This was too good not to share.

*ARE* we reading 'too much into things' when we say the Brick Conversation has some serious implications for our community's liberation?🤔

Because Steve Bannon certainly had a thought about how to split Black solidarity.

[via @ImaniBarbarin on TT]

#BlackFeminist #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Misogynoir #SomeOfYallAreGettingPlayedMuchLessUsingTheMastersTools

https://www.tiktok.com/@crutches_and_spice/video/7275914685533228331?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=6892183009032128006

This is a complex conversation, as @ImaniBarbarin points out in her other posts on TT.

Because the upshot is division. A rending of community by white supremacy. It will be easy for unthinking neo-lib types to watch this conversation and waaaay down deep feel their fear of Black men is justified.

It will be easier for our brothers to fall down a rabbit hole of right wing patriarchal propaganda
since 'uppity Black women who don't know their place' are now a shared enemy.

And if Black women, who have been historically -- and continue to be -- the bulwark and connections for multiple liberatory movements not only have to fight The Man but also *our* men - how sustainable is that? That's exhausting.

But here we are. Good job, Patriarchy+White Supremacy. You won this round.

#BlackFeminist #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Misogynoir #WhiteSupremacy #Patriarchy #LiterallyCanWeFightThePowerPlease #WeakestLink

In a toot from yesterday I asked what Black men owe Black women if we are to be in community with one another?

[and thank you to everyone who read that thread who was not Black and sensibly chose not to answer that question -- because it was not meant for y'all. thank you.]

The amazing and prophetic thinker and activist @ImaniBarbarin talked about the consequences for our Black community, which blew my mind.

I'll describe what's happening in her Tok:

She's reading a comment on one of her earlier posts. The comment says 'Y'all don't get it. We don't give a shit what you say. Stop crying and defend yourselves. You're strong and independent.'

She agrees that Black women will 100% defend ourselves.

Then she says: But lemme ask you something, though. Do you fit the description of a threat?

She's effing brilliant.

#BlackFeminist #Misogynoir #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi
https://www.tiktok.com/@crutches_and_spice/video/7275856712232439082?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=en

Oh. One more thought:

We can come to the aid of a brother getting jumped by some racists on a river walk but won't hold a brother accountable for hitting a sister in the face with a brick for not giving him her phone number.

I now see the boundaries of community.

#BlackFeminist
#Misogynoir

Other thoughts about this conversation happening:

The question isn't whether Black men should protect Black women, IMO. It really is: what do Black men owe to Black women if we are to be in community with one another?

A person was brutally assaulted in front of witnesses - while there are studies about bystander syndrome, how does being a man and a bystander jibe with the trope 'men are protectors'?

The inevitable victim blaming in this and other similar incidents involving Black women being attacked for rejecting a Black man makes me think about police brutality.

The discourse is similar: She should have complied. She must have said/done something. She was mouthy and embarrassed him. He's just one guy, we're not all like that.

It's just so funny how 'good cops' also stand by and do nothing.

Which makes me think about *who's the cop*?🤔😑

#BlackFeminist
#Misogynoir

I'm kinda ok with men looking at me with Benson and backing off.

Over the weekend a tik tok was posted from a young Black woman in the hospital. One side of her face distorted with massive bruising and swelling. A man had asked for her phone number and she refused. He picked up a brick and smashed her in the face with it while the men watching did nothing.

This incident has been the focus of BlackTok all weekend. Black women were generally in team #ThisIsWhyWeCantTrustYou and Black men split between 'we need to do better' and 'I don't know you so you're not worth protecting.'

Which is a hell of a take. Wow.

I won't get into a long thread about #misogynoir but it's real (and there are fantastic Black women writers on it) and the analysis of it shines a bright unflattering light on the ways internalized white supremacy and toxic masculinity (sort of related) poison potential heterosexual bonds between Black men and women.

As I approach 54, I'm growing more ok with my impending invisibility.

#BlackFeminist

Big Joanie - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7EmZMquHI

#riotgrrrl #postpunk #punk #blackfeminist #np #nowplaying

BEYOND FRAGMENTATION: A CRITICAL APPROACH TO HBCU ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
instructor: Mali Collins

See full description and apply using QR code or link in bio!

#HBCU #HBCUarchives #HBCUlibraries #libraries #archives #recordkeeping #scraptheory #criticallibrarianship #critlib #critlibrary #archival #Blackfeminist #methodologies #fragmentation #Blackarchives #pedagogy

I also dabble in #feminist #philosophy and #philosophyofscience and my long awaited (by me!) article finally came out this past week in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy on #transgender #skeletons and #archaeology

It questions the utility of #History and #Science in shoring up #transrights by thinking through claims of ancient transness with #blackfeminist thinkers (Wynter, Spillers, Ferreira da Silva)

#openaccess and free to read below!

https://www.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.50

My #philosophy article "Bones Without Flesh and (Trans)Gender Without Bodies: Querying Desires for Trans Historicity" is out now in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

It's #openaccess and it's about #transgender #skeletons and a reading of #archaeology through #Blackfeminist thinkers (Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Hortense Spillers).

Check it out for free below:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/bones-without-flesh-and-transgender-without-bodies-querying-desires-for-trans-historicity/795684F52966742003D5DBC9052EBC93

"As a 'bookworm,' Shirley did not often attend parties, although when she did she surprised the boys with her impressive dancing abilities."

Read an excerpt of SHIRLEY CHISHOLM: Champion of #BlackFeminist Power #Politics by Anastasia C. Curwood on the blog 💃

http://bit.ly/3GuLhqY

And finally, I write about trying to heal from the loss of my mother just two months before we lost #bellhooks, and how the lessons and legacy of #Blackfeminist community-building and nourishing made it possible for me to feel hope amid these, and so many other, losses: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07491409.2022.2135913
#grief

Want to support Mariame Kaba's latest endeavor? I did!

https://ko-fi.com/sojourners4justice Sojourners for Justice Press is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media. We publish short form and ephemeral #zines, pamphlets, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, #BlackFeminist, and #abolitionist philosophies.

#MariameKaba #donations #abolition

Multitudes | About

A #design and #technology #co-operative for present movements and liberatory futures. #blackfeminist

https://multitudes.coop/about/

Alright #BlackMastodon its #blackfriday again, so time for another piece of #blackfeminist history. Did you know that at age 15 writer, professor and poet Dr. Maya Angelou was the first black female cable car conductor of the famous San Francisco Cable Cars? In a story of true persistence and courage, young Maya went every day for 2 weeks to the hiring office before they finally let her fill out an application, on which she lied and said she was 19. At the time all operators where white men.

Keep your eye out for this. Follow them on the birdsite. They dont have a dedicated website yet. #BlackFeminist #HealthCollaboratory #2023 #Houston Look at the poster for contacts and #furtherinquiries @BFHCollab or @blackfeministcollab (Instagram)

@heidilifeldman I saw that, too, a few weeks ago on DC!
#feminist
#BlackFeminist

#introduction Hello! I’m mainly over at @dawnd@mastadon.social right now, trying to figure this all out. I am a #book #editor at University of North Carolina Press (@uncpress). I work with #scholars writing books on #history (hi #histodons 👋🏼), #BlackStudies, #AfricanAmericanHistory, #BlackFeminist studies, #girlhood studies, #socialjustice issues, and #carceral studies. I acquire three series in collaboration with series editors: Justice, Power, and Politics; Boundless South; and Black Women’s History. I have broad acquisitions interests in the #humanities and #socialsciences!

Monica she/her
#introductions

interests: #abolition #healingjustice #blackfeminist #M4BL #healthequity #politicaleducation #economicdemocracy #QTPOC #QTBIPOC #antioppression #architecture