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thiswomanswerk

@thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io

phd student | adhd girlie | mentally thr(ill)ed | baby rootworker | alphabet mafiose | Blackity Black Black

I post about a lot of things some of the time: culture, art, plants, casual gaming, my cat, weird little jokey jokes, rants against misogynoir and fascism, complaints about Texas, and more.

Header: Sleepy black cat.
PFP: Picrew pic of a brown skinned femme with white sweater, earrings, and mask

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I despise random acts of american patriotism, especially bc they almost always obligate everyone around to participate.

Like I got an S (good noodles like me get Es 🥺) in conduct in high school for not saying the pledge of allegiance lmao. It goes pretty deep in our collective conscience.

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I want to share a little about my research as a PhD student in .

A very brief summary: My focus is on black midwives during the time of enslavement, uplifting their lives and stories, and analyzing their complicated statuses. I'm thinking that sharing lil toots about my project here and there would be cute. Also I'm procrastinating preparing for a presentation I have to give about it Friday.

So the first midwife I'm gonna tell y'all about is Katy Elmore.

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Leave it to Bean to find serenity in the midst of moving chaos

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month request

My best friend's uncle, a black gay man, died while in custody of Louisiana police. There are inconsistencies in what his sister (my friend's mother) was told was the cause of death and she is raising money for a private autopsy in pursuit of justice for her brother. Please donate if you can. Please boost!

https://gofund.me/f640f660

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I used to want the word "woke" back. White "progressive" folks co-opted it, and that led to it becoming the right's new almost-slur for black people and pro-blackness

If you ask someone against "wokeness" what "woke" means, 9/10 times they'll come up with some synonym for black/blackness. It's really that simple. It's (allegedly) less socially acceptable to be openly racist so white supremacy does what is has always done: encode itself in new language so it can make moves to innocence.

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Nobody:

Me: give me the sweet cream and free my soul, I wanna get lost in a butter roll--

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Lmaooo so my partner just texted me this:

A new department director has joined the [redacted] and this man is from Germany. He was telling me how he's excited to work with me but I told him not to get too excited because I'll be moving to Austin Texas to be with my partner and this man looked me dead in the eyes and went. "Why move all the way there when you could just take a quick train ride whenever you wanted?"

Quick? Train? Whenever you want?

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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.

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Cw rape mention
I shared a post on Facebook (admittedly a hellsite, but a site nonetheless) celebrating Tina's legacy, her bravery in leaving an abusive situation and going on to become a fucking rock and roll legend in her 40s. One of the first comments was in defense of her abuser, claiming that the abuse was embellished in her biopic.

On a post celebrating the life of a Black woman, this person's concern lay in recuperating the image of a man who had beaten, exploited, and raped her.

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(Ironically, this person's profile banner featured James Baldwin's image. He specifically addressed black women's abuse at the hands of black men in Go Tell it on the Mountain.)

Your first action is to diminish the harm that a Black woman has endured--that shows that misogynoir is in fact a priority for you.

In an all black fb group I'm in, a man posted a meme that was an image of Laurence Fishburne's Ike Turner (you know the one) in "heaven," hours after Tina's death.

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In the caption of the post he asks the group "Too soon? Yall know he waitin." This post has approximately 150 laugh reacts, as of the last time I checked. Many of the reactions and comments were from black women as well as men.

You can be a black woman and participate in misogynoir, just as you can be Black and participate in anti-blackness.

Several people (mostly black women) out of the hundreds of comments pointed out the problematics of this meme, myself included.

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The poster's response was evasive, claiming that he never said that he supported abuse or rape and that he "loved the sisters." He claimed that people were attacking him but he was willing to have "a respectful conversation."

Joking about your sister's abuse is not love. Pointing out disrespect, misogynoir, and bad taste is not an "attack." How can we have a "respectful" conversation when making light of a black woman's suffering is on the table? Is the table in this particular case?

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When it comes to black women, people are so used to their abjection that railing against it can be construed as hostile, as an attack.

Because it's all just jokes, right? Eat the cake, Anna Mae! Eat the cake! So hilarious that this man force fed a woman an entire cake in a diner. Let's put it in a song!

The poster on FB said that "humor from reality is the best type of humor." This man had a young girl featured on his profile. I pray for her safety bc he is clearly not a safe person

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What is so disappointing is that, once again, this was an all black group; and, it explicitly states misogyny and/or misogynoir are against its rules.

These people were active participants in the denigration of Tina Turner's legacy mere hours after her passing.

At the end of the day there's this: If someone beat your ass repeatedly, and everyone knew about it, you probably would be retraumatized by people making jokes about it. Right? Treat others as you want to be treated, yeah?

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And yet, golden rule axioms, notions of propriety, dignity, respect, etc leave the room when it comes to black women.

BW's suffering is banal, something we see everyday and not only do we not care, we make jokes about it. Tina. Rihanna. Whitney. Sweet Brown, whose reaction to HER HOME BURNING DOWN was turned into a viral meme. It's all jokes when it comes to BW.

To question/challenge this is to make a radical presumption: that black women have humanity.

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Kind of a late announcement but I completed the first year of my PhD program!

airhorn noises, confetti, et cetera

Also I made straight As (kinda, one of them was an A- and I have a perfectionist streak) again this semester.

If anyone feels so moved, feel free to slide a lil congratulational change my way, lord knows I need it 😅

Cashapp: $andrealucrecia1
Venmo: ALucy2

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    This is a lil petty but I want to show y'all this screenshot of someone's response (they dirty deleted) as an example of the type of hostility I receive as a black femme/woman/whatever for expressing disinterest in white opinions on Black death.

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    This is Tyre Nichols's photography website 🖤

    https://thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.com/tnicholsphotography/fashion

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    issa . Here is some art I posted for / before I migrated servers. I'd appreciate a boost! 🤗

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