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the amount of space that white queer fat femme women take up drives me up the wall.

angstiosis:

quelola:

tierracita:

Sometimes the amount of space that white queer fat femme women take up drives me up the wall. 

Like I get it, you are oppressed. No question there. 

I’m not even upset at those white women I’m frustrated at the folks who make them tumblr famous when there are a lot more folks of color on here that are doing their thing and it’s all crickets. 

And it’s like this overwhelming narrative of white fat women saying that they are claiming space and taking back their bodies and I just don’t get how more white folks saying hey look at me is really helping out anything that is possibly intersectional. I guess I am thinking of one blogger in particular with a large following that acts like they OWN this identity and community (referring to folks as their’s in a hierarchical manner) and gets accolades for simply posting images of them blowing snot and if a brown queer fat person did that well everyone would be like damn, gross and move on—not send accolades of presenting fat femininity as nuanced and inclusive of the “ugly.” Maybe my frustration stems in reclaiming ugly only works if you are presumed as anything but—just by being white. Hard to reclaim ugly as a brown queer fat person when you are invisible to start with and ugly by default. 

A rant and an unpopular opinion but I don’t care.

Girrrrrrllll, you know that I use ugly and reclaim that shit but you just dropped some knowledge on my like I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. Hell yeah it is hard.

Thank you for this post. And I agree with quelola — you really put into words what I have been feeling as true, but couldn’t eloquently express. Esp. at the end. 

This is some important shit.

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Ten Lies You Are Told Every Single Day

racialicious:

racismschool:

  1. If you don’t physically hold someone down, you can’t be an oppressor.
  2. Racism is physically hating and acting on that hate based on a person’s race.
  3. White Privilege means you are rich and/or have an easy life.
  4. Pointing out racism is a racist act.
  5. Not knowing better is a perfectly justifiable reason to have hurt someone.
  6. There is a specific way to be (insert race here)
  7. White and whiteness are the same thing.
  8. Anger is childish.
  9. Using angry phrasing or curse words makes your point invalid.
  10. It is my job to teach you but not your job to search for knowledge on your own.

For the balcony.

(via fatbodypolitics)

“

With chants of “We are the 99%” and signage to that effect as well, I was a little thrown off. I thought the purpose of this march was to bring awareness to the death of a young boy. Soon after the march started confusion was all around. Which way were we marching? Who was leading the charge? After we walked a few blocks members of the Occupy section of the march started running down the street knocking down trash cans. I was told later that some attempted to knock down police barricades and police scooters used to guide the marchers. I immediately became uncomfortable because that’s not what I signed up for. I wanted to speak out against injustice—just causing general destruction wasn’t on my agenda. Soon some Occupiers started chanting “F**k the POLICE,” one young white male wearing skinny jeans and a Justin Bieber haircut started yelling “THIS IS WAR, WE WANT WAR!” To which a hoodie-clad young black adult said “Hey, uh we don’t really want war, why don’t you tone that down. I’m about to graduate college in a few months.” The white male kind of laughed and kept moving forward yelling something else.

At various points in the march, as organizers tried to make statements, they were drowned out by Occupiers chanting whatever they saw fit at the time. It didn’t matter if there was a full-on people’s mic happening, they would attempt to push things their way. I asked Daniel Maree, one of the organizers of the #millionhoodies march what he thought of the co-option by Occupy and their actions.”Honestly,” Maree replied “I feel like this is what happens when these emotions build up and they go unchecked and you know, injustice continues, you get it boiling over like this. I’m just happy nobody got hurt.” And while Occupy did help swell the ranks of marchers, I found their actions unacceptable.

Every time I attempt to have a conversation about issues within Occupy, I’m told that there are no leaders, and that some people do crazy things, but “that’s not OCCUPY.” I grow weary of actions without consequences and disrespect without anyone being held responsible. Just because a movement did some good doesn’t mean that it’s infallible. Occupy chapters have serious issues and there have been serious discussions about its relations with women and people of color. With incidents like what occurred on Wednesday, I see a clear reason why people of color don’t flock to the movement.

We don’t have enough privilege to carry us through it.

”

Elon James White on how Occupy Wall Street (once again) continues to alienate some people of color by their disrupting the Million Hoodie March on March 21. (via racialicious)

(via fatbodypolitics)

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”

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