….Black men can’t effectively work towards projects of freedom without ethically engaging and understanding how Black feminism(s) actually help free us.
Check out some of these pieces of Black men doing that work:
conceding to antiblackness at the register of social ontology does not negate your political obligation to the existing world of politics nor does it substantiate your conviction to be politically indifferent to racial institutions that govern black social death
“Abolitionists are made through desire, through identification, through entering into, occupying, and possessing (as extensions of their own bodies and desires) those captive bodies.”
Christina Sharpe
‘Monstrous Intimacies’
“We aspire to be modern, as if this were some how a new position…as if modernity were sustainable without the n—ger and the fluid in/convenience that is blackness lying, albeit differently, both inside and outside its borders.” -Richard lton, In Search of the Black Fantastic
@ffemmefatality In attempting to take Black study seriously, I see how Marriott, Sharpe, James, Sexton, Douglass, Da Silva, Jackson, Warren, etc.’s work has evolved overtime. They even push and critique/expand each other’s own critical interventions (i.e. McDougall w/Wilderson’s Black time).
It’s actually quite comical (derogatory) of what becomes unseriously demanded of Afropessimism as an analytical lens of interpretation by its alleged critics and non-readers. And what’s even funnier, you won’t see those same demands become applied consistently to anything else.
@ffemmefatality Absolutely, to continue to produce, revise, and build upon both the failures and critical interventions in Black studies. Even these scholars themselves have pushed, effaced, and critiqued their own ideas.
“Whether fucked by older females and males, or raped by male peers in childhood, the widespread sexual abuse of black boys receives little or no attention. Black males often come into sexual awareness via sexual abuse, often at the hands of other black men.”—bell hooks
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur
From the world stage straight to Ballhalla.
Gabby Williams is back in the mix, bringing a vicious two-way edge to the Bay Area hoops scene she grew up playing in.
🌎 https://t.co/ZhqTuGTeMf
Reading How To Sell A Genocide, the NYT called every major population centre in the Gaza Strip a "Hamas stronghold" at some point.
They actively worked to militarise civilians in Gaza to justify genocide