April 2012
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danceacademyrecaps:
AMYGDALA: I watched ‘Girls.’
periwilde:
In essence it was everything you would expect it to be. Every time I saw an ad for it, in my imagination, a giant stamp would come down and add “WHITE” to the title. I suppose had it not been wrongly touted as “groundbreaking,” I would write it off as just another show by white people, for white…
This is just so...
gobbette:
Can people stop making fun of Girls HBO for being all-white and just state that they’re uncomfortable with a female-dominant show already
lol. so women of color questioning why a show set in brooklyn features an all-white cast are really just unable to handle a “female dominant” show. okay.
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but why do white people derive such satisfaction in telling pocs that they are wrong about their own experiences
why do white people think they can identify what is and is not racist better than the people who actually EXPERIENCE racism
like, how does that make sense to you?? i just…don’t understand.
“The old antislavery school says that women must stand back, that they must wait...”
– Susan B. Anthony, perhaps the most famous first-wave feminist, in a letter to Frederick Fucking Douglas. Now keep running your little white lips about how your feminism has always included people of color, you fucking racist, cissexist, piece of shit radfems. (via dionthesocialist)
Sorry but who...
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March 2012
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“Although there are many historical precedents for African American urban...”
– Aimee Cox, “The Blacklight Project and Public Scholarship: Young Black Women Perform Against and Through the Boundaries of Anthropology “
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