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vintagewoc

Beyonce (1998)

how much it costs a trans person to physically transition: $7000-$50000+

how much it costs you to respect a trans person regardless if they have physically transitioned or not: $0

ablackwomansurvivingrape

Being pro-Black woman doesn’t mean you are antiBlack man. I feel like I have repeated this for the 1,000th time but it needs to be repeated. It means like Black men have done during every single social and political movement, Black women must put our political, physical, financial and social interests first. I believe Black women must become pro-Black woman in order to have our issues resolved. If we do not, things will simply stay the same. Why have Black women’s issues been ignored even though we have actively participated in every civil rights movement? It is my opinion that Black women and Black men have been conditioned to have two different perspectives of the Black community. I believe the difference between Black women and Black men is that Black men see themselves as men who happen to be Black. That’s why some do not protect and march for Black women. That is why some are also actively promoting and upholding patriarchal and intraracial racist beliefs. Ask yourself when was the last time there was an act of injustice against Black women that Black men en mass were actively involved in? Was it equal to the level of participation Black women conducted during the Trayvon Martin situation? We know the answer. However these same people expect Black women to march in protest for them. Black women, unlike every other group, see themselves as Blacks who happen to be women. Racial identity comes first. We have subconsciously adapted the mentality that “all women are White and all Blacks are men.” Because of this, black women are fully invested in alleviating and eradicating all of problems within the black community (Black men’s issues) but it comes at a cost. Issues like the epidemic of sexual abuse committed against Black girls under the age of 18, the 64,000 missing Black women and girls, street harassment, domestic violence, black girls having the highest school suspension rate and other pressing issues are often ignored. However, issues pertaining to Black men and boys are constantly acknowledged and steps are being taken to end it, i.e. “My Brothers Keeper.” The sad thing is that we accept it because we believe this is how it is supposed to be. We are meant to be servants. Basically while saving our sons we are ignoring and minimizing the cries and pain of our daughters.

Bougie Black Girl

Unlike Black men, why Black women do not put our interests first

(via ablackwomansurvivingrape)

frankocean

I had the time of my life making all of this. thank you all. especially those of you who never let me forget I had to finish. which is basically every one of ya’ll. haha. love you.

shitantichoiceprotesterssay

These “sidewalk counselors” are wearing attire that is very similar to PP’s logo and name to trick patients into thinking they are actual clinic escorts. These are the most deceptive ones I’ve seen yet.

officialclinicescort

Well this is fucking nauseating.

legends-for-choice

If you have to trick people into talking to you that means they probably do not want your help or opinion.

-Mod Rayquaza

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the bold

You're not a terf right? I assume you aren't but I wanna be sure.

No, I think feminism necessarily includes struggling for the emancipation of trans women as a group that is especially subject to sexual violence, housing discrimination, job discrimination, etc specifically under patriarchy and I think if “man” as a term includes a group of people who can’t walk down the street without fear of being murdered for gender noncompliance and refusing to behave the right way and call themselves the right thing, then it’s a pretty useless term for understanding gendered hierarchy. I have major disagreements with a lot of popular gender politics on here but I think that term is a serious accusation of bigotry, and not a term that should be used for disagreements over how gender works.

For instance I don’t buy the idea that there’s some natural distinction that exists within every person that marks the difference between an afab nb person and myself rather than just a different term and different way of conceiving yourself; I don’t buy that afab nb people oppress women somehow or benefit from misogyny when they’re read as women every day when they walk down the street and I myself utilized the framework of nonbinary identity to understand myself at one point and at that point not even self-iidentification separated me from them even though nothing materially changed for me; I think there’s a lot of weird pressure for cis women to not talk about our bodies as connected to gender at all when for instance many women’s first understandings of what gender is going to be like for them start in childhood whether you call that socialization or some other, less loaded term, and cis women can’t separate their bodies from gender because it doesn’t work that way and the body is often both created by gender socially and then marked by it; I think making fun of period art or calling it necessarily transphobic when women are still shamed to this day for having menstrual cycles is cruel and unreasonable when many women struggle with really significant distress around their genitalia and regular bodily functions; frankly to a certain extent when I see things about how terrible afab nb people are I understand them as having serious ramifications for people like myself, for whom the difference between being cis and not being cis is a self declaration, and not some set of material conditions- I feel directly harmed and implicated as a cis woman by a lot of what I see on here about how anyone who is afab and doesn’t call themselves a woman is automatically a man, specifically because I have had a very long period of time where I did not call myself a woman and still have no gender identity, just an understanding of my placement and what the word is for that placement.

But I don’t think trans women are men and I don’t think it’s fine to outright misgender people for the sake of putting long term political goals (like gender abolition) ahead of the mental health of trans people who are oppressed for their transgressions against gender. I don’t have a whole framework worked out for this but I increasingly think of transphobia, misogyny, homophobia, and punishment for gender noncompliance as parts of the same nexus of oppression (“gender” works as shorthand here but I’m trying to flesh the idea out at some point more fully) which people interact with in different ways but which marginalize gnc and trans people in often very similar ways.

thetolerantleft-deactivated2017

This is unpopular in my circle, but that middle paragraph right there is really important tbh.

deeplifequotes

You know all that energy you’re putting out into the world? Turn it around and give it to yourself.

(via deeplifequotes)

karnythia

Black success is rooted in failure and trying again.

I am so in favor of Black people having room & time to try. Sure your earlier efforts might suck, but that doesn’t mean you don’t keep trying. I worked at writing for years, only managed to succeed in my 30′s after succeeding at other things. No one knows about the stuff I wrote that was never published. You just see my byline now. Give yourself space to fail and to get up and try again. Having to be twice as good to get half as far is a heavy enough burden to carry, don’t add unreasonable expectations of immediate success.

blackfairypresident

you could curse a police officer out, kick their car, throw a temper tantrum and throw trash. and that still doesnt mean they get to kill you. what the fuck is wrong with yall? why do you think police get some special license to kill when they get disrespected?

if they cant do their job without murdering unarmed people, they dont deserve their badge, or anyones respect.