Excerpt from the piece on @wearyourvoice: "To keep it simple, forcing your kids to kiss and hug relatives or friends makes it harder for them to understand and practice consent. It normalizes ideas that no doesn’t mean no and silences their abilities to stand up for themselves in uncomfortable situations. On the longer timeline, it reinforces the tenants of rape culture. . What you learn as a child continues to influence you as an adult. We don’t age out of the teachings of our youth, we just continue to live by them unless we are able to do the work to unlearn them. When you tell children that they must consent to giving affection, even if they don’t want to in order to avoid being seen as rude, you are telling them that their bodily autonomy is less important than upsetting someone else.” . When I think about this - my wife and I have never really practiced this “forced affection". We do however force them to acknowledge family because to not say “Hello” is a bit rude. . There are a number of articles around this topic publish coincidentally around the same time these past #holidays. Not sure why this is in the universals lexicon right now but it’s pertinent as ever. . Support independent media by people of color. . #forcedaffection #rapeculture #indeendentmedia #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsjL44Ulkr0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18tmjfbefk5pq
