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thatspookyagent · 1 year

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Being Black and presenting as masculine, embracing masculinity, traditionally masculine gender roles, and so much more that may be viewed as masculine within certain societies, is not lesser than anything associated with femininity. Black masculine women and femmes do not need to conform or perform to your standards and ideas of femininity, in order to be seen as human, gentle, caring, dainty, or worthy of protection. Neither do masc presenting Black women and femmes need to even like being feminine or have to be feminine in general, in order to be important and cherished voices within their respective communities.

All Black women and femmes, regardless of identities and presentations, do not need to embrace and present as feminine in order for our lives to be seen as valuable. We do NOT need to be feminine in order to receive sympathy or empathy. We do not need to be feminine in order to be included in the phrase/movement of Protect Black Women. And we don't need a connection to or to identify with womanhood in order for our voices to be heard.

This goes double for brown and dark skinned Black women and femmes even more. Challenge the systems that make it so darker Black women and femmes are barred from or have restricted access on exploring, embracing, and being seen feminine or women but also challenge the views and associations that being masculine or having a close and intimate relationship with manhood as a darker skinned Black woman/femme is inherently violent, inherently angrier, and inherently unattractive.

Last but not least darker skinned Black women and femmes who are plus sized and present as masculine, should not be anyone's epitomy of what violent, dangerous, or aggressive looks like. Biases like those directly contribute to systematic oppression against fat Black women/femmes on daily basis. They don't exist in a vacuum and should not be taken lightly.

Ultimately Black women and femmes having femininity, the right to identify or be seen as women stripped from us by white people and white supremacy, does not mean make masculinity unaccessible to us, or that presenting as masculine doesn't have its own prejudices and biases to dismantle, or that masculinity is a prison to us or our only viable option. If you're not advocating for and protecting all Black women and femmes than your activism, allyship, actions, and words, are empty.

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bookshopsbizarreblog · 10 months

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Nimona

Oh my gods what a show. I read the graphic novel back in high school, and so I was decently excited when I saw that it was being made into a movie. But I never could have prepared myself for what I just watched.

I was honestly expecting some inoffensive fluff. A fun summer watch with a bit of heart and some generic positive messaging. Maybe a few unexpected twists, but overall just something to fill the void of a day sans classes. And I am so glad I was wrong, because this film is an absolute gem.

Without spoilers, the themes in it ran so much deeper than anything I had even hoped for, to the point where I only recognized some of them from a gender studies class I just finished a week ago. There were literal manifestations of the internally destructive nature of normative social ideologies. There was cultural imperialism's casting of alternative modes of existence as inferior and transgressive. There were dominant narratives and how seeking to change them from within can all too easily get co-opted by pre-existing power structures.

And those are just the things related to a single uni class I just took which were big enough for me to point out.

Not everything in it gets directly addressed, and I wish that there had been more in the film about how class and race can intersect with all of those other dynamics and each other. The knights and their institute are white in both theme and skin tone, while many of the non-nobles have darker skin tones. The primary protagonist is from among them, and his appointment is a major inciting incident in the film. Again, trying to avoid spoiling things, there was a lot of possible set up there which didn't get fully realized. Some nods were made to it later in the film, but it wasn't the primary focus.

But even beyond all of those, there were more political critiques which did come across loud and clear. Chief among them being a rejection of the liberal notion of "removing the bad apples." Nimona is deeply concerned with systemic critiques and even subtly advocating the notion that sometimes systems need to be torn down before equity can be had. Well, I say subtly because initial advocacy for such is deliberately a bit over the top and hyper-destructive, while the ending heavily implies it without outright stating it. But the last "end credits scene" is literally an 'A' in a heart, soooo....

Anyways, I absolutely loved Nimona, and if you like queer themes, chaotic shapeshifters, social deconstruction, progressive messaging, sci-fi knights, gays who remain unburied, or even just gorgeous animation, then you'll probably like it too

#nimona #nimona film #nd stevenson #gender studies #lgbtq #queer shows #lgbtq rights #systemic change #systemic oppression #systemic discrimination #anti liberalism #animation #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona netflix #nimona graphic novel

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wootwoothoot · 1 year

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Sometimes shit happens, and sometimes you get angry. Sometimes more shit happens, and you have no choice but to be angry. Sometimes so much shit happens, the anger inside you burns beyond words. Beyond all thought or logic or reason is a burning flame that bleeds into every part of your life. And you know what, that’s okay. There was nothing you could have done to change it; now all that’s left to do is learn how to live with it. Just know, that sometimes the best thing we can do for ourselves is to stop shit from happening to other people.

#andor #trauma #anger #anger issues #systemic inequality #systemic issues #systemic discrimination #systemic ableism #systemic oppression #fuck the system

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twinkdrama · 1 year

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feeling uncomfortable is not the same as being oppressed

#blair imani #smarter in seconds #leftist #intersectionality #systemic discrimination #trans #mine

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nokingsonlyfooles · 1 year

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The Dark Secret of Zootopia? (Part 2, "Work twice as hard for half as much!")

Welcome back! We're still talking about how Zootopia swung for the fences with its racism metaphor and probably didn't manage much more than hitting itself in the face! We've already talked about how hard it is to get people to unpack their own biases. Today's subject is the bunny who thought "standing up for the little guy" meant becoming a cop.

(Oh, Judy, hon, no. I know you're a bit sheltered and conservative, and your family seems to be doing some kinda culty Quiverfull thing, but no.)

To understand how this movie - which started out as a dark dystopia where every predator wore systemic oppression around their neck - missed the target so badly with Judy's story, we gotta look at something else that was still going strong in 2016, when Zootopia came out.

If you need to see more on how the myth of Black excellence applies to President Drone Strikes O'Flint Water specifically, F. D. Signifier has an informative series of videos on the subject. Among other things, the idea of "Black excellence" suggests that systemic oppression can (and should) be fought on an individual basis. To do so, one must expect to "work twice as hard to get half as much." This isn't parsed as something unfair that needs to be changed, but just a fact of life that you'll have to deal with to get anywhere.

...And once you've achieved your dreams, you've proven it can be done! If someone wants this badly enough, they can do it. Period. So nobody else has an excuse for not grinding themselves into a paste to tackle the same unfair system you've beaten. (Assuming you wanted it badly enough to beat that system yourself.)

People who are learning a physically and mentally demanding new job don't need to, like, sleep, do they? Sleep is a luxury for those privileged folks we expect to be good cops. Not for a tiny prey species who needs to prove she can make it in the big city and take out animals ten times her size in all terrains, just so they can shunt her into meter maid duty because they never wanted her in the first place.

A troper notes (on the Heartwarming moments page, because people have a real hard time unpacking their biases, especially when they see them as a metaphor with plausible deniability)

Ha-ha, yeah. They knew they were getting a bunny cop and they knew exactly where they wanted to put her. Well, she can't do too much damage as a meter maid!

"All right, we're getting an obvious political 'affirmative action' hire in a few weeks. Will someone requisition me the most ridiculous car on the continent, so we can quietly fire her and get back to doing real work?"

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"Oh, your coworker slammed your ears in the door of a vehicle that's ten times too big to be safe for you? That sounds like a YOU problem. You're DEAD, Carrot Cake!"

"You're dead, Carrot Cake" is from the actual film. Let's remove the cartoon metaphor and take a look at that. Species = race, broadly. So if Judy were the only Latinx police recruit, how cute and funny would it be to call her, "Pinto Bean"? And there are even worse possible contexts! How does "You're dead, Watermelon" sound to you? Should a Black recruit be required to shake that off and keep training, or should somebody at least complain to HR? (Is that "AR" in this context...?)

"Yes, sir, I did force the bunny recruit to box a rhinoceros and then yell at her for incurring evident head trauma, but, ya see, when she figured out how to scale a wall of solid ice with no accommodations for her size, I smiled approvingly!"

"...So we're good, right?"

This is all played utterly straight. This is a full-on Rocky Balboa training montage, with the polar bear teacher as Burgess Meredith. The transitions are fast, and we don't slow down long enough to consider Judy's feelings until she's starting her new job and she politely asks Clawhauser not to call her "cute."

We don't turn around and examine the fact that her polar bear teacher was hammering the "cute" button pretty hard too, and Judy never spoke up and asked to be respected. One doesn't, as a rule, talk back to an antagonist who can invalidate one out of one's dream job, so that's reasonable behavior from Miss Hopps. But the movie doesn't have time to hammer home that context. No, you see, Judy wasn't very good at policing, and the polar bear was a tough-but-fair mentor who was obviously rooting for her the whole time (that smile!) and motivated her to do better. Now, back to the plot!

The one moment we pause and showcase how broken Judy is by her unfair treatment is in the bathroom...

And it's for a gag. (And foreshadowing a later toilet escape.) Ha-ha, the polar bear teacher is there to remind her that not being able to use a swimming-pool-sized toilet is a YOU problem too. My god, we don't even get one of these white saviour moments!

"Everyone pees the same size!"

Just, "Filthy toilet! You're dead!" If you wanna be a cop, you better learn to piss while crouched on the edge of an above-ground pool, 'cos we're not even gonna offer you a toilet seat in your size. And, no, we will not address how unfair that is!

There are people existing in real-life who get frozen out of certain careers because the equipment doesn't come in their size. (There's a Guardian article in there and they don't always cover gender in good faith, but there are a bunch of in-line citations in it. Just tread carefully.) In most cases, we call them "women." And when their lives are being put at risk and their jobs being made impossible, we also tell them to "girl boss" up and do it anyway. These jobs have certain physical requirements (even if that requirement is something artificial and totally nonsensical like "have hands in glove size medium or larger, 'cos we ain't got any small") and you'll have to meet them somehow!

I gotta tell you folks, police work is mostly clerical work, and when they do get into a physical altercation, they do not fight fair.

Do you need a citation for that? You're living on the same planet I am, and you are on the internet right now. If you don't buy that a police officer in an altercation with a rhino wouldn't be engaging on level ground with Marquis of Queensbury fighting rules, I can't convince you.

In real life, Judy would have a nightstick, a gun, a taser (which she could conveniently get mixed up with the aforementioned gun), a non-comical car, and backup. In fact, her fellow cop yells at her not to continue a pursuit on foot and to wait for backup when she goes after Weaselton and his "moldy onions."

"Also, you're entering what appears to be a sized-based ghetto with its own police force! WTF, Officer Hopps?!"

Nick Angel isn't the standard to which all cops should aspire, he's a bit of an arsehole who needs to learn how to switch off.

(Also, if you see someone shoplifting food... no you fucking well didn't. Bad form, Nick.)

The only point to making Judy jump through all those hoops for the privilege of writing parking tickets is to get her to quit. Assigning her meter maid duty, and then putting her on an investigation when she can't even get license plate information out of the computers (and giving her 48 hours to solve a case that's been ongoing for months!) is also meant to get her to quit. Nick doesn't come from a bunny-majority town...

(Seriously, there is some cult-like activity going on here. There are bunny parents in the city with only one kid, this does not seem normal in-universe.)

...and he's more used to being marginalized, so he sees it right away. He calls out Bogo's bullshit and gets more time for Judy to complete an unreasonable task - and she pulls it off. Even the shitty chief who was trying to get her fired has to sit up and respect her after that!

"Wow, I'm impressed!"

Ultimately, that's the problem. But that's where our collective American brain was when this movie was being made.

We had a solid eight years there where we thought racism was over because we finally had a Black President. We also had a constant, low-grade anxiety about all the indications that this was clearly not the case, but we were able to ignore them. It seemed kinda rude to do anything other than ignore them. Obama worked so hard, and so many people were still trying to hold him to an unfair standard. Couldn't we just let him do a few war crimes like every other American President?

We could and we did, but then we had a racist backlash that made Obama's worst excesses look like a walk in the park. And many (not anywhere near all) of us have been motivated to unpack how broken the system is, and look at the past a little more critically.

But in early 2016? No way! We had a Black guy in the White House, and we were gonna get a WOMAN in the White House (for sure!) and everything was gonna be fine. Oh, thank goodness those rugged individuals were able to smash through the glass ceiling, so it would stay broken forever. That's what glass does! It was a good, simple optimistic story - like Hamilton!

...and something obvious and easy to fall back on when the Nick-centred, darker story didn't seem to be working out. Racism is real (and that's hard enough for the audience to grasp, so let's back off a little), but a few determined individuals can fix it for everyone. All you have to do is keep Trying! You can Try Everything! You might fall down (or be pushed, or have your body parts slammed in a car door) but you can get back up and win!

Even in the dark version, in the end, Nick and Judy get rid of the "tame" collars. I posit that the only reason Disney felt safe making a movie about racism in the first place was that at the time, we honestly thought racism could be solved - and we're solving it right now! Quick! Animate that message with funny animals so we can tell the kids!

We don't need to see Nick training to be a cop! I'm sure it's fine. Judy took out the bias ahead of him. Hilary won't have any trouble getting into the White House. It's fine now. It's FINE.

Months later, we got a big, orange clue-by-four that was impossible to ignore, but Zootopia was already on its way to a video release in time for Christmas. Its hope and optimism stands cluelessly to this day. And if you're not ready to think about racism as a complex, systemic issue (or at ALL) it won't make you.

So! Do you want more on this? "Like" and reblog if you want more, 'cos I can give you way more. Next time, if you want, we can talk about this stuff:

(WTFox?!)

...and the good and bad of how the narrative dealt with it.

#zootopia #racisim #judy hopps #systemic discrimination #deep dive #acab #thanks obama

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ebookporn · 10 months

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#book publishing #book industry #dei #diverscity #systemic discrimination #women of color

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shifting-motives · 9 months

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Not to make this Tumblr Plight about me but btw we in Finland are currently under the farthest right-wing government in 30 years who's currently doing their all to win the fastest our country's reputation has been ruined worldwide award. Straight up making new law propositions that are blatantly discriminatory if you have any sense.

And then my online home is also destroying itself.

And I'm currently having to move after 5 months of living here because social work straight up told me and my mom they're not giving us any help no matter what we say about how hard our life situation is, even after getting multiple emergency care alerts filed on both of us by other healthcare workers.

How much am I supposed to fucking take before I get violent

#text post #rant #tumblr #discrimination #systemic discrimination #Me and mom are very poor and unemplyed disabled mentally ill we CANNOT live somewhere without social work help #and no I don't have any explanation to you why they won't help. there is no real reason it doesn't matter what bs they said to us

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my-shields-are-down · 2 years

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I’m rewatching The Rookie and I’m finding all these Chenford gems not included in gifs and lists floating around.

I never really liked Rachel- she was sweet, but no real oomph. I’ve always liked Lucy and she’s been slowly getting into Tim’s mind indirectly and gently forcing him to do some pretty in-depth self analysis and healing/changing.

Specifically in 3x3 - La Fiera…. An episode all about systemic racism. As a white woman, nowadays it’s not enough for me to notice racism en it happens, I must act on it and stop/obliterate it if I have the power to do so. For crying out loud, my two best friends are Navajo and Taiwanese.

In this episode, Lucy and Jackson really let Tim have it about his past and current behavior when he sees fellow officers be and act negatively towards people of color. So much so, Tim backs up Jackson in his complaint about his new TO.

Kudos to Tim (and the writers who create him ) for acknowledging his past behavior and actively doing something different in the next instance.

TV has so much power to educate and train us to be better humans.

#chenford #tim x lucy #i love them #the rookie #systemic discrimination #lucy chen #jackson west #change

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neuroticboyfriend · 9 months

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thanks to ableism, heightism, and fatphobia, almost nothing is made to fit or work for my body ever. mobility aids. furniture. clothes. shoes. cars. etc. etc. if any of these do work out for me, they're usually expensive and i have a much more limited selection than abled, average height, straight sized people.

this isn't just inconvenience, either. things like furniture and shoes not being made for me causes me pain and takes a toll on my body, because i physically cant use them properly. making things fit me takes energy and money that i cant afford, but sometimes have to spend anyway. the safety measures in things like cars could injure or even kill me if i were to get in a bad accident.

being short, fat, and disabled in this society is so much harder than it has to be. it's unfair and downright dangerous that our bodies aren't being taken into account when designing almost everything around us. disabled people deserve better. fat people deserve better. people with short and tall stature deserve better.

we're just as much part of this world as everyone else, and we deserve to live in a world that acts like we exist.

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #ableism #heightism #fatphobia #systemic discrimination #systemic injustice #systemic ableism #systemic oppression #fat #fat people #mobility aids #mobility aid user #short stature #tall stature #little people #little person #dwarfism

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thecommunalfoolboy · 1 year

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I will say it once and I will say it again

PUTTING UP BARRIERS AGAINST AND REJECTING PEOPLE WHO SELF DIAGNOSE IS SYSTEMIC RACISM

#systemic racism #systemic discrimination #systemic antiblackness #systemic oppression #systemic inequality #tw racsim #racism #racisim #self diagnosers #self diagnosis #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed adhd #cw ableism #tw ableism #ableism #ableist people #latinx #latino

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hellpuppetswithfleshymembers · 4 months

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#systemic discrimination #1st amendment

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americanmysticom · 7 months

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SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION AND WAR CRIMES ...

practices are becoming all the more ferocious and barbaric these racist practices are fueling hatred in the world

As we witness today, dictatorships and state sponsors of terrorism make no mention of Hamas ...

Confronting agenda Item 7 and anti-Israel bias at the UN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnRT8MXuMsk

Fighting Anti-Israeli Bias, Countering Item 7 THE UNHRC'S STANDING AGENDA ITEM TARGETING ISRAEL https://unwatch.org/item7/

We examine false claims made at the UN under this rubric, show viral videos of UN Watch’s speeches in the Item 7 debates, and provide other key information to support the campaign to abolish a discriminatory institution that was condemned by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the day after its adoption.

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The Israeli occupation practices are becoming all the more ferocious and barbaric these racist practices are fueling hatred in the world the Israeli illegal settlements are at the core of colonial occupation and are being made possible through the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and crime of apartheid the racist suppression of peaceful protesters disproportionate use of force by Israel the killing of innocent civilians arbitrary arrest of Palestinians systematic discrimination and war crimes atrocities committed against the Palestinians racist practices apartheid based colonialism the apartheid regime murdering of children

I now give the floor to the representative of the United Nations watch;

Mr. President, this councils charter guarantees equal treatment for all peoples. Yet today, once again we see that the only country in the world with a standing agenda item at this council is not the one that has 1 million [Muslim] Uyghurs in camps, nor the one [Iran] that beats blinds and poisons women and girls for protesting. Instead, it is Israel!

This council's credibility remains compromised so long as one nation is targeted for discriminatory treatment, that is why UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized this agenda item the day after its adoption.

On June 20, 2007.

Mr. Ban voiced disappointment at the council decision to single-out Israel as the only specific regional item on this agenda, given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world.

Likewise, the US Britain France and Germany are among many democracies that have condemned this discrimination.

As we witness today, dictatorships and state sponsors of terrorism use this item to falsely accuse Israel of numerous crimes, making no mention of Hamas, Islamic jihad or the Palestinian authority.

The debate is entirely one-sided! As a result, many claims enter the record at the United Nations despite having no basis in fact.

Therefore, today we announce the first-ever Website https://unwatch.org/item7 that examines these claims and provides a detailed analysis citing sources of fact and law.