"You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ugly through me
I promise all I will echo back is Beauty, beauty.
You have always been beauty."
”The U.S. Treasury hasn’t changed the faces on the bills since 1929, when Andrew Jackson elbowed out Grover Cleveland on the $20. Why, you may be asking yourself, did they pick Jackson? And why was Grover Cleveland there to begin with? Nobody seems to know.”
“”Women on 20s” picked Jackson to depose mainly because of his horrific history with Native Americans, although there’s also the rather blissful note that
Jackson disapproved of paper currency.“
“The Native American issue looms large when it comes to replacing Jackson,
who sent the Cherokee Nation on the Trail of Tears. Lately, [Women on 20s] have decided that when they announce their three top
vote-getters and ask people to pick a winner, they’re going to add a
fourth option: Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee
Nation. (“People felt it would be poetic justice.”)
If
I could add a nominee it might be Angelina Grimke, the great
abolitionist orator. Or Sybil Ludington, who rode through New York one
night in 1777 warning her countrymen the British were coming. (Just like
Paul Revere, except Sybil was 16, and rode twice as far.) Or Margaret
Brent, who used her business acumen to save the colony of Maryland from
being destroyed by mercenary soldiers in 1647.
Or
maybe Elizabeth Jennings, the black New Yorker who sued the trolley
company that tossed her off a whites-only car in 1854 — a court action
that led to the desegregation of mass transit in the city 100 years
before Rosa Parks.
But then, of course, you don’t want to pass up Rosa Parks. There are thousands of possibilities. Nominate among yourselves.“
"Unfortunately, not paying attention to race and gender does not make gender-race inequalities go away, precisely because these inequalities are institutionalized and not just ideas in people’s heads."
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Chapter 1: The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race in Revisioning Gender (via ugh)
what society needs to understand is that friendship and romance are not ranks, tiers, or levels. they are not above or below each other. romance is not a promotion. friendship is not a demotion. romance is not “more than” being friends with someone. friendship and romance are concepts that exist on equal terms, side by side. sometimes they happen to coincide. other times they never intersect at all. how relationships are classified is up to the individuals involved but like?? neither is inherently more or less valuable is the thing
Thanks to documentaries like Dark Girls and Light Girls most ppl believe that colorism is solely about dating politics for women.
When colorism, much like racism, actually pervasively impacts the lives of dark skin folks of all genders. Dark skin folks are more likely to be expelled / suspended in school. More likely to be viewed as “less intelligent” which impacts educational and professional opportunities. Less likely to be hired. More likely to be racially profiled. More likely to receive longer prison sentences.
Some random Black guy on Twitter saying “light girls winning” is not the sum total of colorism. That is one tiny aspect of it.
There is no form of hating fat people - including concern trolling or hating fat acceptance - that doesn’t amount to you saying, “Uh, excuse me, what made you think you could go around having a body without justifying it to me?”
When you talk about “fat” diseases - you’re saying: “uh, that body better be perfectly healthy in all instances forever before I give you my approval.”
When you talk about “it’s just not attractive” - you’re saying: “I think I made it clear that if your body isn’t pleasing to me, I’m not signing off on it.”
When you talk about “just eat less and exercise more” - you’re saying: “who gave you permission to live your life as you see fit instead of how I see fit?”
So let me just be clear: all anti-fat arguments are always and completely invalid because fat people will never owe you an explanation or justification for their bodies, their health, or their lives.
Fat acceptance is simply the assertion of a right fat people have always had, and one it’s long past time others started accepting.
