18 ways our community initiates oppression like white society towards black women...
1. Stigmatizing black women, by telling black women “They make black women look bad” when you come across a certain behavior or characteristic that you don’t believe black women should be showcasing.
2. Excluding trans black women from liberation.
3. Telling black women to act behave and dress a certain way in order to garner respect or to avoid abuse and violence through discrimination, racism, intraracism, colorism and other forms of discriminatory acts.
4. When you tell black women to repress our emotions in order to not make ourselves look bad .
5. Criminalizing black girls and women from the hood or ghetto.
6. Judging and dictating how black women should dress, act, speak and wear our hair.
7. Humiliating single mothers.
8. Criminalizing non-respectable black women.
9. Shaming black women for their sexuality.
10. Denying black girls humanity by raising them like grown adults.
11. Silencing black women who speak out against colorism, misogynoir and lack of reciprocity.
12. Not valuing black women outside of beauty and labor.
13. Shaming black women who don’t conform to ideals.
14. Encouraging violence against black women and girls who won’t “act right”.
15. Shaming black women for career choices that do not mirror respectability politics (ex:strippers).
16. Encourage abuse and ridicule towards black sex workers.
17. Shaming fat black women and girls.
18. Excluding the importance of the livelihood of black women and girls from pro-black politics in fear it would overshadow something.
So much of this is done by mainly other black women.
Black women internalize sexism and misogyny to extremes, it’s so terrifying to see.
I used to see it all the time , the shade room , baller alert , lipstick alley I had to stop fucking wit dem websites smh
Especially LSA, that forum was a cesspool if you were a black woman reading it. I don’t know how it is now but I’m sure it’s still full of extremely misogyny and intraracism.