thiswomanswerk

thiswomanswerk, 4 months ago to random

It's getting to a point where I'm just going to start openly insulting crackers. I'm tired of extending grace to people who want to force feed me the idea that the US can be "saved" through elections.

I could share all the information I have including my own testimonials of being assaulted, silenced, and discriminated against to try to convince y'all that fascism isn't coming, it's already here.

But the thing about it is honkies don't want to know that, they just want to scold uppity negroes

thiswomanswerk, 2 months ago to mutualaid

@mutualaid why y'all reblogging an anti-black post with a racial slur in it? Please vet the posts you repost

thiswomanswerk, 10 months ago to random

Saw this meme making the rounds on fb, wanted to share it here along with my commentary. (Spoiler alert: It's a rant about misogyny)

Almost every woman I know has a story about a man making them uncomfortable through inappropriate sexual advances.

We have seen news stories of men harassing, assaulting, and even murdering women because they did not accept their romantic or sexual gestures of flirting/trying to get their number, et cetera.

1/7

thiswomanswerk, 6 months ago to random

Every election season I become more of an afro-pessimist.

Stop trying to force feed me crumbs from the floor.

thiswomanswerk, 5 months ago to random

A very funny gag here is many of the white people who spout social justice rhetoric yet only engage with BIPOC folks to scold or whitesplain them. Using the rhetoric makes them seem safe. At first.

Anyway, I'm ignoring them and working on nurturing mutually beneficial engagement with other folks of color, especially black, indigenous, queer and/or trans folks.

This is actually a huge adjustment for me because from the beginning here on Mastadon I've been the defensive against whiteness.

thiswomanswerk, 11 months ago to random

#WhiteHostilityAlert 3

It's too early in the morning for this shit mane. If you come into my mentions with some ignorant shit prepare to be screenshotted and documented :)

I will not be arguing with or explaining anything to people committed to remaining ignorant.

thiswomanswerk, 7 months ago to random

Yet another black man has been needlessly killed by police. Say his name: Steve Perkins

https://apnews.com/article/fatal-alabama-police-shooting-black-homeowner-perkins-d46dc201306633c358a54b050a8c9cfd

thiswomanswerk, 11 months ago to random

The discourse on social media following Tina Turner's death can be read as a case study in misogynoir (a term coined by Trudy and Moya Bailey)

She specifically stated a number of times that the Ike Turner jokes troubled her and yet they were ongoing during her lifetime and I have seen an increase since she passed away. I do not think these jokes would have persisted were Tina Turner not a Black woman.

1/

thiswomanswerk, 9 months ago to random

people that tell marginalized folks that they "just have to wait for the bigots to die off"

1. deem themselves worthy of deciding when someone else's dignity ought to be recognized (ps am I really supposed to be comforted by maybe seeing equity at 100, if then?)

2. presume to know more than marginalized person about the nature of oppressive structures

3. use this as a response instead of doing the bare minimum work of addressing bigotry in their own lives

thiswomanswerk, 8 months ago to random

Twitter has a been a hotbed for fascism pretty much the whole time. I was surveilled on there and then dogpiled by people calling me racial slurs and the like in like 2014. I'm one of many.

Tbh it's telling that some people only think it's fascist now. It's telling me those folks didn't engage with black folks in any meaningful way there and probably won't here either.

thiswomanswerk, 5 months ago to random

Pantone said the color of the year is white people skin and I am once again BEGGING the aliens to please come pick me up

thiswomanswerk, 3 months ago to random

The whites are really in a tizzy about lift every voice and sing being sung at the big sport game. It would be funny if it weren't pathetic

thiswomanswerk, 9 months ago to random

As someone who is from the mid south and currently resides in the deep south (I have failed you, Ida Wells! 🥲), a video with black people defending each other from and fighting back against white supremacist violence was healing.

I'm so used to seeing, reading, and hearing about us getting harmed with no recourse. This was heartening. Also the shit was mad funny once the calvary arrived.

thiswomanswerk, 3 months ago to random

I need more from Mastodon. Where is the hood/ghetto shit?

thiswomanswerk, 1 month ago to random

Wild that colleges are cool with the KKK and confederate flags on campus but not with students expressing solidarity with people experiencing a genocide, and that conservatives are constantly bemoaning their right to free speech when they are in fact the ones curtailing it for others.

I'm going to an action this week (I consider this the bare minimum). If you're an American academic I hope you are too.

thiswomanswerk, 11 months ago to random

So do the Orcas got a gofundme yet or

thiswomanswerk, 5 months ago to random

Could not finish the trailer for The Society of Magical Negroes.

What the fuck are these people thinking?!

thiswomanswerk, 8 months ago to random

A second prof got covid. We zoomed. She said "apparently it's still out there." MA'AM.

thiswomanswerk, 9 months ago to random

yo literally my first class of the school year just got moved to zoom bc prof's whole family has covid.

very auspicious beginnings mhmm yep

thiswomanswerk, 7 months ago to random

"It's not just black people"

Then make your own fucking post about it. Simple.

thiswomanswerk, 1 month ago to random

Tennessee withheld billions of dollars from its one public HBCU, Tennessee State, and then tn house voted to oust its entire board and replace it with the governor's picks. Sounds about white

thiswomanswerk, 4 months ago to random

Saw a black dude say "take me back to 1910" in response to an image of a black couple in wedding attire yesterday.

[The couple was opposite-sex appearing; the woman was wearing a tux while the man was wearing a bridal gown.]

1. niggas was doing that shit in 1910, joke's on you

2. absolutely mindblowing that you're so queer/transphobic that you're willing to face the JIMMIEST of Crows because of a photo!! Wow!!

if you're not black, please feel unfree to give your take on this

thiswomanswerk, 3 months ago to random

Some bitch in my Tuesday class coughed directly into my face while I had my mask off to drink water. I would like to physically fight her tbh

thiswomanswerk, 3 months ago to random

Gor that yodeling song from Mars Attacks stuck in my head

thiswomanswerk, 4 months ago to random

All the houseplants survived my three week absence! (My aloe is a bit sunburned--but we still happy)