Sometimes I don't know how to be a good feminist, despite my best efforts.

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Sometimes I don't know how to be a good feminist, despite my best efforts.
On Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson, and the importance of not erasing women’s writing
How to Suppress Women’s Writing
Shine theory in action.
Women grow up absorbing all of the 'rules' we're expected to follow for our own protection. Don't cry to me when we start making our own rules.
A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of women's shoes. But can high heels that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
I'm not 'appropriating' nerd culture. It belongs to me.
Amandla Stenberg accepts the Young Gifted and Black Award at Black Girls Rock
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsw9NHxIPY)
Work done by women pays less because women do it, research shows.
I had such a sizable thought today. It’s so sizable that I’m sure someone else has already had it, but I’ll put it out there anyway: the fear of the Fake Geek Girl (because that’s what has given rise to the term: a perceived threat) is directly related to tensions surrounding the transition from an economy of knowledge that is focused on accumulation to an economy of knowledge that is focused on access.
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White characters are seen as more universal, and that's got to change.
Black History Month -- Support Black YouTube Creators.
It is well-documented that Black people face bias on a consistent level in all fields. YouTube is no different. And a lot of this has to do with YouTube FANS succumbing to their own subconscious biases and only subscribing to people who look like them.
Tumblr has a strong Black community that is supportive of #BlackExcellence, #BlackGirlMagic, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackoutDay etc., and it is free and takes just SECONDS to subscribe to a YouTube channel. You want to support Black businesses? Support Black YouTubers. That shit is a job. It takes hours/days to edit and promote a 3 minute video. There are tons of great channels of all races and ethnicities and genders and sexuality, but if we can have a moment of honesty, mediocre white channels still can experience explosive growth where that is simply not possible for Black channels–until now.
I’m imploring you (regardless of race) to SHARE this post and SUBSCRIBE to every channel therein. You don’t necessarily have to like or watch any of their videos, but you probably will and that’s great! But know that BRAND DEALS (read: THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS) go to creators with high subscriber counts, and we as a group have been disadvantaged since the beginning of the platform.
You lose NOTHING by subscribing to the channels here, but you will be making it possible for hundreds of talented (or at least relatively driven) Black creators to be seen by brands that are only looking at numbers. Help even the playing field!
THE ASK
I’m going to list some Black YouTube channels.
REBLOG THIS AND ADD HOWEVER MANY BLACK CHANNELS YOU CAN THINK OF
–avoiding repetition if possible. If you can’t think of any, LIKE THIS POST, AND SPEND 10 MINUTES SUBSCRIBING TO THEIR CHANNELS. We aren’t powerless. We never have been. Sometimes it just takes deliberate action to make things fair.
SUBSCRIBE TO:
It’s Akilah, Obviously!
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Tré Melvin
Franchesca Ramsey
SuperSamStuff
Dani Winnfield
AhsanteB
Evelyn from the Internets
Cassie Vee
BlvckNostalgia
RachelNworoko
Talia Poydras
Taylor Peters
Jessica The Indecisive
Ackee + Saltfish
Kat Blaque
Geortavia Cache
LoveFromLiyaX
HeyItsLilox
ShamelessMaya
Jouelzy
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How Tumblr's most popular teen comedy geniuses struck it rich—then lost it all.
What is tumblr? Why do the kids these days do tumblr? Jokes! Nope, j/k, to feel less alone. NOPE, j/k, Adsense revenue. This is a fascinating article but I can’t tell what I make of the tone.
(I find the gender dynamic here fascinating, in addition to the age dynamic, which is why I’m posting this to FemLit.)
When I was 17 years old, one day after the series finale of The Cosby Show, a 15-year-old black girl named Annie Glover* talked to me about sexual violence at Donnie G’s* party. I listened. Then sh…
The process of reconstructing the past is fascinating, and that’s why I want to spend time working through its complexities and writing history myself. But if I honestly recall what drew me to reading about the past in the first place, it is fiction. Specifically, children’s historical fiction presented as the diaries of girls my age, living through various periods in Canadian and world history.
In a detective novel, you begin in a state of ignorance and advance toward knowledge, clue by clue. The little indicators add up at last to a revelation that
Zeena Mubarak on the promise she made to herself to start wearing hijab, and the ramifications of that decision amidst widespread bigotry and fear.