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writers in their writing spaces part 1

maya angelou / adrienne rich / clarice lispector / toni morrison / james baldwon / anne sexton / sylvia plath / joan didion / langston hughes / simone de beauvoir

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LUPITA NYONG’O › Vanity Fair, 2019 

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Daniel Gerhartz

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since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past. 

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“Dear dark skinned woman, the sun loved you so much that it took its time and kissed you slowly and gently all over, worshiping every inch of your body and then made love to you. You are truly sun kissed.”

Me supporting dark skinned women (part 1/?)

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If y’all really want to go there, we can. Let’s talk about Black women and stereotypes. Angry Black women? Dark skin. Hoodrats? Dark skin. Babymamas (although no one wants to have kids with us) Dark skin. Welfare and crackheads? Dark skin. Crazy exes? Dark skin. Unsuccessful? Dark skin.

Wives? Light skin. High school crushes? Light skin. Love interests in almost every movie made after 2002? Light skin. Signs a Black man is winning in life? His girl/wife is White or LIGHTSKIN. The only kind of Black woman acceptable to be seen with as a rich Black man? Light skin.

If y’all want to fucking go here, we can. Everything from classic movies to current rap hits tell the Black boys that a lightskinned woman is worth loving. Every chance a rapper gets, he let’s it be known that lightskinned women are the prize. 

Are White people racist? Absolutely but guess what, they still going to pick you over me ANY DAY. So all those internships, jobs, promotions and credits you had to fight for, believe me, there was a dark skin girl fighting harder. Dark skin women been fighting so long, y’all forgot that Claudette the original DARK SKIN woman who refused her seat on an Alabama bus had to watch YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND UNCLES recreate it with a light skinned Black woman so it would be received. Y’all better miss me with the bullshit. 

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The world shouldn’t be scared of my color or my anger

they should be scared of themselves

for how long they stood silent while walking

through the gallows of my dead brothers and sisters.

Not only walking through those gallows but building on them, decorating them, disguising them.

Under the facade that this world isn’t a graveyard from my ancestors blood

That runs deeps under the roots.

Watered by their tears, producing strange fruits.

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[A white fortune cookie paper with black text reading: Your fondest dream will come true within this year.]

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Black Lives Matter is held to such a ridiculously high standard. If anyone who is REMOTELY associated with BLM commits an act of violence, white people use it as an excuse to smear the name of the entire movement.

Cops can murder unarmed Black people and many white folks still jump to defend the police force.

This is racism. This is white supremacy culture.

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Pride was always a protest.

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don’t forget on pride month

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LGBT people, long frustrated by police brutality, finally fighting back. trans women of colour and gender non-conforming lesbians, were some of the key people involved in the act of resistance, including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie.


The First Pride Was A Riot