Youth Crush

queer political punk band from milwaukee

[frogrammer]

^so fucking sick^

I hope you fucking suffer

[youthcrushpunks]

Great band from Chicagoland

[youthcrushpunks]

The youth crush bae-bee is here. Phéta D. In the world.

[boo-boo-danger]

The @toddfrancisart show is fantastic. 9 pieces on reclamation starting with the cops and the rich. At least that was my take. Go see this show. 2277 mission St SF.

[bonitaapplebelle-deactivated201]

White Women have never been innocent bystanders to racism

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

My professor told us about when they tried to integrate schools in Louisville and how it was the most bizarre thing.. These lil white soccer moms throwing rocks at little Black children riding the buses to the white schools.

[mimimatthews-deactivated2017042]

Fuck me. I weren’t gonna reblog this, but this last picture and description really hurt. That’s a fucked up human.

[afrocosm-deactivated20231121]

Also let’s talk about how the Women’s Suffrage Movement–basically the modern foundation of white feminism– was racist as fuck. They threw Black people under the bus to get voting rights. They didn’t allow Black women to their conferences. They time and again appealed to white men by saying that their humanity was above the niggers’, and Black men shouldn’t have voting rights before them. White women ALWAYS been racist. 

A few quotes from famous suffragettes: 

Bell Kearney:  “The enfranchisement of women would insure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained, for upon unquestioned authority it is stated that in every southern State but one there are more educated women than all the illiterate voters, white and black, native and foreign, combined. As you probably know, of all the women in the South who can read and write, ten out of every eleven are white. When it comes to the proportion of property between the races, that of the white outweighs that of the black immeasurably.”

Elizabeth Candy Stanton: “What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”

Laura Clay:  “The white men, reinforced by the educated white women, could ‘snow under’ the Negro vote in every State, and the white race would maintain its supremacy without corrupting or intimidating the Negroes.”

Carrie Chapman Catt: “White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.”

Rebecca Ann Latimer:  “I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all…When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—-if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—-then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”

[moderndaymoabite-deactivated201]

Da insane thing is if u know ur history u’ll kno dat even white women weren’t treated any differently than slaves or children. They couldn’t vote or have jobs other than be pregnant and take care of home. Their men would put hands on em like children and it was legal. So them being racist along with their male counterparts is completely stupid or Stockholm syndrome. Dat last bytch in da picture though is a demon cuz how can a mother kill her own kids for a superficial reason and try to justify it? Not ALL women are God some of em are LUCIfer.

[for-marginalized-bw-only-deacti]

^Black men like this never seem to amaze me. They’ll run to the defense of white women, even the most blatantly racist one’s, but will dismiss the fuck out of black female issues, and call us all types of names in the process.

Brothas become full fledged feminists when it comes to white women, because their main gripe is with white men, not the women who push those mofos out of their wombs. The discussion of racism and liberation is strictly patriarchal to them. But when it comes to black women and when we address misogynoir or any issue that plagues us as black and women, these same brothas become Uncle Ruckus and act like they don’t know what we’re talking about.

How can you ignore those pictures and still formulate your own ideals about racism to defend and protect white women?

Because the last time I checked white feminists also wanted the right to vote over black men, so your black behind was not human to them either, while you’re defending them painting them as innocent just because you see a few of them pop children out for black men it doesn’t mean their less racist.

It’s always the brothas with their pages full of pro-black things coming to the defense of white women.

[emo-online]

This sickens me so much.

[chantssound]

[youthcrushpunks]

Youth Crush loves Zed Kenzo and Milwaukee Hip Hop. She is the truth.

[fullpraxisnow]

In the centuries long fight against Western imperialism, settler colonialism, and racist fascism, I support our troops! 

[morninggggstar]

I really like these images.

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[bookgoblin]

“Mural, Falls Road, Belfast, 1983 – “Solidarity between women in armed struggle”; women militants of (from left to right) Palestine Liberation Organisation, Cumann an mBan and Southwest African People’s Organisation (Namibia), contained within women’s symbol.”

[feministelphaba]

adventures in Milwaukee

[youthcrushpunks]

One of my old students made these and they got like 63,000 notes. Alliance High School Queers Run MKE.

[fille-ennuyeuse]

misc / Youth Crush, January 2015

[antifainternational]

The Forgotten Women of Punk: The Selecter's Pauline Black on Anti-Racism, Ska, and the Power of Subculture

For the third edition of the Forgotten Women of Punk series, we’re expanding the umbrella of punk stylistically a little bit to include ska, the Jamaican precursor to rocksteady and reggae revived ...

Pauline Black is basically the personification of awesome.

[transstudent]

Queer youth of color face unique hardships that lead to extreme amounts of discrimination. While 1 in 3 LGBTQ people identify themself as a person of color, schools and services are not addressing their specific needs. Click here to share on Facebook. Learn more here.

[youthcrushpunks]

Youth Crush Went to New York.

[youthcrushpunks]

Youth Crush (- Josh)x Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit.

[youthcrushpunks]

Youth Crush at ABC No Rio

[blonderband]

03.12.15

[youthcrushpunks]

Blonder is a great pop band from MKE we played with. We like them.

[youthcrushpunks]

Hello to our dozen or so tumblr fans. 

Josh moved to magical, colonized and deeply racist South Dakota (or SX because it's not like the colonial state does anything to help Dakota peoples) and because him and his partner are starting a family and keeping the youth crush dream alive for the generations of tmw. 

 We've been a busy band none the less and I'm gonna try to keep this tumblr more or less up to date. 

 Check out our bandcamp cause our full demo is up. We played a show with GLOSS in Milwaukee that was amazing. We're trying to have an LP ready for next summer.

Justin lives in Brooklyn, Kelsey and Eric live in Milwaukee and Josh is in Racist City, SX so bare with us.