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ay bee, they/she, black, 20. STUDYING: sociology and quantitative research at Thee Local Community College

[jeongyunho99]

Hohong holding hands and singing “boyfriend” by Justin Bieber :(

Bonus :

[apricitystudies]

what i read in feb. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

what not to wear (and other things no one tells you when you’re a first-generation college graduate)

how ‘the shadow of state abandonment’ fostered then foiled young thug’s ysl (usa)

dutch border police told to stop ethnic profiling

‘one billionaire at a time’: inside the swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab

gender, sexuality, & intersectionality

the teacher crush

post-haiyan: lgbtq+ survivors still fight for their legal rights (philippines)

the journalist and the pharma bro

as south korea abolishes its gender ministry, women fight back

politics & current affairs

no tents, no aid, nothing: why syrians feel forgotten

malaysia has become less friendly to myanmar refugees. what hope for them now?

el salvador mega-prison criticised by rights groups welcomes first inmates

the indonesian police’s obsession with tear gas

eliminalia: a reputation laundromat for criminals

culturally significant mexican artefacts seized in australia handed back to mexico

history, culture, & media

how japanese educators used religion to make ideal humans

from mind control to murder? how a deadly fall revealed the cia’s darkest secrets (usa)

crushed.

bto after breakups: a modern singaporean love story

on (not) discovering disability in the world of jane austen

‘revenge-partying’ in strait-laced singapore

portrait of a killer: art class in one of mexico’s most notorious prisons

[cetitanhasmoved]

[ionchy]

[cinamun]

hello!!! i would love to read ur awesome story but i have no clue where or how i can start chronologically! can i get some help please??

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[ediny]

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[mosquitogirl]

[mochamoodlet-deactivated2024080]

The Skellingtons celebrate their 400th Love Day using Carl’s dine out reloaded mod.

[123031-deactivated20210420]

Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

[plutospromise17]

Angela Davis actually touches on this in her novel Women, Race, and Class.

Essentially, she says that Black women may have been considered genderless because we did all the same work as men but then weren’t considered men when it came to sexual abuse, suddenly being forced into these feminine, submissive roles that we clearly didn’t fit into. Once the Atlantic Slave Trade was banned, Black women were then seen as breeders to provide for slaves since they couldn’t be imported. Despite this, Black women, even if we were pregnant, still had to work in the fields and suffer the same punishment as our male counterparts.

Angela Davis goes on further to say that since Black women were never seen as housewives, Black men were in turn never seen as family providers or heads of households. By this point, Black women had acquired an abundance of traits that didn’t fit into 19th century perception of what it meant to be a woman. Also, with the rise of industrialization, white women never experienced that same intensive labor which further pushed them into the housewife stereotype. Essentially, there was this white feminist movement to erase the housewife stereotype but it didn’t include the struggles of Black women because we were never seen as housewives to begin with.

All of this to say: We were genderless and outside of any gender norm within the white supremacist framework.

[embodiedfutures]

Reminder that we offer the novel mentioned above, Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis, as a free PDF for anyone to read under our social justice resources. Please share so everyone has equal and equitable access to education and activism!

[mettaworldpiece]

Please read Hortense Spillers “mamas baby papas maybe” also, we are inherently outside of eurocentric gender norms because the ideals of them are established through a society that seeks to both degender -as well as- hyper gender us all at once, the paradox of which can be viewed as a particular site of violence experienced only by Black people ( we are viewed as valuable only through our flesh, nonblacks do not respect your personhood).

Seeing gender for the plantation in the imaginary that it is made to be will make it clear why even in the LGBTQ+ communities you will find white people who still inherently think its their place to police Black gender and sexual expression (t*rfs, exclusionists, queerphobes). They might be “free” to celebrate the particular conformist ways they accept and experience what queerness is (even if they act like the word is repulsive ive noticed they love the fruits of Queer labor, i wonder why 🤔🤔) but your Black ass is not. If gender is confined as a carceral state of being in our society, then white people are aiming to become the wardens and inherit the keys to the cells.

[mettaworldpiece]

like I rlly had to dig for this but this is the piece a lot of yall seem to be missing where it concerns Blackness and gender and now more than ever with how yt ppl of various marginalized groups are now arrogantly speaking on and speaking over experiences they dk a damn thing abt

[plutospromise17]

surprised to see this post still circulating! you ate that analysis UP though!

not even necessarily on the topic of gender, but what you said at the end about wardens deeply reminded me of 1) the way Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party just two months prior to his assassination called the president at the time “Ward Nixon” in an interview because 2) like Angela Davis notes of Palestine in one of her many novels, we live in an open-air prison, although to varying degrees. that’s essentially what structural racism is, one large open-air prison where marginalized communities, and in this case specifically Black people, are the detainees, the political prisoners.

gender is just one lens through which we are controlled in this aforementioned prison, transformed into a form of punishment, exclusion, and dehumanization rather than a liberating form of expression. only the privileged gain full access to the latter.

all of it is connected. always.

[draintheblood]

heard porn bots might be following you guys again. sorry about that. but in some good news i have been gaining many new followers who are real stunningly beautiful women. welcome ladies :)

[globularmatter]

dec 22 2022

by the grace of something, i submitted my online math final (passed with an A by the skin if my teeth), aced my astronomy and sociology final, and succumbed to the goddamn flu! recovering from that sonovabitch and working on my resume so i can be #marketable to #academiccorporations

[draintheblood]

heard porn bots might be following you guys again. sorry about that. but in some good news i have been gaining many new followers who are real stunningly beautiful women. welcome ladies :)

[podencos]

I love being a flirty and inquisitive and fun little lady who makes friends everywhere she goes

[globularmatter]

dec 18 2022

their ass is NOT TYPING! (fingers clearly not moving; no cursor on the screen at all)

[globularmatter]

scallions are kinda the shit. get those little green rings into my mouth yummy yum.

[globularmatter]

dec 17 2022

my singular airpod, my two (2) beverages, stellar mass of a binary system chapter that we definitely did not go over. finals doesn’t get better than this.

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[goldxnfemme-deactivated20241112]

here you go, folks, sapphic fiction books , enjoy

here's the link to lesbian history books, gender books, feminism and intersectionality etc

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[globularmatter]

dec 11 2022

my little brother turns 17 old ass boy. currently typing my final intro sociology paper. this shit is easy but i am terribly terribly distracted. i was turning my selfies into cartoons via piscsart. this is really the only mountain i have left to surmount before i can attack the rest of my finals.

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