#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

[satedsaint]

audre lorde, uses of the erotic

[radfemsouthy]

Liberal feminists don’t care about women.

This South African libfem (who also works for the UN) is pushing for sex buying to be decriminalised in South Africa. It’s one thing to decriminalise the sex workers (women shouldn’t be punished), but it’s another to decriminalise the pimps, punters & johns too.

Statistics show that countries that legalise or decriminalise sex buying for johns see drastic increases in sex trafficking.

South Africa is known as “the rape capital of the world.”

The country is also a haven for international criminal organisations, many of which also traffic women.

She’s the same woman who wrote an article for Teen Vogue about why sex work is a legitimate career. This is an online magazine targeted towards teenage girls.

[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.

[maxellminidisc]

The amount of popular white and non black leftists I've had to block for being antiblack as fuck this week is genuinely ridiculous. It fills me with so much fucking shame and anger as a non black person having to see it be perpetuated over and over again from those within my specific community and outside of it. Like why is it so fucking hard for y'all to give a fuck about Black people as people? Why can you not respect the history and the continued history of Black activism, especially given how much radical action and history is so influenced by it? The answer is quite simple, and no matter how much you'd deny it: you're all fucking racist.

What I find sickeningly ironic too, is that so many of you are perpetuating this shit in Bushnell's name. Who, from what I've seen and read of him, was compelled to educate himself on the US's history of state sanctioned violence after the murder of George Floyd. His friends have said enough as well to indicate (and quite literally said) he had an awareness of his privilege as a white man in larger society, and perhaps more of you should take that lesson from him and from his actions too. This kind of behavior and constant reframing of Black anger and frustration at antiblackness as a "psyop" is disgusting, and the tarnishing of Bushnell's name with the perpetuation of that antiblackness in it is a fucking disgrace. You should all feel fucking ashamed of yourselves, but knowing how so far up your own asses some of you are....

[quinnfabrayapologist]

How is being a radfem antisemi? Curious as all the radfems I know are black or Jewish

[surpriserose]

I hate my favorite murder so much btw

[the-radical-reader]

Women, Race, & Class | Angela Davis | 1981

[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

[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.

[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.

[notchainedtotrauma]

In that essay, Coleman argues for an understanding of race as prosthesis, algorithm, genomic data, and tool.

from Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling

[the-cryptographer]

Mmm... I think Aloy Horizon Zero Dawn kinda disappoints me as a protagonist because I can definitely feel the ways the story went out of its way to minimise her relationship with her gender. Aloy is someone who imho would be a more resonant character if the game better explored her feelings about being outcast and excluded from her tribe AND about being excluded from societal femininity. Something I don't imagine she would simply wish to be included in either - it's complicated. But the absence of this conflict in the narrative to me feels like an oversight that can basically only be explained by trying to keep a female protagonist otherwise as comfortable for male devs/players as possible, and not letting gender influence her priorities in a way that would make them clash with those of male players.

And I think it's fair if the writers/devs didn't feel capable of tackling this. And this is of course happening in an environment of executives that are wary of funding games with female protagonists to start with and an environment of gamers who are incredibly sexist and like to complain when a fictional women is too martially competent or has vellus hair.

But, yeah... mmm... idk? I suppose this is also me disbelieving the egalitarian quality of the worldbuilding? It's not that women are less martially capable than men or unable to meaningfully hunt and fight. It's that this is a world where people are under constant threat of death via killer robots and exposure, and any group of people who regularly take on the task of leaving camp to hunt will suffer casualties. And losing too many people with wombs (who are disproportionately if not exclusively women) is uh... extremely bad for the survival of a population in a way losing people without them isn't.

So, yeah, realistically there should be fewer women hunters in this verse. And it's not a problem that Aloy - who is already an outcast and has been written off by the tribe and needed to learn to live in the wilds - is totally bamf at archery and climbing and taking down robots and bandits. Just, yeah, like... I think if anything this should be more of a mixed blessing and another thing that separates her from social conformity. And it's almost strange to feel the game lean out of this interpretation rather than into it when they have Aloy otherwise struggle against being accepted as an outcast with her own people and as an outlander with ppl of other tribes.

[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)