#misogynoir

“On any normal month in any normal year Black women’s unemployment rate is twice the rate of White women, which economists credit in large part to pervasive discrimination.”

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and in Spanish speaking circles online they sharing gore pictures of dead African babies in online chats so much it has a label named “BND”? Another Black teen was murdered recently by an Asian American store owner convinced he was stealing despite putting items back. He shot him in the back.

yall dont deserve nothing from Black people in any part of the diaspora, irdc. this shit makes me so angry but the demands for an expectation of actionable organizing and dismantling of the white supremacist project that is the US is laid at our collective feet and no one else’s is so crazy to me. how are Black ppl supposed to generate trust for nonblack ppl that hasn’t been demonstrated in a sustained, recent, manner, without us having to force the rest of the world to see us?

Idpol is divisive until it’s time to self adopt the moniker of the Global South and that often doesn’t include & backseats Black African exploitation/extraction. it’s hella transparent how nonblack leftists only mention Sudan, Congo, Somalia, etc. as afterthoughts to their awareness and solidarity posts focusing on Palestine but feel entitled to call Black leftists “zog slaves” for not making dedicated media to the issue they feel the most important, regardless if to these Black leftists making Black issues their focus and niche.

nonblack contestants can cry, lash out, manipulate, lie, or be openly messy af and still be given the benefit of the doubt, chances at redemption arcs, and given sympathy edits. black women don't get that luxury. one mistake is a character flaw. one reaction is proof of a stereotype. there's no room for grace and no room to be human, just constant surveillance and punishment disguised as "opinions"

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In a statement posted on social media, the American College of Nurse-Midwives called Dr. Green Smith’s death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing people.”

“That a Black midwife and maternal health expert died after giving birth in the United States is both heartbreaking and unacceptable,” the statement said. “Her death underscores the persistent and well-documented reality that Black women—regardless of education, income, or professional expertise—face disproportionate risks during pregnancy and childbirth due to systemic racism and failures in care.”

my girl prism being overhated for shit nearly every character does in the show. is rude to robert? invisigirl literslly decked him after fucking up a job. is rude to everyone else on the team? none of them mfs liked each other fr 😭 the misogynoir is insane.

“I have found that people who experience privilege in a given area yet disadvantage or disenfranchisement in another struggle deeply with empathy—they do not know how to sit with the grief of their marginalization and the responsibility of their privilege. Privilege is not linear: we all have areas in which our social location allows us to wield power, whether inadvertently or intentionally, in ways that cause harm.

At the time of the Ferguson uprising, I observed a Black man tell a white woman that she would never understand what it’s like to fear leaving her home. He was so blinded by his own grief that he was unable to recognize that she, and every woman on this earth, knows what it’s like to fear leaving their home. To walk home at night. To wear certain outfits in public.

This man’s reaction caused me to wonder how he could possibly support Black women in our grief, regardless of how many Black women he had dated, loved, or married—or the ones who were his children or part of his family—when he could not open his heart to witness the fullness of our experience.

Similarly, I find very little hope in ‘feminist’ spaces because they are often overrun by white women who believe that their experiences of womanhood are all-inclusive and whi don’t see policing of Black women’s bodies as issues affecting ‘woman’”

“We are trained to be wary of Black men’s grief and potential triggers as we walk the impossible path of managing our own safety in a community where men recklessly accept the privileges of masculinity to offset the burden of Blackness.

When we draw our boundaries within these dynamics, we are cast us unfair, une pathetic, and bitter. The same anger that is viewed as just when attached to the plight of Black men based on race is used to silence and delegitimize Black women because of our race and gender.

We are disparaged for being nothing more than ‘hurt’ women. The fact is that many of us are hurt, but those experiences give us authority in matters of intersectional justice and liberation, just as the pain caused by racism gives Black men a voice.”