#Blackness

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

I've seen a lot of debate about how Krug is different or not different than people pretending to be Native. For one thing, I want to say that a very

Courtney R. Baker, Ph.D., knows some things

DrProfBlackLady

Blackademic crowdsourcing! If you were to teach or take a class on #Blackaestheticstudies, as in a study of Blackness as an **aesthetic** principle (rather than an exclusively social one,

Sophia Chang

sophchang

DO NOT TURN AWAYFor me, this image of an ASIAN cop turning his back on a WHITE cop as he murders a BLACK man symbolizes patently the anti-blackness that exists

The Mighty Orion D. Black

OrionDBlack

Let's talk about Blackness and intersectionality.Being a comrade in action with Black liberation is fundamental when facing issues of all other marginalized identities in the US. Why? For one, Black

Dr. Destiny Thomas

DrDesThePlanner

You can’t talk about race being a social construct unless you’re ready to acknowledge the construct itself is built upon and reifies anti-Blackness. This is why POC is synonymous with

Funmi Oyatogun

funmioyatogun

ANNOUNCEMENT!Our hilarious game - Fill in the Black - is now available in the US, UK and Canada. #fillintheblack celebrates blackness and is perfect for friends, family, gamenight, etc! Get

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

If it's not created by a black person, it's not a black space. It's just a space. You cannot represent what you are not.https://twitter.com/ahmarasmithart/status/1266406515549896704 BEFORE. Y'ALL. START. I am not

☆Ronnie☆

coquiwi

I can't speak for other Latinx countries and identities, but as a Puerto Rican it was already difficult classifying my race and identity as it was growing up, let alone

Nooran A.

nooranhamdan

I can’t sit here and tell you the intentions of the Arab owned store that called the cops on George Floyd, but I can tell you that there is immense

Dae

daeshikjr

Asian GM of Momiji—in #CHOP Seattle—assaulted and called Black Woman the n-word. It was Black people who jumped in to protect her. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop,

Richie Pope

richiepope

illustration/comics/concept art etc are not prepared for what's going on"diversity" in these spaces is never centered around the diversity of blackness itselfso when we seek retribution and tell our stories

Wut's my name? Wut's my name? Ur actin kinda crazy

InspectorNerd

The She-ra staff didn't just make a mistake. They let their mask slip. Casual anti-Blackness like that doesn't come out of nowhere. Here's the context.https://twitter.com/InspectorNerd/status/1298822887625826306?s=19 If @Gingerh

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iamsashakae

Beyoncé associating Blackness with wealth/regality is corrective promotion and y’all need to be happy about it. too often blackness is associated with struggle/poverty. and the messaging I get from her

Natalie Belisle

detoursfromhome

I think we're posing the wrong questions about skin color, belonging, community membership. The question, to me, isn't whether Black light-skinned & mixed-race people are Black [enough]. It's natural to

alex

KingstonJancro

I get the rejoinder that “Jamaica is a Black nation” in response to creole multiracial nationalism’s call of “out of many one people,” but I wonder if it takes for

Zalika U. Ibaorimi, M.A. (THE FINAL GIRL)

thinglygrammar

TW: rape Let’s take Eve’s Bayou. What an incredibly Black story and setting and yet, these characters didn’t have to announce their Blackness- they just were. Taking a theme such