#grapefruittwostep

On ao3 there is an amazing story that only has 3 chapters so far, but i love it. Definitely check it out! its called Moonlight and Sunshadow by GrapefruitTwostep.

I really am not comfortable with the conversation I'm seeing happening regarding the Chicago March right now because there's a lot of shit on both ends that is just.....not great. And.....I want to be really clear. The people right now who are taking this opportunity to argue that Jewish people can't be white are fucking scary to me, especially given that it's currently occurring in the context of an Iranian Jewish person and my conversations with @fatimagic make me nervous about non-Iranian people weighing on that. But even if that weren't the case, just.....no. Just no. The Jewish community is made up of such a huge variety of ethnic groups. There are many Jews of color. But there are many white Jews as well. I would know. I am one. But if I'm honest? I'm not surprised by this either. I'm not surprised by people being unwilling as fuck to recognize how complicated life and prejudice and social positioning is. But folks, it scares me how willing we are to dismiss xenophobia as an axis of oppression, how willing we are to erase the complexity of the oppression we face. It infuriates me to be a white member of the Jewish community with a black partner who is attempting to be a part of that community with me and watch this whole mess of people try to act like there's no difference. Like experiencing anti-semetism means that they have the right to language specifically evolved to reference colorist-based racism. Like being Jewish means you experience there is only one single Jewish ethnic experience. I fucking get it. I do. People find out you're Jewish and things get bad. You don't get treated the same way. You find yourself dehumanized and fucked over and it's awful and systemic and ridiculous. But if you watched the way that my partner's race intersects with their attempts to engage with my Jewish community, if you watched the things my aunties put up with attempting to be brown and ethnically Jewish, if you saw the difference between how my white coworkers treat me, a white Jew, to how they treat our black Christian coworker...... These things intersect. They are related. They are tied and twisted and part of us failing to match that ridiculous impossible image of what makes a human being worth respect and dignity. But they're also unique. And that's fucking okay, alright? It's okay for our oppression to be real and painful and critical without trying to say that for that to be the case it has to be impossible for any of us to benefit from the color of our skin. I'm tired, okay? I may delete this, because I just know that someone is gonna try to turn this into a Thing with me, and I haven't got the patience for that tonight. Fuck.