#✩ — mikki privileges

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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

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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

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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?

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🩷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)

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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)

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Writing:

Nerdy Milluki HCs

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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)

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Clips:

Every 1999 Milluki

Milluki being excited

HxH The Stage moment

Killua attacks Milluki

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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

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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.

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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…

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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

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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

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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?

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[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

[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.

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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

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One of the biggest issues with mainstream feminist writing has been the way the idea of what constitutes a feminist issue is framed. We rarely talk about basic needs as a feminist issue. Food insecurity and access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. Instead of a framework that focuses on helping women get basic needs met, all too often the focus is not on survival but on increasing privilege. For a movement that is meant to represent all women, it often centers on those who already have most of their needs met.

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

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80 Books White People Need to Read

Here’s my next list! All links are now for Barnes and Noble! If you are interested in finding Black-owned bookstores in your area, check out this website: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php ; I also have additional resources regarding Black-owned bookstores on my Instagram (@books_n_cats) if you are interested! As always, please continue to add books to these lists! ((please circulate this one as much as the LGBT one, these books are incredibly important)).

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

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

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump

The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crime, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Kai Hinton

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

A Promise And A Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Disrupting White Supremacy From Within edited by Jennifer Harvey, Karin Ac. Case and Robin Hawley Gorsline

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel

Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Towards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass (be advised, this came out in 2015 and is not up to date with current events obviously)

Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances Kendall

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identify Politics by George Lipsitz

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice by Kristin J. Anderson

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We Say and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore Jr, Ali Michael, and Marguerite Penick-Parks

What White Children Need to Know About Race by Ali Michael

White By Law by Ian Haney Lopez

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South by Howell Raines

Race Matters by Cornel West

American Lynching by Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance MacMullan

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh

Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

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“One of the biggest issues with mainstream feminist writing has been the way the idea of what constitutes a feminist issue is framed. We rarely talk about basic needs as a feminist issue. Food insecurity and access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. Instead of a framework that focuses on helping women get basic needs met, all too often the focus is not on survival but on increasing privilege. For a movement that is meant to represent all women, it often centers on those who already have most of their needs met.” -Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot It wasn’t until coming back to this book, that I realized I was losing the human connection between the policies I was supporting and who they benefit. This book gave me a face to who I want to advocate for. The content of this book was quite difficult to get through, but it did fuel my fire as I continue in my studies. I want policies I support to center on those who have the least. #feminism #intersectionalfeminism #equity #justice #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #socialjustice #queer #economicjustice #economicjusticeisracialjustice https://www.instagram.com/p/CS5UTf2LGP5/?utm_medium=tumblr