"...When Georgia 'turned blue' during the 2021 Senate runoff elections, credit was heaped on former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams...
What happened next was a display of sexual and political fetishism when white liberals began to overtly project sexual fantasies onto Abrams in the wake of the Democratic victory. A few of the now-deleted tweets read, 'I’m gonna go fap to Stacey Abrahms now' and 'I want to bear Stacey Abrams’s children' and 'A Democrat senator needs to personally eat Stacey Abrams ass every day for the rest of her life.' These tweets, and more, were posted on the morning of January 6, the same day white supremacist nationalists invaded the U.S. Capitol.
Both the overt sexualizing of Stacey Abrams and the overtly fetishistic signs at [BLM] protests are demonstrations of a grotesque political performance non-Black people often use to signify their solidarity with Black people, in public and private spaces. Whether propagating anti-Black sexual stereotypes or showing their 'support' through our fetishization, sex often becomes a tool of control...The ease with which white liberals were able and willing to connect their political support of a Black woman with the sexual use of a Black woman was unnerving, but revealing. Abrams seamlessly became a sexual object, delectable flesh to be shared among and consumed by others, immediately after proving her usefulness as a political object. Her political labor so easily translated to sexual labor in the white liberal imagination because both forms of labor became understood as useful to the performance of white liberalism in that moment.
When we don’t acknowledge how the uses of sex can and sometimes do align with white supremacy and anti-Blackness, people can easily convince themselves (and others) that having sex and reproducing with Black people, or at least expressing a desire to do so, absolves them of their anti-Blackness. They feel confident in using their engagement with Black desirability and sex as a shield against any accusations of racist behavior. Moreover, they offer it up as evidence of their anti-racism, or support for Black lives, or political liberalism. The fetishization and hypersexualization of Black people continue to provide a mask for the dehumanization of Blackness itself, but so many have swallowed the lie that white desire is somehow evidence of care for Black life."
-Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
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Hey, with all of the Spider-Man discussion flying around lately, I absolutely need to stop and call attention to the fact that John Romita Sr just passed. I can't stress enough that this man was a LEGEND. He was THE Spider-Man artist. He was the most prolific Spider-Man artist ever, he drew all of his iconic looks and character designs, and he just made the character. His art is beautiful. I've spent the last few days rereading the 1970s newspaper comics made by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr and talking for ages about how gorgeous the art is, and hearing that he died just now felt incredibly strange.
He did the most iconic Spidey covers and moments:
But also some really gorgeous other art:
If you have some favorite pieces of art by him, go ahead and add it to the post! Man, this guy was my childhood and probably permanently shaped an area of my brain. We're losing a lot of comic artist legends lately. RIP John Romita.
Imma be honest with you guys, at the beginning I didn't like the new series of Scott Pilgrim, I literally spent all episode 2 ranting about how the story didn't go like that to my mom (I'm not really into changes, specially of things I've known for years), but I decided to power through.
Turns out it was simply amazing! The animations, the new angle of the story, the stories behind the exes, it was wonderful. By the end of episode 3 I was already over the change and was just excited to see what will happen next.
I loved that we could finally see the other side of the evil exes. Ramona did say some of them weren't evil at the time she dated them, but turned to the dark side after her. It was interesting seeing how having Ramona in their lives changed some of them.
I have to give it to the producers, they made a great move with the sneak peeks, making us all belive it was going to be about Scott and then going like BOOM! IT'S NOT! Like, real good move, I totally didn't see it coming.
BTW, we should have seen it coming, I mean, the title is "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off"