#Black radical theory

[notchainedtotrauma]

Through the multigenerational transferal of such folklore about Black fugitivity, residents of maroon geographies in Montgomery County maintain understandings for how to create and sustain Black life and freedom in a world predicated on their negations. Framing maroon folklore as technology helps locate marroonage as an ongoing knowledge system for resolving every day anti-Blackness.

from How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing by Celeste Winston

[selkie-on-land]

I tried to watch avengers assemble (the animated series). At first I wanted to watch it for Black Widow but I'm so disappointed and angry at it. She's an avenger, one of the first one actually, she built the team with Fury and Coulson but as always, it's a male only show : all the characters are exclusively male, and sometimes for a few seconds, when they need a damsel in distress, there is a woman screaming or she finally appears! Only to be there for at most 2 minutes in the whole episode (25 minutes) and only maybe 2 or 3 episodes. Even the new guy who is not an avenger yet but is becoming one get more screen time and line and everything actually than her an actual avenger.

This is infuriating! Not just about her character lack of screen time, she often doesn't talk either, just appearance time to time, she is so invisible and reduce as a poor damsel in distress.

I'm so so so sick of this !!! Of this male only society, the entire planet is already practicing separatism, everything is male only. And if you dare create one female character even if she has one second of time screen then all the trash are screaming and crying that they are erased and replaced by those *Misogynistic insult*. It is truly sickening to live in a world where you are not supposed to even exist but your people is the one creating the entire humanity.

I crave to have shows where there is not a single male in it !! But if you dare say so, you're a terrorist blablabla. The entire world is already like this and it doesn't bother anyone! But when it's about the invisible humanity, females, then it's an outrage to the world ??? Having female representation is categorised as hatred or hate speech. 💀

''How dare you allowing those things to be there in our things and to show that they actually exists!!?''

The entire society is applying DARVO on us, this is gaslight, this is manipulation. We are not the one who genocide half the humanity that birthed us just because they exist. Male are. Every media, every movie, every song they create is built on their hate towards us, every thing they do is created only to full their hate speech Agenda.

The only few shows dominantly with females characters are the Barbies ones, the animated movies.

In all the Disney etc movies, the ''princess'' or female lead doesn't have any female friends, her only possible friends are all male. (Except some rare exceptions)

In the 101 Dalmatians, the only female one is only there because they needed a mother role to birth all of them !! That's her only purpose 💀

In the aristocats, the strays one should be all females, the male one are very similar to the humans too, the female too, they tend to bond and to live together with their kittens and the male are excluded. The adult males don't bond they fight eachother, they kill eachother. So a made up family of Stray cats can only exists if they are all females.

Same in the Lion King, the male are excluded and not the leader or king of anything. The lionesses are the Queens.

Female friendship or sisterhood is inexistant unless it's for serving the sole purpose of misogynistic agents like peak me etc.

If you know movies or shows centered around women and girls please comments/share it !

I hope it's not the dystopian movie where there is no man left on earth ... Like we deserve to have representation, real one, not post apocalyptic one ...

So far I've got :

Barbie's animated movies

The Tinkerbell movies

She Ra (the reboot I didn't watch the original)

Marvel Rising saga

Supergirl (it's not exclusively female but the accent is put on them, minus for the TWAW speech)

Agatha All Along (even tho the only boy got more attention and get to have an entire episode focused exclusively on him while the other women including the main character have to share the few minutes of the episode 🙄)

Tell it to the bees

Portrait d'une jeune fille en feu

Ocean 8

The L world

[ruthtearna]

Terrifying.

"It's expected that the moves will impact trans inmates regardless of weather they've received gender transition of any kind".

This move is going to get trans women brutally raped and murdered. It will disproportionately affect trans women of color due to how the prison system is built on anti-blackness.

I'd say this was government sanctioned v-coding, but it was always government sanctioned. They're just more open about it now.

[theneutralhumanproject]

how would you stereotype the female panther?

and this question is meant sincerely. what could this panther do to be more “feminine”? how many octaves does she have to raise her roar for you to hear her as a female? does it matter when she’s chasing you at full speed?

is she less violent with less melanated fur or skin? is she more violent the darker she is? does it change her existence as a female panther? does it change how she scales a tree in search of prey? does it change her love for her cubs, or the way she loved her mother when she was a cub? does it change the sharpness of her canines?

do you look at her and see her as a female? or do you see her as a panther first, with her femaleness being secondary?

and why would a human be different?

why would a human female be stereotyped the instant she’s perceived? why does her skin correlate to violence or docility? why is she female before she is human? why is her existence inherently sexual, inherently meant for consumption?

it doesn’t have to be this way.

welcome to The Neutral Human Project, a space for envisioning a future beyond the myth of gender, beyond the myth of race, beyond the tangled web of identity as inherently political. this project is a work of theory, ever evolving before your very eyes, aimed at narrowing down the path toward the next stage of humanity, one with unity, equality, compassion, and connection at the forefront of all human interaction, political or otherwise.

this project values the human as another species of animal. despite our minute differences in epigenetics, culture, upbringing, class, and environment, this project makes it clear that there is simply more that unifies us than divides us. through advocacy for separation of church and state, dissolution of gendered stereotypes and discrimination, normalization and separation of sex from the gendered myth, the rights of all human females, and the freedom to be who you are without the burden of overcomplicated labels, this project aims to make a clear and ever changing plan for evolution beyond the boxes and borders of modern human society.

welcome to the future of humanity in text. we are equal, we are united, and we will stand indivisible against all problems— no matter how tricky they may be.

[satedsaint]

audre lorde, uses of the erotic

[dykeseinfeld]

we were having a class discussion on french caribbean discussions of negritude through the works of cesaire and fanon and the impacts of black radical thought on how critical theory relates to politics and its implications on hegelian relations of existence and this girl raised her hand and was like "while we're talking we should acknowledge that malcolm x was assassinated." and then lowered her hand. the profs had no idea what to say like. yeah so true.. but like. what.

[surpriserose]

I hate my favorite murder so much btw

[notchainedtotrauma]

There is no trash in monastic practice. There's a massive critique of the very idea of trash, of disposability, that is given to the ones relegated to the heap.

from Black and Blur by Fred Moten

[ethicopoliticolit]

In this incarnation, she appears in the archive of slavery as a dead girl named in a legal indictment against a slave ship captain tried for the murder of two Negro girls. But we could have as easily encountered her in a ship’s ledger in the tally of debits; or in an overseer’s journal—‘last night I laid with Dido on the ground’; or as an amorous bed-fellow with a purse so elastic ‘that it will contain the largest thing any gentleman can present her with’ in Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies; or as the paramour in the narrative of a mercenary soldier in Surinam; or as a brothel owner in a traveler’s account of the prostitutes of Barbados; or as a minor character in a nineteenth-century pornographic novel. Variously named Harriot, Phibba, Sara, Joanna, Rachel, Linda, and Sally, she is found everywhere in the Atlantic world. The barracoon, the hollow of the slave ship, the pest-house, the brothel, the cage, the surgeon’s laboratory, the prison, the cane-field, the kitchen, the master’s bedroom—turn out to be exactly the same place and in all of them she is called Venus.

—Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” (2008)

[louisdotmp3]

that pipeline of anti-intellectualism to the worst/most lukewarm political opinions on leftist politics. like actually maybe you guys should know a little bit about what you're talking about and then you won't sound so foolish or have to constantly reinvent theory & discourse that was already covered extensively in the 20th century

[markiafc]

entirely my own bias + eternal frustration at westernization, english hegemony, its always all about the west, etc. but god, mlc is very very explicit about being a buddhist story. it is thee primary idea the show is dedicating every breath to exploring. but nobody on tumblr dot com knows enough about buddhism to interact with the buddhist media. instead, everyone just copy-pastes black sails meta about escaping the narrative.

meanwhile the fandom on cnet makes buddhist references all the time, makes video essays about it, writes fics with titles after classic buddhist texts and buddhist motifs. like what are the people here even doing.

there's cultural difference and a language barrier. and then there's a show with lotus in the title, a protag named lotus, lotuses appearing in virtually every episode. nirvana allegories all over the place and the entirety of the protag's arc being a textbook buddhist journey. tons of other blatant on-screen references and even the main message of the story is borrowed straight out of buddhist scripture. and no one talks about it. i'm sympathetic but also can't help feeling like fans of the show don't actually understand the major points its making.

[griotsaidwhat]

if on the one hand we can see that the existence of history before the class struggle is guaranteed, and thus avoid for some human groups in our countries — and perhaps in our continent — the sad position of being peoples without any history, then on the other hand we can see that history has continuity, even after the disappearance of class struggle or of classes themselves. And as it was not we who postulated — on a scientific basis — the fact of the disappearance of classes as a historical inevitability, we can feel satisfied at having reached this conclusion which, to a certain extent, re-establishes coherence and at the same time gives to those peoples who, like the people of Cuba, are building socialism, the agreeable certainty that they will not cease to have a history when they complete the process of elimination of the phenomenon of ‘class’ and class struggle within their socio-economic whole.

[notchainedtotrauma]

I am interested in poetic formulations such as "we are the ones we have been waiting for" which collapse the distance between this present and a future, challenge the confidence with which narratives of reproductive futurity are advanced, introduce risk and uncertainty into present speculations about futures, and urge those of use still here now to action without guarantees.

from Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling

[the-radical-reader]

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

"The historical development of capitalism has been at the expense of women, especially Black women, who have been doubly victimized by race and sex.”

Published in 1981 by the esteemed Black American scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis (born 1944), Women, Race, & Class challenges us to confront the complexities of feminism through the lens of race and class, revealing how these interconnected identities shape identity, oppression, and resistance. Through Marxist historical analysis ranging from the abolitionist era to the feminist movements of the 20th century, Davis critiques the often singular focus on gender within feminism, advocating for a more inclusive movement that addresses the nuanced realities of all women, especially those marginalized by racism and socioeconomic exploitation.

Davis explores how gender is inextricably shaped by race and class—and, just as these identities intersect, so do the capitalist systems that marginalize and exploit along these axes of identity. Thus, the liberation of all women is bound up with the struggle against racial and economic injustice, and she calls for an inclusive and equitable feminism that centers the intersections of race and class. By weaving together the threads of race, class, and gender, Davis crafts a powerful narrative that challenges us to build cross-racial and cross-class alliances to dismantle capitalist exploitation and build a more just society. With its groundbreaking insights and incisive analysis, Women, Race, & Class continues to be a foundational text that is just as relevant today as it was four decades ago.

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Visit the-radical-reader.com to learn more about Women, Race, & Class—its historical context, its big ideas, common misunderstandings, how it’s influenced history, and how it can inspire your action for collective liberation.

[canideformed]

This is a false equivalency.

The term for somebody who is transfem and who is oppressed for being transfem—is transfem. Intersex people are intersex. Transfem people are transfem. Perisex people are not intersex. Non-transfem people are not transfem.

TMA/TME is more closely equivalent to if I said IA/IE (intersexism applicable/intersexism exempt).

The reason TMA/TME is problematic is because it fails to acknowledge that non-transfem people can be impacted my transmisogyny—the same way perisex transfems can be impacted by intersexism. And also because it completely ignores the existence of the oppression transmascs experience, categorising them in with their oppressors. The TMA/TME binary is problematic because it collapses complex interplays of oppression into one binary system.

If you want a word for somebody who is transfem and impacted by transfem oppression in the way somebody who is transfem would be? The term is transfem.

“Transfems really are the only people who can’t have terms for their own oppression” I have a question. How do you feel about the term “transandrophobia?” How would you feel about the terms “TAA” and “TAE” (transandrophobia applicable and transandrophobia exempt)? If you’re okay with those terms, I’ll eat my words (somehwhat, it’s still weird, but at least you’re okay with it across the board). If you’re not—why? Do you think trans men don’t experience specific oppression? Is your issue just with who coined it? How do you feel about the term transemasculinisation? Anti-transmasculinity? Please consider why you think it’s okay to restrict the language transmascs use to describe their oppression.

Further, why not make it TMNA/TMNE (transmisogynoir applicable and transmisogynoir exempt)? Black trans women absolutely face the highest rates of assault (assuming black trans men aren’t being erased in the statistics, which is a big assumption). If you’re talking about systems of oppression… why not consider the most impactful axes? Why only consider the axis of man/woman? Consider what this says about the proximity of your theory to radical feminism.