#and were encouraged to Girlbossify the same people

[marzipanandminutiae]

it's not ALWAYS like this, of course; some of them were okay. but. A Worrying Amount Of Bad Stuff Gets Glossed Over

growing up in the southeastern US as a girl in the early 00s was like

"hey kids, this white woman did something unusual and independent in the early-mid 19th century, despite the misogyny of her time! girl power!"

[5-10 years later when you do your own research]

"so, here's how many human beings she, specifically, held in bondage, and-"

(I'm not saying this would be as easy to explain to kids as "if your classmate is really good at drawing, that's good, right? but it's bad if she also pushes people down on the playground. sometimes people do good things in one way, and bad things in another." but. it definitely would)

#I would say 'as a white girl' but no my Black classmates got the same lessons I did at school #and were encouraged to Girlbossify the same people #yes it is very interesting that Adelicia Acklen had a prenup in the 1840s! married women's property rights were A Big Fight For Us! #she also literally was married to a slave trader and owned 750 people though! #and I feel like we should not leave out the second thing in talking about the first one! #us history #slavery #racism #southern history #intersecting axes of privilege and oppression ahoy