#black feminist

[janellemonae]

Today marks the release of #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence. This powerful book provides an analytical framework for understanding how Black women are killed by the police too and it explains how—through Black feminist storytelling and ritual—we can effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for a gender-inclusive approach to racial justice.

https://www.aapf.org/shn-book

#say her name #social justice #Black women #Black feminist #racial justice

[noirsisterhood]

A strong and supportive Black woman - my thoughts on these stereotypes and muling

#black women #black girls #black stereotypes #youtube #black feminist #black femicide #divestment #black femininity #black women in luxury

[tittedntatted]

Luisa Teish

#luisa teish #this bridge called my back #black feminist #black feminism #misogyny #goddess #witchcraft #feminism #feminist #yoni #louisiana #menstruation #menstrual blood #blood #feminist writings #feminist theory

[tortoisewithoutashell]

Millions are being displaced in Congo! This post on Instagram details the ongoing struggle. Please educate yourself, spread awareness, donate and amplify creators that are highlighting this issue such as bellewoghirenn on Tik tok!

#free congo #dr congo #congo genocide #congo #Congo displacement #Congo is bleeding #democratic republic of the congo #congolese #anti racism #activism #africa #Black feminist #justice for all #Instagram

[forthewayward]

#audre lorde #black feminist #black feminist thought #black women writer #black feminist theory

[chxxms]

everytime a lesbian on twitter tweets about how being in a lesbian relationship is healing to them in some way, in the replies u see nothing but men replying with lesbian domestic violence statistics and how lesbians abuse each other the most which have been proven multiple of times to be false. it’s so unhinged and evil because i know damn well straight men do not give a flying fuck about lesbians going through domestic violence in their relationships. they are using it as a comeback when they see lesbians online talking about the ways they show up and love on each other in their relationships like the ways jealousy comes out in men is so deranged go and seek help and leave lesbians alone.

i saw a beautiful video of a stud asking her girlfriend if she wanted to marry her and had it up on display in new york which had a lot of retweets. i saw a man quote tweet it and tried to make a joke saying how lesbians beat on each other?? like hello?? how is that a normal thing to say?? as i said men are deranged and jealous of lesbians

seeing straight women do this as well is so confusing to me cause it’s like girl….. anyways let me not start with them

that’s my reminder to delete that app because no matter how many times i try to curate my tl page and block and mute people i keep seeing the bullshit and it’s tiring i don’t even be seeking that shit out

(ngl i’m very lazy and don’t care for the spelling errors and grammar mistakes soz)

#lesbian #black lesbian #feminist #black feminist #black qwoc #lesbophobic #lesbophobia

[seenmirage]

#pretty black girls #black girl moodboard #black women #fashion #black girl fashion #black girl aesthetic #black girl magic #black woman is god #black feminist

[deadassdiaspore]

#Black women in film #Black directors #Radical Black women #Black feminist #Black archives #Kathleen Collins

[homosexualprude]

I’m not a Beyoncé fan but this is a weird ass title. I get critiquing celebrities (Bey definitely needs it). This is ridiculous, though, considering the video is actually about her lyrics being full of desires for male validation. 

A Pick Me originally meant a woman who harmed and demeaned other women for get male validation, as in “not like other girls, I’m one of the guys.” Wanting male validation doesn’t mean you’re automatically a Pick Me. 

The songs she analyzed: Crazy in Love, Upgrade U, Suga Mama, Dangerously In Love, Cater 2 U, and Soldier. 

Crazy in Love: No lyrics where she compares self to other women and demeans them. 

Upgrade U: “You need a real woman in your life (that's a good look)” and possibly “Ran by the men, but the women keep the tempo”

Suga Mama: No lyrics where she compares self to other women and demeans them.

Dangerously in Love: No lyrics where she compares self to other women and demeans them.

Cater 2 U: No lyrics where she compares self to other women and demeans them.

Soldier: No lyrics where she compares self to other women and demeans them.

Women are expected to serve men as a way to “earn” material and emotional sustenance. Beyoncé's music, in my opinion, is more reflective of this phenomenon than Pick Me behavior. Patriarchy expects every woman to do something to get picked. Pick Mes stand out in social discourse because of their belief that other women don’t deserve being picked as much as they do, which turn means that the Pick Me believes other women are less worthy people. 

All of these songs undoubtedly have catering to men in common, but only Upgrade U demonstrates real Pick Me shit. “A real woman” in the song’s context is a woman who has her own money. And the other lyric from a few lines down, “Ran by the men...” This sounds like a precursor to Girlboss Feminism. The song’s logic asserts that a real woman holds her own alongside men. But this is a problem when women are denied material resources because of their status as women. It’s essentially an implied pull up your bootstraps narrative. 

Suga Mama is the other song that mentions Bey’s own financial abundance. Unlike Upgrade U, it doesn’t imply that other women can’t do the same. It’s “I want to be yours, so I want to materially provide for you.” And we can criticize that narrative. The speaker in the song is in Girlboss World so she’s doing her best to seek gender equity by questioning roles in an opposite-sex relationship. But when women are forced to financially depend on men even today, it’s unreflective of what gender equity would look like in real-world relationships. 

Soldier, Dangerously in Love, and Crazy in Love all talk about romantic dependencies that exist to the speaker’s detriment. All she knows is that she feels good and thus cannot break away. Women are taught to stand by men even after being “picked.” We’re told men are the key to fulfilment and that if we lose men, we lose all that’s worth having in the world. 

Anyway, I know it was likely a clickbait title but it doesn’t feel appropriate in any sense. Beyoncé was cheated on by a man 12 years her senior. This is a feminist issue because she’s relinquishing power to a man despite Girlboss World narratives claiming she’s in complete control. And it’s a problem that her music has helped normalize wanting male validation. But calling her a Pick Me, and the “Ultimate” one, no less... Hell no. Let’s talk about Ghislaine Maxwell.

#this is why I stopped watching BreadTube #girl hush #internalized misogynoir???? #Beyonce #womanism #womanist critique #black feminism #black feminist analysis #black feminist #radfems welcome #radfems please interact

[lovefya]

Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya’s grandmother was a safe haven for her, where she lived mostly up until the age of 13 in Arkansas.  Around the age of 7, Maya was sexually assaulted by a friend of the family. After she confessed to her uncle about who did it, he was found dead shortly afterwards. The trauma of the occurrence led Maya to become mute for years. She was afraid her voice would cause more harm than good. A fellow teacher that visited her grandmother's store took Maya to the school library and told her to read all of the books in that room.

Maya began her exploration of literature and found delight in poetry especially. Her teacher told her she could only truly love poetry once she began to speak and experience the words. Maya began memorizing her favorite poems. Her favorite poet was Paul Dunbar. The title of her first publication, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” comes from the inspiration of his poem. The book is an autobiography about her childhood and is the first nonfiction best seller by an African American woman. It was poetry where Maya discovered the beauty and power of words, but life would show her ugliness and pain.

At the age of 14 Maya received a scholarship to California Labor School , where she studied drama and dance at night, while still attending high school during the day. At the age of 16 Maya gave birth to her son. After high school Maya went from a struggling teen mom to a fulfilled artist.  Around the age of 20 Maya was teaching dance and performing as a singer.  She is well known for her calypso dancing and in 1957 released her first album Miss Calypso. In 1977 Maya received an Emmy Award nomination for her work on the TV miniseries Roots. In 1978 she published one of her famous collections of poetry, “And Still I Rise”, which features the beloved poem “Phenomenal Woman”.

Maya became more politically engaged and began working with the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. She spent years in Egypt and Ghana where she taught in the University department of Music and Drama, as well as a feature editor and journalist for the African Review. Another autobiographical work, “A Song Flung Up to Heaven'' (2002) explores her return from Africa to the U.S, and her struggles with the assassinations of two great human rights activists Malcom X and her friend Martin Luther King. MLK’s assasination occurred on her birthday, April 4,1968. For many years she would not celebrate her birthday and continued to send flowers to his widow Coretta Scott King. 

Maya became good friends with Oprah Winfrey, and Oprah hosted several great birthday celebrations, including a cruise for her 70th birthday. In 1998 Maya performed one of her most famous works for the inaugural ceremony of president Bill Clinton. The audio version of the  poem “On the Pulse of Morning” (1993) lead Maya to winning a Grammy Award for best spoken word album. In 2014, Maya Angelou passed away in her home in North Carolina. Her legacy will forever remain. The phenomenal woman Maya Angelou has made artistic impact as a poet, writer, activist, and entertainer. Maya was all of these. 

REFERENCES

B. (2021, May). Maya Angelou. Biography.

https://www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou

Maya Angelou - One On One (1983). (2019, April 28). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye1mep8h7GA&feature=youtu.beMaya Angelou timeline. (1928, April 4). World History Project. https://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/maya-angelou

#maya Angelou #black female poet #civil rights #activist #black feminist #i know why the caged bird sings #lovefya #quote blog #Spotify #Youtube

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

The Meena Jutla Admiration Society.

"Where there is woman there is magic" Black feminist and playwright Ntozake Shange.

#meena jutla admiration society #ntozake shange #meena jutla #paige sandhu #magic women #emmerdale #black feminist

[grrrls-against-the-patriarchy]

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

#feminism #intersectional feminism #black feminism #feminist #fuck the patriarchy #riot grrrl #inclusive feminism #punk #anti capitalism #anti facist #lgbtq community #equal rights

[tittedntatted]

#audre lorde #poetry #black feminist #feminist writings #whiteness #racism #black women #black feminism

[oracle-cassandra]

Did anyone hear about there being skincare makeup now? And are these companies legit? Is this a real thing that actually works like skincare and looks (at least a little) like makeup??

What are your thoughts about this, especially if you're a Black woman

#black women #black feminism #black feminist #black woman #black radfem #black radfems #black gc #black gender critical #black terf #radfem #radfems please interact #radfems please touch #skincare makeup

[noirsisterhood]

Black women are man hating feminist? A new scapegoat & excuse

Explaining the lie

#black feminism #black women #black girls #black history #black blog #black women divest #black feminist #divestment #black womanhood #Youtube #black Christians #black conservative #black Republican

[violottie]

"This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide." from The Slow Factory, 08/Mar/2024: caption cont. under images.

In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. 63 women killed per day.

In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.

In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women.

This isn’t about the stats, the poverty porn or the constant shock doctrine the West desperately needs in order to be inclusive. This is a call for solidarity and collective action.

Access to feminine hygiene products, bodily autonomy and the access to necessary safe and caring spaces as women are all human rights.

#international women's day #international womens day #women #intersectional feminism #feminism #feminist #women's rights #womens rights #black women #brown women #trans women #disabled women #palestine #congo #sudan #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #lgbtq women #reproductive rights