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Patriarchy produces the suffering of Black cishet men as the most legible kind of Black suffering, not because of its Blackness but because of the borrowed institutions of cisness and

Tyler Perry became a billionaire by catering to misogynoiristic cultural appetites and patriarchal representational economies that repurposed historically antiBlack tropes like the Mammy, the Tragic Mulatta, and the Brute, just

maybe your partner needs “constant” reassurance because you’ve demonstrated yourself untrustworthy as a partner. being un-impeccable with your word breeds a partner who cannot believe or properly receive verbal affirmation.

I think about my project and get overwhelmed almost immediately. *reads my prospectus again*I also think about the current state of the academy and whether it will recover and what

great question. here, the Slave is a commodity in the flesh. when I say Slave I am particularly thinking of new world (chattel) slavery, which was structured along racial lines.

it’s called natal alienation: the violence of complete ancestral and genealogical severance for Black people. to be Black is to have no kinship structure past or present that is respected,

so much of what y’all think is care work is actually mammification. y’all think care is predicated on if someone was nice to you or made you feel good, winked

given the interimbrication of political action and political education I think it’s important to specify how these riots have underlined the inefficiencies of Black analytic augmentations of Marxian theory. put

too many of you are anti-cop but pro-government. too many of you are anti-Trump but pro-Obama. too many of you are anti-racist but pro-capitalism. too many of you are “pro-black”

as a black feminist, I believe in restorative justice processes for everyone. what Tarek has yet to demonstrate is (1) to whom is he accountable for restitution (2) by what

so being black in the world is exhausting. got it.https://twitter.com/kirkwrites79/status/1265653620847996928 “what does it mean to be a problem?” - W. E. B. Du Bois (1903)being Black is the World’s problem.

person:personality https://twitter.com/telushk/status/1258162224780189698 i hope this come across as absolutely about the *personality* than the inimitable genius of Baldwin; this clip is what so many people said he was like most