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I think that White people, especially White trans people, who want to talk about Black Feminists should actually study the racialized nature of gender. The way that manhood and womanhood are denied and hyperapplied to People of Color and those of racialized ethnicities.

The way that East Asian men are emasculated and denied manhood, the way East Asian women are objectified and hyper sexualized, the way that Black men are hyper sexualized and hyper masculinized, the way Black women are also uniquely hyper sexualized and hyper masculinized, the way that SE Asian men are seen as dirty sexual predators, the way SE Asian women are fetishized and treated as oriental decoration, the way Indigenous men are completely denied manhood and gender as an extension of personhood, the way Indigenous women are stolen and silenced, the way ethnically Jewish men are seen as impotent non-humans, the way Jewish women are treated as monstrous and abrasive, it goes on it goes on.

These are unique positions that people of these demographics experience at the intersections of their races and genders that are not experienced by white gender conformity.

It's like a bare minimum anti-racist feminist understanding of gender and its use as a tool of white supremacy that is required if you are White and are going to start throwing around the names of Black Feminists I think.

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Man Im sorry for snapping at you , uts just that I only got 8 hours of sleep last night and I only had like, two pandcakes with strawberrys and whipped cream and like three premium sausags for breakfast

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last night my partner and i went out to dinner and halfway through I put my hand in my left pocket and realized i still had a wrapper in there from the rice krispie treat i'd been given at a work event. so i pulled it out of my pocket and silently placed it on the restaurant table just to be silly and he stared at me for a moment then reached into HIS left pocket and ALSO pulled out a rice krispie wrapper from his separate work event

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According to my weather app, weed will be high today

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the problem with having a wired mouse is fighting the urge to grab it by the cord and swing it around, smashing it into stuff until it shatters into a million pieces

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Not sure if i like this but the swallows took me too long

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In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, Roger A. Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with science fiction narratives to present a bold case for Afrofuturism as an important channel for Black spirituality. In the process, he challenges the assumed primacy of the Black church as the arbiter of Black religious life.

Incorporating analyses of Octavia Butler’s Parable books, Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturistic saga, Star Trek’s Captain Benjamin Sisko, Marvel’s Black Panther, and Sun Ra and the Nation of Islam, Sneed demonstrates how Afrofuturism has contributed to Black visions of the future. He also investigates how Afrofuturism has influenced religious scholarship that looks to Black cultural production as a means of reimagining Blackness in the light of the sacred.

The result is an expansive new look at the power of science fiction and Afrofuturism to center the diversity of Black spirituality.

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The problem with many fantasy/mystery box TV shows is that anytime they forget about a narrative thread, or leave a plot point hanging, or abandon an important idea, or change course on the story so completely as to either prove the writers never knew where they were going with it or at least make any plans they originally had about the ending moot, pointing out those problems can always be handwaved like "wellll it's part of the mystery! What, do you need EVERYTHING explained to you?? Can't you handle a little uncertainty?? A little abstraction??"

And like. Yes all those things are fine, abstraction and mystery are great. but I do think that when something is given obvious narrative weight in the story, it feels unsatisfying of that thing turns out to not matter at all! Or when things were clearly added to give an artificial air of mystery that there was never any intention of following through with.

It's the same as people saying the end of game of thrones was good because ACTUALLY daenerys becoming evil was foreshadowed all along!! Like yeah, sure, but there's a huge difference between creating in-universe excuses for why something happened, and satisfyingly building up to it in a way that feels earned!!!

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you can tell things are bad when this type of article is coming back...

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behold the back panel of my unicorn cardigan which I finally completed after frogging the colorwork four (4) times

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does anyone else remember when peoples talking point against asexuality being a queer identity was to make up a cisgender heterosexual but aromantic man who wanted to get in to all the lgbt society meetings or was that just an embarrassing thing people i knew did

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Jan Håfström (Swedish, 1937) - Forest (1967-1968)

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SUCCESSION | 2x03

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Decided to join Tumblr again! Here’s one of my oc’s Rosie 🌹

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am I insane or is this Tumblr premium ad experiencing molecular decay

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The cast of Lost at Evangeline Lilly’s Oʻahu home for a pilot episode watch party.