#White Poverty

[loudlylovingreview]

Lewis M. Steel: We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multi-racial Organizing

The latest book by the Poor People’s Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II leads a march from Union Station in Washington, D.C. to protest voter suppression laws on August 2, 2021. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images). . For progressives to win, we need a…

[yesterdaysprint]

A man selling art, Paris, 1949

[sassquire]

"i just want trans men to admit they have patriarchal power over trans women."

thats the thing here. thats the thing causing all the infighting, the 'who has it worse'. people are absolutely convinced that trans women actually have it The Worst out of all trannies bc they're somehow able to be Uniquely Hurt in a way that no other tranny can be hurt, even BY other trannies, and that's why people are foaming at the mouth at 'transandrophobia'.

because if they believe transmisogyny means men (cis and trans) oppress trans women, they'll conversely define transandrophobia as 'trans women oppress trans men'. and no matter how much we tell them that isnt what we're fucking saying it doesn't matter, because they're coming to the table with the dumbfuck moonlogic that transgender men are somehow able to access cisgender levels of power within the patriarchy. when in reality we can't. because we're transgender.

no, being thin and white and able-bodied and on hrt and middle class, (because that's the John Transman everyone has in their head) doesn't erase the fact that you're transgender. it doesn't give trans men power over trans women, because those are all things trans women can also be.

'but when you control for all those variables, you're just left with a man and a woman, and men--' if trans women never had access to male privilege, even while closeted or before their egg cracked, then trans men don't get it either, even 'post transition'. we've heard from trans women about how people could sniff out that they weren't actually men before they themselves knew-- you think that doesn't happen to trans men once they've transitioned? that cisgender people never think a trans man is performing maleness wrong?

the point is there is no mythical, preferred tranny that has access to cisgender power because we're all failed women, we're all failed men, one moment to the next, and both at the same time

[kafkasapartment]

Shoes of the Shoeshine Man, c.1948. Saul Leiter. Gelatin silver print.

[narcpocalypse]

I've been seeing a multitude of white people ONLY talking about reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights when asked why they're worried about project 2025. I wouldn't have brought this up if it was like one or two people just giving examples but it's telling to me that I rarely hear people talking about disabled POC...not to mention I BARELY hear about poor and/or unhoused people.

When you tell white people that Black and Brown Women, trans Women, disabled and poor Women are the foundation of LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom I don't think that fully resonates in reality for everybody. Intentional or not, y'all gotta UNPACK.

Y'all can grasp it as a concept and put in effort to show your support while still not fully understanding it because of your privilege. It's sharing an Amazon wishlist made by a poor POC but forgetting us in conversation. That's why it hurts.

I've been exhausted for god knows how long and now I have to fight 100 times harder. I don't know when my insurance, food stamps, and other benefits will expire. Their plans for the FDA will make poor people eat literal poison.

So yea, fucking speak about us. Please.

I don't want to put in the effort to be seen anymore. You're not doing enough.

[oscargender]

Heartbreaking: “problematic” danmei everyone told you to avoid is actually pretty decent and has mildly interesting things to say about poverty and class

[twowivestwoknives]

look while i'm greatful i had the media literacy to spot immediately that they were gonna do the "if we have a lesbian (esp of colour) she HAS to be a cop" trop with cait and thus was 0% invested in her and Vi from the start, this last szn was just. broke my heart to see what they did to Vi.

breaks my heart more to see so many young queer ppl unironically thinking that is a /good/ lesbian relationship.

like, I know fandom hates butches/gnc/trans lesbians and comma yall are just gonna go ham for a ridiculously abusive relationship? Vi's character has been beaten into submission by loss, by making the "wrong choice" over and over again; now that she has lost everyone who ever mattered, her desperation for Cait isn't out of love, it's out of need to have fulfilled at least one role, one expectation correctly. and she has no one else so she will do anything not to fuck it up. it's textbook trauma responses and coping.

Cait tried to kill her, tried to GAS HER ENTIRE CITY, cheated, tried repeatedly to KILL HER SISTER and isolate Vi from her entire community, demeans her, talks down to her, treats her like she's stupid, and only acts like she likes her when she's running from something and feels out of control herself so needs something (she doesn't even see Vi as a someone) else to control.

At the end, when she called her Violet? I nearly cried. That fucking hurt. And when Vi went back with a pet name? I knew that hurt her too, and she was just trying to appease, appease, appease. She has no one else, she's failed everyone she was told she had to protect, she can't fail anyone else again, but the price of that with Cait is failing herself.

Yall are so happy to see butches be abused and call it goals, and that speaks novels about how you feel about GNC dykes.

[semioticapocalypse]

Nick Hedges. Staircase Kitchen. Brixton, London. 1972

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[noperopesaredope]

Currently working on a video essay on Ever After High in which I talk about:

Classism (so much classism)

The poverty to prison pipeline

Religious abuse

Religious nationalism

The relationship between race and poverty (in the US)

American systemic racism

The history of racial oppression in the US

White privilege

Racial purity

And a general analysis in which I discuss how some of the themes in EAH relate to real world systemic oppression.

What the hell is wrong with me.

[thesunlikehoney]

Seeing some pretty gross posts about Miguel, and... It's actually pretty important that Miles, an Afrolatino character, is both making friends with the younger generation of POC and in direct conflict with the older generation of POC. Like yeah Gwen and Peter B. are still important figures in his life for good and now also bad reasons, but it is Miguel and Jessica who he has an ideological conflict with. It is Hobie who in some ways takes over as a mentor and guide. Margo helps him escape. Pavitr is someone Miles himself helps and gives advice to. The antagonist is not Latino because they wanted to use stereotype shorthand to make everyone understand how dangerous he is, he is Latino because Miles is Latino. And surprise surprise this movie has a lot to say about-- not generational trauma per say, but community trauma. About what happens when shared trauma starts to define the boundaries of who is and who isn't a member of your community, rather than shared passions and shared dreams and shared missions.

[ainawgsd]

Saw a cyber truck when I was teaching the 15y to drive yesterday. I said, "there's a cyber truck" but of course he was paying attention to the road (good) and by the time he looked for it it had turned in front of us and was blocked from view by the cars in front of us.

Then it turned and I said "there it is...ew, why does it have the profile of a cockroach?"

[guess-my-next-obsession]

succession is cool and all but excuse me if in this political and economic climate i want zero to do with a show about rich white people that leads to more rich white people getting awards and acclaim. latino representation in cinema and tv is so important and yet still goes unrecognized. pedro’s losses have little to do with my feelings on this matter, but boy oh boy, he deserved that emmy.

[chlamydia-biohazard-refuse]

[kafkasapartment]

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (variant, more than one version), 1936. Dorthea Lange, 1895-1965. Silver print.

Rural areas in the 1930s: While not as drastically affected by unemployment as cities , rural poverty remained high. Estimates suggest over 60% of rural households and 80% of farm families were impoverished. Food insecurity was widespread, leading to malnutrition and related health problems, like stunted growth, weakened immune systems, and increased vulnerability to diseases.

[guilty-feminist]