#antiracist baby

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[battlinghugetbr]

3044 (+22)

I am pretty sure that I read "Vi har fundet en hat" by Jon Klassen and "Antiracist Baby" by Ibram X. Kendi. (i know that I read them, but i am not fully sure if they were on the tbr.)

I am planning to read a lot tomorrow, so hopefully the number will go down.

[mascula-sappho]

forget the "white people are racist if they hate rap for no reason". White people are racist if they hate/don't give African music a try.

Here is a list so you can't get out of this:

1. Fais moi confiance by Sidiki Diabaté ( 🇲🇱 Mali)

Sikiki Diabaté is the son of a very famous griot (traditional musician) who popularized the kora (traditional West African stringed instrument) in America and other places abroad. This genius song mixes traditional kora melodies with the sounds and vocals of modern Afrobeats.

2. Wuyuma by Viviane Chidid (🇸🇳 Senegal)

This is very close to my heart because I was raised with Senegalese cultural elements my mom picked up when she lived there for 2 years. I grew up wearing Senegalese clothes and wash myself, pour tea, and hand wash in a Senegalese way. I grew up answering to "astafulai!" (An expression of exasperation). This song is about an unrequited crush and might be my favorite Senegalese song of all time. My mom and I love belting out the lyrics. I have a panya (Senegalese wrap skirt, essentially a sarong) blocking my window as I write this, which I will probably wear soon cause it's hot where I live rn. In a few years I might go visit my mom's friends there.

3. Gwara Nao Para by ASSI, BM (🇬🇭 Ghana)

If you know anything about azonto or Ghanian pop culture, you know this song. An oldie but a goodie, it was so popular when it released it inspired its own dance move, called Gwara Gwara, which is now an almost universally known basic dance move.

4. soso by Omah Lay (🇳🇬 Nigeria)

I would be a horrible person if I didn't share this song at least, or maybe the whole album this is from. Possessing lyrics discussing mental health struggles, which used to be more taboo, this groundbreaking album is a treat and this song is so good it literally never gets old. This is peak Afrobeats.

5. Piki Piki by Mustbedubz, Lintonto, etc. (🇿🇦 South Africa)

If I didn't put amapiano on this list I don't know what I would be doing. This sound has swept Africa and the world, giving young South Africans something to be proud of. And they should be because this song SLAPS. Yes, I know it's super long, but wait for the halfway point before clicking off. I promise it's worth it.

[cowboy-heart]

'BUTCH MANIFESTO'

inspired by 'FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO' by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

(ID under cut)

Ko-Fi (Commissions Open!)

[ID: an original poem titled 'BUTCH MANIFESTO'. the stanzas are all on the left side of the page and lineated, except for the first line, and last stanza. Poem begins:

Listen up! Butches hold it down! We don’t spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes and black and white tuxes – we shop off the charity shop rack, hand-me-downs from our bois, our men, our women. Butch is not a glamour word - Butch is not for the white collars in their 9-5 and their office parties, Butch is not for the woman in a police uniform with short cropped hair, Butch is not for the masc who looks down on our femmes, Butch is not for the dumbass white people who call themselves stud, like our people haven’t taken enough from black lesbians, Butch is not for the politician or the soldier, it’s for those of us who get shit done and don’t throw anyone under the bus; who stand between our loved ones and the white-knuckled fist; it’s for the people who take a breath of relief when they get home and get to lay their head on the shoulder of their baby and say, it’s hard, and I need you right now; it’s for those of us with hard-soled feet, worn by hours of standing, just so people can buy some useless shit on a Sunday. Butch is for the primary school teachers, the neighbour keeping your package safe, the hairstylist, the barber, the youth worker, the locked up, the sectioned, the evicted, the boy on the dole. Butches hold each other up, Butches stand up for communities, no matter how different we might be.

Butches stand up for Butches, because only we know the shit we face, we don’t argue over what butch looks like for someone - their struggle doesn’t counteract ours. We’re brothers, sisters, siblings, lovers, mentors, we don’t fight over femmes or fight each other. We help up our siblings who can’t hold themselves up and shouldn’t have to.

Butch is recognising our hurt, our pain, and making sure nobody has to go through that, in the very least not alone. Butch is not reproducing that hurt, butch isn’t the transfem exclusion, the toxicity, it’s driving our girls and boys to the abortion clinic, it’s holding your femme’s hair back over the toilet bowl, it’s telling your darlin’ to take a deep breath, before you poke the needle into her thigh, it’s holding back on punching the catcaller because you know it’ll put your lover in more danger, it’s fishing in your closet for an old, dusty dress for your questioning girl, it’s never calling the cops, it’s carrying the Narcan, it’s gathering the funds for bail, it’s tipping the waiter, it’s kissing the bruised chin of a fellow butch who’s built like a brick shithouse.

Butch is not all muscle, able-bodied, white Butch is not all skinny and androgynous Butch is care Butch is NURTURE. Butch is a cane and an unsteady step Butch is putting down the ramp Butch is wheeling up it Butch is addict Butch is straight-edge Butch is diaspora Butch is desi Butch is antiracist Butch is socialist Butch is punk Butch is black Butch is brown Butch is fat Butch is fat-loving Butch is mental illness Butch is antipsych Butch is autism Butch is trans Butch is anger Butch is tears Butch is grief Butch is the old bull Butch is the closeted kid in a dress Butch is the baby dyke wearing a rainbow flag cape Butch is smile lines Butch is crinkled eyes Butch is crying in your friend’s beat-up car Butch is foetal position Butch is pink Butch is motherhood Butch is fatherhood Butch is cat-dad Butch is fucking Butch is getting fucked Butch is stone Butch is bashful Butch is humble Butch is cocky Butch is proud Butch is single Butch is uneducated Butch is poet Butch is poetry Butch is council estate Butch is gentleness Butch is bones and spit and the soft curve of our lower backs the clenched jaw under a double chin the hard-eyes that any femme can see right through the estradiol the testosterone the carabiner clink the thick hands the cellulite the bloody pads the tampon string the mood swings the sagging tits the top surgery scars the swinging cock the hairy pussy the protruding t-dick the leather harness.

Butch is eternity Butch is sewn into the fabric of atoms Butch is love and solidarity Butch is never leaving anyone behind and never selling anyone out.

End poem. In the bottom right corner, the poet is signed as 'Ren H.' End ID].

[tacitusk1llwhore]

Don’t cancel me for this, y’all, but I’ve seen a lot of politically charged posts about RDR (as I should; games about outlaws and the corruption of big and small government are and always will be inherently political), but one thing has really bothered and stuck out to me the most, especially in male-dominated spaces in the fandom. The idea that the Arthur Morgan in this day and age would be a raging MAGA conservative—I’ve gotten so, so many posts about it on my TikTok today, and this is finally me snapping. Here are a few arguments I’ve heard for this. “When he hears that the Democrats want to take his guns, he’d say hell no to that.” “He’s from 1899; you really think he would vote for a Black woman?” And my personal favorite: “Arthur says in-game he doesn’t engage in politics.” I’m not going to go through each of these and explain, in detail with evidence from the games themselves, why I think these are the dumbest takes I’ve ever heard in my life. In a space I hope is more open to this discussion, I hope you’ll join me.

1.) The gun control issue. I know, I know, this one seems pretty obvious; I mean, he’s a red-blooded American man and cowboy. How could anyone possibly think for a second he’d be for the party of gun control?? While this is true, you know what’s also true? The fact that he lost a child to gun violence. Now, of course we don't know exactly how Isaac and Eliza were killed, but judging from the time and efficiency, we can assume they were shot. Now let’s get away from assumptions. Arthur mourned the loss of his son, felt the agonizing, intense pain of losing a child, and said that it changed him forever, hardened his heart. Do we really for a second think that Arthur would listen to the story of Sandy Hook, Parkland, Uvalde, and countless others and say, “No, guns are more important.”? Absolutely fucking not. Not only has Arthur felt that loss, that pain, but he is deeply empathetic; hearing the testimonials of children in these buildings, families that lost their babies, would be more than enough for him to understand and push for common sense gun laws. The erasure of Arthur Morgan's trauma of losing his son and the erasure of his empathy for children and families is rampant in political spaces of the fandom; to simply assume that because Arthur is an outlaw, in modern times he would be this “don’t tread on me.” “Cares more about guns than kids” kind of guy is asinine to me. Even if he hadn’t felt that loss and that pain, there are multiple times in the game where he is given a deeper understanding of things he has never experienced; he becomes angry at that pain inflicted, takes the mission with Charles and the Bison, and hears about the vaccines being diverted from the reservations, and the Black doctor (I think he’s a doctor) you meet in Rhodes. Once he heard these stories, these testimonials, or saw the pain, the hardship, he was quick to step in and do something to make a change. He would not value weapons over the lives of people, as we can see from the game.

2.) This one is always fun to see because it assumes that Arthur is inherently racist. Now, I’m going to state one of my least favorite but still valid arguments: he has minority friends. This is very true; look at Charles, Lenny, Javier, and Tilly. Here is why it’s one of my least favorite arguments: you can have minority friends and still be racist, sexist, homophobic… Having friends doesn’t make you antiracist, so what makes Arthur antiracist? One camp interaction stands out to me the most in regards to this, the one with Tilly when they first move south. Tilly comes to Arthur in specific to talk about how nervous she is being so far south; she understands that the south is a dangerous place for dark-skinned people, especially the location they’re in. Arthur, while he tries to soothe her, pointlessly at first, claiming that it's a good place to run from the law, also understands this, almost immediately changing his tone and telling Tilly not once but twice that e personally will keep her safe, that she has his word that he personally will keep her safe; a man that has hate in his heart for POC would not do that, ever. Another interaction is one with Lenny, where Lenny points out that Arthur wouldn’t notice the difference in the more southern states because the worst they’ll do to him publicly is say that he is friends with POC (less soft than that, watch the clips of it on YouTube if you want the full dialogue), whereas for Lenny the worst that can happen to him publicly is a lynching (which he states all the way back in chapter one where he almost was lynched). Arthur is not ignorant of racism; he knows that it exists—I hate the whole “Arthur doesn’t know about racism.” Because he does, and saying he doesn’t is an insult to his intelligence and awareness of the world around him. He knows racism exists; he personally just cannot fathom it; he cannot picture himself perpetuating racism (again, see the scene in Rhodes with the Black man), which is where I think that confusion that people say he doesn’t understand it comes from—he isn’t confused by racism; he’s confused why that man assumes he’s racist, because in his head he simply can’t fathom being bigoted.

This one has two parts, so bear with me. This also assumes that Arthur is sexist; the argument I see for this is the one-off comment he makes to the working girl at the saloon, "I didn't know I was talkin' to a lady." Was this an ok statement? No. Does it make him a raging sexist? Also no. Let's look at his relationship with Sadie; he does not underestimate her because she's a woman; he trusts in her and her abilities with unwavering confidence, so much so that he entrusts the safety of John, Abigail, and Jack to her. Now let's look at the camp interactions, one of which Arthur states that he sees no difference between men and women (bi king) and that most are bad, but some are worth loving. A man who is a raging sexist would never say something like this; he would never equate men and women, but Arthur does see them as equals. I see a lot of people point out that Arthur is far more protective of the camp girls than most, but this isn't because he sees them as less than him; he just understands that a lot of them lack the ability to fully protect themselves (Love you, Tilly and Mary-Beth). He isn't quite as protective of the women that he knows with confdence can and will protect themselves with confidence, but even then he will stick up for them if needed. Arthur Morgan is a protector of women, which is so incredibly important today and back then.

3.) Here’s my favorite. Arthur doesn’t engage in politics. Looking at this in terms of the game, he absolutely does engage in politics; he has opinions on rights and the government; that is, in fact, political—he doesn’t vote, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t make political statements or isn’t even unintentionally political. Now let’s look at this in the frame of today. Being non-political in 1899 and being non-political in 2025 are two wildly different things; politics has changed drastically in the last almost decade where thngs have circled back around to be voting for or against human rights, and from my evidence above, Arthur would be voting for those rights. In modern times it is almost impossible to be nonpolitical; I dare say it's impossible. Everything now has politics attached to it; that argument is their gotcha moment because they don't understand that, which is why they make the argument in the first place.

So, why does this matter? Arthur is a pixel outlaw in a fictional setting of 1899 America. I guess in the grand scheme of life it really doesn’t, but in fandom culture it absolutely does. Many people, including myself, come to fandom spaces to escape, to cope with things from their past or events of the day, to chat about characters, and to share theories and art, and so on. Imagine someone who lost a child, sibling, or friend to gun violence logging on for their daily dose of distraction only to see someone making points as to why a character who is comforting to so many people wouldn’t care about the death of their lost loved one, just guns. A POC or member of the LGBTQ community doing the same and seeing arguments as to why Arthur is homophobic or racist. Seeing something like that is in fact harmful; taking things and stretching them to fit your narrative despite the actual source material pointing in the opposite direction requires erasure and explaining your own personal biases publicly. Someone stating that Arthur is a racist is just them stating that they themselves are a racist or that they themselves care more about guns than lives—as we’ve seen, the public stating of controversial things or overall morally reprehensible ideals when gone unchecked spirals and spreads, and soon we have a space of people who will openly state bigoted things and push the people in the fandom here for reasons of a shared enjoyment for whatever reason or the people who use things to cope or as a distraction out of the space, effectively ruining it and potentially the outlook on the content of the game. Fandom spaces shouldn’t tolerate bigotry, and lots of Red Dead fans have been expressing bigotry lately, and these people have started to go completely unchecked. It bothers me; it always will, even if it is just a silly cowboy game.

[doberbutts]

It’s very refreshing to see your thoughts on the state of feminism and masculinity, particularly men’s position in the movement. Sometimes coming on here makes me feel insane with the takes I see from people who have clearly never done any activist work, read anything by a black activist, or actual gender studies scholarship. I really enjoy reading your takes, they’re very nuanced and thought provoking!

I was talking with a very good friend of mine (a black lesbian) and discussing how we go online and see totally wild assbackwards takes from people claiming to be feminists and antiracists and then when actually confronted with the work, freak out and state that it's antithetical to the cause. Even when it's work written by people who began the cause. How we grew up in fairly similar yet different demographics and we heard all the same early work from our black elders and then we come online and even the most baby kindergarten-ass idea or theory is shredded in favor of some extreme bastardization of the most radical political viewpoints and that's it.

For her, it's why she doesn't engage with tumblr anymore. For me, it's why I refuse to let people try to talk over me about black politics.

[samwisethewitch]

Hello! Recently found your blog while looking for witchy tips and tricks, and I ADORE your posts! However, it’s kinda tricky for me to navigate it all; I was wondering if you had a master list/master post? Or if there are specific tags you use just for witchy-related topics? Thank you, and have a nice day/evening. 💜

Thank you so much!! 🩷 I'm so glad you find my posts helpful!

I do not have a masterlist, however, I do tag my stuff pretty religiously. I recommend checking out the following tags:

#baby witch bootcamp -- for all of my "witchcraft 101" posts

#paganism 101 -- for beginner-friendly info about paganism

#queer witchcraft -- for posts specific to queer magic

#southern folk magic -- for posts related to my folk magic practice

#my spells -- for spells from my own practice

#reclaiming -- for posts related to Reclaiming, the feminist neopagan tradition I am part of

#inclusive heathenry -- for posts related to antiracist, queer- and trans-affirmimg Norse paganism

I also use the tag "#my writing" for all of my longform written content, so that tag has literally everything I've written for this blog.

I hope this is helpful!

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

there’s not a ton of race stuff in tender is the night (although to some degree i guess that depends on whether you consider the italy sequence to be race stuff…) but what there is is quite weird. or i guess maybe not that weird — i really love and wish i had previously been familiar with toni morrison’s coinage of “american africanism” to describe the metaphorical uses of blackness in american literature and the stuff about the dead black man in paris i think largely falls under pretty standard africanist deployment to signify the depth of abe north’s tawdriness, descent, etc. (fitzgerald sometimes gets credit for doing some kind of antiracist work by making tom buchanan such a weird race science obsessed white paranoia freak and while that is a great and still resonant choice i sometimes feel like people overstate tom’s offenses to morality, as defined in the novel, and underrate how much his sin of one of taste). but then there’s the snippet we get of nicole’s post-partum psychotic relapse where we see her saying “You tell me my baby is black—that’s farcical, that’s very cheap” after a trip to africa combined with the fact that her daugter’s name is… topsy, the name of the little slave girl in fucking uncle tom’s cabin and therefore in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries one of the most famous fictional black characters in america. and that’s the kind of thing where i’m like…. i feel like…. something weirder…. is happening here… but i’m Not Sure What :|

[seriousfic]

"Someone help us! There are Facehuggers in the medical bay! They're trying to kill us!"

"Oh, so Xenomorphs are ontologically evil now? They're just born bad? You know, I'm really disappointed in you, Ripley. This isn't very antiracist at all. For all you know, those baby aliens could grow up with positive values and choose to be productive members of society. What other races do you think are evil, huh? Blacks?"

[melisssg99]

This is what I'm talking about when I say I like traditionalism.

I like old traditional ways of living.(Not all)

I like looking back at history, look at the way my grandmother and grandfather lived. The ways they survived, the way they ate, the way they celebrated.

Etcetera etcetera.

For me personally this means I do more of the work in our house and my partner does more work outside the house. That's our personal choice and I don't think this is how everyone should live because I'm aware this isn't for everyone.

But this also means I like traditional Dutch wooden clogs.(The oldest wooden footwear so far recovered in Europe was found at Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. These date from c. 1230 and c. 1280)

I like traditional Dutch customs like the fact we always have birthday calendars in our bathrooms.

Or we like to eat bread with 'hagelslag'(1919) or "chocolate sprinkles".

I like the tradition of decorating our front garden with signs flags and other crazy things when a baby is born, a person turns 25 or 50, or people have been married for a certain amount of years!

I like how we used to all have gardens, grow some of our own food and have animals.

I like how we took the time to hand make beautiful things!

I'd like to keep some of those things alive by gardening like my grandfather did,

cook, bake, love and nurture like my grandmother did.

This doesn't make me less bisexual,

egalitarian, open-minded, antiracist ETC.

This doesn't make me a bad person.

This also doesn't make anyone who doesn't live like I do a bad person.

This just makes me a human with an interest in some of the good from the past and wishes to take some of the good to today and keep the bad things from the past, in the past.

I do NOT want to go back in time.

I DO want to keep beautiful traditions alive.

☺️🩷🍞🌷🥔🌾💐🐖🐄🍎

[stuff-that-irks-me]

New Albuquerque Clinic Offers Late-Term Abortion Services Up to 32 Weeks: Unfathomable Evil

A self-described “queer” and “BIPOC-led” abortion business has just opened in Albuquerque, New Mexico, offering to murder babies up to birth.

The Valley Abortion group, also known as the “VAG” clinic (quite a fitting acronym), boasts they’re “one of the few” clinics that provide “care” for “all genders” in “all stages of pregnancy.” 

“At VAG our providers deliver care through an antiracist, survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach,” they advertise on their Facebook page. By “antiracist,” they mean murdering babies of all races… equitably!

In fact, free abortions are the only form of “care” they provide, thanks to New Mexico forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. 

[jellybeanium124]

xxx

I'm angry in this one btw. real properly angry. I don't wanna talk about this because I know some of y'all are thiiiiis close to blocking me for not falling in line and being a good little jew and repeating the slogans thoughtlessly, but I'm so mad and scared and nobody cares at all and I wanna shut up about it so I don't lose all my goyische friends but I can't I just can't.

hm maybe people are being arrested because there is some violence and this is terrifying jewish students?? and I think the author of this article is way too kind to these students. they hail hamas as heroes. they don't think the innocent civilian hostages should be released for the crime of being israeli. they champion themselves as being antiracist when ANTISEMITISM IS AN ETHNIC PREJUDICE YOU DUMB FUCKING CHAZERS!!!

jews are terrified.

rabbis are telling us to stay home.

whenever there's an "assembly" on the uni I live by, I'm terrified it'll turn violent. I'm terrified they'll burn down or deface the clearly labelled building where the jewish org lives.

I stopped wearing my magen david because I'm terrified of my peers, my peers who are supposed to be inclusive and love everyone regardless of ethnicity, seeing that I'm jewish and harassing me or worse.

the average college campus is less safe for jews than it has been in decades.

the optics of your movement are shit. you're infested with jew haters, and no one seems to care!! no goy cares, because you all care more about hating israel than not hating jews. and hating israel turns into hating jews so, so quickly. I want palestine to be a free nation. I want this war to end. but none of you understand that as long as hamas exists peace cannot happen. none of you understand that if you hate israelis you're a fucking antisemite lol sorry. if you want every israeli dead, you want half the world's jews dead. if you don't think that makes you an antisemite, lemme give you another example. let's say you want all black americans dead (not all black people are american, in fact, less than half the world's black population are in america). are you racist? YES. same fucking logic here.

saw a video the other day where some dumbfuck was like "have you considered that all hamas knows is oppression and hatred? 🥺" THESE ARE GROWN ADULTS!! YOU RACIST FUCKING INFANTILIZING FUCKING IDIOT!! THEY ARE GROWN ADULT HUMANS AND YOU ARE TREATING THEM LIKE BABIES AND CLAIM TO BE ANTIRACIST??? if you see POC as too innocent to be bad, then you are falling for the noble savage stereotype all over again. has that stereotype historically been attributed to arab people? no. but it definitely fucking is now with the way y'all think rape and terrorism is excusable.

none of you fucking idiots see anyone involved as full humans because none of you have a goddamn piece in it. you see palestinians as innocent babies who could never rape or hurt anyone, and you see israelis as demons to be exterminated. you're racist, you're hateful, you're not helping anything, and I hope you will one day be so, so ashamed of the fear you've instilled in jews worldwide while seeing them as genociding monsters regardless of ties to israel or anything, as well as the myopic infantilizing racist way you view arab people.

and one last thing: "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" IS ANTISEMITIC. IT'S A SLOGAN ENDORSED BY HAMAS. IF YOU ARE CHANTING THAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER GUESS WHAT YOU'RE HAVING AN ANTISEMITIC PROTEST, SORRY. you can't reclaim that slogan, it is calling for the destruction of israel, which will lead to jewish genocide, or just a massive jewish refugee crisis if they're lucky and hamas doesn't succeed in their goal of exterminating the jews.

[readingsquotes]

"Elite panic, manifested in crackdowns on dissent, has clarified to growing numbers of people a basic truth: any hope of building a multiracial left strong enough to confront the resurgence of fascism depends on solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. This is because Zionism, the movement for a state for the Jewish people in the eastern Mediterranean, is the cause that happens to most powerfully unite liberals and the right in open expression of racist warmongering.

In its aspiration to racialize Jews worldwide, Zionism has two poles: in Palestine, it is a colonial project of Jewish supremacy. In the United States, the most important center of Jewish life outside of Palestine, Zionism has buttressed a liberal multiracial order in which Jews of European origin are considered both white and an aggrieved minority. This combination explains the outrage cycles over antisemitism that punctuate American public life, in which Zionists can weaponize the language of antiracism against critics of Israel. When directed at actual victims of Euro-American racism and colonialism, however, tendentious accusations of antisemitism have always carried a whiff of desperation — which is also why the multiracial character of the Palestine solidarity movement has threatened  Zionism and must be either downplayed or disrupted.

This dynamic, which leaves antisemitism on the far right to metastasize unchecked, has only intensified since Oct. 7. Many of the flashpoints over Palestine have been sites of ruling-class power purportedly charged with reproducing a multiracial meritocratic elite: electoral politics, government bureaucracy, corporations, nonprofits, the arts, journalism, and above all higher education. And it is predictable that after Palestinians themselves, those punished for speaking out on Palestine in these spaces are often Black.

....

Boomer Zionism’s policing of post–civil rights parameters had its first major test in the summer of 2016, when a policy platform document produced by a major BLM movement organization (and co-authored by Rachel Gilmer, a Black Jewish organizer), the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) crossed a red line of Zionist consensus by accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians. The blowback was swift and predictable: Zionist groups decried the statement, and a New York City fund-raiser for BLM was canceled. But compared to critics of Israel in the academy and nonprofit sector, BLM was a robust social movement and less vulnerable to Zionist pressures. Instead the move backfired, amplifying intergenerational schisms within Jewish communities. Activists who had been energized by BLM turned against the heavy-handed tactics of boomer Zionists. Some did so out of solidarity with Palestinians, others because they wanted to preserve the possibility of building alliances with Black activists. For these younger Jews, interrogating their whiteness in the United States also pushed them to question their Jewish privilege under Zionism. In modeling an antiracist approach that departed from post–civil rights parameters, BLM helped shift the conditions for critique within Jewish communities as well, influencing groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow.

[textualviolence]

like octavia butler is a black woman writer & she said in interviews she was a feminist and committed to anti racism. So what else could her books possibly be about i mean shes gotta be teaching us how to be even better antiracist feminists, right? Thats why we read her works. to be more woke. become better allies. "gain consciousness" shut the fuck up!!!! xenogenesis has got none of that in it so stop lying!!! just cause the main character is a black woman doesn't mean the book is here to teach you how to not be racist like a stupid little baby. The "Utopian ending" of xenogenesis is one in which fascism has won. And its because the point isn't fascism bad or fascism good but fascism scary and upsetting (& therefore fascism horny). Give up on your sense of self and your ostensible ethics and morality that are all about how "forced eugenic breeding" and "mass sterilization of unfit populations" is something you're "fundamentally opposed to". Just give in, because it feels good. There you go. Good girl. Your morals mean nothing and you're my little doggy now. And you get a Utopia in exchange (a fascist one). Thats what xenogenesis is about. And no one gets it!!! And donna haraway was like "uhhhh its an opening of feminist possibilities" no it isn't!!!! its an opening of possibilities for my pussy but its not saying shit about what we could or should so as feminists shut the fuck uppppppppppp

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Alice Wright

Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Research Center at Boston University fires almost HALF its 45 staff, as ex-workers claim he had too much power and brand him EXPLOITATIVE

Woke activist Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Research Center at Boston University had laid off up to twenty members off staff

Boston University confirmed the center had made 15 to 20 workers as the center moves towards a fellowship model 

Former and current staff alleged that the center had been poorly managed 

Woke activist Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Research Center at Boston University had laid off up to twenty members off staff amidst accusations from former workers that the organization was 'exploitative' and poorly managed. 

Boston University confirmed the center had made 15 to 20 workers redundant from a staff of 45 as it moves towards a fellowship model. 

'The Center is evolving to a fellowship model. Dr. Kendi remains the Director. We can confirm that there were layoffs at the Center' Vice President Rachel Lapal Cavallario told Fox News on Thursday. 

'The University and Center are committed to working with and supporting affected employees as they look for their next opportunities' the statement read. 

But staff who worked there painted a far less diplomatic picture, claiming Kendi was given too much power and that he mistreated those working for him. 

He infamously implied that white people should be discriminated against to tackle the horrific prejudice previously inflicted on black Americans. 

The center opened at BU during the turbulent summer of 2020 when America reckoned with nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd. 

Some former and current staff told the Boston Globe that the center had been poorly managed by Kendi. 

'There are a number of ways it got to this point, it started very early on when the university decided to create a center that rested in the hands of one human being, an individual given millions of dollars and so much authority,' Spencer Piston, faculty lead of the center's policy office told the publication.  

Former assistant director of narrative at the center, Saida Grundy, said the center lacked structure and the culture was 'exploitative' as she was asked to work unreasonable hours. 

'It became very clear after I started that this was exploitative and other faculty experienced the same and worse,' she told the outlet. 

Kendi garnered recognition in academic circles with his 2019 book 'How To Be An Antiracist,' which exploded in popularity during the global movement for racial equality in 2020.  

Then-president of BU Robert A. Brown said at the time that Kendi's leadership 'would create a critical emphasis on research and policy to help eliminate racism in our country.'

Kendi's hiring announcement was followed by a flood of donations to BU to support the center and Kendi's work, including a $1.5 million, three-year gift from the biotech company Vertex and a $10 million donation from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey later that summer. 

A few months later, The Rockefeller Foundation donated $1.5 million over two years to help fund the center's COVID-19 Racial Data Tracker.

Kendi's work, especially his children's book 'Antiracist Baby' has gained criticism for teaching children controversial critical race theory. 

Kendi defended his books in June 2022 as a way to teach people, including children, to 'see racism.'

'Well, actually, teaching people to see racism,' Kendi said on 'CBS Mornings.' 'There's a difference. Race is a mirage. Racism is real. And it's – you know who's the most likely to be harmed by racism? Our children. You know who are least likely to engage about it? Our children. That's what's really prevailing me to do this work.'

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Kendi is a full-blown fraud.

Glenn Loury: I take umbrage at the lionization of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed mother-fuckers like Ibram X. Kendi, who couldn't carry my book-bag. Who hasn't read... no, I'm sorry, he hasn't read a fucking thing. If you ask him what Nietzsche said, he would have no idea. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he's an unserious, superficial, empty-suited lightweight. He's not our equal, not even close. Fuck.

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hairspray was straight up such a big influence on me lmaoooo like baby’s first antiracist anti fatphobia exposure