#Antiblack erasure

[sawboyx3]

ok but racism and fatphobia in the queer community is crazy btw. Like sometime you gotta ask,

Are they butch/masc or are they a poc? Are they fem or are they white? Are they androgynous or are they skinny? Is their hair style choice non conforming or is it just not straight/fluffy? Honestly sometimes I see some strange things being said up in here, and irl too. I just. Idk mann

#transgender #transmasc #trans ftm #trans man #trans mlm #transmasc erasure #transfem #trans woman #transblr #queer #queer community #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #nonbinary #genderfluid #pronouns #queerness #discrimination #antiblackness #tw racsim #tw fatphobia #fatphobia #body neutrality #androgynous #gay #lesbain #lesbian #nblw #wlw

[ohara-n-brown]

The way people talk over Black Autistic people is... Mind-Boggling. Truly.

There are so many people in the autistic community that genuinely believe that them and Black Autistic people have the same experience, and that everything Black Autistic people go through they go through as well.

That's NOT TRUE.

Black Autistics face more questioning and doubt than White Autistics do.

Yes, all Autistics face doubt.

But when White Autistics face doubt they're often told 'You aren't autistic' - as in YOU in specific are not Autistic.

Meanwhile when Black Autistics face doubt we're often told 'You CAN'T be autistic'. Not just 'You aren't', but you can't.

As in 'You physically, biologically CANNOT be autistic because you are black'.

Do you see the difference?

I've had multiple people say to me 'I didn't know you can be black and autistic', or 'I didn't know black autistic people existed.'

Our mere existence as an entire GROUP is called into question. Because of our race.

No one will ever say 'I didn't know you can be white and autistic' because Autistic Representation revolves around Whiteness.

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And yes, 99% of people with autism had communication issues.

But if you're a white autistic person you have never had to decode micoagressive racism through the lens of your autism.

- Especially at risk of your safety or life.

Allistic black people already have to carefully choose our behavior and wording with law enforcement under threat of imprisonment or outright on-the-spot execution.

Now imagine having to navigate conversations with law enforcement while also autistic.

Especially knowing that most of the time when a mentally disabled person is killed by law enforcement - they are usually also black.

Elijah McClain and Ryan Gainer - both autistic AND BLACK. Osaze Osagie - also black.

So even if you say that all autistic people experience this, it's very clear that Black Autistic people face it to a higher, more dangerous degree.

We are not 1:1. We are not the same.

This doesn't even factor in things like having to learn to codeswitch or speak AAVE. Or how predominately black schools have less resources for their autistic students.

Or how many professionals in mental health DON'T diagnose black people because they've never studied the Black Autistic experience, and thus cannot spot it.

Or how many Black people that ARE identified to be neurodivergent are instead labeled with ODD or BPD instead.

There are so many layers and factors to this that cannot be ignored.

The autism community needs to get better at understanding intersectionality. We need to get better at representing Autistics of color for ALL levels.

And y'all need to stop talking over Black Autistics. Our experiences are not the same. And that's okay.

#neurodivergent #actually autistic #autism #audhd #neurodivergency #neurodiversity #actually audhd #actually autism #poc #bipoc #intersectionality #racism #anti blackness #antiblackness #black erasure #poc representation

[punkeropercyjackson]

Ay ay hold up i was thinking about why aroace Hobie from nonblacks bothers me and it hit me:Their reasoning for it is that going against romance is anti-socialetal norms so i get where they're coming from but also.It's so fucking colorblind and tonedeaf considering Hobie's black and so dark skin he's almost black the color and how strong his facial features are plus how wicks are considered 'dirty'-There's an extremely long irl history of potraying black people as unromantic be it by making us sleazy or just straight up uninvolved and i am NOT letting y'all do it to Hobs when deadass the FIRST thing we learned about him is that he's Miles' ROMANTIC rival over Gwen and then when the movie came out he had just as much interest in him he did her and nobody on the crew's ever debunked Gwobie or Hobiemiles so with the exceptions of my fellow black folks,y'all 'Hobie is older brother-coded' fuckers can shove it.Idgaf that you want aroace rep,use someone who's not meant to show black people are attractive and good s/os despite what society says about us.You are not immune to propaganda or white queer privilege

@thisismisogynoir @mayameanderings @desi-pluto @punknicodiangelo

#hobie brown #hobie brown deserves better #ghostpunk #punkflower #ghostpunkflower #t4t ghostpunkflower #gwen stacy #miles morales #black gwen stacy #trans hobie brown #transmasc or transfem or transneutral or secret fourth things you pick #unlabeled hobie brown #autistic hobie brown #ace hobie #mama's boy hobie #hobie is jamaican #atsv #spiderman #antiblackness #erasure #💌 #summerposting

[notchainedtotrauma]

I think that one of the things that happens both in Du Bois and in C. L. R. James is that at one moment they are addressing the slave, the ex-slave, the fugitive — then suddenly this figure has been translated into the narrative of the worker. And in the worker’s narrative, the very figure that I’m concerned with, the Black female, the fungible life, the minor figure, totally falls out of the frame of what constitutes the political notion of struggle. The “everyday resistance of enslaved women” in the context of a slave economy, for example the refusal to reproduce life, has never been considered as a component of the general strike. Yet, they too were involved in a fundamental refusal of the conditions of work and intent on destroying an economy of production in which their wombs and their reproductive capacity were conscripted along with their labor.

Saidiya Hartman in conversation with Rizvana Bradley

#Saidiya Harman #Rizvana Bradley #W.E.B Du Bois #C.L.R James #Black feminism #erasure: a tortured silence #antiblackness as the foundation of the world #the afterlife of slavery

[panicinthestudio]

How the Model Minority Myth Helped End Affirmative Action, August 19, 2023

Ellen Wu, author of The Color of Success, discusses the latest Supreme Court decision that has effectively eliminated the use of affirmative action in college admissions. In a live interview on Twitch, Wu explains how the persistence of the 'model minority' myth has minimised the role racism plays in the persistent struggles of non-Asian minority groups — especially black Americans, and how it was the primary tool in dismantling affirmative action. Join hosts Samir Ferdowsi and Dexter Thomas on Twitch for more: twitch.tv/vice . VICE News

#affirmative action #antiblackness #classism #solidarity #Ellen Wu #Vice #racism #model minority #xenophobia #history #USA #segregation #civil rights #discrimination #erasure #scotus #access #privilege #education #employment #identity #politics #war #colonialism #imperialism #reactionary #conservatism

[sharpened--edges]

While I was writing this to you, Janet Napolitano, the former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, assumed her new post as the twentieth president of the University of California system, the first woman to occupy the office. The revolving door between institutions of policing, bordering, surveillance, incarceration, illegalization, militarization, and schooling is not new. Indeed, in San Diego, where I am based, Alan Bersin was superintendent of public schools from 1998 to 2005, after three years of running U.S.–Mexican border law enforcement for Attorney General Janet Reno under President Clinton. After his stint governing schools, Bersin governed the border (again) in 2009, this time for the Obama administration, working as ‘border czar’ under Janet Napolitano, then Homeland Security secretary, now UC president. However, it would be a misguided comparison to describe the bodies of faculty and students as analogous to the bodies of detainees and deportees and migrants and suspectees. It is not analogous power but technologies of power that recirculate in these imperial triangles, for example, debt financing, neoliberal market policies, information systems, managing noncitizen populations, land development. If we consider triangular connections between war abroad and refugee management within, antiblackness and the maintenance of black fungibility and accumulation, and militarization and Indigenous erasure throughout empire, then we can understand why the governors of war and the governors of schools can have similar résumés, without pretending that the governed suffer through identical conditions.

la paperson, A Third University Is Possible (Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 37–38.

#la paperson #k. wayne yang

[everyday-is-brighter-with-you]

[ ID: Tweets from jia whose handle is @heartkiss_ on 28 October 2023 reading:

what is happening in palestine and sudan and the congo are not disparate causes that require dividing our attention, it is the same fight, several groups are facing occupation without coverage while palestine is being scapegoated, standing with palestine is standing with the rest

it's similar, in my mind, to how standing with haiti when they are repeatedly made an example of on the world stage is never solely about haiti, but about standing with the carribean, with enslaved africans, and with indigenous peoples across the 'new world' in general

corrections, as growing up in the imperial (imperial is censored with an exclamation mark) core has skewed my perspective: 1.calling congo "the congo" has imperialist (imperialist is censored with an exclamation mark) implications 2. while it's fair to link western black struggles to palestine the erasure of genocide on the african continent is more complicated than I thought

we can't conflate what is happening in congo or sudan to palestine, there is a history of northern african countries and countries in the middle east denying the atrocities there due to antiblack sentiment, we ought to highlight that erasure in discussions about global solidarity

end ID]

#Congo #Sudan #Palestine #Genocide #War #Global solidarity #Current events #Antiblackness #please read

[txttletale]

Hey I saw the posts you made about people calling you anti-black and when I looked back at the post about say her name and Brianna it seemed reasonable to me but as I understand you've since apologized and gone back on that take. Can you explain why using the say her name phrase was wrong for Brianna? I promise I mean this in good faith I just want to learn.

sure -- simply, the group that were doing that made no effort to acknowledge or show solidarity to the Black women who began the hashtag & in fact denied any knowledge of its history, which is at best pathetically ignorant of vital recent protest history and at worst deliberate erasure of antiracist struggles.

the primary mistake i made was abstracting out a specific complaint made by Black women about a specific group and their actions (trans action block and their chant sheets) into an abstract debate about 'whether protest movements should study and use each others' tactics' -- in doing so, i took those specific and situated comments out of context & in bad faith to argue against them on the terms of the latter argument. worst of all (in my personal opinion), i responded to people, esp. Black women, telling me i was wrong with reflexive disdain & dismissal, instead of actually investigating the matter and trying to understand where the viewpoint came from. i did no investigation, i had no right to speak, & yet i did anyway -- and as a result i acted racistly & unconscionably! it was this post that helped me realize specifically why i was wrong & shitty so i recommend reading it if you want more context / understanding.

& by the by: whenever i acknowledge this publicly i get people (usually anons) saying "oh, it's a shame you caved to callouts / bullying on this" & to that i say: fuck you, don't condescend to me. i've been called out for spurious bullshit lots of times (including, like, last week) and if i genuinely believe i was right i will always stand my ground. i've gone back & apologized on this instance because my rhetoric & behaviour was, in my own estimation (the only estimation that matters to me) antiblack, and that's that. no other reason.

#ask #edited for more specificity

[frankiensteinsmonster]

Unfriendly reminder that if you're antiblack/indigenous/POC, be it for race, traditions and practices, cultural diet, Anything

You need to get the fuck off my shit, this is an Afroindigenous blog. Colonizer opinions under the guise of moral standing aren't welcomed here. Community is intersectional and responsibility. If you're excluding and attacking, causing harm to, and pushing for the erasure of a group of marginalized people and their traditions, you're not community. You're just part of a demographic. Community protects and supports each other. That's the whole fucking point.

#this is an incredibly pointed psa #cpunk #cripple punk #cane user #neuropunk #solarpunk #hopepunk #bipoc responses ONLY

[akajustmerry]

hot take rant but i am honestly getting pretty exhausted with takes about the Kardashians' Blackfishing that don't acknowledge the initial orientalist exotification Kim experienced in the public eye as a result of her Armenian heritage and her sex tape. Kim Kardashian isn't white and she never looked white and that's a huge part of *why* and *how* she was able to skew her racial ambiguity (which isn't that ambiguous to SWANA folks) toward Blackness and Black features. her natural features weren't white in the first place. Missing from every discussion about how the Kardashians were able to Blackfish and profit off racial ambiguity is because they came up in a period when SWANA people were ostensibly erased in post-9/11 culture and this low visibility (apart from harmful stereotypes) led to a collective ignorance over what ppl from the region actually looked like which placed the Kardashians in a position where their features were fetishised, but their identity erased - creating the perfect "blank canvas" condition for them treat their bodies as racially malleable. People who perpetuate racism can also be victims of it. Antiblackness is not exclusive to white people, and the Kardashians are not white people. I'm not in any way saying that makes their appropriation of Black bodies okay, but you cannot talk about how they got away with it without discussing the simultaneous cultural erasure and fetishisation of SWANA and Armenian identities in the wake of the Armenian genocide and 9/11, AND the colonial whitewashing of SWANA peoples in the US.

#kim kardashian #antiblackness #swana tag

[jasontoddssuper]

To all gringos liking/reblogging my post on the antiblackness in latino communites in regards to the erasure of Miles' afrolatino heritage:Tysm for your allyship,you're doing great,platonic cheek kisses mwah mwah

To all the gringos liking/reblogging my post about latino characters needing to be weird as fuck to be good rep because irl latinos are that way which i literally tagged as 'gringos dni':I am in your fucking walls

#I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE HAD TO YET Y'ALL STILL THINKS IT'S FOR YOU????WE'RE NOT YOUR COURT JESTERS YOU FUCKING JACKASSES #IT'S A *CULTURAL INSIDE JOKE* NOT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO ADMIT YOU THINK WE'RE FREAKS.GO AWAY GRINGOS!!!!!! #latina tag #dominican tag #miles morales #rio morales #jaime reyes #luz noceda #camila noceda #punkflower #chaiflower #punkflowerchai #lumity #spiderverse #atsv #astv spoilers #spiderman #blue beetle #dc #toh #toh spoilers #racism cw #xenophobia cw

[jewish-skitter]

Don’t get me wrong, I think Worm is more antiblack. Pact’s anti blackness comes mostly from erasure, which is still really bad, but it doesn’t have the… Sophia + Coil + Merchants + oversexualizing Aisha + Brian dying off screen of it all. I’m willing to be corrected by a black Wildbow knower on that one, but “just” talking about antisemitism, the use of the word cabal in Pact is honestly as bad to me as anything about E88.

#wildbow #wormblr #pactblr

[boonoonoonus]

People only care about House Velaryon as much as it pertains to creating this upotian idea of racial neutrality. However, when you press to say the optics of whiteness perpetuating a form of ethnic cleansing in the House, everyone is blind. They can't see that, and the reason is because whiteness can never see itself as anything but ulturistic. People cannot comprehend, nor can they write anything that treats non-white characters as people with their own motivations, beliefs, and sense of morality because then they'd have to stop using them as tools. Laenor Velaryon is used in this way in fandom to prop up the Targaryens narrative concerning white supremacy, colonisation, and classism. It's ludicrous that's there is no fanfiction or meta or anything interrogating the possibility that House Velaryon could be justified in their dislike of the succession crisis Rhaenyra causes or that Laenor may be upset with her. He is never more than her gay best friend because that is the only role a gay biracial man can play for a white woman.

This is problematic in as much that making a biracial man support someone who is representative of systems of oppression in any which way without critical engagement is dangerous and an oversight. Making House Velaryon black could have been interesting. Instead, it's invited white people on mass to prop up black people as support for their racist fantasies. By that, I mean any writing/headcanon/thought experiment that sees House Velaryon just be Rhaenyra's strongest supporters without explaining why, is just erasure and tokenism. (Sidenote, no one ever gives a why and I think in part it's because media literacy is dead and whiteness has become so ingrained as the standard people cannot fathom why you would never just support the main white character no matter how asinine they are. There is no good argument, and no one wants to do the work to try to create one. Fair enough, no one can demand your labour, but it leave black characters in a sidelined and tokenistic position that supports white people taking them out for brownie points when needed.)

Laenor isn't a person, he's a mesh of plot relevant reactions and external support to make Rhaenyra and the writer by extension look and feel better. Both Laenor and Laena are shown in fanfiction and the TV show to be useful by the very act of their disposal, and no one pauses to wonder if that is a violent act. (It is. It's antiblack and plays into hegemonic violence against black bodies).

Also, the breeding kink of the white supremacist line of thinking shows itself in the way in which people argue the importance of Rhaenyras line continuing by blood, but conveniently saying that the choice to adopt on behalf of House Velaryon is progressive and their blood doesn't matter, choice does. The parallels between this argument and the likes of the Tuskegee experiment or sterilisation of non white persons with vaginas in hospitals and prisons whilst encouraging white people who are capable of giving birth to do so are immense. The willingness of people to fall into white supremacist lines of thinking when arguing for a fictional character is astounding, however its ultimately a pet peeve on my behalf. There are very few critical spaces in which blackness is welcomed in life, and existential alienation extends into the digital and fictional worlds. People are comfortable with prejudice and white supremacy ,it's is the basis on which the West builds legitimacy and precedent, it is not remiss then to say that the inheritors of these social precedents replicate the behaviour and line of thinking.

This is not to say people are unaware, but often the "fun" of whiteness is to be able to not have to worry about the likes of Black, Indigenous, Asian or Pacific islander people because preservation of white happiness is more important. White people get to live in a utopian ideal all the time when it pertains to race and have the freedom to say that discussions on such topics harsh their vibe so they do not have to engage.

But whatever, who cares what I think, I'm just a Black person on the Internet.

#Ryahmidnightmusings

[punkeropercyjackson]

Honestly why even bother making Jason afrolatino if you're not gonna write him as he is in canon when that's what actually'd make him work good rep for us.What i mean by this is

His ego is huge,he's super tough and an edgelord,has anger issues and brutal ass tactics and is a morally gray vigilante but he's ALSO a huge woman respecter to the point he thinks they're better than men,is extremely kind with a huge soft side and his exterior attitude and Red Hood are trauma responses that're framed as valid on his end so he's not the 'Scary Black Man' stereotype and with the exception of the vigilante part this is actually a pretty common personality type for irl black men-Important note that i don't fall under the attitude but i AM a black man(and woman)

He's been a huge nerd since he's debut in both meanings of it-He's a genius who was a star student in school and loves classical literature,theater and speaking articulately and poetically but just happens not to 24/7 since he's a comic book character,not a Shakespearen one

And his soft sunshine boy with hidden depths Robin self is a critical part of making him as black latino work-You can't go with the retcon of him as a mini thug because it's extremely dangerous stereotyping

Duke as his favorite brother-It's erasure with white gringo Jason but even worse and just stupid because both of them being black would it EVEN BETTER writing they're eachother's number one Batboy pick.Ain't no nigga picking Tim when the only other black guy in the factor is Right There and fuck ya aus,keep Jason white in them and leave afrolatino Jason out of your mess

He hasn't expressed a particular preference for girls he likes but HAS for the ones he dosen't and it's preppy perfect judgemental ones who try to 'tame' him so rip all y'all's white X Readers LMFAO.Worth noting that his canon girlfriends have been a half cambodian tomboy(Rose),an edgyptian butch(Artemis)and a darkskin black woman(Dana)and that he's actively rejected a white blonde girl on the basis of her being too normal(Isabel)and Kory post deblackification so i think it's obvious where his tastes lie

You CANNOT make him and Roy or Batcest a thing-I don't think i need to explain why pairing up a white man who knew an afrolatino since he was 14 and him grown with a daughter and putting him in incest is violently antiblack

Poverty is not inherently bad in black or latino characters and there was a point in canon where it was used as simply an element in Jason's story instead of demonization so use that edition.But making him a drunkard,a smoker or a sex fiend is 100% perpetuating stereotypes and he's canonically the opposite of all three so again,sometimes things that are canon are better

Him being tall and super jacked and intimidating looking can actually enchance it-He uses it to his advantage to get people he dosen't like to fuck off because they buy into the propaganda and gives him more deepness with the rest of his personality

This includes him being a real gamer and his neapolitan food addiction and your headcanons on his other tastes should follow their lead-His favorite characters should be black and latino ones(His favorite Marvel hero is Miles Morales,it's canon to ME),he should listen to black and latino artists,he should eat black and latino food and know how to make it for that matter,etc

Back to a Duke situation-You also can't make a white woman instead of Talia his adoptive mom for obvious reasons and imo if you're gonna make him and Stephanie besties,she should be black too for that black best friends and found siblings rep(She works as a black woman as much as he does a black man and i'll make a manifesto of that like i did him if asked).This applies to the Team Dad Jason take too in the sense that he should mentoring Damian and Nell and Tiffany since they're Batgirls instead of white kids

In summary what i'm trying to say is:If you're going to see Jason as an afrolatino man,you need to go beyond just the aesthetic and little bits you feel like including because you think they're appealing and actually write him as an afrolatino man,as Jason Todd and not some random guy

@nogender-onlystars @willieoo @mayameanderings @desi-pluto @insomniac-jay @vulnonapixes-dc-corner

#jason todd #black jason todd #latino jason todd #afrolatino jason supremacy #duke thomas #rose wilson #artemis grace #dana harlowe #koriand'r #isabel ardila #roy harper #bruce wayne #dick grayson #tim drake #talia and jason #stephanie brown #damian wayne #nell little #tiffany fox #jayrose #jaytemis #jaydana #anti batcest #trans jason todd #autistic jason todd #batfam #rhato #dead sidekicks force #all new teen titans #summerposting

[notchainedtotrauma]

The effort to counteract the habitual indifference to black suffering requires that the white body be positioned in the place of the black body in order to make this suffering visible and intelligible. Yet if this violence can become palpable and indignation fully aroused only through this masochistic fantasy, then it becomes clear that empathy is double-edged, for in making the other's suffering one's own, this suffering is occluded by the other's obliteration. The slave remains an object to be animated by human feelings.

from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

#Saidiya Hartman #whiteness as a damaging fiction #erasure: a tortured silence #hegemonic violence #hegemonic knowledge #we say we love you Black and want you gone #antiblackness as the foundation of the world

[yngsuk]

In [Julia] Kristeva’s thought, entry into the social order is predicated on abjection, or separation from the mother, which precedes and precipitates the child’s entrance into the Symbolic, or law of the Father. The Black, however, lacks a similar corporeal tie with the maternal, instead revealing the ontological, psychic, and material ruptures reflective of a political ontology borne of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. For Black motherhood is sutured to a history of property relations, rather than kinship ties, and is illuminated by the state’s and civil society’s reach which extends from and beyond the ship’s hole: the severing of kinship ties of ascent and the erasure of maternal claims to descendants, whether on the plantation or via the foster ‘care’ and carceral systems. Blackness as deathly marker within the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real is so intimately tied to the metaphoric and material reality of the corpse (and we have thousands of bones laying in the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to support this claim) that [Hortense] Spillers’ elaboration of the reduction of African bodies into flesh illuminates a critical facet: the material and psychic violence attendant to the construction of racial Blackness—in and through chattel slavery and its successive iterations—precedes one’s subjective and phenomenological experience of it. For antiblackness as a political and ontological outcome of a series of historical events—Sub Saharan racialized slavery, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the birth of modern racial capital—is prior to one’s entrance, but perhaps not one’s formation, in language or the Symbolic Order. Temporal aphasia operates by way of retraction where what remains unsymbolizeable in language—the Real, or the violence that precedes the id for Black people—gives way to speculative theories such as from Spillers who reveals the distinction between searching for communicability versus the rules of order, for understanding and expression versus systems of power: language versus her aim to “posit a grammar of a different ‘subject of feminism’.” And if violence is the a priori psychic and ontological construction undergirding Blackness, our methods for interpreting and articulating not only the machinations of the Black psyche, but also Black intramural relations, must be attuned to the effects of these “high crimes against the flesh” of “African females and African males” who still register this foundational “wounding”—what Spillers defines relationally as “social irreparability.”

Selamawit D. Terrefe, Speaking the Hieroglyph

#quote #selamawit d. terrefe #hortense spillers #julia kristeva #slavery #antiblackness #black motherhood #psychoanalysis #afropessimism #*ayden