#women of colour

[radwitchhh]

Just thinking about how years of medical misogyny has done extensive harm to women's health and continues to hurt us systemically. It makes us more vulnerable to every disease as compared to m@les because scientific research screams m@le supremacy. Despite of this massive discrimination, women are still thriving in a system which isn't designed for our relief. And people still deny sex based oppression subjected to us. Medical misogyny is enough reason for me as a radfem to never ever validate equality / liberal feminism. Every single m@le is my and my sisters' oppressor

#radical feminism #radfem #radicalfeminist #ecofeminism #women of colour #radical feminist safe

[gwenpendrcgon]

Michelle Yeoh becomes the first Asian and only the second woman of color to win Best Actress at the Oscars, the first one being Halle Berry (21 years ago)

This was the 95th Oscar Academy awards. Much to think about.

#michelle yeoh #halle berry #oscars #women of colour #woc #pocedit #mine #oscars 2023 #everything everywhere all at once #evelyn wang #oscars 2002 #monsters ball #leticia musgrove

[ornamental-smile]

Simone Ashley at the Vanity Fair Oscars party 2023.

#simone ashley #oscars #kate sharma #bridgerton #woc #women of colour #brown women #*** #dailywomen #pocedit

[womeninfictionandirl]

Te Ata by Allison Adams

Te Ata (aka Mary Frances Thompson) (1895 –1995), was an actress and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation known for telling Native American stories. She performed as a representative of Native Americans at state dinners before President Roosevelt as well as for King and Queen of England. She went on to perform throughout Europe. She was named Oklahoma's first State Treasure in 1987. Her career spanned over 60 years and she collected hundreds of stories from different tribes.

#te ata #Mary Frances Thompson #Allison adams #portrait #Native American #art #artwork #woc #women of color #women of colour #herstory #women in history #Chickasaw #native american women #irl women/girls

[newsfromstolenland]

I'm gonna be real about something but first of all, I don't want white people interacting with this post. this post is for my fellow poc only, because I'm gonna talk about something that white people don't get to have a say in

I'm talking about how men of colour sometimes treat women of colour.

the way some of them will talk about how only white women are "high class" or "high value" (which btw, the high value thing is alpha male bullshit- which leads me to my next point-)

the way they'll throw women of colour under the bus to buy into alpha male rhetoric, that some women (usually woc) are only for sex and only "high value women" (see- white women) are "worthy" of their almighty masculinity

how they'll expect women of colour to live up to european standards of femininity and beauty, to be available and objectifiable at their leisure- because obviously we exist only for men, and white women are the ideal that we must aspire to

women of colour have been discussing this forever, but men of colour very rarely do so I'm saying it's time y'all show us the support that we show you when we talk about racism

we have to talk about misogyny in communities of people of colour, especially misogynoir

white people dni I'm not joking I will kill you

#mine #misogyny #misogynoir #women of colour #women of color #woc #white people dni

[hussyknee]

Link to first source.

Link to Twitter thread.

#desi icons #lgbtqia #lesbians #holocaust #women of colour #colonialism #indian women #indian history #world war ii #world history #racism #anti-semitism #knee of huss

[belle-keys]

Litfic by Women of Colour for starters: 10 Recommendations

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yellowface by RF Kuang

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Violeta by Isabel Allende

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

#books #books and literature #litblr #book blog #bookish #book recs #book recommendations #literary fiction #litfic #contemporary fiction #women of colour #female writers #woc writers #rf kuang #ottessa moshfegh #celeste ng #isabel allende #jhumpa lahiri #purple hibiscus #yellowface #homegoing #light academia #light academia blog #poc light academia

[spite-and-waffles]

I feel like neither the pro-Talia Al Ghul camp or the anti-Talia camp really care to delve deeply into the fact that she has been abused and used by her father her whole life, and is as tragic a character as Jason. Her fixating on a man as emotionally distant and obsessed with his mission as Ra's, knowing full well that he will never choose her or his children over it, is a completely accurate showcasing of the way people perpetuate their own trauma cycles.

And while I hope more people refuse to take anything Grant Morrison wrote about Talia to account, making her a good mother in reaction to it also just does not make sense. Just like Bruce, she's an example of someone who loves her child fiercely but is too traumatized and emotionally stunted to express it in healthy ways. Unlike Bruce she grew up in a literal terrorist cult and raised Damian in it as well. Her being exacting and teaching Damian to be ruthless and trust no one were all incredibly damaging and abusive, but it's also the only fucking way he could have survived the League or Ra's. Yes, she could have sent Damian to his father and keeping him by her side was selfish, but this woman, who had been starved of love and had never been anyone's priority since her mother died, finally had a person to be hers and only hers. It's horribly, tragically human to guard that love jealously and possessively.

The Tiger Mom as a trope is racist, but the emotional effects on women made to prove their worth as humans via motherhood is very much a reality that women of colour can relate to, and one not confined to just Asians. I'm only going to speak for my own people here, but the way Asian mothers make their sons their whole reason for being stems directly from the oppressively patriarchal cultures we grow up in, where a woman's worth is predicated on being a wife and mother and the highest honour she can aspire to is having a son. Ra's is the original patriarch who drilled into his daughters that they could never inherit his legacy no matter how much they proved their love, and that they owed him male heirs. Damian's very existence is tied up with Talia's idea of her own personhood and worth and achievement, which is why she piles on so many contradicting expectations on him - that he's fiercely independent but also stays by her side, become his father's perfect heir but take only her values, never be a pawn like she was, but align with her own wishes.

However you want to negotiate the racism of the way Talia is written is up to you obviously, but I feel that there's no realistic way that Talia can be a good mother (even in Son of the Demon she acted in Bruce's best interests, deceived him and abandoned her child, which actually might have been kinder than attempting to raise him in the LoA). I feel that making her one is an extremely simplistic way of dealing with the racialized misogyny her character is subjected to, and a disservice to real-life children of mothers like her, who love their children fiercely but perpetuate abuse cycles because of that very love.

For me, deconstructing and reaching past the misogyny and racism means humanising her and not making her value and sympathy as a character contingent on how good of a mother she is to Damian and Jason. Trauma and abuse slows or arrests your emotional development and makes it difficult to regulate your emotions and impulses, which is why it's a requirement for traumatized people to cognitively work on themselves in order to be good parents to their own children. Talia cannot. There's absolutely no therapist she can trust, the last time she felt close to someone she was decieved, tortured and brainwashed by her, and not only can't she get away from her father but she received a harsh object lesson from her sister on what happens when you try. This woman is a goddamn victim in every possible way, even more than Jason. It's also one of the reasons I don't buy that she allowed herself to be close to Jason, maternal feelings notwithstanding.

(Also her sleeping with him was pretty gross and unnecessary of Winick, whose writing is far from unproblematic when it comes to WoC, but it makes for a fascinating character deconstruction because afaik it happened right after Nyssa tortured her until she was brainwashed against Ra's and Bruce. So at that point in time she was basically in tatters and locked in the same self-destructive spiral as Jason, and maybe she wanted to nuke her sense of maternal care towards him in a bid to feel less emotionally vulnerable. I love this kind of psychological yarn balls in fiction.)

Absolutely none of this should absolve her choices. None of this means she's a good anything or that she should be seen as a purely sympathetic and wronged character. She's obscenely rich and powerful, ruthless, cunning and manipulative. She's one of the most dangerous people in the world. She's not fit to raise anyone. But if you can't accept all of that and square it with a fiercely loving heart and find a deeply human character then I really can't relate to you.

Let female characters of colour be human, morally grey and complex. Let fictional mothers be traumatized and deeply damaging without demonizing them. And stop moralizing female characters, I am begging you. We're far past Victorian England. Making them be on their best behaviour all the time to be sympathetic is oppressive as hell and not what storytelling is for.

#talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #son of the demon #anti Grant Morrison #parental abuse #abuse cycles #asian representation #women of colour #jason todd #red hood: the lost days #damian al ghul #damian wayne #misogyny #racism #death and the maidens #bat meta #dc meta #batfamily #dc comics #spite waffle

[lolaze]

White feminism is one of the main form of harm for women! And one of the main form of hypocrisy and dis-humanity to ever exist!

Feminism is about wanting, and fighting for all minorities rights and equity.

When I say all minorities, I mean all that minorities that are being put in second place when we fight for our rights as women!completely disregarding them! I’m talking about black women, asian women, latin women, native American women, Hawaiian women, Balkan women…all of this women that not only have to fight agains sexism, but also racism and discrimination because of their races and ethnicities.

We put them in a different box, because yes, they’re women, but they’re women of colour firstly, so it’s not really a concern of ours’!

When white women speake up about their struggles, they need to let go of white supremacy, reject it! Not thrive in it! We shouldn’t protest only when we are the ones facing the violences, but also when the others minorities are!

For example, since it’s modern pop culture and everyone and their mothers know of it, we can mention how Taylor swift being in a relationship with that bigoted man is a BIG EXAPLE! If you want to play the role of the victim only when it’s you at the end of the knife, then don’t call yourself a feminist! Or a decent person at all! We, as white Women, should acknowledge both the disadvantages that we face as women, but also the privilege that comes with being white; and instead of closing our eyes, we should use the voice that WOC don’t have, and scream with them! For them! Not against them with our silence!

Bom! Now we have the definition of white feminism! I speak up when I’m being harassed as a woman, but stay in complete silence when my sisters are being killed, abused, trafficked, degraded and so on and on because it’s not my problem!

It’s a big factor in history! Like in the women right’s movement, where white women refused to include women of colour signatures in their declarations, even though they played a main role, and refused to acknowledge, and act on all the discriminations that WOC were facing ! And stil are!

It’s not by silencing other women that we will end the patriarchy, because white supremacy and patriarch are tied together!

Feminism isn’t an aesthetic! A trend or a secret weapon ! Feminism is by all for all! Stop with that bullshit! Playing the victim in front of others just to paint women of colour as the villains!

Think for just a second !

I am a feminist? Or am I contributing on strengthening the fundaments of this society? Am I thriving in my whiteness? Or am I using it right? Am I a piece of shit?

Let!go!of!your!white!privilege!

#white feminism #patriarchy #feminism #feminist #my essays #women of colour #racisim #white privelage #taylor swift #white tears #white tears brown scars #capitalism #corporate feminism

[pri-ide]

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (2000)

#iran #iranian revolution #Marjane Satrapi #women #women of colour #women of color #woc #punk #punk is not dead #islam

[radwitchhh]

Women are the only oppressed group, who are tone policed and silenced the most

Don't say that a m@n of colour raped you, that's racism

Don't call out a homeless labour class m@n for harassing you, that's classism

Don't expose M7slim m3n's misogyny, that's I$lamophobia

Don't stop disabled m3n from abusing women coerced into prostitution, that's ableist

Don't talk about sex based oppression suffered by females, that's queerphobia

#radical feminism #radfem #radicalfeminist #women of colour #ecofeminism #radical feminist safe

[a-punchline-on-duct-tape]

happy women's history month !

daily reminder everything creative you've ever heard about was made by women of colour!

"our backs

tell stories

no books have

the spine

to carry.

-women of colour"

-rupi kaur

#black women #indian women #desi women #asian women #native women #african women #latina women #womens history #women in history #women of colour #womens history month

[ornamental-smile]

Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh 🏆

#michelle yeoh #oscars #evelyn wang #everything everywhere all at once #woc #women of colour #pocedit #dailywomen #***

[mmaosa]

#sza #sza sos #sza icons #psa #sza psa #icons #women of colour #black women #black beauty

[womeninfictionandirl]

Octavia Butler by Allison Adams

Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006) was an African American science fiction author who mostly wrote about future societies and superhuman powers. She was awarded the esteemed Nebula and Hugo Awards, and was the first science fiction writer (of any race or gender) to be awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant”. Her books are noteworthy for their unique mix of science fiction, mysticism, mythology and African American spiritualism, as well as placing young Black women and girls as the protagonists.

#octavia butler #Allison adams #portrait #female portrait #female author #art #artwork #female writers #herstory #black history #women of color #women of colour #sci-fi #irl women/girls

[everythingaddictxx]

I have so much sympathy for Kelli Giddish, and I hate that she has not left voluntarily and is being treated this way just because she dares to keep getting paid what she deserves.

If it is the same case for Jesse Lee Soffer, then I am also appalled at his treatment.

However, I am incredibly frustrated as this has been happening to other people on Dick Wolf shows for a long time now, particularly POC and WOC, and yet this is the first time the fans and the media are making a big deal about it.

Annie (Emily) from Chicago Fire didn’t return because her team and the show couldn’t agree on what she should be paid. And she’s just one example.

I have so much sympathy for the actors and the fans, but where was this support and outrage for the other people, particularly WOC and POC?

WOC and POC deserve to be given the same support as their white counterparts. Frankly, they deserve even more support.

#kelli giddish #jesse lee soffer #annie ilonzeh #dick wolf #woc #poc #people of colour #women of colour #law and order svu #chicago pd #chicago fire #amanda rollins #jay halstead #emily foster #law and order #one chicago