I saw a tiktok the other day about how white people will be like no i love black people *insert beautiful lightskin celebrity* and how we don’t deserve to pick and choose the black features we like. We don’t get to sell just the “blackness” we like @ queen of the damned. #sqsf
1. Forget everything you know.
2. No seriously, everything you take for granted as a fact or normal is never an unbiased source and ALWAYS has some intention behind it. Question everything’s purpose.
3. Even TV shows like true blood can be great sources ✨knowledge✨
#sqsf
“Definitions belong to the definetly, not the defined” If I had to sum up this course it would be with this one quote. Too often we let ourselves and the minoritized be defined by those in power. But those definitions belong to them not us. #readingtweet#beloved
It is rumored that Dracula and western vampiric origins arise from warning young women to not rush into a relationship with someone who seems charming and wealthy because they are not what they seem and will quite literally drain the life from you.
In the process of organizing my tweets I have managed to also delete one bc I am a mess so here it is again.
Haitian Vodou (a thread) #researchtweet#theunruly and sort of also #theundead
The white male vampire is centered around a discourse of power and represents capitalistic and patriarchal epistemes. This vampire, similar to capitalism, preys on those deemed weaker and infects those seen as socially equal in order to preserve it’s lineage.