this particular blog post was based around the theme of lightskinned/mixed women dating men with extremely problematic views about DSBW. Raven obviously isn’t lightskinned or mixed however I refused to ignore how contradictory her [former] relationship with an alleged (I used this word very loosely and mainly for legality purposes.) serial r*pist while promoting a brand that is all about feminism & body positivity. This also traces back to A$AP Rocky by default being that Ian Connor is his very close friend and he came to Connor’s defense when several women came forward detailing accounts of Connor allegedly s*xually assaulting them. (I wish I could place the actual video of what A$AP Rocky said verbatim but Tumblr only allows one video per blog post. 🙄)

Back in June of this year, Ian & Raven had a back & forth on Twitter after Ian tweeted about Raven “fucking everybody” behind his back. I can only assume that he was alluding to Tori Brixx posting a video of her ex, Rich the Kid & Raven kissing on her story. Disgusted is not even the word to describe my feeling when she admitted she stuck by Ian despite of his many allegations of s*xual abuse because she loved him and her being a empath causes her to want to help everybody. Imagine aiding and abetting a predator and even paying for his bail & legal fees just to turn around and expect sympathy because this same individual cheated on you and exploited you all over Twitter for the public to see. The same man that you would get back with not even a WEEK after the fact & turn off your IG comments because it isn’t our “business” after making it our business...

That being said, I just genuinely want to know: Why do these women completely go against what they stand for in regards to these men? Maybe it was never genuine from jump street and if that’s the case, why jump on the bandwagon of performative activism? Is it because it’s profitable right now? Is it because disrespecting black women is not an immediate death sentence to your careers and more often than not actually helps you advance even further? I guess that’s the billion dollar question that’ll never truly be answered. I just want the world to stop using black women as their stepping stool to get to where they need to go and then discarding of us when we’re no longer beneficial. Support us all the way or don’t support us at all. We deal with enough disrespect as is so we’d appreciate if y’all would stop straddling the fence and partake in your misogynoir out loud if that’s what you choose to do. We have no use for fake allyship and quite frankly, it’s doing more harm for us than good. Please and thank you!

Sincerely,

- 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝙳𝙶𝙰𝚁 𝙰𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙽 𝙷𝙾𝙴. 💋

[pinkieloveheartpastel]

TW: S.A. MENTION, SLAVERY MENTION, RACISM, MISOGYNOIR, FETISHIZATION.

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Reminder: You can appreciate black women and support them without bringing hyper-sexualization into it.

Let me repeat this:

YOU CAN APPRECIATE A BLACK WOMAN AND SUPPORT HER WITHOUT RESORTING TO HYPERSEXUALIZATION AND THE “BLACK WOMEN ARE ALL SEXUAL BEASTS” MENTALITY.

I am so sick and tired of this. Black women are constantly conditioned to see themselves as only sexual objects, and I’m just so tired of it. I’m so tired of all of it.

It is perfectly fine for a black woman to be as sexual as she wants to be, because that is HER right as a human being, and nobody can take that away from her, and they better not either… but when every single person, including the media and society as a whole, which is steeped in white supremacy, starts pulling out this very racist trope that ALL black women are hyper-sexual beasts who ALL want sex and nothing else, and are just constantly unhinged, and the majority of our representation is being that… we have a fucking problem.

Especially since this stereotype, which is rooted in racial fetishization… stems directly from slavery, when white men constantly preyed on enslaved black women, and forced themselves onto them, and then claimed that they “wanted it” because they’re just “naturally deviant” in order to try and justify being r*pists…

“They want this chocolate” is not a fucking compliment. It is disgusting, and so are you.

You can treat a black woman… normally… It’s perfectly fine to do so… Take as much time as you need to process this…

Also asexual black women exist… and also black women who don’t like sex, or being sexual at all, exist… I know, it’s a hard thing to process, but… get over it…

Also, let me just mention the fact that people constantly resort to labeling all black women as having big curves, big butts and big boobs… as if we all look the same.

And it is especially disgusting when people automatically equate having those features to being something “exotic” that everyone can just devour… It objectifies not only all black women, but also black women who fit that exact description, and simply just want to live their lives without some fool preying on them like they don’t have feelings of their own. As if they don’t deserve respect because YOU decided that they don’t.

It’s a prominent stereotype that is absolutely disgusting and should be tossed away into the gutter. All black women do not look or act the same, nor are we an extremely harmful, racial stereotype, and y’all better learn that quick.

So in conclusion… forcing someone into a stereotype because that’s what YOU think they should be, rather than seeing them as human beings, who can very well decide on their own whether or not they want to be sexual at all, is wrong.

Black women are human beings first, and sexual, or not-sexual, second. I hope I made that perfectly clear…

[william-williams]

Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief

Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand.

As the co-founder of the Chicago-based youth organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, he grieved the loss of Delmonte Johnson, a young community activist, more than two years ago to the very thing the teen fought fiercely against: gun violence.

He’s also been angered and frustrated by the onslaught of stories of Black Americans killed at the hands of police across the nation throughout the past year.

First, there was Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, home last March. Then there was George Floyd, whose Memorial Day killing by a Minneapolis officer sparked global protests. Just this week, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota — just minutes from where Floyd died. And on Friday, Pittman spent much of the day planning a demonstration with other Chicago organizers to protest the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was Latino.

“We’re constantly turning on the TV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and seeing people that look like us who are getting murdered with no repercussions,” said Pittman, an organizer for A New Deal for Youth. “It’s not normal to see someone get murdered by the click of a video on your phone, yet it has become the norm for our people, our Black and brown communities.”

Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at the hands of police in America. Some see themselves and their children reflected in the victims of police violence, heightening the grief they feel. That collective mourning is a great concern to experts and medical professionals who consider the intersectionality of racism and various forms of trauma impacting communities of color a serious public health crisis facing America.

The racial trauma impacting Black Americans isn’t new. It’s built upon centuries of oppressive systems and racist practices that are deeply embedded within the fabric of the nation. Racial trauma is a unique form of identity-related trauma that people of color experience due to racism and discrimination, according to Dr. Steven Kniffley, a licensed psychologist and coordinator for Spalding University’s Collective Care Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

“A lot of cities across the country are realizing that racial trauma is a public health issue,” Kniffley said, citing health concerns such as increased rates of suicide among Black men, a life expectancy gap and post-traumatic stress disorder. ”There’s no other way that we can explain that except for the unique experiences Black and brown folks have based on their identity, and more specifically, when they encounter racism and discrimination.”

Kniffley said each generation of Black Americans since slavery has faced its own unique iteration of racism and discrimination, which has manifested into a form of intergenerational trauma.

“We’ve essentially handed down 10 or 15 generations worth of boxes of trauma that have yet to be unpacked, and that’s what’s contributing to a lot of those biological and mental health related issues that we’re having,” Kniffley said, noting the trauma extends beyond police violence.

In a 2018 study examining the mental health impact of police killings on Black Americans, researchers found exposure to police killings of unarmed Black Americans had adverse effects on mental health among Black people. Nearly half of Black Americans who responded said they were exposed to one or more police killings of unarmed Black Americans in their state of residence — either through word of mouth or the media.

“That effect was found only in Black (Americans),” said Dr. Atheendar S. Venkataramani, one of the authors of the study and a physician at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, said the trauma has also created generations of Black Americans who have valid mistrust of law enforcement agencies. And many are experiencing further mental anguish while watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.

“We have a whole set of folks with badges and guns who are supposed to protect and serve and they do neither,” Robinson said. "In order to survive, we have to integrate into a system in a structure which is brutal — brutal to our lives, our dignity, our health. It has collective and long-term impact.”

While much of the media spotlight on police killings impacting Black Americans is focused on Black men, experts say it’s important to also highlight misogynoir — misogyny directed toward Black women. Black women experience misogynoir in various aspects of their lives but also in connection with police violence. The #SayHerName campaign was launched in 2014 to bring awareness to the lesser-known stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by police. The hashtag flourished again after Taylor's death, prompting accusations of delayed justice in her case.

“As a mom, I’m constantly in fear for my son and my heart is broken by this country over and over again,” said Aimee Allison, who leads She the People. “It really calls into question how Black women in particular, who’ve sacrificed so much to serve this country in terms of democracy and bringing voters to the polls, upholding a vision of peace and justice for everyone else, how much more can we take?”

Chicago resident Erendira Martinez said the Little Village community, a Chicago neighborhood with a majority Latino population, is also hurting, not just from Toledo’s killing but also from the trauma of losing other children to gun violence.

On Thursday night, just hours after the video of Toledo’s death was released, a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the same neighborhood. Martinez’s own teenage daughter was shot and killed in Little Village in December.

“We had just buried my daughter, and a month later, we’re burying this kid that grew up with my daughter," she said. "No mother should bury their child.”

Some community organizations are working to address the trauma, said Aswad Thomas, chief of organizing for Alliance for Safety and Justice, who runs Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, a network of more than 46,000 crime survivors from mostly Black and Latino communities. The group is releasing its first-ever National Crime Victims Agenda next week to address collective trauma.

“The tragic truth is that police violence is the most horrific, visible symptom of a larger systemic problem of how our public safety system is designed and we need to address that head-on,” Thomas said. “But while also investing in the mom and pops who are on the front lines to violence, hosting the community vigils and interventions groups.”

Uzodinma Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, based in New York, said sometimes the thought of what he and so many other Black Americans have experienced is rage-inducing. He thinks of the times he and his brothers have been stopped by police. Or the time his uncle was called a racial slur by an officer. And how in each instance they prayed they would make it out alive — experiences he thinks some white Americans willfully ignore.

“We’re going to need a real fundamental examination of the roots of what America is,” Iweala said. “America refuses to acknowledge that America is not a country without the labor of and the blood, sweat and tears of Black people. Until America values those contributions, it will never value Blackness as a life form.”

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Dang, mm3 s opening hits hard reading in 2020.

To be honest, I think that’s exactly the point.  The problems that COVID-19 has laid bare and civil rights activists with phone videos have publicized have always existed.  The U.S. only exists in its current state because the murder of Native Americans by Europeans began in 1492 and hasn’t actually stopped for one single minute — just because white-run governments are stealing land for pipelines and ignoring deaths of coronavirus doesn’t mean the “kill the locals and take their stuff” dynamic has changed.

And that’s before we talk about the fact that (depending on which historian you ask), the “land of the free” at one time enslaved more people than anywhere else in the world, and is one of the only nations in recorded history where it was legal that some individuals be born enslaved.  The U.S. has always been this way, and steps in the right direction bought with the blood and lives of activists of color haven’t changed its fundamental structure.

Then there’s the whopping 70% un- and under-employment rate for disabled Americans.  Then there’s the documented history of the CIA murdering foreign leaders in order to force other countries in line with American interests.  Then there’s the fact that we know American policies inspired the Holocaust.  Everything that Applegate touches on in that prologue is already reality, and the kids know they’re not equipped to fix it all but make a fumbling attempt to do so anyway.

I think there are a couple of important points she makes in that prologue.

1. Prejudice is more about the systems in which one is raised than one’s intent to be prejudiced.  Cassie and Tobias especially have several great moments of confronting prejudice later in that same book — and both Cassie and Tobias think nothing of endorsing slavery when they’ve been raised in a society that normalizes it.  Prejudice isn’t about “bad apples” with evil hearts, it’s about systems of oppression.

2. The overwhelming majority of people are both the victims and the perpetrators of prejudice.  In that prologue, Jake is perfectly aware that he’s under threat from antisemitism, and that he’s endorsing white supremacy.  Cassie’s subject to misogynoir, and perpetrates casual ableism.  Marco didn’t forget that he’s Hispanic, but that doesn’t stop him from dropping racial slurs about people from South America.  Nobody has all the privileges, and nobody has none of them.  The point is to be aware of one’s own privileges, and to use them to fight back against oppression.

3. Oppression relies on silence.  Rachel has been made to disappear for her refusal to play along with imperialism... and Cassie’s going to be the next one to go, if Jake has his way.  Marco doesn’t like the way the world runs, but that’s okay; he’s got Pong, he’s got his mom, and he’s got the willingness to shut up and get by.  All the Animorphs need to do is not fight back, and the world will annihilate itself without their help.

4. Letting only a subset of people have a voice hamstrings innovation.  Of course there’s no long-distance communication or space travel in a world where only white nondisabled American-born Christian men get to have prestigious jobs.  Of course there’s no cross-seeding of ideas if there’s no cross-seeding of minds.  Prologue-world is easy to contrast to reality; now imagine how much more we could have if everyone in the U.S. actually was born with equal chance to obtain prestige and spread their ideas.

[1belluf]

Misogynoir

-         What is it?

The term misogynoir, which was made up by Moya Bailey, a queer black feminist, blends the words misogyny (hatred of women) and the French word “noir” (black) to explain the intersection of racism and sexism that black women experience. This manifests itself in many ways, including adultification of black girls, stereotypes, racial bias in the healthcare system and cultural appropriation.

Adultification of black girls

In 2017, a study from Georgetown University found that adults viewed black girls “as less innocent and more adult-like than white girls of the same age, especially between 5-14 years old.” When compared with white girls, black girls were perceived as needing less nurturing, protection, support, and comfort, being more independent, knowing more about adult topics, including sex.[1]

Adultification leads to rape culture, victim-blaming, sexualising and human trafficking of young black girls. Many black girls have at one point in their childhood, been told by an adult to not “be fast” or “dress grown”. A child is a child, so the issue lies with adults who do not perceive them as children and sexualise and prey on them. More than 20% of black women are raped during their lifetime – a higher share than among women overall, yet their rapists get significantly less jail time than if the victim was white. There is a link between imprisonment and sexual abuse and little black girls fall victim to “The Sex Abuse to Prison Pipeline”.[2]

Black girl stereotypes

Black women face many stereotypes and they all have dangerous consequences in society. Many of them originate from ideas that were established during colonialism and slavery. The four most prominent stereotypes are The Jezebel, The Sassy Black Woman, The Angry Black Woman and The Strong Black Woman.

1.     The Jezebel

Black women have been hypersexualised since the beginning of slavery. White men justified the rape of slave women, saying that black women were insatiable. As a result of this, nowadays, many fetishize and dehumanise black female bodies and black women who report sexual abuse/assault are gaslighted by law enforcement and society.

2.     The Sassy Black Woman

This stereotype portrays black women as one-dimensional, loud, finger clinking and neck rolling caricatures. Black women are complex and multi-faceted. Limiting black girls to these “funny in the 2000s” images dehumanises us. It is no shocker that non-black women can not empathise or recognize with black women’s pain when they do not see us as people.

3.     The Angry Black Woman

This stereotype paints black women as irrationally angry and hysterical compared to both men and non-black women. People often say that black women are aggressive and scary for doing the exact same things that non-black women do. This concept belittles black women’s valid anger by portraying it as an inherent character flaw and not a logical reaction to offence or discomfort.

4.     The Strong Black Woman

Black women enduring extreme hardship during slavery created the belief that we are impenetrable. The idea that we are strong all the time and can face any obstacle on our own is toxic. When men and non-black women think we can withstand anything, they are more willing to treat us deplorably. This leads to the physical, mental and emotional exploitation of black women.

  Black women and pain

“Black women don’t feel pain”, “Black women exaggerate”

The idea that black women can not feel pain was established during slavery, as black women bore the brunt of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse while also enduring pain of working on plantations. This demonstrates itself in medical professional’s dismissal of black women’s pain and belief that black women have a higher pain threshold. Why must black women face scepticism from the people that are supposed to care for us?

In the mid-19th century, Dr. J. Marion Sims, “the Father of Gynaecology”, built his career on experimenting on black women’s genitalia without anaesthesia. He did it because of the racist notion that black women do not feel pain. He was free from moral, political, and economic judgment. Sims is praised for his findings of reproductive health, but history fails to recognise the black women whose bodies were instrumental in modern medicine. A lot of out knowledge about pregnancy came from experimentation on black women, so why do we have a greater chance of dying when we give birth in a hospital?[3]

Racism in the medical field is still very rampant, black women are 4-5 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women, and 2-3 times more likely than Hispanic and Asian women. This is not because of genetics but the racial biases of doctors and nurses. When taking the Hippocratic Oath, doctors make a commitment to the human condition, that includes black humans as well. Doctors need to listen when their black female patients express their concerns and not minimise our pain. Beyoncé and Serena Williams share a story in common that tells how they were treated inadequately by doctors. These ladies are rich, famous, and black, so think about how it is like for the average black woman.

Ways that Cultural Appropriation harms black women

-          Cultural Appropriation mocks black women. Non-black people have very limited knowledge of black culture due to the lack of diverse portrayal of blackness in the media and when they imitate us, it is apparent. What is worse is black men playing the parts of black women in film/tv, because they feed into these stereotypes. When they think twerking, being aggressive or wearing braids are “acting like a black women”, they are telling us they we are a costume not a person, if you do not see us as more than a caricature you will continue to dehumanise us.

-          Cultural Appropriation devalues us. When black women wear black hairstyles, they are described as messy, unprofessional, and dirty but when a white woman does the same thing, they are ground-breaking, cool, and edgy. This also applies to black women’s natural bodies and complexion. This double standard shows that society accepts black women and their culture when it is plastered on a white or non-black body, exhibit A the Kardashians.

Full credit to: @michaelabalogun on instagram

 [1] https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/research-confirms-that-black-girls-feel-the-sting-of-adultification-bias-identified-in-earlier-georgetown-law-study/

[2] https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-inequality-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/02/The-Sexual-Abuse-To-Prison-Pipeline-The-Girls%E2%80%99-Story.pdf

[3] https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/02/20/why-are-black-women-at-such-high-risk-of-dying-from-pregnancy-complications

[pumpumdemsugah]

The problem with my introduction to Black feminism being how it was it means I do not respond to anything that feels like asking me to subsume my experience under someone else's and as someone elses and acting as if that's community. We're not a rhetorical device but people

If we're going to do solidarity it will be without that. It's entitlement pretending it's doing us a favour because look! Someone has our side. Id rather be left the fuck alone. I'm not desperate enough. Some Black women on social media are so desperate to try to get Black women to stop being homophobic and obsessed with the worst parts of religion, they think insisting racialised misogyny/ misogynoir works like transphobia will unite us and it's really not. All I've seen happens is a lot of white trans people bringing up Black women and slavery because they want talk about themselves. There's no culture war big and ugly enough that will make me give a pass for that.

[rapeculturerealities]

Since its inception in the 1970s, hip hop has been predicated on free expression, civic (though not always civil) discourse, and communicating the ills of poverty and white supremacy. In 1988, N.W.A said “Fuck the Police,” and Public Enemy followed up in 1990 with “Fight the Power.” Over the past 40 years, many rappers have followed suit, making activism a core part of their brand. For instance, Meek Mill became a symbol in the fight for criminal justice reform after he was sentenced to two years in prison for a minor probation violation; Common is the face of Starbucks’s racial equity trainings; and Vic Mensa has become a leading voice on gun reform.

But while the hip-hop community is incredibly vocal about systems and structures that intentionally target Black men, its vanguards have been both the perpetrators of or silent about domestic violence and sexual assault, issues that disproportionately impact Black women. In May, Spotify announced a new hate content and hateful conduct policy that would stop the highlighting of music that “expressly and principally promotes, advocates, or incites hatred or violence.” Spotify then removed all of XXXTentacion, Tay-K 47, and R. Kelly’s music from promoted playlists, but kept their discographies available for streaming.

On October 8, 2016, 20-year-old rapper XXXTentacion was arrested and charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, and false imprisonment for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend Geneva Ayala. After the alleged assault, Ayala launched a GoFundMe to pay for a surgery that would reverse the damage he caused to one of her eyes. (XXXTentacion’s fans accused her of fraud, and GoFundMe temporarily deactivated her page. She’s since raised a total of $36,450.) When XXXTentacion was murdered on June 18, he was facing 15 felony counts related to the assault, but his fans and industry peers remembered him as an icon, mental health advocate, and humanitarian. Tay-K 47 has been charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery, and he’s also a suspect in a fatal shooting that took place in April 2017 at a San Antonio, Texas Chick-fil-A. R. Kelly has been sued by multiple women for sexual assault and accused of operating a sex cult.

Only weeks after announcing its policy, Spotify rescinded its penalty against XXXTentacion after Kendrick Lamar allegedly threatened to remove his music from the service. Atlanta rapper T.I. posted a message of support for Lamar on Instagram with the caption “Salute.” Many fans encouraged T.I.’s message, and some even suggested that Spotify’s policy reversal should extend to R. Kelly as well, though his streams have increased since the ban. And in the wake of XXXTentacion’s death, Spotify placed a tribute to the rapper on its homepage, leading to his posthumous usurping of Taylor Swift’s single-day streaming record.

Black girls and women who are often the targets of the abuse are not worth defending. However, when the victim of abuse is a Black man or the perpetrator is white, Black artists, including Lamar and T.I., often use their platforms to seek justice. Lamar’s hit 2015 song “Alright” is often played during Black Lives Matter rallies and protests, and his 2016 Grammy performance brought awareness to America’s mass incarceration of Black men. T.I. has been even more vocal, filling his Instagram grid with posts calling attention to police brutality, Donald Trump’s latest atrocities, and the hypocrisies of the criminal-justice system.

In May, T.I. sat down with popular New York radio show The Breakfast Club to lambast Kanye West for insisting that slavery was a choice and supporting Donald Trump. “You said you’re leading with love,” T.I. said. “If you loving this man [Trump] is hurting these people, what makes him worth so much to where it cause these people so much pain?” Given T.I.’s choice to challenge his friend’s anti-Black commentary, it is notable, then, that he does not hold his peers publicly accountable for domestic and sexual violence.

But it is not surprising. The hip-hop community, and the music industry that profits from it, have always accepted Black men’s violence against Black women and rewarded them with success. From Dr. Dre assaulting his ex-girlfriend Michel’le and journalist Dee Barnes to Tupac spending eight months in prison for sex abuse to XXXTentacion’s sophomore album ? debuting at the top of the Billboard 200 after he allegedly beat his pregnant girlfriend, violence against women has been commonplace and occurs without serious consequence. In 2014, hip hop and R&B producer The-Dream was arrested for felony assault and strangulation after his ex-girlfriend accused him of punching and kicking her while she was pregnant.

Just last year, he released new music with Vic Mensa, Ty Dolla $ign, Fabolous and Meek Mill, among others. In March, a video of rapper Fabolous emerged that showed him threatening his girlfriend, fashion stylist Emily B, and her father after she claimed he knocked her teeth out. He is currently finalizing a plea deal on charges related to the incident, but his music still plays on the radio and he recently released a song with Lil Kim. In April, Kelis detailed her physically abusive marriage to Nas; he released a new album, Nasir, on June 15 and will be headlining One Music Fest in September. (The festival’s lineup also includes Kelis.)

This pattern of excusing abuse and rewarding the abuser repeats in part because Black men often struggle to balance their victimhood with their predilection for wielding patriarchal power over women. In assuming the self-proclaimed position of “most oppressed,” many Black men believe they cannot be the cause of anyone else’s oppression. When Black men are considered the antagonist, suddenly justice and accountability become synonymous with persecution. T.I. and his supporters defended XXXTentacion because they “believed in due process.”

Musicians, in their view, should be deemed innocent until the courts determine the validity of a victim’s claim, even when, in the case of XXXTentacion, a damning 50-page deposition is obtained by Pitchfork and made public. Yet, when a police officer is accused of brutalizing a citizen, there is rightfully no call to “wait for all of the facts” before demanding justice, and when the courts fail to convict officers of misconduct, the assumption is that the system did not value the victim’s life, and thus, chose not to hold the officer accountable. Not applying this standard to Black male artists reflects the assumption that the accusers must be lying or simply, that the victim’s life is worth less than the abuser’s.

Black women are often asked to live as though that latter assumption is true, bear the weight of the Black community’s emotional trauma, and explain away the sins of Black men, which frequently means taking blame for abuse or excusing an abuser’s behavior. As the Women of Color Network notes, Black women may be less likely to report abuse in order to protect Black men from the penal system. But when four in 10 Black women are the victims of intimate partner violence, more than 20 percent of Black women are raped in their lifetimes, and Black women were two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than white women in 2015, it is clear that the problem is systemic.

In the music industry, this means setting clear consequences for abusers. Rather than shirking under backlash, platforms like Spotify should use their influence to demote artists whose actions explicitly victimize others. Plainly, the music industry must stop rewarding men who abuse women with record deals, promotions, and brand partnerships, and start financially and socially penalizing them. As the #MeToo movement has shown in Hollywood and media, industries must acknowledge their complicity in sexism and misogyny and create a culture that’s safe for women.

Within the Black community, specifically, Black men must expand their activism to include issues that don’t center them and acknowledge that white supremacy is not the only aggressor Black people face. Black men must participate in real conversations about the ways in which they oppress Black women, especially those who are poor, disabled, and/or non-cis identifying. Black men have to take each other to task for their behaviors; if Kanye West’s peers can openly critique him for supporting Trump, they can keep that same energy about their peers abusing women. To end misogynoir, Black men need to understand, fundamentally and intimately, that they are not free until Black women are too.

[feministdragon]

“Black women’s votes save so many people, yet our interests are the first to be discarded and ignored.

 Consider that, in the case of the Alabama election and so many others, we had to step up in spite of voter suppression, a constant battleground for Black women and a war that is largely ignored by white people. Because, after all, addressing that would mean white people could no longer perpetuate the narrative of their inherent benevolence and goodness.

Black women, we’re told, are here to save others, not ourselves. As we are asked to be strong Black women, capable of saving the world from itself, we are also told we can’t save ourselves from our male rapists and male abusers; we aren’t legally protected, and we aren’t socially protected. We aren’t even protected by our fathers, brothers, sons, or lovers…instead we are expected to save them, too, all while being happy we got a man to protect. We are taught to deny ourselves the love of anyone not Black, while being subjected to the misogynoir rampant in our society. This is what it means to navigate the world as a Black woman. This is what it means to be disposable while refusing to be disposed of. But I am not disposable. You can try. You do try. But I have spent my life refusing to be someone’s trash, and instead I am this amazing and accomplished Black woman. I live a life of joy and struggle, but I do what I can, embrace my humanity, and keep moving forward. I do it because that’s what I must do. And I’m not alone. Studies consistently find that Black women have higher self-esteem and self-worth than non-Black women. We fight for our space to exist because we know we’re worthy of the effort. I don’t want it to be this way. I want Black women to have the freedom to be human in all its complexities and contradictions. I want us to have spaces where we can fail without worrying about it destroying our entire lives and families. I want us to be able to be vulnerable without having it exploited and weaponized against us. I want to see award-winning movies about Black life and have them be boring or mundane or transcendent without them being about slavery, poverty, drugs, or struggle. I want the freedom to be excellent or mediocre and have neither be representative of my Blackness. I want the freedom in this society to be me. I know I am valuable. I know I am indispensable. I know my life matters. Too bad this country will not see that until it’s strangling itself to death.”

https://theestablishment.co/white-male-patriarchy-says-im-disposable-until-white-people-need-us-to-save-them-from-themselves-f5463864d4f2

[princessnijireiki]

anyway it's tea time

gather 'round kids re: beyoncé & the grammys (and tbh by extension rihanna who did deserve to be nominated for anti!) the issue extends beyond misogynoir bc beyoncé was being held back creatively & financially by the trad'nl. studio system in the past in a 20yr+ career, and on top of that exploitation, was not being recognized: that's misogynoir, ofc, coupled with an industry that excels at underpaying & underutilizing marginalized artists while throwing accolades at white performers in general as the professional norm but tidal WAS revolutionary in terms of bey opting out of said systems of exploitation while she & her husband pocketed the funds that would have gone to others, sidestepping the "required" middlemen engaging in promotion, production, etc. bc of her own volition bey is such a juggernaut that she CAN drop an album unannounced and within 24hrs it will BREAK records without any paid advertising to begin with while also granting her full creative freedom esp. to engage in mega ultra super duper blackness 9000 extending that framework & its accompanying freedoms to other artists (like rihanna), complete with ltd. licensing deals OR tidal exclusivity and then had the nerve to be hugely successful on top of that… bc lbr spotify is awful, but I liked tidal when I had it! but was SO successful that the ppl who used to figuratively hold the leash are now eager to lap up table scraps & spillover profits when they DO get a CHANCE to ASK if they can play beyoncé on the radio now… they resent losing that money AND tbh that it's going into beyoncé & jay-z's black ass pockets, while they DELIGHT in showing off how they spread that wealth around to other black ass artists. which tbh is in and of itself an extension of misogynoir— this rage that black female labor does not exist solely to their taste, molding, and profit, to perform on command— like WOW??? evil mcnasty recapitulation of slavery-era social conditioning, scoob… hashtag not your mammy not your mule… but the audacity of black entrepreneurship with beyoncé golden & pregnant as the fuck you very much figurehead is the combined reason why ESPECIALLY lately ms. carter has been getting paid handsomely to appear on shows that need her more than she needs them, and then being very quietly & deliberately snubbed or omitted from said shows' websites, etc. etc. basically, they're whining that she's uppity while still standing in line for allowance, and bey is fanning herself & her babies with money, laughing, going, "and??? your point is???" she got robbed, but got robbed all the way to the bank, all while getting free promotional airtime & space for her work and her brand. she deserves the accolades, don't get me wrong… but you gotta love her turning lemons into sweeeet lemonade. 🍋🍋🍋