I don’t know how many of you know this, but things in Pakistan are really really bad at the moment. The government has shut down all the schools, given us an early winter break. I heard that my own school has received threats of an attack.. I’m very scared, guys. :(
s/o to girls who love video games but are really bad at them, s/o to girls who are really good at video games but never get the recognition deserved, s/o to girls of color who are extra alienated for liking games because nerdy things are reserved for white girls, s/o to girls who only enjoy artsy games that arent considered “real” games, s/o to girls
aries: lovable but still a lil bitch taurus: p cute but probably sacrifices hamsters to satan in their free time gemini: crayola as fuck cancer: rude as hell and not to be trusted with shit leo: cutest ever virgo: really deep and doesn't take any shit libra: weird as hell omg scorpio: probably satan sagittarius: cute and very sweet capricorn: to be avoided bc they're like taurus but they probs talk about their hamster sacrifices aquarius: charming but hella strange once you know them pisces: even more crayola than gemini
Quvenzhané is actually a very easy name to pronounce once you get past the fact that your anti-blackness is the reason you refuse to take the two seconds it takes to learn how to pronounce it
Womanist/Black Feminist Epistemology
So there’s this thing that I’ve always known about, that @Karynthia, @Blackamazon, @so_treu @weseerace and @bad_dominicana discuss often, about how terms, ideas and scholarship that Black women create are not associated with their originators or even with any Black women at all (and not even speaking of just plagiarism; I mean erasure). Or worse, they’re used against Black women. Or even worse, people actively fight the terms’ existences especially within mainstream feminism.
Womanism. Intersectionality. Matrix of domination. Misogynoir. Four of the many concepts that are fought tooth and nail to not exist (especially the latter since it’s newest). Subject to the scrutiny of imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy (this is bell hooks’ combined term) and how it shapes epistemology. Eventually once accepted, then they are disconnected from its originators often for the purpose of silencing other Black women. There’s people who use the terms and ideas to push their agenda (agendas that usually exclude Black women) yet none of the originators are anywhere on their sites. No tags. Not mentioned in conversation or teaching. Nowhere. And even when they discuss modern issues in feminism, they refuse to name Black women currently doing the work. They gladly name any White woman they’re referring to.
This is not about Black women wanting “White approval” as utterly boring and predictable Whites and some Black men (who also try to silence Black women with other Black women’s words) will suggest, a notion I already deconstructed in the past. It’s about a long history of taking and erasure. Taking. Erasure. This has a history as certain aspects of Black progressive politics are regularly appropriated and then used by Whites to shame or exclude Black people.
Anytime I mention Black women’s work, all of a sudden it becomes “unethical” or “greedy” to credit our work or idea spreading and education is deemed “impossible” if our names, contributions, ideas and praxis are mentioned. I am fascinated by multi-degreed, multiple column-writing White feminists who can’t figure out who coined “intersectionality” or what it actually means. This is willful ignorance shaped by a need to erase Black women’s work/relevance in feminism on the surface and marginalizes Black women, in general.
i mean if you really want to bring awards into this
You want to talk “transparency” and “accountability”? Start with yourselves, neocons.
non-canadian followers, please fucking reblog this
this is our CURRENT government. and they’re a MAJORITY government!! as in they were popularly elected!! they’re breaking treaties and giving TREATY LAND to oil companies, they’re refusing to launch an inquiry into the 1000+ missing and murdered indigenous women, they’re ignoring the UN’s statements that the human rights situation of canadas first nations is DIRE!! they’re using loopholes in the access of information act (loopholes that THEY wrote in) to withhold information on everything from the military to viagra from the canadian public and then have the nerve to fucking talk about “first nations transparency”?!
this is the situation in canada. a majority of canadians think that shit like this is right and just, because the popular opinion of native americans is that they’re lazy mooches- an opinion molded by LITERAL propaganda from the canadian government and our public broadcaster about residential schools back when my parents were kids and which has been passed down from my parents’ generation to mine
