17,908 notes
9,606 notes
184,664 notes
petition for stars in the day time please???
girls already exist
(Source: zzzccm, via gothhabiba)
37q:
reclamation discourse will always require a certain degree of conflation of identity with experience and the essentialization of the experience of oppression that that entails tbh
(via beyonslayed)
To serve your community and do this work, u must be the bridge at some point. And that is hard, when u shift from being the pioneer to then being the foundation to where new generations are walking across you to get to new understandings.
I want to ask bell how she feels in this transition from pioneer to bridge. It seems as if it’s been painful. I wonder if it’s been painful for everyone who transitions
3,014 notes
Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through,
written by Claudia Rankine, from Citizen:
An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014)
written by Claudia Rankine, from Citizen:
An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014)
(Source: nemophilies, via mangoestho-deactivated20161001)
(Source: ifr-h, via consolation-deactivated20161214)
thinking about how when the philippines became a colony of the us, the propaganda used to depict filipinos as savages exaggerated their physical features the same way they did black people’s to signify their Otherness. thinking about how the human zoo of over 1,000 filipinos at the 1904 world’s fair is an after effect of people like saartjie baartman’s popularity amongst “freak show” circuits. thinking about how during the philippine american war, black soldiers saw the similarities between themselves and what my people faced in the light of imperialism and manifest destiny, and left to join their fight for independence. thinking about phrases such as “filipinos are the n-word of asia,” where blackness is still being used as a reference point to signal degradation and lowliness
i am thinking about all of this and how filipinos have been inserted into american racial dynamics through blackness in opposition to whiteness. how our racial history in this country wouldn’t exist in the same way otherwise. and how today when filipinos americanize themselves, through colorism or the model minority myth, they are doing so at black people’s expense
to challenge white supremacy we need to recognize colorism first and foremost in our communities, how that ties into anti-blackness, and most importantly: we need to emphasize that anti-blackness will never be tolerated
13,390 notes
134,271 notes
