#✩ — mikki privileges

[canichangemyblogname]

I think a lot of you on here wildly misunderstand intersectionality. Because it accounts for the fact that men are not oppressed for being men *and* the fact that man-ness is and has been inaccessible to black, brown, indigenous, disabled, and queer men. Man-ness is narrowly defined to exclude the most, but that does not negate that men are not oppressed for being men. One may, however, be oppressed for not fitting into that narrow definition of manhood.

Intersectionality accounts for the fact that white women are oft second best in a racialized sex-caste system. It accounts for the fact that they, too, oversaw the plantation and garnered wealth on the backs of enslaved men and women. It accounts for the fact that white women were the homemakers of the land they or their people helped steal and the mothers of children meant to supplant the indigenous population of the area. And it accounts for the fact that denying black men and gay men and disabled men access to manhood was a way to also strip them of personhood. Because humans have a gender; animals only have a sex.

It accounts for the fact that M > F is not the sole or predominant dynamic in the world, but is only one dynamic. It accounts for the fact that a woman (often white) can hold all the cards and the sociopolitical power in a relationship (dynamic) when the other half of that dynamic experiences specific marginalizations. It accounts for the fact that blackness and transness affect a man’s relationship with manhood and the sex caste system.

And it accounts for the fact that while men may be oppressed, they are not oppressed *for* being men.

[yulin-pop]

if leona has a million fans i am one of them . if leona has ten fans i am one of them. if leona has only one fan then that is me . if leona has no fans, that means i am no longer on the earth . if world against the leona, i am against the world.

OH MY LORDDDD HIS ARMS BRROOOOOOO

[cursed-elo-images]

I’m unfortunately not able to buy these,

But WOW.

I love the first design honestly.

Especially…

Melvyn

So hopefully this post and my reblog will give people who can afford these more exposure to support your business and so the customers will have the string trio™️ in their life 😩😩😩😩

Also oh man Melvyn is so glittery.

do YOU like the Electric Light Orchestra? are you a mega fan of the string section from their classic years—consisting of Melvyn Gale, Mik Kaminski, and Hugh McDowell? those are really unsubtle questions because that’s what I have to offer!

ELO Resident String Trio design

(background and no background versions available)

if you want them on things, you can get them on things! originally I was making this for myself to add to my collection of ELO strings shirts, my original two shirts are from like five years ago now and that’s not what my style looks like anymore. but I figure other people might want something like this too, so now it’s on my Redbubble 😌

one of the original String Trio shirts from about 2018, not available on my Redbubble because I printed it at my family’s print shop

[tododeku-or-bust]

do you think this is a justified take? do you think “white feminism” could be another brand of misogyny? https://x.com/anamorphisis/status/1817222026119327908?s=46

This is a stupidly racist take lmao, and is very much a part of how White Feminism functions. I would highly suggest Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall and White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad, as well as listening to literally any Black and Brown woman on the topic of how White Feminism impedes the rest of us.

White Feminism (oversimplified) is white women with access to white privilege putting forth issues that affect them as "all women's issues". It's them thinking that we're all on the same page, at the same starting line with the same problems and solutions... and we're not. Because even amongst women, whiteness puts them at an advantage (and therefore a lack of perspective) over the rest of us.

And rather than confronting that, they'll accuse you of hating "women" (notice who gets defined as a woman, here 👀), simultaneously taking advantage of the very victimization complex set up by the WHITE PATRIARCHY (that they're supposed to be fighting!!) to show that they are the REAL victims. It'll never bring down the white patriarchy bc it depends on the very same whiteness for its own structure. It's why white women voted for Trump despite EVERYTHING; bc "white" holds more value than "woman".

As for this tweet, what I'm guessing is that she's saying that we can feel bad for both women, and that's true... But the reality is that I am not about to feel as bad for a millionaire white woman as victims of genocide using scraps for their menstrual cycle. Because far more people have dragged their feet about the latter. And the fact that I am being told that these struggles are equivalent and that I'm "hating on women" for not doing so is preposterous.

But yes. White Feminism is useless, and anyone who wants you to "not use it" to discuss the difference between white women and women of color is useless as well. 👍🏾

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

[spadeselfshipcorner]

🩷The Milluki Masterlist!🩷

Yes, this is once again my inner list maniac wanting to group things together aaa idek why I'm making this because this is what tagging is for but making lists is too much fun, soooo here's where I'll group all my Milluki content! Yippeee!

Art:

Milluki Body Study

Milluki Hand Study (Sorta Milluki x S/I)

Together (Milluki x S/I)

Sleepy (Milluki x S/I)

Dragon Ball Z (Milluki x S/I)

Gazillion kisses (Ask)

Valentine's Day 2024 (Milluki x S/I)

Dumpling (Ask)

Cow Onesie

Milluki as a Pokemon NPC

Hiccups (Ask)

Scary dog Privileges

Bear hug

Milluki Doodle

PMD Team Dango (Milluki x S/I)

Glasses Milluki (Milluki x S/I)

Pick me Up (Milluki x S/I)

Feel (Milluki x S/I)

He's already perfect! (Milluki x S/I)

The Prefect (Milluki x Weston)

Karaoke! (Collab Millu x Kika & Mikki x S/I)

---

Milluki Daily:

Day 1 (Theme: Bored)

Day 2 (Theme: Doll)

Day 3 (Theme: Windy)

Day 4 (Theme: Stretching)

Day 5 (Theme: Clumsy)

Day 6 (Theme: Kitty)

Day 7 (Theme: Trauma)

Day 8 (Theme: Grateful)

Day 9 (Theme: Bangs)

Day 10 (Theme: Street Fighter)

Day 11 (Theme: Jojo)

Day 12 (Theme: Beach)

Day 13 (Theme: Good burger)

Day 14 (Theme: Cuddles)

Day 15 (Theme: Nekomimi)

Day 16 (Theme: Loops)

Day 17 (Theme: Spring)

Day 18 (Theme: Ken)

Day 19 (Theme: Suit & Tie)

Day 20 (Theme: Bold)

---

Writing:

Nerdy Milluki HCs

---

Screenshots/Scans:

Every Manga Milluki

Milluki's silly manga faces

About Milluki's eyes

Milluki's hairstyles

Boyfriend shaped (Ask)

Nervous (Ask)

Hamster cheeks (Ask)

240p Musical Millukis

Milluki's hands

Azuma Koki as Milluki

HxH MTD Milluki Sprites

Broad shoulders (Ask)

Monkey phone!

York Shin auction (Ask)

---

Clips:

Every 1999 Milluki

Milluki being excited

HxH The Stage moment

Killua attacks Milluki

---

Misc:

Milluki Moodboard

🍡Danger Dango Playlist🍡

1999 Milluki Gush Post

Lil Hama bead fella!!

The Sims 4 Selfie (Milluki x S/I)

Milluki Stimboard

Small Merch collection

Milluki merch Printable sheet

Milluki clay figure (self-made)

Milluki Pinterest Collection

Proship/Comship & Kink blogs DNI

[rockislandadultreads]

Reading Recommendations for Women's Equality Day

Exploring Women's Suffrage Through 50 Historic Treasures by Jessica D. Jenkins

From hunger strikes to massive parades, the American women's suffrage movement grabbed the attention of citizens and politicians around the U.S. Posters, lapel buttons, and even luncheonette plates carried the iconic phrase, "Votes for Women." Today, museums, libraries, universities, and historic sites across the country care for the objects and places that tell the story of suffrage. This book brings together a selection of these cultural gems.

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it's women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall argues, when some women are oppressing others?

New Women in the Old West by Winifred Gallagher

From 1840-1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity. Alongside this rapid expansion of the U.S., a second, overlapping social shift was also taking place, as women began to take on some of the same responsibilities as their husbands. In this account, Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods.

Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois

This exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth before following women’s efforts to use their voting rights to win political office, increase their voting strength, and pass laws banning child labor, ensuring maternal health, and securing greater equality for women.

[tjeromebaker]

Book Review | Mikki Kendall's "Hood Feminism" - Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

Mikki Kendall ‘It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it’ PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW‘My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect … Essential reading’ ELIZABETH GILBERTAll too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the…

[meuceph]

She taught me to be critical of any ideology that claimed to know best if those espousing it didn't listen to me about what I wanted, much less needed. She taught me distrust. What progressives who ignore history don't understand is that just like racism is taught, so is distrust. Especially in households like mine, where parents and grandparents who had lived through Jim Crow, COINTELPRO, Reaganomies, and the "war on drugs" talked to their children early and often about how to stay out of trouble. When the cops harassed you, but didn't bother to actually protect and serve when violence broke out between neigh-bors, lectures from outsiders on what was wrong with our culture and community weren't what was needed. What we needed was the economic and racial privilege we lacked to be put to work to protect us. Being skeptical of those who promise they care but do nothing to help those who are marginalized is a life skill that can serve you well when your identity makes you a target. There's no magic shield in being middle class that can completely insulate you from the consequences of being in a body that's already been criminalized for existing.

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

[all-all0s-eyes]

I think this is one of those examples of how MB and ART’s relationship and even way of thinking about each other is inhuman. ARTDrone is a container - like a vehicle that ART Prime rides in. (Not all of it, but if you’re sitting in a car, for example, you don’t have the same range of movement or field of vision you would have while traveling in your own body directly.

Iris is worried about losing parts of ART, and MB agrees, but Iris attaches that feeling to the tangible container (its corporeal representation) while MB, who perceives it primarily non-corporeally (note lack of attention to anything about it that isn’t about capability or feed connection - it’s those aspects of it that “are” ART to MB. Iris is obviously aware of its iterations as such, but she is also influenced by the vey human way she thinks of those iterations differently. The drone is literally more “personable” to work with, while ART’s real body is essentially *also* home. Bot pilot iteration is part of the shuttle and gets no interaction from Iris, but despite it not being verbal, MB frequently includes a check-in with it.

So between the human tendency to privilege tangible over intangible (looking at the ceiling to talk to ART is another example of this - and MB only does it to make its communication legible to the humans) and the different ways humans and MB conceptualize ART as an entity, I think its reaction actually makes a ton of sense. Added to that is MB’s tendency not to think of detachable or replaceable as being integral to its sense of self or its sense of other MI’s selves. “Everything that made it Mikki” is contained in its processors, and MB is unphased by its “injuries” before that critical hit - all the while Don Abene is gasping “your poor hand!” I think the message is simply that MI’s selfhood just sits somewhere different than it does for a human, and that bias has ripple effects in how either reacts to danger or loss.

Honestly at the end of System Collapse, i honesty expected MB to get possessive and a bit more emotional over ART-drone once it reconnected with ART-prime again and dropped out of the feed, cause like... the whole time, ART-drone has been ART in portable, physical form, something that could be held and touched and could touch back.

Then, when everyone was safe on the shuttle going back to ART-prime; ART-drone, which is still ART... was hurt, and damaged and basically dying. And even though it had some warning when the hand off happened, imagine you're next to your friend and suddenly its just not there anymore, all you have is just an inanimate empty husk beside you

[monriatitans]

The Neverending Reading List: Book XX

"Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot" by Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely discuss meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, the focus is not on basic survival for the many; instead it is on increasing privilege for the few. Prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Interested? Snag the book real quick by clicking here! For the curious, the purpose of the series can be found here! The image was originally posted on Instagram; check it out here! Watch MonriaTitans on Twitch and YouTube!

[projectpolitics]

The Womanist Answer

According to the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, "Womanism is a term used to refer to feminists of color, more specifically Black feminists. Womanism centers the experiences, contributions and efforts of Black feminists to better the world around them for all of humanity, not just themselves." but how does this differ from feminism?

Feminism refers to a range of political and social movements and ideologies based on the belief that women should have the same rights, opportunities as men, and be treated the same way.

Feminism focuses on the equality of the sexes while womanism focuses not only on equality of the sexes but also racism and classism.

Mainstream feminism has extremely narrow barriers that doesn't account for other forms of liberation, it expects all women to aspire to what a liberated white cis heterosexual middle class woman might look like.

In her Ted Talk, "The Dangers of Western Feminism to African Women" Elma Akob states, "The manner in which feminism is defined with such strict borders that do not accommodate tradition - the fact that African culture is looked down upon as oppressive and the fact that women who choose to be housewives are seen as less and the fact that cancel culture doesn't allow us to have a broad overview on the subject of feminism."

Most black women do not identify as feminists and have even asked the question, "what has feminism done for me?" Growing up learning a commercialized version of the suffrage movement and the revival in the 60's I used to not understand how someone could ask this question but what I didn't recognize is the many intersections black women have that doesn't give them the privilege to benefit from mainstream feminism.

In her book, "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot" Mikki Kendall writes, "Feminism as a career is the province of the privileged; it's hard to read books on feminist theory while you're working in a hair salon or engaged in the kinds of jobs that put food on the table but also demand a lot of physical and mental energy."

Womanism gives black women a place to be heard without feeling like our words will be overlooked or framed as hurting other peoples feelings. So often black women have had to reframe and refine their approach to discussing their issues because we're afraid that we'll come off as the "Angry black woman" who's loud and obnoxious.

Hopefully in the future womanism will be a more mainstream or more known movement parallel to feminism.

Sources:

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

[yulin-pop]

You finally changed your theme after a year😭😭 I'm so happy for you it really suits your blog!

HELP I really should’ve changed it a long time ago cause I’ve been wanting to do it for a few months. I thought it would take more effort but it wasn’t that bad

I’m pretty happy with it, this one Miyu card (the one on my header) was just so pretty I wanted to change my blog just to include it. It’s just so pretty

Full card

THE ANGEL WINGS

[youngmassidehoe]

When you hear that a book was terrible & you want to rewrite it from a different point of view but you don't want to read the book because you heard it sucked that badly

[tododeku-or-bust]

"But what I will never be ashamed of is the knowledge that Black American equals a unique and distinct cultural context that deserves respect... There is an idea created by white supremacy and fostered by anti-Blackness that Black Americans have no culture to own or defend, that anyone can move into our culture and communities, stand outside the context, and declare themselves a part of what was built through sacrifice and suffering.

It is the commodification of Black cool on white bodies, it is the narrative that Black Americans are lazy, it is the erroneous conflation of Black American hypervisibility with power and privilege."

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Y'all. This book. Everybody needs to read this. White feminists (yes, that includes Queer White feminists) especially need to read this. EVERYBODY needs to read this book!

[shewhotellsstories]

“When I first met the writer Gail Simone, I made her gluten-free triple-chocolate cupcakes as a gift. While we were talking that day, she asked if I was interested in writing comics. The comics industry is a white, male-dominated space, and Gail could have treated the niche she has carved out for herself as something to defend from other women. Instead when I said yes, she went out of her way to help me get into the industry. I’ve since learned that she does this pretty often. She knows she has power and privilege and she uses it to help others whenever she can. Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.”

Mikki Kendall. “Hood Feminism.” Apple Books.

I’m actually really happy to hear or rather read this. I get that part of it is a symptom of this oppressive system that tells marginalized people that there can only be one, but I’m always relieved to hear stories about people who make it a point not to pull up the ladder once they’ve gotten where they want to be.