@blackmastodon@histodons I hope this author has written somewhere else more convincing evidence that white women appropriating the mechanisms of Patriarchy somehow constitutes “feminism”. 🙄
@ScottGrimmett@blackmastodon@histodons The author specifically uses the phrase “White feminism”. What you just said, re: the patriarchy, is a core component of it. An article from someone else calls it “white supremacy in heels”.
Pass it on👇🏾
“I'm begging the American people to pay attention to what is going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for your. children, and your children's children, and generations yet unborn we've got to guard this moment...this is our watch.”- Elijah E. Cummings🗳️
@davidhmccoy@TheConversationUS@blackmastodon The implication being that you can't find out the black experience by, say, talking to black people and then believing what they say.
My dad had Black Like Me on his bookshelf, as a psychologist. It wasn't merely professional, either. Our Irish ancestry has a darker skin tone than normal, but still 'white', and afro-textured black hair. In the service at the end of WWII he was denied restrooms in Georgia.
I find the inference that posing as black for discovery is just another form of blackface to be very interesting, and a tell of racism, realized or not, within the speaker themself. It's also interesting see how people want to form the line of color on a spectrum that is largely seamless.
In honor of Juneteenth, the team at @EatingWell has curated this @Flipboard Storyboard of recipes, all of which have special significance for the holiday. The collection contains dishes created by South Carolina cook and activist Mabel Owens Clark and Jessica B. Harris, the culinary historian and living legend, and includes recipes made with traditional prosperity ingredients such as collards, rice, beans and corn.
Romance Writers of America (RWA) is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in part because of years of controversy surrounding race and inclusion. The trade association was founded by a Black woman in 1980 but became progressively whiter and less supportive of Black writers, awarded controversial books and in 2005, polled members on if romance should be defined as between one man and one woman. Despite all this, romance itself is thriving — it's the highest-earning fiction genre and sales are climbing. NBC took a look at what went wrong at the RWA. We want to know: What genres of book do you read (choose as many options as you like)? And if you're a writer, tell us about your work in the comments!
@CultureDesk@bookstodon@blackmastodon
The poll results are a bit surprising to me. I always knew sci-fi was popular, but I wouldn't have predicted it to be first. My debut novel was #sci_fi (or, more specifically, #PoliSciFi) but I mostly read non-fiction.
@EllenInEdmonton@blackvoices@blackmastodon Even to this day, while maybe no longer using relaxer, she uses expensive hair extensions and other types of hair pieces that give her the appearance of a “natural” look that’s financially out of reach for most Black women. Still, I do appreciate her frankly decrying her nightmarish experiences using relaxers. I remember back before she was “Oprah”, she wore a short Afro on local Baltimore TV news where I used to see her in the early 1980’s.
@Weirding_Is_Real@blackvoices@blackmastodon You’re welcome! NYT does a pretty good job with its audio versions of its longer articles— a godsend for my elderly mother, whose eyesight makes it harder to read the tiny print of longer pieces.