Fool for You - Alice Smith appearing at Afro Punk Festival this weekend
Afro Punk fest this weekend!
Tip: If you’re making a film starring only cis women and DFAB trans people, don’t follow the awkward and tokenistic line about trans women with a quick edit to someone saying “Moving on….”
(see 07:15 and on)
Like, is it even that radical to make a film about queer sisterhood where there are no DMAB trans people and the great source of knowledge is a trans guy?
These bitches are beginner skaters anyways. Can’t even skate.
yes, bitch
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White apologism is a magical place.
Where the river of salty white tears flows endlessly from the waterfall of sad feelings, out from the cave of racism and bigotry. This wonderful land is shaded by beautiful palm trees, colloquially called “fee fees”, and many a bigot can be found resting…
Utter Dispair and Chocolate Eclairs
(Nicky Click)
Yes, she spells “despair” “dispair.”
Phylicia
LOL
Last week at Racialicious HQ, we were delighted to see the term “hipster racism”—coined by our very own Carmen Van Kerckhove in 2006*—suddenly enter mainstream parlance, thanks to Jezebel’s publication of Lindy West’s “A Guide to Hipster Racism.” In a flash, the words “hipster racism” papered themselves across Facebook and Twitter feeds across the continent (and maybe the world?). Words are wonderful, and when more people have access to language that helps them name the racism of everyday life, we’re happy.
There was only one glitch. While West linked to one Racialicious post (a short piece Carmen wrote in 2007 about white girls and gang signs) she never once name-checks Racialicious or Carmen…or any of our amazing pals and allies who have been writing about this stuff since the main target was Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Girls (i.e. a long time ago).
On the one hand, no one takes up social-justice work to see their name in lights and, at the end of the day, the point is just to get the message across, no matter who gives it the signal boost. On the other hand, we’re only human. It hurts when work that we, as a collective, have been jackhammering about for seven-plus years gets credited to someone else. (Seven years, y’all! Back to the dawn of skinny jeans! Before Facebook was open to the public, for cripes’ sake.)
And as our friends at Bitch pointed out, it is also distressing, though not in the least surprising, that the words “hipster racism” are more palatable, resonant, and listenable when they come from the mouth of a white blogger. It’s enough to make you get real low and start thinking terrible emo thoughts, like one white blogger is worth more than ten bloggers of colour.
- We get “die n***** scum” in our inboxes
- We get compared to Hitler
- We’re told to think about the white people and their feelings in attempts to emotionally blackmail
- We’re told we’re “narrow-minded”
- We are bothered for hours with dipshits who hate us for calling their whiteness oppressive
- lol libertarians
Yeah…lol I need a break.
Almost all of the discourse you have created, almost all of it, is shaped and controlled by you, for you, and only for your benefit. But almost all of it is based on the bodies of people of color. We have had the cultures that embraced who we were and gave us a special…
Wouldn’t this have to be clarified a bit? Something along the lines of having it be the last 20 murders of trans women that we know about?
Honey, that sounds kind of like a derail. Fact is trans WoC have it much worse than white…
Here’s the thing, boo. White trans women’s stories aren’t erased or ignored because white trans women are white. White stories are never ignored.
Simply because a group does not suffer under all axes of oppression does not mean their experiences can’t be erased or ignored. To hold otherwise would be to ignore the most basic lessons of intersectionality. Since the OP explicitly called for the silencing of this oppressed group (“shut the fuck up about everything forever”), the concern of erasure is present and valid.
I think you need to go back and really study the basic tenets of intersectionality some more. Here’s a good clue: when you’re white and x, and talking to people who are not white but also x and you’re talking to them about Oppression Olympics (for people seeing this reblog, it was there in the tags) and saying that you’re being silenced and erased because they want to talk about their experiences… that’s intersectionality fail.
Intersectionality doesn’t meant that we get to bust up in or dictate the terms of a conversation predominantly by/about women of color just because we share an axis of oppression with them. Intersectionality means that we realize that even if we do share oppression, our privilege as white people shields us from the worst of it.
I’d tell you something like you embarrass me to be a white trans* woman, but you know what? Even if you managed to alienate every single person you spoke to, the point that they all walked away saying, “Man, f*** white *trans women forever.” it would have absolutely no noticeable impact on my life. As a white woman, I don’t really have to worry about how other white people reflect on me.
You see how this works?
Being white means we get to be both the assumed default generic model of a human being and we also get to be recognized as individuals. That right there should tell you how enduring white privilege is, that it can survive a paradox like that and nobody blinks an eye or even really notices.
We’re the face of being trans*. We’re the faces most people who see something about the TDOR think of, even though we’re by a huge margin the least likely to need memorializing. We’re the ones most likely to be recognized and validated (such as official validation is) by the medical community. We’re the ones most likely to get the most of the help that we need and the most legal support.
Our oppression is not erased by our privilege, but it is mitigated.
For you to say that we represent an “oppressed group” separate from trans* women of color and to say that they have the power to silence and erase us… it’s not just an intersectionality fail, it’s an obscene co-opting of the concept of intersectionality for the purpose of silencing/shaming/hijacking a conversation about who really bears the brunt of anti-trans* sentiments and actions.
Dropping bombs! Werq.
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Hollaback Baltimore encourages racist ideas and internalized racism on black men by white women.
