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This practice of regard for one another is so important, so critical because Black women are treated with such little regard, such little regard in the world. We — the surplus life, the nobody, the thing who falls out of the scheme of representation, the void, the tool — expect to be rough-handled. What we think and imagine has been dismissed and ignored. What we want has been belittled and mocked. So when our lives aren’t handled brutally or indifferently, but treated with care, you feel the force of that.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

#Saidiya Hartman #Rizvana Bradley #Black feminist practice as radical love #how misogynoir destroys #how transmisogynoir destroys

The dichotomy between white ethics and its irrelevance to the violence of police profiling is not dialectical; the two are incommensurable.

from The Avant-Garde Of White Supremacy by Steve Martinot&Jared Sexton

#the carceral state is waiting #antiblackness as the fabric of the world #whiteness as a destructive machinery #Steve Martinot #Jared Sexton

The challenge when describing black women’s lives, black women’s radical practices, is that they’re always subsumed or asterisked to a larger category. I just needed to say no, their practice is the category, you know? And this notion of being a footnote to everything else is what waywardness enabled me to challenge, it seemed an organic term for describing the radical and disobedient imaginary of young black women – so that’s why I liked it. How do we understand black radical imaginaries without understanding how central girls and women are to those projects?

Saidiya Hartman

#Saidiya Hartman #Black feminist practice as radical love #how misogynoir destroys #how transmisogynoir destroys #the possibilities of refusal

I have a lot of beef with a lot of people. When we discuss black masculinity, I think of white feminism. Structurally and morally, black masculinity has been violently mythologized as a persistent threat to whiteness, particularly as a threat to white men’s white women. This is all, of course, built on the utter commodification and divestiture of black women as agents, inspirations, threats. But both black men and white women are dehumanized in this equation, and they are both subject to different kinds of violence from male white supremacy.

Doreen St Felix

#Doreen St Felix #antiblackness as the fabric of the world #the afterlife of slavery: a haunting #whiteness as a destructive machinery

outside our bed, everything was kissing or biting you in the name of disgust, in the name of labor, in the name of flesh breaking, and babies being born the man never did smile in his portraits, but by the pitch of your cries, by the perse abrasions on your throat, Sally, I knew he had a set of teeth.

Monticello by Xandria Phillips

#Xandria Phillips #the afterlife of slavery: a haunting #Sally Hemmings

I hold this temporary sweetness in my mouth a small wedge lopped off the mother melon still tethered to the grove watermelon is a social fruit with many heads to a single spine watermelon is a social fruit I press its meat into your waterbed mouth in your eyes I see the tool shed on fire we won't need the spades the anvil heavy as a blue whale's heart you kiss me and the fruit look like swollen bodies in a chain gang you kiss me so deep I might never leave the fields I've been leashed to our bodies chafe a blue flame we're not here to dismantle anything we've come to burn the big house down

The Master’s Tools by Xandria Phillips

#Xandria Phillips #Black geographies as a site of resistance #the possibilities of refusal

And in the worker’s narrative, the very figure that I’m concerned with, the Black female, the fungible life, the minor figure, totally falls out of the frame of what constitutes the political notion of struggle. The “everyday resistance of enslaved women” in the context of a slave economy, for example the refusal to reproduce life, has never been considered as a component of the general strike. Yet, they too were involved in a fundamental refusal of the conditions of work and intent on destroying an economy of production in which their wombs and their reproductive capacity were conscripted along with their labor.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

#Saidiya Hartman #Black feminist practice as radical love #Black feminist thought as salvation #how misogynoir destroys #the afterlife of slavery: a haunting #the possibilities of refusal

It was an image that was really pivotal for the development of this project about wayward lives, and the ways that the Black female is conscripted to live the afterlife of slavery, especially the intimacy of the commodity, the prostitute, the slave. So what do I do with this image? What is the kind of story that I can tell about this figure? How would she have ever arrived there? The image set the terms of the project because it offered an account of the forms of racialized and sexualized violence which continued to shape, make, and disfigure Black female life.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

#Saidiya Hartman #Black geographies as a site of resistance #how misogynoir destroys #the afterlife of slavery: a haunting #Blackness as possibilities

There is a continuity or affinity between the structures of racialized enclosure, even as they are transformed and repackaged. The question is what kind of practices are created so that one might live in ways that are antagonistic and recalcitrant to these new modes of subjection and servitude.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

#the afterlife of slavery: a haunting #Saidiya Hartman #Black geographies as a site of resistance

White people don’t seem to think about being white or “raced.” They don’t have to think about it. That’s just my take, from what I’ve observed. When you get into a discussion with someone white about race, either one or two things happen: It either peters out and there’s nothing to say; or there’s everything to say and you say nothing.

William Pope.L

#whiteness as a destructive machinery #William Pope.L

Blackness is not only that which relates to the constitutive outside of any social bond—whether that outside be excluded or included is secondary—but also that which relates to the undoing or unraveling of every social bond.

Jared Sexton

#Blackness as possibilities #Jared Sexton

When a surveillance practice gets enacted on racial bodies, that is another part of racialization, so racialization is an effect and a practice that is repeated in many ways.

Simone Browne

#Simone Browne #quotidian surveillance is business as usual

Do you see? Black imagination already is; blackness is a thing whose inherence is partially concealed by the horror which (presently) envelops it.

from Fold Crease Wrinkle by Simone White

#Simone White #Blackness as possibilities

Safety is always at the expense of policing black bodies, because again, neither whiteness nor blackness exists in a vacuum. If quirkiness is eccentricity or white-girl-weird, then it’s about making new movements, tics, and they can be affectations, that are peculiar but never seen as threatening. Black people are often forced to keep making old movements, in our bodies, speech, the way we live, because the space for whiteness to see us as safe if we’re unpredictable barely exists.

Doreen St Felix

#Doreen St Felix #quotidian surveillance is business as usual #antiblackness as the fabric of the world

The exhaustion that caregivers experience, particularly in the case of women, is as old as the white cisheteropatriarchy that demands we do this with gratitude without pay, that black women were happy being slaves who took care of the children of their lazy violent white oppressors.

Nikki Wallschlaeger

#the possibilities of refusal #how misogynoir destroys #Nikki Wallschlaeger

To be white is to provide targets. Pointing out who to kill, who to imprison, who to excommunicate, who to fire, who to expel.

from What Kind of Third Eye the Handcuffs Cut Into My Wrists by Tongo Eisen-Martin

#whiteness as a destructive machinery #Tongo Eisen-Martin

There are so many things that I think we need to do in order to be abolitionist, but as white feminism sort of takes the mantle of mainstream liberal movement, if it’s not going to address and continue to capitalize on how white supremacy’s pathological desire to protect white women affects marginalized bodies in the carceral state—in this case we’re talking about black men, but we could also be talking about queer black and brown bodies—if that’s not going to be addressed and disavowed, the system will just continue to remorph.

Doreen St Felix

#whiteness as a destructive machinery #Doreen St Felix #antiblackness as the fabric of the world

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