#Angry Black Woman

[blckvenuz]

“We need more feminine rage in media” you can’t even handle being firmly talked to by a Black woman, Melissa.

[bunnyscentd]

“I can fix her” but this is her: black girl edition pt.2

[ninelivesastrology]

When people provoke you because they aren't getting the reaction they wanted that makes you look like the stereotype they're projecting on you in order for them to play victim, that is racially based harassment.

Black girls, just start crying. Don't get angry, start crying.

[godisarepublican]

There are TONS of incidents, but our once free press was never allowed to highlight them...

[signed-sapphire]

I have a really important question

So, as some of you may know, I'm creating an entirely-told-through-comic story of my rewrite of Disney's Wish. My rewrite changes Asha's personality to fit with who I enjoy to see in media, edits her design to make her less generic and more representational of the culture she is from, and adds a Starboy to act as her foil and trigger her character arc (as she does to him). Asha in The Fallen Star is a spoiled, Kusco-like princess insistent on getting her wish to become the greatest sorceress granted by her adoptive father, King Magnus. She doesn't care much for the people of her kingdom and yet still expects them to obey her every command. She's rude, self-centered, and sassy.

Now, I'm 100% on Korean, which means I am not black at all. So I've been doing some research about black culture and traditions to make sure I'm accurately representing Asha, even if it is in my own silly little rewrite. A great account I recommend following is @creatingblackcharacters, as they have so many good resources for writing black characters, especially if you're not poc.

For example, I cut out a scene where some children in Rosas braided Asha's hair with flowers (a reference to Tangled) because I learned that hair is a very important thing in black culture. I didn't want Asha to protest having people she was uncomfortable with do her hair because Starboy told her to be nice. Her braids are a special thing that connects her to her birth parents, and respecting that boundary was more important than shoving a reference in for me.

Now, I recently came across another article addressing the "angry black woman" stereotype in media. A pretty famous example of this is that patronizing and racist comic panel of Serena Williams. Essentially, the stereotype is suggesting that a black woman being angry is because she's a "beast" and "can't control her emotions" instead of thinking why she could be justifiably angry.

Here's the thing. TFS!Asha gets angry. She yells. She throws things and lashes out at people. She has visible muscles and a strong build. She makes threats and hurls insults. She loses control of herself at times. She has panic attacks and is closed-off and rude after she comes out of them. She's Kusco on steroids, basically, if Kusco was fueled by not only wayyyy to much self-confidence, but fear that if he didn't guard his heart, it would get shattered.

Part of Asha's arc is her learning to move forward (not move on) from her trauma as a child, when Stars rained down and killed her parents. She puts up with more stuff and learns to temper her anger, but she's still passionate. She's still witty and sarcastic. She's just opened herself up to other people, now.

Now here's my question: do you think my Asha is the "angry black woman" stereotype?

I can't think of any examples off the top of my head where this is shown nicely in media. If you do think that Asha is a caricature, please please tell me what could be improved! I really want to make sure I'm respectful of Asha's Amazigh heritage and to actually showcase parts of that if I can.

Sorry for the long read! TLDR; my Asha gets angry, but is she the angry black woman stereotype?

@annymation @oh-shtars @uva124 @your-ne1ghbor @spectator-zee @emillyverse @chillwildwave @rascalentertainments @mythartist21 @kstararts @ishadow246 @tumblingdownthefoxden @thisnameisnotspokenfor @dangerousflowerpanda @cocoapowderpictures

[epopoiia-leblog]

Un amphithéâtre

Il était une fois un amphithéâtre. Une femme s’avance. Chignon blond, costume tailleur, rouge à lèvre et pour son assemblée un grand sourire. Elle est fière, sur son regard ça se voit, dans son discours ça s’entend. La voilà qui commence par une pluie de remerciements. C’est un bien joli cadre pour parler de féminisme et d’écologie, politiser ces luttes, en faire un front commun, telle la thématique du jour : l'écoféminisme ! Les autres femmes et leurs chignons applaudissent. Bravo, bravo ! Quelles belles idées ! Oui soyons toutes sœurs, trions nos déchets et mangeons bio ! La satisfaction se lit sur leurs visages. Que de bonnes intentions en perspective ! Oui, c’est certain, le monde changera enfin sous les belles actions de leurs petites mains manucurées ! Au fond de la salle, elle les regarde, toutes mignonnes à s’agiter parler compost et graines de courge, elles ont tout compris, oui, c’est ça… Elle pourrait crier et s’énerver, casser l’ambiance, reprendre son étiquette de rabat-joie en insistant sur les enjeux décoloniaux, sur la place des pauvres dans les luttes écologistes et des autres minorités, les queers, les racisées, les invalides, à oser parler d’oppression et de radicalisation… Oui, elle pourrait prendre le rôle de la angry black woman puisque c‘est ce que tout le monde  attend d’elle, si facile à incarner quand on se retrouve seule au milieu de jolies bourgeoises trop parfumées qui croient avoir tout compris à la vie. Elle pourrait, oui, et parfois elle le fait et elle l’assume. Ce qu’on pense d’elle n’est pas son problème, tant qu’elle aura des choses à dire, elle les dira. Même s’il faut parfois crier pour se faire entendre. Et quand ça ne suffit pas, elle se lève et elle s’en va, claquant la porte sur tous ces jolis sourires. La rabat-joie, c’est elle, oui, et bien tant mieux. Si sa colère permet de faire entendre les histoires et les voix de toustes celleux qui dévient et dérangent, ainsi soit-elle. Son écoféminisme sera pluriel, émotionnel et rebelle ou il ne sera point.

[sidecharacter-chan]

If I read Y/N "threw their hair into a messy bun" ONE MORE TIME?? I'm gonna implode😭

[howifeltabouthim]

She pushed her chair back and stood up, as the lily-white writers (all of them men, most of them young) stared at her like she was an exotic animal liable to hurt someone at any moment.

Laura Hankin, from Happy & You Know It

[phoukanamedpookie]

My OP damn near 10 years old, and we STILL waiting...

If Black women are so angry, where are the Black female mass shooters?

[bunnyscentd]

I have found a new queen to obsess over, I love mean black women 💓

[deareric]

Dear Eric,

I got some good news! The job that I really wanted, just called to set up an interview with me! A little weird since I’ve already had an interview with them last month but I’m down for a do over.

M wants me to move into his gross af house. M has been grossing me out a lot lately. He’s getting comfortable enough to fart around me. I know you’re giggling about this because you took every chance you got to Dutch oven me. I would get you back by taking my morning poo ( my stinkiest poo) while you would shower, hot boxing you.

But your farts were roses compared to M’s. I have never smelled anything so bad in my life. I was literally gasping for air and opening up his window. He found this hilarious. I’m gunna diet from now on.

I woke up today feeling sad. I don’t know why but I randomly thought about this really cruel teacher I had back in high school who was super mean to me for absolutely no reason. I remember being told to sit in her class to finish a test I had missed but as soon as I walked into her class, she yelled at me in front of her students for “disrupting” even though she was expecting me.

It was super embarrassing. She demanded that I go “sit in the corner and not make a sound” and as I did, a few her of students were like, “ Damn. What did she even do?” She just continued on teaching.

I don’t know why that bothers me still. I was confused as to how I was disrupting her class back then. Perhaps she was irritated by something else and took that irritation out on me but in that moment, it felt like she took one look at me and got angry and wanted to humiliate me and she did.

I wonder if that’s why the “angry black woman” in me comes out whenever I felt disrespected. I automatically feel how I did in that moment - torn down for simply existing.

[mos-twin-mattress]

No, i dont think I will thanks...

if i get told ONE MORE EFFING time to pick between Blueberry or Raspberry flavored fascism or else i'm complicit i will SCREAM!!!!!

I AM A FUCKING BLACK QUEER NATIVE DISABLED MENTALLY ILL CHRONICALLY ILL (possibly terminal, were wait on my next doctor visit) and FAT PERSON.

BOTH OF THESE CANDIDATES WANT ME TO DIE IN THE STREETS LIKE A DOG.

BIDEN IS GD SEGREGATIONIST, but PLEASE tell me moooooorrrreeeee ab "Voting Blue No Matter Who" seriously FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF PLEASE AND THANKS

And trump is just an OPEN fascist, so yea, FUCK THEM BOTH.

and I HATE YOU for telling me that im a BAD PERSON if I dont choose between two people who WANT ME DEAD.

seriously, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.

Call me an angry black woman. BECAUSE I AM! that's not an insult to me anymore. You suck. you suck. you suck.

stop voting and REVOLT.

ORGANIZE

DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS. jfc

[tjeromebaker]

The Black Subaltern: An Intimate Witnessing (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)

In The Black Subaltern, Shauna Knox revolts against the construct of the decontextualized self, electing instead to foreground the complex and problematic lived experience of the Black subaltern. Knox offers an account in which Black humanity is flattened, desubstantialized, and lost in a state of perpetual in-betweenness, which she coins subjective transmigration.Over the course of this book,…

[strawberrypink-jellybeans]

So real sis🥲

🙌🏾

[artigas]

I’m really happy that Black Sails is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, but (predictably) some of the takes I’m seeing online are so busted. It’s wild to me that anyone would complain about the fact that Anne Bonny kisses Jack after she’s developed this life-changing relationship with Max. It’s absolutely wild to see anyone roll their eyes or feel uncomfortable about the fact that Flint has sex with Miranda when he returns to her in season one or that Max is most likely a lesbian but actively has sex with men for pay and knows how to make that pleasurable. It’s crazy to me that some of the very audiences who claim to want queer representation feel so discomforted when they actually see the mess and seeming inconsistencies of queerness that they asked for.

The reality is that there are lesbians who have had (and will have!) meaningful, mutually-gratifying, and deeply sexual relationships with men. There are gay men who’ve enjoyed having sex with women, who are gay as the day is long and nevertheless feel sexually attracted to a woman or two and are nevertheless gay men, full stop. There are gay cis men who are happily married to trans women. There are femme dom tops and butch bottoms and there are mascs afab people who like femme boys. There are non-binary people and trans men who actively identify as lesbians. There are ace and aro people who enjoy thinking about and engaging with sex — sometimes in fiction and sometimes in real life. Queerness, in fiction and in reality, defies neat categorization. That is the beauty, power, and (perceived) unorthodoxy of queerness.

Now, I’ll say this — do I think the straight men behind Black Sails were actively thinking deeply and insightfully about the paradoxes and fuckery of queer identity when they wrote Black Sails? No! By their own admission, Steinberg and Levine have owned up to the fact that some of the writing of the show was really hinged on their own blind spots as people who are not (to my knowledge) members of the queer community. If I want to be generous, I think that the beautiful mess of Black Sails is that, in not feeling like experts enough to designate specific identity labels to any of their characters, the writers stumbled their way into more authentic representation of lived queer experience, which is to say that the notion that James Flint was actively thinking of himself as a gay man was anachronistic. As many lesbian archivists and theories have noted, the notion of a queer identity — as in, queerness is who you are, not what you do — was patently unthinkable for most cultures in the past. In other words, the idea that Anne Bonny operates in the eighteenth century as a lesbian and thus would not willingly engage in relationships with men is not only untrue of the series, but untrue of most recorded lesbian experiences in the real world. The notion that a lesbian would operate her entire life without engaging sexually or romantically with men, for instance, is a very new privilege that some of us are very lucky to enjoy, but it is not true for the vast majority of human history — hell, it’s not even true of our present world.

This is all to say that think that there’s something really funny about how we want queer characters to fit into neatly organized boxes. This isn’t a new problem, either. When the show was still airing, the BS fandom would get itself into tizzies about wether or not Flint is gay or bisexual, wether or not Anne Bonny is a lesbian, wether or not Silver is queer when his only canonical relationship is with Madi, etc etc. We’ve been having these discourses for years and I don’t know. I get that much of it is fueled by how badly some people want to see themselves represented in media, but . . . well. The siloing of queer characters and queer narratives into neat little boxes has never felt very authentic to me and nine times out of ten, it’s also just so damn boring.

[stompingdvds]

Remus🤝Dorcas realising together they have a right to feel angry and express that anger when their whole lives they’ve been afraid of being vilified and embodying negative stereotypes