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Queen Kenny with two go-go dancers at the Black Gay Night, SO36 club, Berlin, 1996 - Nihad Nino Pusija

Queen Kenny was a locally well known and important drag-performer and queer figure for the early 1990s Berlin black gay scene. A co-organizer of Black Gay Night, who also worked in the alternative bar 'Anfall', which predated the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Photographer Nihad Nino Pušija:

"... I met Queen Kenny at Café Anfall in Kreuzberg. She was an unusual phenomenon for me. Where I come from it’s not an everyday thing to see a two-meters-tall Black person in a skirt working at the bar. And I was fascinated, so we talked and drank together. Café Anfall was at Gneisenau Straße back then, not far from the former locations of SchwuZ and the Schwules Museum. That area was heavily characterized by the queer scene.

“Queen Kenny was reading a lot and told me what the Black Gay Night events were about: The movement of Black people, intellectuals and poets. And Kenny knew people at the SO36 and started to organize those nights. That was so great of SO36, to make that possible. Back then, not a lot of other clubs would have done that. Kenny’s work here was pioneering, definitely. There weren’t that many People of Color at the Black Gay Night events though, maybe ten percent. But those nights were important anyway, because people learned something there. Also the Teddy-Award ceremony, the LGBTQ-Award of the Berlin Film Festival Berlinale, took place at SO36. The place definitely made very important contributions. Many people think Schöneberg would have been the Capital of Gay, but not for me. For me it was always Kreuzberg. It was more avant-garde, trashier, better. Just a wild mix. And in Schöneberg you would go to TomTom Bar and everyone looked the same. Whereas in Kreuzberg everyone would come together: There was me as a refugee, there were women, heterosexuals, just everyone.”

Queen Kenny at the Teddy-Gala, SO36 club, Berlin, 1996 - Nihad Nino Pušija

“Queen Kenny had always been an institution. Charming, militant, a special element of the Black gay scene in Berlin. It was his idea not to emphasize the heavy part of the history of Black people, but to bring it to life through music, dance, theater, lectures and performances, always combined with glamour. Together with Rik Maverik and Todd Ford’s ,”Magic 3’’, Queen Kenny’s Black Gay Nights were the most innovative element the (post-)migrant community contributed to the history of queer life in Berlin. ..."

"I saw Kenny again around 1998. At that point he concentrated a lot on an originally African religion, the Yoruba religion, which is almost voodoo. Because there are a lot of adherents of that religion here in Berlin, and they didn’t have a priest, Kenny wanted to get the education to be one. At some point I saw him again, dressed all white and with a long beard. He was in Cuba and learned about the rituals of this religion. And at some point, he disappeared, we didn’t see him anymore. Someone from our circle of friends said, he’d gone back to the USA, others said the opposite. It’s not clear what happened to Kenny."

- Nihad Nino Pušija

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2 artist unknown snake goddess, Minoan Civilization, Crete (c1600 BCE)

3 artists unknown Empress Theodora, mosaic in church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy (6th Century)  http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/byzantine-justinian.html

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5 Piero della Francesca (1415-92) Madonna of Mercy, detail (c1460) oil and tempera on panel

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7 Cindy Sherman Untitled (1989) 

8 Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi () As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.

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Perspective on the relationship between women and society, with particular reference to those countries in which the role of women is most marginalized. For over twenty years Guerresi’s work has been about empowering women and bringing together individuals and cultures in an appreciation for a context of shared humanity, beyond borders – psychological, cultural, and political. She uses recurrent metaphors such as milk, light, the hijab, trees, and contrasting white on black to create awareness of the vital unifying qualities of the feminine archetype and its special healing potential. Guerresi’s art is uniquely authentic. Her work is inspired by personal experience and cultural contexts that reference universal myths, the sacred realm, and the female condition, all of which are seen as vital expressions of the human form: an essentially spiritual and mystic body. Through photographs and videos of silent, austere, veiled women in domestic scenes and individual poses, her work functions as both metaphor and provocation. Guerresi’s images are delicate narratives with fluid sequencing, as well as rational analyses: women dressed in white, enveloped in chadors, fixed within their own tradition and isolated from and by it in the contemporary world. Her Fatimah image suggests the woman as Mother- Earth supporting us in the original energy cycle of Space-Universe-Infinity. www.maimounaguerresi.com

9  The Cholmondeley Ladies  (c1600-10)  oil paint on wood 886 x 1723 mm       British School 17th century   (1600‑1699)

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"Thank you, sir (Jones)! I'll prove you right; just you wait!" - Andrew Bontemp

Biographical information

Full Name: Andrew Bontemps

Gender: Transgender (female to male)

Sexuality: Pansexual

Status: Deceased

Age: 27 (season 3)

Birth: 1989

Race: Human

Cause of Death: Shot in the heart

Nationality: American

Origin: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Residence:

Concordia, USA

Grimsborough, USA (formerly)

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (formerly)

Profession(s): Police Officer

Family: Issac Bontemps (ancestor)

Partner(s): Reese Rochester (partner)

Affiliation(s):

Concordia Police Department

Flying Squad Preservation Society

Grimsborough Police Department (formerly)

Profile

Height: 5'11"

Age: 27 (season 3)

Weight: 183lbs

Eyes: black

Blood: O+

Andrew was a young African-American man with short, curly black hair, a matching beard, and black eyes. At the time of his death, he wore a crimson-and-black suit over a white long-sleeved shirt with a blue patterned necktie, black dress pants, and polished black shoes. He also had a golden monocle on his left eye, and a golden pocket watch was tucked into his vest pocket.

When working for the Grimsborough PD, he wore a standard police uniform.

As per his suspect appearance in Worst of Wives and Worst of Women, it is known that Andrew exercised.

Synopsis

Andrew was the victim in Murder From The Past.

Before appearing as a victim, he was a suspect in the murder of Renée Murphy. He was a rookie officer in the GBPD with dreams of one day moving to Concordia to become a detective like his ancestor Issac Bontemps. He first met Renée when he responded to a call about a domestic disturbance at Adalet’s house. He found the Lieutenant and Will trying to get Renée to leave, but the woman was drunk and wouldn't listen. Andrew eventually managed to get her into his squad car with Adalet’s help and brought Renée back to her hotel room after Adalet chose not to press charges.

The second time Andrew dealt with Renée was after he responded to reports of her trespassing on private property in Maple Heights. The owners of the properties denied knowing the woman and wanted her arrested. But Renée tried to buy her way out of the charges, writing Andrew a $10,000 cheque to look the other way.

But Andrew refused to accept the bribe and began the process of charging Renée for her crimes. But the woman would never serve any time for trespassing as she would be killed before Andrew could lock her up. Andrew was happy to see justice being served but was sad that Adalet lost two of her loved ones because of it, even if her “mother” was an absolute bitch.

During the additional investigation for that case, Chief King ordered Jones and John to make sure Andrew hadn’t accepted any other bribes. Andrew admitted that Renée had sent him another cheque for $10,000 but claimed he left it on Adalet’s desk for her to deal with. After finding the cheque and having Alex analyze it, they discovered that Andrew had cashed it into the GBPD’s account as a donation from Renée. Andrew thought if the woman was willing to pay the police to try and escape prison, his station might as well benefit from the money. It was later transferred into the GBPD’s funding for the local children’s charity drive.

Jumping forward a couple of years, Andrew had moved to Concordia and was on his way to becoming a detective. Before moving, he met Reese Rochester through an online dating site. The two hit it off, and sparks flew as they bonded over shared interests and different ones. When Andrew arrived at Concordia, Reese was there to greet him at the airport with a welcome sign and hug.

After settling into his new life, Andrew decided to join Concordia’s Flying Squad Preservation Society. He had always been fascinated by his family history with the Squad and wanted to do his part to keep their memory alive. That is why he volunteered for the Flying Squad Museum Committee and worked alongside other descendants and historical experts to create a museum aboard the Flying Squad’s airship.

Of course, nothing could ever go smoothly, and countless problems arose during the months the committee worked on the museum. But they worked together to overcome the challenges and see their vision come to life. Sadly, Andrew wouldn’t live to see that vision become complete; he was murdered aboard the very airship they were working to convert into a museum.

In the weeks leading to his death, Andrew accidentally annoyed a few of his fellow committee members. First, he lost the order form for Alessia Dupont’s supplies for her inventions, delaying her work. But he made it up to her by getting the shipment expedited, so she got it ahead of schedule.

Then, he knocked over Orlando’s glass of wine when delivering some rolls of fabric to the designer. The wine stained the newly finished trench coat and caused Orlando to have to remake that section of the jacket. With so much pressure on the man to complete the replicas in time, Andrew decided to keep his distance to avoid further damage.

Lastly, when Andrew was babysitting Sara for Flora, he turned away for a second, giving the little girl enough time to dunk one of her mother’s figurines in a jar of red paint. Andrew tried to clean up the doll before Flora got home, but it was impossible to get the paint off. Flora was already very stressed, so after yelling at Andrew, she ordered him to leave before anything else got ruined.

His friends would later apologize for getting angry at him, and Andrew would forgive them, knowing that all the stress they were under was what caused them to snap.

Outside of the committee, Andrew faced a couple more issues. The first was when he discovered that his partner, Reese, wanted to propose to him. He was pleasantly surprised when he found the ring they had gotten for him, but he told them he wasn’t sure if he was ready for marriage. Reese respected his choice and promised to wait until he was ready to formally ask him to marry them.

The other problem he ran into was when Justine Dawson submitted a request to have one of her ancestors featured in the Flying Squad’s museum. He denied the request because that ancestor had done horrible things when he was alive, and he wasn’t even a member of the Flying Squad! While some non-members were featured in aspects of the museum, none of them had exhibits dedicated to them; those were reserved for official members only.

It would be this last altercation that would lead to Andrew’s death. Justine was furious at him denying her request, believing her family deserved to be honoured for their work on Concordia. Her rage was heightened by the fact that Issac Bontemps had killed her ancestor, and she hated how the Flying Squad, their families, and their descendants got to live happily ever after while hers had to suffer shame and ridicule. She vowed to avenge her family’s honour and get revenge for her ancestor’s untimely death.

So, Justine stalked Andrew for weeks to learn his habits and schedule to find the perfect time and place to kill him. And that place would be aboard the airship. She snuck in after him and drew her weapon. Andrew pleaded for her not to kill him, but Justine refused to listen. She pulled the trigger, killing him with the same gun that Issac had used to kill her ancestor.

Andrew couldn't believe Justine would kill him over an old family feud and a one-sided rivalry at that! But he was happy to see justice being served for his murder and Justine imprisoned for life. Maybe it was selfish of him to be happy to see her get sent to rot in prison, but she did the crime, so now she needed to do the time.

And while Justine spent the rest of her life in prison, Andrew would spend his time in the afterlife, finally able to meet the ancestor and Flying Squad he had heard so much about.

Organization(s)

GBPD (formerly)

Rank: Officer

Concordian PD

Rank: Officer

Story Information

First appeared: Worst of Wives and Worst of Women

Trivia

When I first gave him the surname Bontemps, it was out of laziness. But after I realized I could use him and others as characters in the case Murder From The Past, I made him a descendant of Issac Bontemps

I haven't decided how he is a descendant of Issac yet; hopefully, I remember to do that while writing season 4!

I picked the name Andrew because I know a set of twins named Issac and Andrew, so I associate the names together

Disclaimer: Character design was created using Rinmarugames Mega Anime Avatar Creator! I have only made minor edits to the design! Background courtesy of CriminalArtist5

Links to my stories:

The Case of the Criminal (Ao3/Wattpad) Killer Bay (Ao3/Wattpad) Where in the World are the Killers? (Ao3/Wattpad)

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LGBTQI+ rights in Mayotte 🇾🇹

Like Non-LGBTQIA+ citizens, queer people have same rights & protection in Mayotte Islands.LGBTQI+ rights in Mayotte are more improved, comparing to its neighbour countries Comoros,Kenya,Tanzania, & Madagascar.

Legality of Homosexuality

Homosexuality is legal in Mayotte Islands.Since 1982, Mayotte has an equal age of consent for both homosexual and heterosexual couples. [Source: Equaldex]

Some sources claimed that homosexuality has always been legal in Mayotte of Francophone.According to ILGA's State Sponsor Homophobia report, “consensual sex between same-sex couples was decriminalised in 1931.”

Recognition of Same sex relationships

Since 2013 same-sex civil unions are legally recognized in Muslim majority Mayotte Islands.The first same-sex marriage of Mayotte was performed in September,2013.

Discrimination

Mayotte is overwhelmingly Muslim & have a strong influence of Arab-Bantu culture.This heavily influences public perception of the LGBTQ+ community, as there have been frequent reports of family rejections, bullying,harassment & discrimination on the Island.Sexuality is typically a taboo topic among the Mahorais, & many LGBTQI+ people have chosen to move to neighbouring Réunion or to France.Therefore, Mayotte has anti-discriminatory laws that protect LGBTQI+ citizens & others from societal discrimination,harassment & violence.

Recognition of Gender Identity

Mayotte laws does not prohibits one's to change his/her/their gender.Yet there is no known legal case of gender change in Mayotte.Mayotte has no legal recognition of a non-binary gender or third gender/sex.

Despite being a patriarchal society, Mayotte has a long-standing tradition of Sarambavis, which in Shimaore refers to men who choose to follow "the law of women", and thus dress,act and behave as women and partake in traditional female activities.In recent years, the term has been used as a slurr against LGBTQI+ Mahorais.

LGBTQI+ Association

There is a little activism for LGBTQI+ rights in Mayotte Island. LGBT Mayotte is a non-profit organization that raises awareness for LGBTQ+ rights in Mahorai Society.

Queer African Network is a virtual space for queer people of African heritage.African Queer Youth Initiative is a network of LGBTQ+ activists that amplifies voices LGBTQI+ in Africa. Furthermore,Naz Project (London),Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (USA),African Rainbow Family (UK),Living Free (UK), Le Refuge(France), Rainbow Refugee(Canada),Rainbow Railroad(USA), CALEM Institute(France),Imaan (UK),etc associations welcomes LGBTQI+ refugees from Africa (including Mayotte).

Summary:

Same-sex sexual activity - ✔️ legal

Equal Age of consent - ✔️

Legal recognition of same-sex couples - ✔️

Same sex marriages - ✔️

Adoption by LGBTQ+ individuals - ambiguous [citation needed]

Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas - ✔️

Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services - ✔️

Anti-discrimination laws in employment - ✔️

Recognition of non-binary gender - ❌

Right to change legal gender - ambiguous [citation needed]

Ban Conversion therapy - not known

Allowed to serve LGBTQI+ people in the military - ✔️

MSMs allowed to donate blood - ✔️ (since 2016)

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Cheslie Corrinne Kryst (April 28, 1991 – January 30, 2022) was a television correspondent, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2019. She was an attorney and a correspondent for Extra (2009-22). She was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.

She was born in Jackson, Michigan, to an African-American mother and a Polish-American father. She had four brothers and a sister. Her mother, April Simpkins, competed in pageantry and was crowned Mrs. North Carolina US when she was a child. The family moved from Michigan to Charlotte, North Carolina, when she was young and settled in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where attended Northwestern High School. The family moved to Fort Mill, South Carolina, after transferring to Fort Mill High School.

After high school, she moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and attended the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. She graduated cum laude from the Darla Moore School of Business with a BS in Marketing and Human Resource Management. She was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, the Gamecocks women’s track and field team, and the mock trial.

She enrolled in Wake Forest University School of Law, graduating with a JD/MBA.

She was licensed to practice law in both North Carolina and South Carolina and began working as an attorney in civil litigation at Poyner Spruill LLP. She worked pro bono not only for clients who were low-level drug offenders but with Brittany K. Barnett of the Buried Alive Project, to free a client sentenced to life imprisonment. She was the founder of the fashion blog White Collar Glam, dedicated to helping women dress professionally in white-collar jobs.

She interviewed actor Terrence Howard and broke the news that he was retiring from acting after the final season of Empire. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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[orlissa]

Women in the Golden Age of Comics (1938-1956)

I promised @mercurygray a little overview some time ago, so here we go:

The first thing that we would consider a comic book today was published in 1934 (Famous Funnies #1); the early comics only featured reprinted materials from newspaper strips, but soon new comics were commissioned especially for comic books

The first superhero comic was published in 1938 (Adventure Comics #1, it featured Superman on the cover, and the first Superman story inside, which was only 13 pages long. The creators, high school buddies Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who had been working on different versions of the character since 1932/3, were paid $130 for it)

Most comics during these days were anthologies, featuring several shorter stories in several, very different genres (superhero, western, talking animals, etc.) usually on 64 pages; most of them featured at least one story with a female lead to, presumably, attract female audiences.

Everyone was reading comics. “[A]n average of two to three comics per week were read by over 90 percent of six- to eleven-year-olds, 84 percent of twelve- to seventeen-year-olds, and 35 percent of those eighteen and older. In each age group, the numbers of males and females reading comics were roughly equal.”

But working on comics was uncool. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a writer/illustrator, you didn’t really want it to be known that you have worked on comics (e.g Stan Lee’s real name was Stanley Lieber; he started working at Marvel—then known as Timely Comics at 17, and, wanting to be a serious writer one day, he decided not to use his real name for his comics). Academically this is a problem, since many, many comics from this era are uncredited.

Also, many of the early comic book creators were Jewish (often second generation immigrants), so comics were pretty quick on condemning Hitler/WWII. The cover of the first issue of Captain America featured him punching Hitler a year before the USA entered the war.

Okay, so, female characters in this era! There were many of them, but most of them never got their own book, were only featured in a few anthology issues, and were soon forgotten. Mike Madrid puts them into four categories: the Debutantes, the Partners, the Victory Girls, and the Glamour Girls

Debutantes: usually bored heiresses who practice vigilantism for the thrill of it, and to find personal freedom through it.

Phantom Lady (1941): society girl Sandra Knight, who fights spies and criminal using “a blinding black light that renders her foes helpless,” while wearing what’s essentially a yellow swimsuit. She never wears a mask, and yet her senator father and her fiancé, Don, never recognize her.

Spider Widow, Grandmother of Terror (1942): another society girl, Dianne Grayton, who wears a hideous witch mask, long black dress, and a floppy hat, to literally scare her foes into submission

Miss Fury (1941): SUPER IMPORTANT! The first superheroine to be written by a woman (June Tarpé Mills), and one of the first to get her own series. Marla Drake is also a reluctant hero: when preparing for a masquerade ball she learns that another girl is about to wear the same dress as her, she puts on a leopard skin attire that her uncle got her from an African witch doctor—which then gives her powers. She gets attacked on her way to the party, defends herself, and then gets into a whole bunch of misunderstandings that gets her fighting Nazis and spies, not really because she wants to, but because she needs to protect her reputation.

Lady Luck (1940): Brenda Banks, a “modern lady Robin Hood,” who uses her jiu-jitsu and marksmanship skills to fight crime while wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a veil to cover her face.

Partners: lesser appendages of already established male heroes

Shiera/Hawkgirl (1941)—Hawkman’s girlfriend, there is not much to say

Doris Lee—Starman’s sweetheart; Owl Girl—The Owl Rocketgirl—Rocket Man; Doll Girl—Doll Man; always girls, never women.

Mary Marvel—the exception. Captain Marvel’s sister (okay, this is where it gets confusing: this Captain Marvel is who we know today as Shazam. He was published by Fawcett, who then were sued by DC because they said Captain Marvel was too similar to Superman, then Fawcett eventually went under, DC bought to rights for the character, but by then Marvel had their own Captain Marvel—Mar-Vell, in whose story Carol Danvers was a supporting character in the late 60s, who then would go on to star in her own title Ms. Marvel in 1977, and then would become Captain Marvel in 2012, while the Ms. Marvel title was taken up by Kamala Khan in 2014. I know.). You know, the kid who yells Shazam!, and turns into an adult superhero. He shared his powers with his friends, who then became characters like Captain Marvel Jr. and Lieutenant Marvel. But when he shared his power with his twin sister Mary, she 1, turned into a slightly older version of herself instead of an adult and 2, was simply named Mary Marvel. But she was cute and popular and got her own series.

The Victory Girls—women from all walks of life who usually take a double role in the war effort; some regular job during the day, and superheroing during the night

I mean, there were a bunch of patriotic superheroes already: Captain America, Captain Victory, Yankee Eagle, Fighting Yank, Captain Flag, Minute Man, Flag Man, The Shield, etc.

Joan Dale—ordinary reported granted powers by the Statue of Liberty to become Miss America

Joan Wayne—DC stenographermoonlighting as “dreaded bundle of female dynamite” Miss Victory

Linda Turner—Black Cat, Hollywood starlet destroying nazi spy rings to defeat boredom

Pat Parker—War Nurse; nurse during the day, masked hero during the night

Sylvia Manners—Black Angel, masquerading as a frail girl living with her aunt in the English countryside, she is actually a ruthless aviatrix, shooting Nazi planes off the sky

Glamour Girls: since these are post-WWII, I don’t really wanna get into the details. Basically: noir-inspired, darker and grittier, with more emphasis on sex appeal. Basically more for the male gaze at this point.

Not categorized, but Madrid also mentions them:

The Woman in Red—thought to be the first female crime fighter in comics, who wore a sweeping scarlet cloak with a matching mask and skullcap

Fantomah—“a beautiful blonde protectress of the jungle,” who would turn into a terryfing skull-faced goddess in trouble

Madam Fatal—actually a guy, retired stage actor Richard Stanton dressed as an old lady

Red Tornado—Ma Hunkel, a burly working class mother with a cooking pot over her head

And of course Wonder Woman, created by William Moulton Marston in 1941. Marston’s WW is a whole another can of worms I do not want to open now (I can literally fill a 90 minute lecture with Marston)

Some creators—well, there wasn’t many, especially not in the superhero business (just to get a taste: in 1972, Marvel wanted to publish three series aimed at women, written by women, but they had no women on stuff, so they gave the job to the wives of three staff members.

Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904-1993), credited as Marge, creator of the strip Little Lulu (1935-1944)

Edwina Dumm (1893-1990), cartoonist suffragist, the first full-time female editorial cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie (1918-1966)

Dalia “Dale” Messick (1905-2005), comic strip artist, creator of Brenda Starr Reporter (1940-1980), a reflection of herself

June Tarpé Mills (1912-1988), creator of Miss Fury, one of the first female comic book artists, who had a background in fashion. She both wrote and drew Miss Fury, and, fun fact, in 1943 she once draw Miss Fury in such a tiny bikini made of leaves that 37 newspapers cancelled the strip at once (most sources say it was because the outfit was too revealing, but given that she has an apple in one hand and snake around the other, I’d say the reason was blasphemy.

EDIT: I totally forgot: after WWII superheroes went out of fashion, and only a few characters remained in publication. Instead there were horror and true crime comics (which were mostly read by returning GIs, and which would lead to a moral panic over comic in a couple of years) and romance comics for the women. The first romance comic, Young Romance #1 (1947) was created by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, the creators of Captain America. Even Wonder Woman took on a romance-approach under Robert Kanigher, who took over writing the character in 1947, after the death of Marston.

Bibliography/Recommended reading:

Cocca, Carolyn: Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation Gomez, Betsy (ed.): She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics Howe, Sean: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Madrid, Mike: Divas, Dames, & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of the Golden Age of Comics Madrid, Mike: The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines

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Communists Wearing Fedora Hats

(Movie Review: 1951’s “I Was a Communist for the FBI”)

Stephen Jay Morris

5/22/2022

©Scientific Morality

So, you are one of those Right wing, conspiracy freaks who thinks that Hollywood is run by tyrannical “Groomers,” “Liberal savages,” “Lesbian Feminists,” “Radical Socialists,” and “Satanists?” Wow! That is quite a menu! In the 50’s, you would have been bereft of those evil demons. I know you are missing those innocent days of suburban tract homes, pep rallies for the home school football team, drive-in movies, and the jukebox blasting racist music.

However, there was another side to that nostalgia: the dark side of the decade—the Noir 50’s. During the daytime, it was all sunshine and smiles. However, at night, it was light from a street lamp, reflecting upon a drunk in a shabby suit and tie, puking into the gutter. And, according to paranoid Conservatives, there were Communists under every bed and in the steel industry’s union halls. Hollywood was run by Republicans, which is why many American movies at the time were lame and goofy. Women were depicted as silly sex toys and men would drool over rear shots of actresses as they walked away from the camera. Low cut blouses teased the libido. Yeah! There were also the drive-in flicks, featuring monster movies. These were actually metaphors about the Soviet Union invading the USA. It was the time of the “Great Red Scare!” so, when Senator Joseph McCarthy pointed his finger at you, you could bend over and kiss your ass goodbye!

In the early 50s and late 40s, a handful of anti-Communist movies were released. Movies like “The Red Menace,” and “I Married a Communist.” There was this gem, “I Was a Communist for the FBI.” This dog doo-doo flick was masqueraded as a Film Noir thriller. “Sex!” “Violence!” “Betrayal!” “Action!” Plus, a soap opera.

Frank Lovejoy, the guy who penned this B-movie trash, was a radio actor who garnered enough financial backing to make a movie that would depict The Red Scare on the big, black and white screen. This guy made himself the star of the movie, a Slavic steelworker who is an avowed member of the Communist Party. His family hates him for it, except for his beloved mama. But, what none of them know is: he is an agent for the FBI!

This movie has so many subplots you don’t know which one to follow when. All of the characters are given Right wing talking points to share with the movie audience. For instance, one is the subject of racism. Nowadays, you hear how the Left are the real racists. However, in this 1951 production, a CP member is referencing African Americans as “niggers.” Why would he do that? Well, he’d gotten word from the Soviet Union that the Party was to start a race riot in America. Another ridiculous subplot is how the American Communists are ordered around by this well-dressed, Russian Apparatchik, with a pencil thin Mustache and a bad foreign accent. This actor proceeds to tell his comrade how they financed the defense in the “Scottsboro Boys Trial,” the case alleging that nine Black youths in Alabama had raped two White women. The leader of the pack also told his chapter that they would be playing a game of divide and conquer in America, all while posing as peacemakers. Oh, this part I really love: the Pittsburgh chapter of the Party dresses up like strike-breaker thugs and beats up the steelworkers with lead pipes wrapped in Jewish newspapers. This was to convey how evil the steel mill owners were, plus to stir up Anti-Semitic hatred.

There is one particular point about this film that I would like to highlight: the Right wing view of Black people is very patronizing. They regard them as too stupid to know anything about politics. So much so, that the Communists must remind them how they are oppressed in their own country. This is so off the charts that you wonder who the idiots were that wrote these talking points! Today, it’s the same thing, but in reverse: White Conservatives are telling African Americans how good they have it in the USA! And you wonder why Malcolm X called them “White devils.”

One consistent thing that these movies did was to portray Communists as gangsters. This film’s characters are clothed in pin striped suits and fedoras; lit cigarettes dangling from their mouths. Plus, they all have hand guns in their pockets. Quote: We are going to have class struggle, you mug! End Quote.

Then, there is the Communist school teacher. They sure had good looking teachers back then! This character looks like she popped right out of a cheesecake, pin-up poster! She could brainwash my kids anytime!! Now, school teachers look like they’re going to a Punk Rock concert—pink hair and tattoos. Well…that’s the stereotype; the difference from then to now.

The Right wing, conspiracy crackpots used to say, “What does a Communist look like?” and then they’d follow with, “They look like you and me!” You couldn’t tell who was and who wasn’t a Communist! They’d talk like Americans. They had no Russian accents. Your wife could have been a Communist! You just didn’t know. The 50s were paranoid times. If somebody presented a Left wing view, then another would call the FBI. I’m glad I was barely pissing in my diapers during that time. Thank Buddha!

In 1984, a movie came out called “Red Dawn.” It was disguised as an action picture, but it was just a cold war, paranoia flick. I saw it when it was first released. The plot was simple: the Communists invade America. Some White kids started a resistance, guerrilla group called, “Wolverines.” Thanks to the Second Amendment, they managed to shoot at Soviet tanks and blow them up (sic). This action-packed film was unbelievable! It was so bad that it became a cult movie. It ultimately lost a lot of money, which goes to show that not all Americans are politically stupid!

Conservatives couldn’t make a good movie if their lives depended on it. This is apodictic. Even in times of political cyclothymic disorder, the Right wing comes in short in the political department. They try to fecundate the American conscientiousness with fear. The more they try, the more moronic the alarmism gets. You can’t expect some Right wing, misoneism to tell you the truth. They are more hysterical than the Left-wing feminists they decry. Thank the physical universe that some have the perspicacity to ignore Right wing alarmism, aka: old fashioned Bull Shit!

[the-bjd-community-confess]

As a Korean-American who's lived in both the USA and South Korea I feel like people are too hard pressed on Asian "purity" in both the western and eastern side of the world. In these people's minds everything East Asians are known for now are 100% made from East Asian countries with no outside influence. Time and time again people will claim that East Asians created Lolita, sailor outfits, ect (things that are clearly European), claim that a lot of Eastern Asians liking blonde hair, blue eyes, Eurocentric features, is just colors and 'aesthetic' and it doesn't have anything to do with wanting to look European/like how Europeans look (when in reality it really does.). It's just very strange to see?

This especially goes to sculpt names and "western" versions of dolls that there's been discourse about where "this doll can't be white! It's name is in Chinese!" but like... every doll the company pumps out has a Chinese name... because the company is Chinese. Like not to be controversial here, but the way I see it, most doll sculpts are very racially ambiguous. No race really has a look to them. There are white people with monolids and there are asians with eye creases. a lot of "black" features can also be found in people not from Africa like Filipinos and other south-east Asians. I've seen people claim that a lot of Eastern-Europeans and South-Eastern Europeans people aren't white because they don't fit what most people see as white (Western and Central European basically), and also a lot of people claim Eastern and Northern Africans aren't "black" because of they don't look "black" (Which is usually pertained to how West-Africans look like). Basically, people are very diverse. Sure, there are sculpts that look VERY specific (like that one sculpt that is based on a Japanese man. The sculpt looks only like a Japanese man, and not any other ethnicity but Japanese.) but that isn't particular to race.

A lot of the sculpts that look like handsome/pretty men and women could be South American/Native American, European, Asian, and even African. I have never looked at any Loong-soul dolls for example, and think that the sculpt only looks Asian. They are all racially ambiguous. (I'm talking about the sculpts. Not the faceups. And even then, most faceups are pretty generic as-well. ) Yes, a lot of these dolls are dressed in Hanfu so they "gotta be Chinese" or something, but we're talking about the sculpt. And if you wanna buy 100 Loong-soul dolls and make them into French Businessmen, who the fuck cares? If you style and give them the correct faceup, they're gonna look like French Businessmen! Not to mention a lot of my Chinese friends have white/European dolls who they dress up in hanfu. Clothing and names are separate to ethnicity and race.

I haven't met any person in Korea (Can't speak for the other Eastern-Asian countries, I don't speak Chinese nor Japanese) that cares if someone makes a sculpt "white" when it's "intended" to be Asian, Korean, ect. Most of the people I've met who have done that ARE Asian themselves! Please FFS, BJDs are about customizability! It's not terrible nor whitewashing or whatever you call it for someone to make a doll European. Also just because the doll's name isn't European, doesn't mean it's not supposed to be a "white" doll. My very first doll's name was Kimbap (korean rice roll), and he's supposed to be British. Even with the blonde hair, green eyes, and Victorian clothes ALL my western friends think he's Korean because his name is Kimbap. That's stupid. It's like naming your Korean doll "Cheesecake" and having everyone tell you your doll is white because the name is English. Some of us just are... bilingual and use words from our other language... scary concept I know.

Sorry to go off a tangent like this (this was probably confusing to read) but it's just stupid drama like this which riles me up. It's basically Westerners yelling at other Westerners over how Eastern-Asians should "correctly" represent themselves and others. Have fun! The way I see most of these dolls is that they're a mishmash of both European and Eastern-Asian beauty standards and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! The dolls are pretty. They're just dolls after all. Who cares!

~Anonymous

[trans-advice]

Excerpt from “Transgender History” (2017) by Susan Stryker (“Chapter 3: Trans Liberation”)

[...]

Stonewall:

Meanwhile, across the continent [from San Francisco, California, USA], another important center of transgender activism was taking shape in New York City [New York, USA], where, not coincidentally, Harry Benjamin maintained his primary medical practice. In 1968, Mario Martino, a female-to-male transsexual, founded Labyrinth, the first organization in the United States devoted specifically to the needs of transgender men. Martino and his wife, who both worked in the health care field, helped other transsexual men navigate their way through the often-confusing maze of transgender-oriented medical services just then beginning to emerge, which (despite being funded primarily by Reed Erickson) were geared more toward the needs of transgenderwomen than transgender men. Labyrinth was not a political organization but rather one that aimed to help individuals make the often-difficult transition from one social gender to another.

Far overshadowing the quiet work of Martino’s Labyrinth Foundation, however, were the dramatic events of June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. The “Stonewall Riots” have been mythologized as the origin of the gay liberation movement, and there is a great deal of truth in that characterization, but—as we have seen—gay, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people had been engaging in militant protest and collective actions against social oppression for at least a decade by that time. Stonewall stands out as the biggest and most consequential example of a kind of event that was becoming increasingly common, rather than as a unique occurrence. By 1969, as a result of many years of social upheaval and political agitation, large numbers of people who were socially marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, especially younger people who were part of the Baby Boomer generation, were drawn to the idea of “gay revolution” and were primed for any event that would set such a movement off. The Stonewall Riots provided that very spark, and they inspired the formation of Gay Liberation Front groups in big cities, progressive towns, and college campuses all across the United States. Ever since the summer of 1969, various groups of people who identify with the people who participated in the rioting have argued about what actually happened, what the riot’s underlying causes were, who participated in it, and what the movements that point back to Stonewall as an important part of their own history have in common with one another.

Although Greenwich Village was not as economically down-and-out as San Francisco’s Tenderloin, it was nevertheless a part of the city that appealed to the same sorts of people who resisted at Cooper Do-Nut, Dewey’s, and Compton’s Cafeteria: drag queens, hustlers, gender nonconformists of many varieties, gay men, lesbians, and countercultural types who simply “dug the scene.” The Stonewall Inn was a small, shabby, Mafia-run bar (as were many of the gay-oriented bars in New York back in the days when being gay or cross-dressing were crimes). It drew a racially mixed crowd and was popular mainly for its location on Christopher Street near Sheridan Square, where many gay men “cruised” for casual sex, and because it featured go-go boys, cheap beer, a good jukebox, and a crowded dance floor. Then as now, there was a lively street scene in the bar’s vicinity, one that drew young and racially mixed queer folk from through the region most weekend nights. Police raids were relatively frequent (usually when the bar was slow to make its payoffs to corrupt cops) and relatively routine and uneventful. Once the bribes were sorted out, the bar would reopen, often on the same night. But in the muggy, early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, events departed from the familiar script when the squad cars pulled up outside the Stonewall Inn.

[Source text Inserts “Sidebar: Radical Transsexual” here]

A large crowd of people gathered on the street as police began arresting workers and patrons and escorting them out of the bar and into the waiting police wagons. Some people in the crowd started throwing coins at the police officers, taunting them for taking “payola.” Eyewitness accounts of what happened next differ in their particulars, but some witnesses claim a transmasculine person resisted police attempts to put them in the police wagon, while others noted that African American and Puerto Rican members of the crowd—many of them street queens, feminine gay men, transgender women, or gender-nonconforming youth—grew increasingly angry as they watched their “sisters” being arrested and escalated the level of opposition to the police. Both stories might well be true. Sylvia Rivera, a transgender woman who came to play an important role in subsequent transgender political history, long maintained that, after she was jabbed by a police baton, she threw the beer bottle that tipped the crowd’s mood from mockery to collective resistance. In any case, the targeting of gender-nonconforming people, people of color, and poor people during a police action fits the usual patterns of police behavior in such situations.

Bottles, rocks, and other heavy objects were soon being hurled at the police, who, in retaliation, began grabbing people from the crowd and beating them.Weekend partiers and residents in the heavily gay neighborhood quickly swelledthe ranks of the crowd to more than two thousand people, and the outnumberedpolice barricaded themselves inside the Stonewall Inn and called for reinforcements. Outside, rioters used an uprooted parking meter as a batteringram to try to break down the bar’s door, while other members of the crowdattempted to throw a Molotov cocktail inside to drive the police back into the streets. Tactical Patrol Force officers arrived on the scene in an attempt to contain the growing disturbance, which nevertheless continued for hours until dissipating before dawn. That night, thousands of people regrouped at the Stonewall Inn to protest. When the police arrived to break up the assembled crowd, street fighting even more violent than that of the night before ensued. One particularly memorable sight amid the melee was a line of drag queens, arms linked, dancing a can-can and singing campy, improvised songs that mocked the police and their inability to regain control of the situation: “We are the Stonewall girls / We wear our hair in curls / We always dress with flair / We wear clean underwear / We wear our dungarees / Above our nellie knees.” Minor skirmishes and protest rallies continued throughout the next few days before finally dying down. By that time, however, untold thousands of people had been galvanized into political action.

Sidebar: Radical Transsexual

Suzy Cooke was a young hippie from upstate New York who lived in a commune in Berkeley, California, when she started transitioning from male to female in 1969. She came out as a bisexual transsexual in the context of the radical counterculture.

I was facing being called back up for the draft. I had already been called up once and had just gone in and played crazy with them the year before. But that was just an excuse. I had also been doing a lot of acid and really working things out. And then December 31, 1968, I took something—I don’t really know what it was—but everything just collapsed. I said, “This simply cannot go on.” To the people that I lived with, I said, “I don’t care if you hate me, but I’m just going to have to do something. I’m going to have to work it out over the next couple of months, and that it doesn’t matter if you reject me, I just have to do it.”

As it was, the people in my commune took it very well. I introduced the cross-dressing a few days later as a way of avoiding the draft. And they were just taken aback at how much just putting on the clothes made me into a girl. I mean, hardly any makeup. A little blush, a little shadow, some gloss, the right clothes, padding. I passed. I passed really easily in public. This is like a few months before Stonewall. And by this point I was dressing up often enough that people were used to seeing it.

I was wallowing in the happiness of having a lot of friends. Here I was being accepted, this kinda cool/sorta goofy hippie kid. I was being accepted by all these heavy radicals. I had been rejected by my parental family, and I had never found a family at college, and now here I was with this family of like eight people all surrounding me. And as it turned out, even some of the girls that I had slept with were thinking that this was really cool. All the girls would donate clothes to me. I really had not been expecting this. I had been expecting rejection, I really had been. And I was really very pleased and surprised. Because I thought that if I did this then I was going to have to go off and live with the queens. And I didn’t.

Stonewall’s Transgender Legacy:

Within a month of the Stonewall Riots, gay activists inspired by the events in Greenwich Village formed the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), which modeled itself on radical Third World liberation and anti-imperialist movements. The GLF spread quickly through activist networks in the student and antiwar movements, primarily among white young people of middle-class origin. Almost as quickly as it formed, however, divisions appeared within the GLF, primarily taking aim at the movement’s domination by white men and its perceived marginalization of women, working-class people, people of color, and trans people. People with more liberal, less radical politics soon organized as the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), which aimed to reform laws rather than foment revolution. Many lesbians redirected their energy toward radical feminism and the women’s movement. And trans people, after early involvement in the GLF (and being explicitly excluded from the GAA’s agenda), quickly came to feel that they did not have a welcome place in the movement they had done much to inspire. As a consequence, they soon formed their own organizations.

In 1970, Sylvia Rivera and another Stonewall regular, Marsha P. Johnson, established STAR—Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Their primary goal was to help street kids stay out of jail, or get out of jail, and to find food, clothing, and a place to live. They opened STAR House, an overtly politicized version of the “house” culture that already characterized black and Latino queer kinship networks, where dozens of trans youth could count on a free and safe place to sleep. Rivera and Johnson, as “house mothers,” would hustle to pay the rent, while their “children” would scrounge for food. Their goal was to educate and protect the younger people who were coming into the kind of life they themselves led—they even dreamed of establishing a school for kids who’d never learned to read and write because their formal education was interrupted by discrimination and bullying. Some STAR members, particularly Rivera, were also active in the Young Lords, a revolutionary Puerto Rican youth organization. One of the first times the STAR banner was flown in public was at a mass demonstration against police repression organized by the Young Lords in East Harlem in 1970, in which STAR participated as a group. STAR House lasted for only two or three years and inspired a few short-lived imitators in other cities, but its legacy lives on even now.

A few other transgender groups formed in New York in the early 1970s. A trans woman named Judy Bowen organized two extremely short-lived groups: Transvestites and Transsexuals (TAT) in 1970 and Transsexuals Anonymous in 1971. More significant was the Queens’ Liberation Front (QLF), founded by drag queen Lee Brewster and heterosexual transvestite Bunny Eisenhower. The QLF formed in part to resist the erasure of drag and trans visibility in the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, which commemorated the Stonewall Riots and is now an annual event held in New York on the last Sunday in June. In many other cities, this weekend has become the traditional date to celebrate LGBTQ Pride. The formation of the QLF demonstrates how quickly the gay liberation movement started to push aside some of the very people who had the greatest stake in militant resistance at Stonewall. QLF members participated in that first Christopher Street Liberation Day march and were involved in several other political campaigns through the next few years—including wearing drag while lobbying state legislators in Albany. QLF’s most lasting contribution, however, was the publication of Drag Queen magazine (later simply Drag), which had the best coverage of transgender news and politics in the United States, and which offered fascinating glimpses of trans life and activism outside the major coastal cities. In New York, QLF founder Lee Brewster’s private business, Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique, was a gathering place for segments of the city’s transgender community well into the 1990s.

[el-oh-her]

You CAN be oppressed for being Christian. You CANT be opressed for being white: an opinion from a religion student

Okay so obviously the first thing you’re gonna want to say is how I’m wrong and just whining. That’s just an indication you don’t actually care what I have to say. 

SO, let’s talk about this distinction. 

Christians 

You CAN be oppresed as a christianity. It has happened. A bunch of times throughout history! When Christianity emerged it was an oppressed group in Rome. In Japan christians were being tortured and executed for their faith in paranoia of losing parts of their culture (fearing culteral erasure is a valid fear, murdering people is still wrong). People moved to mainland america BECAUSE they were christians fleeing religious opression. 

The fish symbol 

This, was a symbol for christians to identify each other in secret. 

Even in America it has happened. When the Irish were fleeing the famine, a lot migrated to the United States and one of the many reasons they were not liked was because the majority of them were Catholics. Catholics historically have had a terrible time in the united states, and are often blamed for a LOT of shit. JFK and Amy Coney Barret (look I don’t like the lady but it did happen with her) both faced an unusual line of questioning regarding their catholic faith that was not obersved with protestants who were applying for the same position. There’s a reason why Catholics will distinguish themselves from christians, because again it’s an idenity that unites them. So, even within the christian faith, there is a denomination that isn’t exactly loved. 

Now, it’s worth to note this hate of Catholics comes from centuries of catholic opression in europe. So, is the anger unfounded? No. Does that mean everyone should be nice to catholics? NO. It’s the catholic’s job to be better than their ancestors, and if they’re not doing that, then they’re just as much as apart of the problem. 

This same thing applies to modern christains in America. The hate and distrust towards them is due to 200 years of being oppressive. So, is the anger unfounded? No. Does that mean you should just be nice to christians? NO. If they are being assholes, they are just as bad as their ancestors. 

There are christians who are not like the shit you see on TV, I promise. But don’t be nice to ANYONE who’s an asshole because they belong to one group or another. That’s just life. There is no community that will ever absolve you from being an asshole. But also, don’t be mean to a christian just because that’s what they are. Don’t be mean to anyone because they’re apart of one group or another. That’s just not nice. And no one is going to be able to get along if you’re just mean, even if it is a group that has been on top historically. A kind person is a kind person at the end of the day, and a mean one is a mean one. 

And just to note: if someone is debating whether or not human rights belong to one group or another, that is not a nice person. I know plenty of christians (for example) who are very pro choice, pro gay, pro women, pro science etc. You don’t have to like someone if they really believe that your human rights aren’t necessary. 

Are christians being oppressed in America right now? No. No they are not. The WORST thing happening is that genuine practioners are going to have to navigate the social sphere with the lasting effect christian conservative radicles. That is a challenge that christians will just have to deal with, and is a result of letting shit like this get out of hand. 

So to conclude: Christians can and have historically been opressed, but they aren’t currently being opressed in America. 

White

Now, I am sure that after offending the liberal side, now the conservative side is angry because I said you can’t be oppressed for being white. 

Here is the important distinction: You can be a white person who has faced opression, but that opression will never be because you are white. 

The concept of whiteness is not an old concept. It’s emergence was to “other” certain minority groups. It only exists to create a distinction between groups, most noteably the difference between white and POC. 

Because when you think about it, what even is white? “White” is basically an umbrella term for “Pale skinned, usually european, usually protestant, usually straight, usually wealthy” or “Pale skinned americans who are usually european, usually protestant, usually straight, usually wealthy.” There is a white culture, but not in the way we usually talk about culture. It’s exclusionary at its base, and anyone who fits the bar gains all the benefits of being white. 

Like I hate to be that gal, but if I were asked to describe a white person I would say “A white, straight, protestant, billionare man from the south.” And that doesn’t exist for no reason. Historically, (besides the south part) the white straight protestant wealthy man was a pinacale american, and it’s only through the fight for human rights that the tearm has broadened enough to where being white is mostly just being pale. Like, make no mistake, today the only checkbox you have to tick is looking white, and you’re going to be able to go far. 

White supremecy is often tied to american patriotism. So let’s look at the things that people have said that makes others unamerican, or what is considered the socially undesireable in America in the eyes of white supremecists 

Being Gay 

Being transgender 

Not adhereing to gender binaries 

Being Mulsim 

Being Jewish 

Being homeless  

Being poor 

(in history) being a woman 

Feminine men 

Men wearing skirts and dresses 

Being black 

Being mexican 

Fighting for Social Justice 

Speaking languages that are not English (ASL excluded, since I’ve never seen it, but feel free to comment) 

So, if these are the things that the white supremecists point as unamerican or undeseraible, it’s an indication that these are qualities that are considered “not white” That is the closest thing we can get to white culture--a culture based on exclusion. 

In modern day, being white can get you far. It’s important to know that historically, being white alone wasn’t enough. we know this from the Irish who were catholic, and poor and fleeing a famine. White was this VIP club that was nearly impossible to get into. 

So, if being White is this exclusionary club that only emerged to other minority groups, then you can’t opresss it. “White” is synonomous with “Oppressor” because of this historical context. What this means is that IF people were being prejuduced for being nothing but white, they wouldn’t be white anymore in this sense. The quality of being white would no longer be something that lets you into the this exclusive club. 

And also, white people will NEVER be oppressed because that’s not really how society WORKS anymore. In a dystopic novel MAYBE, but in reality, all the oppressed groups aren’t like “kill all white people” but are rather like “hey, how about white people and anyone that’s not a white people be treated exactly the same socially and systemically.” Do you know how much WORK it would take to systematically oppress white people? Do you really think, that the people who want diveristy want to kick white people out of the circle? No! No! That’s NOT how it works! Diveristy is for everyone, even white people because guess what: there is more to you than being just WHITE! 

You have an ethnicity that’s not white. You’re irish, or german, or french or African or something!!!. Just fucking pick one and be proud of being THAT and not an idenity that literally exists to oppress. Being proud of being AMERICAN isn’t a fucking bad thing, being proud ot be WHITE is. 

Even if you are rich, male, straight, cisgender, and protestant, those are all still groups you belong to that can harmoniously co-exist with other groups. 

BLACK people have a black culture because, ding dong, white people took them and enslaved them. They don’t have the privlage of knowing their ethnic origin, and were FORCED to make a whole ass new one. THAT’S why there’s a black culture. It’s a direct result of white oppression, so quit bitching about it. 

PEOPLE OF COLOR have united to create a culture becuse of 2 CENTURIES of being othered by WHITE PEOPLE. THAT’S why they have a culture. Pan Indianism is a result of dumbass white people grouping them all together and stupidly thinking they’re all the same. They united in solidarity because it was the only way to keep a fragment of their idenity. The White Idenity has always tried to destory anything that doesn’t fit Whiteness. 

Why, fucking WHY would you want to be proud of that? 

You can be white and face oppression for being gay, trans, a woman, poor, akward or anything at all. YOUR SKIN COLOR WILL NEVER EVER BE THE REASON WHY YOU’RE BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY.  YOUR SKIN COLOR WILL NEVER MAKE LIFE MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU. YOUR SKIN IS A PRIVLAGE. I don’t care how much you don’t want to believe it: it will never be becuase you’re white. It will be because of something else. 

In Summery: The concept of white is inherently tied to the concept of oppresssion, since they’ve historically tried (sometimes succesfully) to obliterate other cultures that don’t fit the white aesthetic. You cannot oppress something that’s was literally created to oppress, and is not an idenity worth being proud of. 

The conclusion 

As much as it feels like Christians can’t be oppressed, the fact of the matter is that the religion was not designed or intended to oppress others, and have been historically oppressed. That’s what makes being christian different from being white, because the concept of whiteness emerged as a method of oppression. 

This doesn’t mean you should just be nice to christians because they’re christians. An asshole is an asshole, no matter what idenities they wear. Also, christians aren’t currently being oppressed. The “plights” that the radicales think they’re facing are more so just like, the USA being secular and not appealing to them. 

I feel like they often get mixed together because of how tied up protestantism is with white supremecy. Which is fair, as being protestant is a part of this exclusionary white culture. 

Disclaimer: As I have said many many times, this is not a post that is like “Stop being mean to christians!!!!” An asshole is an asshole. Don’t be nice to people who don’t believe in your human rights. Don’t be nice to people just because they belong to this group or that group. This post, also several times, has stated that in the current climate, christians are not being oppressed, not in the slightest. So when you read about some christian talking about their oppression, it’s most likely the American Government being secular, and refusing to bend for the christian agenda. 

This post’s goal was to show you the distinction between christianity and whiteness, and most importantly show the real enemy: white supremicists.