🗣 ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
ANY GENDER CAN GET THEIR PERIOD.
#NationalPeriodDay
@CiCiAdams_
Someone tweeted “y’all use chile as slang but don’t care about the country of Chile” and I was like if this ain’t the most anti Black shit I have ever seen
If you are a Black freelancer, business owner, work a 9-5 or are currently unemployed and COVID-19 cancellations are impacting you, please put your Venmo/PayPal/Cashapp info below 👇🏾
IF YOU ARE ONLY SAYING GEORGE FLOYD’S NAME, YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
Breonna Taylor - Black woman murdered by police.
Tony McDade- Black trans man murdered by police and Tallahassee police department STILL has not released the name of the officer.
*taps mic* 🗣:
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Virginity is a myth.
Kanye’s Instagram account was restricted when he was anti semitic, NOT when he was aligning himself with white supremacist slogans or bullying a Black woman, anti semitism will not be interrupted as long as anti blackness is cultural acceptable and met with no consequence.
#MyWhitePrivilege
needs a trigger warning. That white people can just put on display for the world to see what they have gotten away with and still not experience any repercussions isn’t privilege, it’s power.
Kamala Harris IS meeting with Netanyahu, y'all. She is just doing so in private to make it appear she doesn't support him. Please do not fall for the lies. She would not be VP or win the Democratic nomination if she did not support Israel. It comes with the territory.
Dear White people,
Instead of regurgitating
#blackhistory
that you otherwise do not care about the other 11 months out of the year, give some coin to Black folks and/or businesses. See folks to contribute to in the comments
Reparations or bust,
Ericka
Call outs are love.
Call outs are necessary.
Call outs begin a process of accountability.
Call outs inform community.
Call outs are survivor-centered.
Opposition to call outs is more times than not a desire to coddle harmful people/behaviors.
🗣:
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Any gender can have an abortion
Your Wednesday reminder that gender is NOT genitals. Doctors are ASSIGNING gender in sonograms and at birth. People generally share their gender identity around the age of 3. You may have been told that biology is binary, but that’s not the case either.
I want to see the same demands of grace, sympathy and care given to Kanye, given to Megan thee Stallion.
She is also mourning her Mom and had a major traumatic event that folks ran to make jokes about.
Not sure who needs this but, your romantic relationship(s) should NOT be hard. Your relationship should support you through life’s inevitable hardships, not cause it. An argument here and there- sure, but not MOST of the time. You deserve to get what you need without contest.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
The economy is NOT a person.
A thread on
#JameelaJamil
: So last year
@jameelajamil
reached out to me to be on her show
@i_weigh
I thought okay.. not sure how this will go since I don’t position myself as part of the body positive movement so I figured I would talk about body positivity being co-opted.
*Thread* Tomorrow you will strategically be bombarded by corporate LGBTQ non profits asking you to fight for trans people by donating to their orgs. DO NOT DONATE TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS. The money goes to the executive directors and other various salaries
“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.” - bell hooks
⠀
Rest easy bell hooks, thank you for being the disruption the world needed.
If you are shocked at what happened to Meghan Markle wait till you read about how the English colonized countries resulting in murder and displacement of people and culture for centuries.
Unsolicited advice for parents/guardians/family members with children/teens around during the holidays (and just in general), a thread:
1. Children’s bodies belong to themselves, bodily autonomy is key. They do not have to hug, kiss,
There's a lot going on and none of it includes reparations to Black people, so if you are white or NBPOC, open your wallet.
Black folks, put your venmos, cashapps and paypals in the comments.
I was today years old when I learned that Ishmael Reed wrote a play critiquing Hamilton titled ‘The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda’ that Toni Morrison funded and provided her apartment for rehearsals!
#MyWhitePrivilege
is white people sharing their privilege, patting themselves on the back for being “aware” while using that same power to convince Black and Brown folks that awareness is all that’s necessary
Dear adults,
Say ‘sorry’ to young people when you do something wrong. It not only teaches them accountability, but also shows them that you are human, not perfect.
Love,
Someone who has a hard time saying sorry as an adult
Dear white people,
No need to jog for justice. Y’all got other things to do for justice. Jogging is THE LAST ON THE LIST. Black people deserve more than your symbolism.
- a tired Black person
I’m still not over the fact that Robin Diangelo charges 30k+ per workshop and has three houses all due to fighting to end what? the very thing she’s capitalized off of.
SAY THE NAMES OF THE MURDERERS so you are not complicit in protecting them:
Garret Rolfe murdered Rayshard Brooks.
Myles Cosgroves, Brett Hankinson and Jon Mattingly murdered Breonna Taylor.
Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.
Just because a cisgender man is wearing a dress or lipstick, does not mean they are gender bending. They are just wearing a dress or lipstick. Clothes and makeup are not gender specific, capitalism has made it that way,
@jameelajamil
@i_weigh
#jameelajamil
uses Black people and other marginalized groups as her pet projects for celeb social justice experiments.
newsflash: You can be queer and TRANSPHOBIC. A transphobic apologist should NOT be the executive producer along with two white cis men for a show on ballroom
Soooo Israel receives 738 million dollars in military rockets from the US, but Black people have been demanding reparations from the state for centuries and we get a committee to discuss it?
If you don't support your children because they are queer, gay, bisexual, trans, etc, you are NOT being a parent! If you have kids, you have to support them regardless of how they identify. It's NOT optional.
The world will give your child enough hatred, don't add to it!
@jameelajamil
@i_weigh
And this is the issue, people with this “I wanna give a voice” infantilizing anti Black hogwash- if you want to give a voice to the voiceless SHUT THE FUCK UP. MOVE ASIDE. STOP SPEAKING “OVER THEM”
Ballroom does NOT need
#JameelaJamil
.
#JameelaJamil
needs ballroom to convince
As a society, we place a lot of labor on survivors.
- Tell us your story, so we can learn!
- Tell us your story, cause we don't believe you.
- Tell us your story, its hard for us to believe you otherwise.
- Do you want to have restorative justice?
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered right around the time he began speaking more openly about wealth inequality that still persists today despite him losing his life.
I was pushed out of
@Columbia
School of Social Work as I wouldn’t back down to a transphobic anti Black student. The school did nothing to support me, they actually just made me feel like I was the problem. My replacement for a class I’ve taught for four years, a white person.
Maybe one day white people will see that white supremacy does not even protect them. Rittenhouse shot white people and still experienced no consequences.
When I called out
@Columbia
School of Social Work, it was the TENURED professors from the department that told me that they "didn't feel woke enough" to understand that I had been pushed out as a Black non binary professor. Another TENURED professor made it about them when
Hi,
Please stop linking harmful behavior and folks spewing hatred to mental illness, it’s ableist. There are so many people who navigate mental illness and are not anti Black misogynistic assholes. Also, what is deemed a mental illness is very much manipulated and controlled
COVID-19 didn’t reveal that medical institutions are insufficient, Black people, chronically ill and disabled folks have been saying this for a long time.
AOCs speech standing up to misogyny was shared millions of times, but Megan thee Stallion gets literally shot does a live expressing that pain and it’s certainly not shared everywhere with captions of “revolutionary”. Even the pinnacle of white feminism has nothing on their
Not sure who needs to hear this, but it’s not just romantic relationships that can be emotionally abusive. ANY relationship can have manipulation, minimizing, gaslighting etc. Its likely NOT tough love or “just their way” its abusive and you don’t deserve it
#BlackintheIvory
I was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in my masters program. I took a summer class to try and stay on track, had a double mastectomy and was on lots of pain meds, I requested an extension on an assignment and was told that I should have planned better
How much of your racial justice work is explaining things to white people vs liberating marginalized folks from thinking they must explain things to white people?
The fact that Megan has to prove to the masses that she was shot is the same reason Breonna Taylor was alive for 20 minutes without medical care, maternal mortality rates are at an all time high for Black pregnant people and Black trans femmes murders go vastly ignored.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was terrified to tell my non profit employer. I was still in the “probation period” which meant I didn’t have health insurance until it was over. I thought they would fire me if I told them, so I kept it a secret for a month.
Never forget: Carolyn Bryant wrote a book detailing how she lied and got Emmett Till murdered, she’s still alive and never went to jail for what she did.
In a capitalistic society the focus is always on how busy you are and how much money you have made, as a form of resistance I’m going to be shifting that for myself and focusing on how much time and effort I take for my mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.
To the folks who are mourning the relationship they could have had with their moms
To the folks who have to pretend to get along with their Moms as they nurse painful wounds
To the folks who have to hide their whole selves from their Moms
Dear Queer and Trans people,
If you have been asked by a major corporation to do something for Pride, do NOT do it for FREE! Don’t even do it for their first offer. Negotiate higher! They have tons of money and need you more than you need them.
Green book is a true story.
Green book is a true story.
Green book is a true story.
Green book is a true story.
Green book is a true story.
Green book is a true story.
The movie is what happens when white people re write history.
I will not be made to feel bad for the boundaries I set.
I will not feel bad for the boundaries I set.
I will not be made to feel bad for the boundaries I set.
I will not feel bad for the boundaries I set.
I will not be made to feel bad for the boundaries I set.
Reminder: An apology should always include acknowledgement of the harm caused and how you will improve for the future so it doesn’t happen again. Just a “sorry” is INSUFFICIENT. Stop letting folks off the hook when they haven’t taken necessary actions to clean up their mess.
As I watch anti trans healthcare bills pass, I just want to urge healthcare providers, school staff and insurance companies to break the rules. MOST legislation that is passed has NO regulation or oversight, BREAK THE RULES. Risk your job!
The ultimate “I’m ignoring what the Black person said but when this white person says the same thing, we will listen” :
Robin Diangelo’s White Fragility being a best seller. A white person who benefits from anti black racism just by existing, makes money off of anti racism
Ohhhh when white people get hurt or cause harm, NOW it’s time to suspend Trump’s Twitter account? Not when he was being blatantly racists, sexists, xenophobic, fatphobic, ableist et al etc ????
When I taught at
@Columbia
, I had a student in one of my class that said "colonialism is when a powerful country gains control of an inferior country" I corrected the student but they continued to assert xenophobic, racist and classist notions in class.
MISSY, LIL KIM, EVE, QUEEN LATIFAH, Bbymutha, Rico Nasty, Chika, Tokyo Vanity, MC Lyte, Da Brat et mother fucking al could have walked down that damn hallway!!!!
Ughhhhh!!!!
Rest in Power Chadwick Boseman.
I was just saying today how skilled Black folks are at disguising what we are going through as we can’t be anything else but resilient and strong.
The reasons people don’t vote need to be acknowledged and actually fought for rather than using gaslighting tactics to participate in a system that fails us daily.
And I thought to myself why didn’t he pick Stacey Abrams, I had a complicated answer but it really just boils down to colorism and fatphobia being in everything.
When I got the courage to tell HR, she said to me “if you can’t do your job, you will be let go”.
This is why people living with invisible chronic illnesses and disabilities keep them secret. Our fears of how it will be received is often times confirmed by the world.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Biology is NOT binary.
Dear white people,
When Black folks said, it is your job to dismantle racism, we did not include, and also profit from that work. NO! You should be LOSING opportunities, not gaining them. Writing books and doing workshops where any of the money goes to you is ass backwards!
Rest in power, Jaida Peterson.
She is the 8th Black trans woman that we know of to be murdered in the past 4 months.
With the commodification of Black Death, we have to fight to not only be seen when we are gone, but to also be seen at all.
*Thread* My partner and I were just escorted out of backstage by two large security guards because his shirt reads “Afropunk sold out for white consumption”
#afropunk
I was yesterday years old when I learned that there are more dog shelters in this country than homeless shelters.
Now, if that doesn’t speak volumes to what white people really care about and clearly need no hand holding around.
The same “scientists” who claimed gender is binary are the same “scientists” that also claimed Black people are inferior to white people. You really want to base your arguments off of people who justified mass genocide?
On
#InternationalWomensDay
remember that having a vulva/breasts, wearing a dress/lipstick/heels, having a uterus/period/baby/abortion, doesn’t mean you identify as a woman. Gender is in your brain, not between your legs or what you wear.
What is it called when white people protest police brutality but also police what they deem conspiracy theories about fireworks?
What is it called when white people protest but don't wear masks or stand at a distance when walking their dog or at the grocery store?
Happy Birthday
#EmmettTill
Carolyn Bryant, white woman who lied and said he whistled at her is still alive and received NO consequences for causing a person’s murder.
#EmmettTill
would be 79 today. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, ensured that the world saw how gruesomely her 14 year-old son was murdered.
Racism isn’t mere disagreement.
Families grieve. Communities mourn.
Dreams wither. Humanity suffers.
People perish.
Remember Emmett Till.
My therapist tonight, said:
Have you considered what YOU need?
I cried, cause I realized in that moment that I haven’t. Sharing as perhaps you haven’t either.
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
Happy heavenly Birthday, James Baldwin!