“I remember an incident from my own childhood, when a very close friend of mine and I, we were walking down the street. We were discussing whether God existed. And she said he did not. And I said he did. But then she said she had proof. She said, ‘I had been praying for two years for blue eyes, and he never gave me any.’ So, I just remember turning around and looking at her. She was very, very Black. And she was very, very, very, very beautiful. How painful. Can you imagine that kind of pain? About that, about color? So, I wanted to say you know, this kind of racism hurts. This is not lynchings, and murders, and drownings. This is interior pain. So deep. For an 11 year-old girl to believe that if she only had some characteristic of the white world, she would be okay. [Black girls] surrendered completely to the master narrative. I mean the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness. She got it from her family, she got it from school, she got it from the movies — she got it everywhere; it’s white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction, history, it has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that’s the master narrative speaking: “This is beautiful. This is lovely, and you’re not it.”

Toni Morrison on what inspired her to write her first novel, The Bluest Eye.

I know that this has been said before, but - intersectional feminism, woman's, etc -

Black women (African American, West Indies, Afro Latina, Africans, all Black) have a unique experience of womanhood for real

Because on one hand, we can definitely identify with White women, with women of other colors because of misogyny and the female lived experience. That's an undeniable truth

But then when the evils rear their heads - i.e. racism by the Whites - we can identify with our male counterparts without a doubt. This overlapping feels both inclusive and ostrasizing at the same time. It's like we can never fully submerge in one "family" because we know the other will eventually betray us (because that's how evil humans work) - such as, racism from all other races of women and always anticipating it without being proven wrong + misogyny from men within our own race

It's sad, but when they say "trust a Black woman," I believe that's also for ourselves

But also, I've been drinking wine, so 🤷🏿‍♀️

Once, as a young girl, I asked my mum why male dogs would chase female dogs in heat even when the female seemed most unwilling. She told me that was just the way dogs acted.

Then I learned about how other male animals act in a similar way. From dolphins to ducks to bears to salmon to bugs. How some species will have the male kill infants to mate with females. How female ducks quite literally evolved complex vaginas to protect themselves from male ducks' aggression.

Then I learned about how male dogs, chiefly intact ones, are responsible for most fatal dog attacks.

Then I learned about how human males commit the vast majority of violent crimes. Rape, child sexual abuse, murder, animal sexual abuse, torture. How most women have been sexually harassed in one way or another. I was a minor the first time it happened and unfortunately I'm not alone in that experience.

And everything seemed utterly hopeless for a while there. These days I don't buy it that men are inherently violent and evil. They choose to harm others, they choose to be horrible role models to young boys. It becomes an ugly cycle. "Boys will be boys" "It's in their nature" stripes them from any responsibility and takes away their autonomy. Raising boys to be compassionate, decent people seems like an impossible task when you know he'll meet many, many boys who think it's funny to harass girls or look the other way when they see one of their mates do it.

Now, do you know what females of other species often do to protect themselves? They stick together, they protect each other, they fight back as a group. And that's what women need now more than ever. We need to stick together, to work together, to prioritize the women in our lives. Misogyny being sex based made me feel like being born female was a curse for a while, but that's not the case at all, we're not cursed or paying the price for committing the original sin or whatever patriarchal bullshit we've been told. Stick together.

For the so called rational sex, men sure as hell behave like animals.

Generative AI is invented and immediately used by men to automate women, undress women, undress CHILDREN, enact abuse of women and spread misogyny

New blog is out ❣️

A guy will compare abortion to child abandonment while coming from the demographic most likely to live apart from their children(aka abadoning them). Like, you'd think he'd have some self awareness, empathy instead of trying to weaponize womens choices.

Also: abortion = choosing not to become a parent.

Abandoning your kids = choosing to be a parent and then dipping.

This is for all the users here who keep babying black men.

Wicked For Good

i can’t stop thinking about adriana smith. when roe was overturned i knew things were going to get hellish but turns out 50 years of scientific innovation means an entire new branch of soul crushing horror stories are now possible. we can’t possibly keep pretending we’ve advanced gender and racial equality when we’re using a dead black woman’s body as an incubator for a fetus. a society that does that is a failed society. fuck man im trying to hold on to some measure of hope here but its so hard.

i’ve seen hardly anybody on tumblr talking about this. say her fucking name. she was 30 years old. she was a nurse and is survived by a 7 year old son.

and yes, of course her family is responsible for the cost of keeping her on life support for three months and counting. her mother set up a g/f/ndme to help with the bills. please consider giving if you’re in a position to, they’ve barely raised $3600 at this point.

I am in full support of Black American women resting and enjoying ease. The placing of this statue in the middle of Times Square clearly violates and disrespects this much needed rest era and therefore harbors on tone deaf.

Anybody who is in support of this image of a black woman (and other statues like it outside of the US) not being used as a public square target by a biracial male with a white mother / black father (and allegedly white wife) in the middle of an incredibly dangerous unsafe hostile scary political climate, please sign the petition and help create a safer environment for your black little girls.

Safety, rest and protection for black women and girls is all that matters.

Jane Elliott is a real deal...👏🏾👍🏾❤️👇🏾

i love when feminist takes get popular on tiktok. like the whole “men invented god because he couldn’t handle that women create life” thing gained so much attention and i was like yesss girl i love to see it 😸😸

a few weeks ago i saw a tiktok of a woman explaining how patriarchy is basically womb envy and she was so excited to share her thoughts and i was so happy to hear her speak. that is such a known fact in feminism, i know she probably read it somewhere and it struck her and she decided to look more into it and think about it with her own experience too and then was like “you know what i really wanna share this with other women because they deserve to know and i deserve to speak and maybe they got something to add too” and so she made that tiktok.

sometimes i wonder, this must be one of the ways feminism was born. i love us i love women

kinda based of natalee to be like fine yall want your pitiful refunds for your gym donations even though i supplied 99.9% of my own funding, here's the email just share proof of donation and desire to be refunded :) and then shared the next day how absolutely zero people have asked for a refund. almost like none of the people crying their heads off about being excluded from a space they said they expected to go to actually donated to a young black woman's crowdfund in the first place. interesting.

Nothing confirms more the absurdity of the concept of “gender identities” than going to a country ruled by strict religion principles. Everyday at multiple hours and beginning at around 5 am you could hear the loud speakers echoing the voices of men chanting glory to “God” (“Allah”), imposing a rhythm and way of thinking to all. Imagine if we women were doing this, chanting every day glory to the “Goddess” and imposing it at five different hours, for everyone to hear … sounds like a joke, right ? In seven days I saw maybe 20 women (non-tourists) in total who had no veil on their heads, no woman who worked as drivers, guides, police officers or even waiters. The huge majority of merchants were men. Men everywhere. On their scouters, together, screaming or running or working or having fun (boys playing football, laughing together, etc) and just living like normal human beings.

The women and girls were less visible. Not invisible, but often close to it. Figures in the kitchen of restaurants, working as cooks and cleaners, accompanying their children to school or walking in the Medina to buy food for the day. Men full of confidence, women more reserved. This was so blatantly obvious. When the world is unfair and so deeply patriarchal, how can you expect a woman to like being a woman ? How much do you think she likes and feels in “alignment” with her condition and what gender activists incorrectly call “assigned gender at birth” ? A concept that breaks so easily when confronted to reality isn’t valuable in the first place. If nothing had peaked me yet this would have been it.

Found this on the 4B subreddit.