So I’m a white woman. I’m a lit scholar, and while I don’t focus exclusively on African-American or black lit, I do study race & ethnicity in early American fiction. I understand the complicated feelings that come with being a white person dedicated to doing this kind of work. But holy shit, I cannot fathom ever doing…
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Igloo Australia is on notice.
No my husband is not an object but he gets treated that way by women who have been told their entire lives that they are THE most desirable and that anyone with a black woman is settling.
somewhere in the corner of the internet where they celebrate white history month, i imagine
Have sociologists done studies on Florida? There must be some explanation
Why in the fuck should they report on cops doing good? That’s their JOB.
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They were “swarming”? You do realize that you’re taking about human kids, not insects or animals, right?
Congrats on being against rape.
I am not going to watch the video, because I am against rape and re-enacting a scene that is basically violent and rape-ish is not freaking art. This is shock value and I am not entirely sure what, as an artist, she is trying to get across. Mattress Performance was brilliant. This is like oddly staged violent porn and…
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! If you watched her video that she posted in a public online space without her consent then that makes you a rapist. So, like, yeah. So there!
I’m really conflicted here.
100000000% yes.
I think the real numbers requires people to hold together a more complex reality than I think people are comfortable— people of color are disproportionately targeted by the police and subject to longer and more punitive measures than white people. White people commit crimes and/or can be vulnerable to being targeted…
cats are evil
he flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.
It was a joke. Sorry the sarcasm was missed.
It’s not that people think that women lie about rape. It’s that people think that women lie about EVERYTHING. Women don’t ever misspeak, embellish or create. They just lie. That is why people turn to your boyfriend to ask them the same question they just asked you and you just answered. These MRAs and their kin aren’t…
We know Harriet Tubman because she stood up to people who hated her. We know Rosa Parks because she stood up to people who hated her. Most of the men who currently decorate our currency were slaveowners, despicable white supremacists (in fact, one of them owned members of my own family, a fact that crosses my mind…