Rebloggable by request!
The best thing. END THE FETISHIZING OF POC!! IMPORTANT
I like his response. Like a lot.
reblogging for truthfulness
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“But try as they might, they could not break her spirit, they could not make her bitter, they could not defeat her love”
ARCHIBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on Albertina Sisulu, who helped lead the apartheid fight and who was considered by many to be the mother of South Africa’s liberation struggle; Sisulu died Sunday at the age of 92.
Photo: Business Day / Gallo Images / Getty Images | Source: NYT
Let’s praise the existance of powerful and loving women like Albertina Sisulu, a legendary woman who changed the world.
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I’m gonna need men to stop thinking that feminists want folks to “bow” done to them. I’ve never claimed to be a feminist or a womanists simply because I don’t like to attach myself to organizations, movements, etc. But I do recognize that a lot of what I believe coincides with feminism/womanism/etc.
Just please do your research.
And for MOC in particular - I’m gonna need y’all to recognize that mainstream feminism caters to white women. Mainstream feminism fails to be intersectional. So stop thinking that it speaks for WOC and what’s important to us.
It seems like y’all are always afraid of being told to bow down - probably because you tacitly recognize that women are forced to be shells of themselves every day.
[TW] Myth: If You Didn’t “Resist”, You Must Have Wanted It
Did you resist the assault, or did you submit? This is a question asked of survivors often by ourselves, by those who love us and who may mean well, and it is also a question present within sexual violence discourses. For example, last year the House of Representatives passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act except in cases of rape or incest. However, the definition of rape was narrowed specifically to “forcible rape” in which the victim had to be physically subdued, fought constantly, and could prove it through medical exams. This can be a question that is especially triggering for survivors. Particularly if what you did to resist the attack is not validated within the mainstream as “fighting back” which also falls into the constructed idea that most offenders are strangers to the victims and that the victim is able bodied.
I want to complicate this idea of “fighting back.” First off, ALL sexual violence, by its very definition, is forcible. Second off, “fighting back” is a very ableist concept shaped by the belief that everyone has the physical ability to kick and scream during an attack. Saying no is fighting back. Expressing no through your body language is fighting back. Kicking and screaming is fighting back. Trying to leave is fighting back. Crying is fighting back. We ALL fought back.
This normative concept of “fighting back” is also a victim blaming technique. [Trans] Womyn of color are seen as hypersexual and welcoming to all sexual advances and the gatekeepers to all sexual activity. It is seen as being only our responsibility to stop the sexual assault, regardless of how strong, manipulative or powerful our attacker was. No responsibility or culpability is given to the attacker when they are the ones who violated consent, bodily integrity, and our wishes/concerns.
for relevance.
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Hip Hop Cheerleader: first rule of nature of self preservation #2 →
being in somewhat sane/healthy mind & body.
ill never do anything willingly or knowingly that will jeopardize my safety, wellbeing, life.
i will NOT sacrifice myself for you. will not be your mammy. will not be your mule. will not be your towel to wipe your shortcomings,…
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