#Respectability

I don’t think “respectability won’t save you” does the work we want it to do. Because yes and no. Respectability won’t stop anyone from experiencing anti-Blackness. But, usually manifesting as
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I talk about sex and sexuality (and, let’s be honest, get naked) a lot on here because I reject respectability. Respectability politics is polite dehumanization and I do not want
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LET ME EXPLAIN WHY THAT ISEvery time a marginalized group tries to move into a “higher tier of respectability”, they splinter - one part tries to ally itself with the
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I was always a girl. I didn't always see myself as a girl. I didn't always see myself as anything at all. I didn't see myself. But I always knew
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i’m seeing a lot of people say that lena waithe needs therapy — which is probably true because who doesn’t — but i think the simplest (and truest) answer is
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Yup, this is why, being not only neurodivergent/chronically ill but Black as well, while I can have a lot of privilege in this area, I do not fit into most
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It really is Mas outside. Turning over and pushing back on state imposed violence and order. Mas is about misconduct, a shedding of respectability, chaos, pandemonium, bacchanal in every sense
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The #SocialCapital one supposedly gains from "playing identity cards" is entirely at the whim of the hegemony. It is, literally, a #TokenEconomy. And when one "cashes in" on this capital,
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I don't think it's an accident or mistake that so many feminists support the policing of sex work. White feminists, esp, have used hatred for sw's to advance their own
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Been thinking a lot about what it means to build a coalition for the common good, even when you won’t get everything you want.I spent much of yesterday fuming at
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The things POC can’t say, even in rebuke of racist things, because we still have to feed our children. Maintaining a mask of ‘respectability’ because we don’t get second chances
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I applaud the Chinese government lecturing the Tory Party on democracy, I'm not hopeful though. They never asked us if we wanted the last 10 Million immigrants I doubt they'll
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France is seriously a peculiar liberal outlier. There is no freedom in any society that is absolute, otherwise it backfires and descends into despotism. The French government, and its history,
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honestly nothing makes a person as pissed as being constantly spoken over, dismissed, and treated like they dont know what theyre talking about their whole life which is why a
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me: here's a link to a thread about the historical relationship of kink culture and Pride. erasing acknowledgement of this intertwined relationship from Pride benefits capitalists & conservativesa reactionary: this
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It's amazing how so many queerphobes out themselves by saying they think Sonicfox is "Annoying" on threads about them. Found a lot of far-right furries to block in some of
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