Intersectional Feminism

Nonbinary people who use their AGAB pronouns are still nonbinary

Nonbinary people who don’t change their name are still nonbinary

aside from how black people within certain native and or indigenous groups are treated (or mistreated), the way black people are erased from the term ‘indigenous’ and easily lumped in with ‘non-indigenous/non-native’ (and those terms are anti black in themselves) people, or even called colonizers/settleres in some instances, or even barred out of indigenous issues that affect us is sad.

i think that, it’s always wild to me that people are willing to go great lengths to describe how indigenous does not just mean one indigenous and or native group, it means many. People will bring up indigenous people from Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Peru, Guatemala, US, etc., and these groups have nothing to do with each other but people still recognize they fall under the indigenous umbrella and that they all face specific issues. But the same grace isn’t ever given to black people.

the first time i breached the discussion of black people being indigenous on this blog, I got a wave of hate my way. and that is really how it is even off line. black eople are a valid, indigenous group and we deserve to be recognized and heard for specific issues. Yet, like the only indigenous people who really acknowlege this at large are afro natives and even they face violent antiblackness in their own communities. 

It’s just upsetting and shows how deeply colorism and antiblackness is ingrained in indienous events/groups/etc 

I mean even when christopher columbus day was replaced with indigenous peoples day, black people still weren’t considered despite the fact that christoper coloumbus had black slaves and influenced the trans atlantic slave trade (people even speculate traded black slaves). Yet black people still aren’t recognized on things like indigeous peoples day. 

It’s just–idk upsetting. Because i feel that when it comes to things like racism, police brutality and stuff, black people have been generous enough to let other groups take platforms and share our struggles to raise awareness–i.e bipoc, even the black power fist has become a sign of resistance in nonblack indigenous/native groups,  but when it comes to nonblack groups welcoming black people to their platforms because every issue they face, from water, to land, to reconnection to culture,  we are utterly ignored and barred out of convos. 

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

1) It includes the more populous Northern states that did not allow slavery.

2) It ignores the fact that family units were much larger and only the family patriarch tended to actually own the slaves for the family, meaning there were significantly more slave-holders than slave-OWNERS. So you need to measure by household.

So, using the exact same data (the 1860 census) you can determine that about 25% of households in the south had slaves. In Mississippi alone 49% of households had slaves. South Carolina is 46%. The 1% figure I've believed in the past is propaganda to undersell the role of the general white population in slavery and to undersell just how much everyday southern whites benefitted from slavery.

Stop defining friendship as less than romance. Stop defining romance as better than friendship. 

He’s since been open about the emotional difficulty of having written the song since many people now message him on October 1st to ‘wake him up’ despite the song being a memorial to his departed father.

it’s not funny. it’s offensive and seeing it on my dash reblogged for a laugh is honestly upsetting.

we all know MRAs are vile, but don’t tell me that the image of MRA = fat and overeating isn’t steeped in fatphobia. the stereotype’s come about because people think MRAs MUST be unattractive and lazy so of course they must be fat.

the truth is, MRAs and misogynists come from all walks of life and they’re all shapes and sizes and races. any man is capable of perpetuating misogyny.

If they pull the “company policy” line, ask to see it.  Ask to see it in writing.  Ask to see that they have put in writing that you will be performing 15 minutes unpaid work every day.  Check your contract.