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Source: krisdelarash.bandcamp.compeer into the mind of the poet.singer.songwriter.producer.activist.educator :: KrisDeLaRash
2 months ago
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"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur."
- Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via fuckyeahfeministartandliterature)
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3 months ago
"In making tangible and memorable the abstract ideas that undergird massive shifts in social consciousness, artists, from their unique position in society, instigate, inspire, and even immortalize the events of a revolution while in some sense remaining free of attachments."
- Dan Massoglia
3 months ago
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"Fusing anxiety about crime to anxiety over racial change and riots, civil rights and disorder - initially defined as a problem of minority disenfranchisement - were defined as a crime problem, which helped shift debate from social reform to punishment"
- Vesla Mae Weaver as quoted in Race, Incarceration and American Values
3 months ago
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(TRIGGER WARNING)
The simple fact: sexual-violence perpetrators and their victims are usually of the same race. So, since I’m talking about Black people in this case, then what I’m saying is those Black people who commit sexual violence usually create victims who are Black, too.
There. I said it.
And statistics back this:
—According to a 2000 report, in 93% of sexual assaults, the rapist and the victim are of the same race. (Source)
—According to 2005 US Department of Justice, out of approximately 36,600 Black sexual-violence victims reporting this crime, 100% reported that their perpetrators was Black. (Source)
I know that I’m not the first—or only—one to make this plain: The Combahee River Collective was founded partly due to Black women fighting sexual violence within some Black communities. Ntozake Shange and Alice Walker—among a few Black female writers who wrote about intraracial rape–caught just about all nine circles of hell for “making Black men look bad” partly because they dared to name that reality in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf and The Color Purple, respectively. Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ No!: The Rape Documentary—through poetry, testimony, and oral history—does an incredible job on examining the realities of Black men raping Black women.
That’s what no one is saying outright about what Too $hort’s said. That’s what hurts about his advice, and that’s what hurts about Very Smart Brothas’ fauxpology. Though Black communities may be going through identity shifts of what “being down for the race” means, there’s still a clinging to the socio-political idea that Black folks are each others’ keepers, each others’ “fam,” each others’ “brothas” and “sistas,” as a buttress in this racist society. So, when there’s an online recommendation from a celebrity seen as an “old enough to know better” and there’s a lack of responsibility for victim-blaming rhetoric under the guise of “rape prevention,” it’s a two-generation, cross-platform exercise of rape culture remixed with Black male privilege that Black women have been traumatized with for several generations.
And we need to say that loud and clear. Again.
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Andrea (AJ) Plaid (that’s me!) on Too $hort, Very Smart Brothas, and why some Black folks still don’t quite talk about intraracial sexual violence—and why that dialogue is so vital—on the R today. (via racialicious)
This reminds me of how some black ‘feminists’ on Tumblr got mad when a black blogger post a quote from a black writer about Jay-z’s hypocrisy and misogyny and how I lost about 30 followers at once for making a post on the creator of a horrendous anti-black women blog.
The reality is that many black feminists would refrain from denouncing black male privilege or even side with them black misogynists in the name of racial unity just like many white feminists welcomed Hugo Schwyzer with open arms.
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