A few weeks ago I called out my grad school, #StarrKingSchoolfortheMinistry as an unsafe space for #blackwomen. Time has passed and I'm still waiting for an appropriate response. But centering blk women is my life's work so this isn't just going to fade out and go away. I got time. || The day before my graduation (which I had to boycott in order to FORCE this conversation) I got the chance to speak via @zoom with many students from my school to address them corporately about the ways #toxicWhiteness and #patriarchy held me in bondage and harmed me while I was there. There was a brief discussion about a petition which kind of fizzled (I think) because a white student told me (and others) that they couldn’t support the petition as is because they, from their lofty place of privilege, have seen administration working hard behind the scenes to respond to these issues. 🤔👀 You mean after 3 years of me being transparent abt my harm someone finally decided to do something because they’re being publicly shamed and you want me to be like - “Ok! Thanks! I’ll be quiet now!” Nah! || I have spoken to so many #blackWomen, particularly millennial women in the academy since my thesis project went public and so many of us have the same story. Silenced. Erased. Mansplained. Whitesplained. Ignored. Used for out emotional and intellectual labor - then discarded. Gaslit. And and and and and... I wrote a bit about it HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-academia-unsafe-black-women-ebony-janice-moore/?published=t || You can continue to support the work I am doing with @blackgirlmixtape by donating to our gofundme.com/blackgirlmixtapetour fund! || If my grad school must continue to insist that it is dismantling white supremacy I will help them by continuing to call them out until they publicly address my expectations and my experience. An institution that harms black women is no institution at all. (at Starr King School for the Ministry)
