She’s absolutely right. Black women have never been allowed to participate in traditional womanhood because we were never meant to participate in Eurocentric/Western beliefs of womanhood. Sojourner Truth wrote “Ain’t I A Woman?” as a testament to how black women are excluded https://twitter.com/scopeofgold/status/1280828279306543104
Using old photos of black women dressed as it was expected women to dress during the time doesn’t change the fact that sociologically and to society, no matter how much makeup or how many dresses a black woman had, they were not seen as a women

https://twitter.com/scopeofgold/status/1280837658403577856?s=21 https://twitter.com/scopeofgold/status/1280837658403577856
There was literally a viral thread last week about the ungendering of predominantly dark-skinned cisgender women. Black women’s womanhood is stripped from them whenever society sees fit and that is often. https://twitter.com/basicbitching/status/1278377502969380872?s=21 https://twitter.com/basicbitching/status/1278377502969380872
Black cis women are constantly coded as masculine by society and non-black people. But because you can dunk on trans women, you think magically y’all are the protectors of femininity? To who?? Because white women and non-black women don’t consider you their equals and never have
The fact that ppl who support this bs take are quick to label anyone who disagrees with them as a trans woman (because cis women would never I guess) is a perfect example of how this is cis blackwomen’s last ditch attempt at controlling a womanhood that was never meant for them
Exactly what I thought
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