#intersectionality matters

[moon-scented-chamber]

The homophobia has been very very present in the fandom this past week. Yk what’s funny, when I joined in January from watching the show, I thought there’s no way there’s gonna be racism or homophobia in a fandom where we’re all here because of this show which discusses these exact topics. I’ve been played in my face ever since.

I find it hard not to always empathize with H, because with him being biracial, and the possibility of him being bisexual, it has shown me how others perceive him of never being “enough” for any community. Too white, too asian, too straight, too gay. I’m constantly reminded that people aren’t there welcoming him with open arms and he always has to stay in this weird middle of not belonging. Also read Martyr which he recommended and yup, again described this feeling perfectly.

To everyone who has and continues to make him feel this way, being such a bad person has never made someone a winner

Well, I'm glad I've stayed out of any fandom space lately. It can be very triggering, in many ways. *patiently waiting for a Hudcon reunion in my tarot bubble*

I'm so sorry... It's terribly disheartening but not uncommon, unfortunately. There's a lot of internalized racism and queerphobia but there's a good share of the externalized kinds as well.

That reminds me of former co-workers who used to praise shows like The Boys when I knew damn well what their political views were about...

Like, do you even understand what you're watching? Do you actually grasp the themes and the positioning of the showrunners?

I find it hard not to always empathize with H, because with him being biracial, and the possibility of him being bisexual, it has shown me how others perceive him of never being “enough” for any community. Too white, too asian, too straight, too gay. I’m constantly reminded that people aren’t there welcoming him with open arms and he always has to stay in this weird middle of not belonging. Also read Martyr which he recommended and yup, again described this feeling perfectly.

THIS. People do not realize AT ALL how hard it is to be in such a situation. It is a huge hurdle. A constant battle with yourself and other people. Even the ones in your close circle. Family. It messes with your senses of identity, belonging, legitimacy, your self in its entirety. It can really fuck you up. Not trying to be the parasocial final boss but it's probably one of the reasons he chose acting as a career too.

There are many books which tackle this actually (Martyr is a great one), it's a fascinating subject, whether you're personally affected or not.

Thank you for sharing this with me <3

[chamomile-coated-cat]

Y'know what's ableist?

If your disability representation for your models are always white

If your disability representation of your characters are always in wheelchairs

If your disability representation in your drawings are always skinny people

If your disability representation in your stories are always cis women

If your disability representation of the couples you create are always m/f

If your disability representation of the couples you create are always an abled taking care of a disabled person

Skinny, cis, white women in wheelchairs dating an abled bodied man are not fucking representative of disabled people at all and I'm fucking sick of only ever seeing that

[the-cimmerians]

Co-edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward Deadline to submit a 500 to 750-word abstract: August 1st, 2021 Submit via email to : [email protected] and [email protected]

Call for Proposals:

For too long, academics have conceptualized witchcraft and witch hunts—especially in the global south—as fetishized rituals  of exotic groups, relegating research on witches to area studies. Such marginalization is rooted in a colonial and then post-colonial white western gaze that largely dominates the research on the global south, leading to misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the different but connected political-economic contexts in which the figure of the witch is evoked. In the global north, witchcraft is treated as either an historical practice (of Medieval Europe and colonial New England) or a New Age feminist occult practice that waxes and wanes in response to political upheaval and uncertainty. As a result, academic attention to witches has consisted of a largely disconnected and exoticized compilation of writing, with little or no conversation between scholars and witchcraft practitioners themselves. What is missing is a much needed feminist, decolonial, and global approach to the subject. ​ Over the last few years, U.S. news media began to notice an explosion of interest in witches and witchcraft among feminists and queers. As the media has reported, this wave of feminist witches is “intersectional AF,” with Black witches, brujas, and queer and trans witches at their helm, and hexes on patriarchy and white supremacy among the modern witch’s most popular spells. Witchcraft has also taken its place inside queer and feminist movement spaces, with feminist influencers proudly blending identities like “antiracist, abolitionist, organizer, witch.” But a startling contrast to this embrace and celebration of the witch identity in the global north, are the ritualized violent witch hunts that target and persecute women among some communities in the global south—a phenomenon mostly ignored by the western media. Here tens of thousands of poor women, indigenous women, and/or aging women across in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, have been murdered for their association—real or imagined—with witchcraft in the past fifty years. This violence is ongoing today.

With this background in mind, we are calling for chapter proposals that illuminate how feminists can make sense of the witch—her power and her persecution—in ways that take account of the vastly different national, political-economic, and cultural contexts in which she is currently being claimed and repudiated.  The Witch Studies Reader, being prepared for Duke University Press, will dive deep into this question, revealing the current era to be a time of feminist celebration of witchcraft in many parts of the global North, and a time of continued violence and death for women accused of witchcraft in many parts of the global South. This book will be the first of its kind to hold both realities in view by tracing the evolving relationship between the figure of the witch and the global political-economic and cultural context in which she is located.

We are seeking contributions from practitioners of witchcraft, academics and anti-witch hunt activists from the global north and south to provide a truly global, decolonized, anti-racist, feminist and grassroots interpretation of witch studies.

[the-cimmerians]

[nerethos]

Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King & 174 female athletes sign brief supporting trans women in sports

"Every young person, and especially youth who are transgender, or intersex, should be able to participate fully in sport...

[dorothyncharles]

22. COVID, White Power, and the Unseeing of Race Again - Intersectionality Matters!

As the vicious spike in COVID’s case count rocks …

[nataliewhiteforequalrights]

https://the8app.com/user/RaineNormbeyond/p/449236 quotes I like!

[transphib]

hey @ everyone can we stop equating vaginas to womanhood and being a woman to having a vagina please