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For me, this is actually the major flaw within the concept of “white privilege”. By making it solely about “unearned privilege” instead of the violence of white supremacy, it enables

There’s a lot of (inadvertent) white supremacist apologism happening within the discourse around Doja. Not being raised amongst Black people does not excuse being a white supremacist. There’s a weird

Only misogynoir could ever embolden you to fix your fingers to question a Black women, who is critiquing white hegemony, what she "has done for The Community". This is also

The fact that Kim's "activism" around prison reform, which is actually her as a mega-rich white women cherry-picking the "good" Black people she believes deserve freedom on any given day,

This argument that it’s not blackfishing because non-BW are trying to look “mixed/racially ambiguous” and not Black misunderstands how anti-blackness, as a fantasy of whiteness, functions. BW are necessary for

As someone who was raised by a single mother and a grandmother, who worked together as a unit (along with wider family/community) to raise us, it's so interesting watching discussions

It’s so clear that the way people engage “anti-blackness” as a concept is simply as “racism towards Black people” as opposed to an ontological framework through which we can understand

The first person in Britain to be arrested and convicted under the Coronavirus Act is a Black woman. Arrested and fined for 'failing to provide identity or reasons for travel