racism

  • The Frequent Trauma of Dating While Black and Female
    by Zoé Samudzi
    "White people who practice so-called 'ethical' non-monogamy but still treat black women like trading cards are merely taking advantage of the perceived freedom these relationships afford them."
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  • Hindur Demonstrates How Arranged Marriages (Don't) Work
    by Aaminah Khan
    "To conflate coerced marriages and consensual arranged marriages isn’t just ignorant–it’s harmfully disingenuous."
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  • Role Play: The Oscars and the Exclusion of Queer Men

    by Kyle Turner
    "... the vision that the Academy Awards have seemed to gravitate to with regard to these people is one of tragedy, and also, knowingly or otherwise, one of whiteness."
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  • Films That Ignore Realities of Race Can Never Be "Great Art"

    by Aaminah Khan
    "[The] film industry...derides and eschews escapism and fantasy in film as childish in favour of gritty realism, [yet finds] itself either unwilling or unable to reflect reality as it is."
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  • I Need Black Women to Win

    by Cinnamon Maxine
    "... there is so much more to us than that struggle."
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  • What Arkham Horror Gets Right And Very, Very Wrong

    by Dorian Dawes
    "Fighting against bigotry and systemic inequality can often times feels as maddening and daunting as challenging Cthulhu, but we have to keep trying.​"
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  • DiCaprio Win Proves The Oscars Really Are Equal Opportunity

    by Aaminah Khan
    "The Revenant will go down in history as a veritable harbinger for countless Oscar wins to come for white people starring in stories about people of colour."
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  • The KKK Are Not and Have Never Been a Progressive Movement

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    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I don’t believe that the majority of the ideologies they express are fundamentally different from the ideologies that founded or are perpetuated by institutions in this country." CW: Descriptions of Supremacist Violence Against Black
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  • (Ho)ld That Thot: This Black Babe Doesn't Want To Be "Saved"

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    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "Interesting: it's degrading for a femme or a woman to be self-employed and making informed choices surrounding her sexual agency...but it is not degrading for us to adhere to your rules and roles in order to be a respectable wife."
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  • We Don't Need Any More "Inspirational" Celebrity Trans Women

    by Rani Baker
    "There seems to be this undercurrent of who is going to become Highlander Queen Of The Trans or whatever."
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  • Free Freedia! or, Housing in America is a Racist Disaster

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    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "To punish Big Freedia so extremely...would further reinforce the racist precedent that America believes black people, no matter how talented, are bodies for prisons, not houses."
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  • When Black Hustlers Make Money, It Subverts The Social Order
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "I am still an anarchist—I just don't anymore believe that making money as an artist to support and blast your message on high out into the world is antithetical to my radical politics."
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  • How To Confront Racism and Homophobia in the Goth Movement
    by Dorian Dawes
    If we don't work to make it better, we're no better than the Biff Tanners of the world; just another bully in someone else's story.
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  • On Racism and Competitiveness in Queer Spaces
    by Lace Dagger
    "When I am 'nice,' I am not listened to. I have learned to be precise, driven, and forceful in my interactions with white women to accomplish the simple feat of being heard; pleasantness is a luxury I cannot afford."
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  • Recording Casual Violence and the Banality of Evil

    by Gabrielle Bellot
    "A genre of sorts has arisen around capturing the spectacle of violence on film—and doing nothing about the actual violence as a bystander."
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  • An Indian in the Wild, or, Decolonizing The Jungle Book

    by Lace Dagger
    "Any Indian reader who fails to distance themselves from this makes of themselves another jungle spectacle, to be observed, to be entertained by, but never to be taken seriously."
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  • Listen: Some of My Best Friends Are Named Becky

    by HARLOT Staff
    An open letter to Beckys (Beckies?) everywhere from two Black femmes.
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