Fat Body Politics
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T-Minus 10 Days til DYKE MARCH!!!!
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Wouldn't it be cool if when parents sent their kids to fat camp, it wouldn't be about weight loss at all.
It’d be about super awesome fat kids...
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She’s werking it! Love this look. Gorgeous.
Brazil June 17, 2013
1. A military police officer pepper sprays a protester during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, June 17, 2013. (Victor R. Caivano/AP)
2. Protestors are reflected on the glass of a building, left, as they march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful public education, health and transport systems and come as the nation hosts the Confederations Cup soccer tournament and prepares for next month’s papal visit. (Felipe Dana/AP)
3. Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro downtown on June 17, 2013, against higher public transportation fares and the use of public funds to disrupt international football tournaments. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
4. Demonstrators face riot police during one of the many protests around Brazil’s major cities in Belo Horizonte June 17, 2013. (Pedro Vilela/Reuters)
5. Demonstrators shout anti-government slogans behind a banner during one of many protests around Brazil’s major cities in Sao Paulo June 17, 2013. (Alex Almeida/Reuters)
6. A demonstrator shouts at police during a protests in front of the Brazilian National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. (Eraldo Peres/AP)
7. Policemen arrest students during a protest at the National Congress, on June 17, 2013 in Brasilia. (Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images)
8. A demonstrator argues with police during a protest against the Confederation’s Cup and the government of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia June 17, 2013. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
9. Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 17, 2013. (Felipe Dana/AP)
10. A demonstrator waves a Brazilian flag by a burning a car in downtown Rio de Janeiro June 17, 2013. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)
this is a good post on top of the importance of the events happening in brazil rn because it actually gives credit to the photographers, their agencies, and the captions. a+
protests rockin the world atm
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Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:
- Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
- I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this
Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:
- Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
- White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
- More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
- Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
- Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
- White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
- Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
- Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
- Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
- NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
- White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
- Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
- Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
- Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
- Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
- Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
- Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?
But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(
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I freak out and immediately go to the website
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NONE of the plus size dresses are included.
Zero. Zip. None.
fml
Not surprised. Fuck them.
Hahaha me
As I mentioned in my last Around The Web post, I did share some tweets on the #YouCanTouchMyHair project where Black women agreed to be petted by Whites in public to satisfy White curiosity. (Both Clutch and Colorlines had stories about it if you are still unclear about this project; Al Jazeera mentioned one of my tweets in their story on it.)
I personally have nothing against any women who participated in the project, but it was not something of interest to me. I feel no empowerment in conceding to White wishes just because it occurs at a time/location of my choice, unlike previous (and current) Black body dehumanization, which did (does) not. Ultimately, it is about White desire and the White Gaze, for which I have no interest in satisfying. I do not feel that being petted will make the Whites who ache to do this any better people, any more aware of their White privilege, nor any more likely to examine why so many Black women are opposed to this even if a few are not.
I recently saw this photograph below of Black women who countered the position of those who created the project. You can’t touch their hair.
In the tweets below, I used the hashtag #YouCanTouchMyHair since that is what people used to talk about it, but to be clear, NO, I do not support any event where I become an exhibit for the White Gaze. My entire life is already treated as such, and I am already touched without permission, primarily by White women (hair) and Black men (the rest of my body), so I am really not interested.
Do realize that #youcantouchmyhair is a conversation about White entitlement to Black bodies, in 2013. http://t.co/xQcsrPLke8
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Like…I’ve never put my hands on anyone’s body without permission. Unclear as to why this is a “right” to some people. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Touching doesn’t have to be sexual & from men to be unwanted. I do not want WW touching my hair. http://t.co/zvs6S08giq #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Yesterday I said many interactions with WW remind me of street harassment from BM. Them touching my hair is one of em. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)A WW stared at me for THIRTY minutes at Starbucks once. She and her WM friend were discussing my hair. Uncomfortable. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)I wear wraps to keep WW from trying to touch my hair & fake wedding ring/earbuds to keep BM from street harassing me. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Someone left comment “I’ll wait for the ‘you can touch my butt’ exhibit” on Al Jazeera. But not objectification? Aight. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Naturally, a Black man attacked me about my disinterest in this project, primarily since it would “offend” White women not to be able to pet Black hair. Their concern with White women’s feelings at the expense of Black women’s is nothing new though.
BM suggest BW who aren’t interested in #youcantouchmyhair are “overly sensitive” = MALE PRIVILEGE. You determine NOTHING w/ my body.
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Also realize some Whites will use this petting zoo exhibit as an excuse to touch ANY BW hair since BW = monolith to many. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Someone mentioned that White people petting Black women’s hair is no different from a handshake. Seriously…this is what goes for critical thinking on Twitter. *sigh*
Shaking hands implies PARITY. BW being petted connects to legacy & present Black body dehumanization. False equivalence. #youcantouchmyhair
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Ultimately, Black women can choose to allow anyone of interest to pet their hair, no matter how aggressive, forced and inappropriate it is, but the reality is simply choosing to pretend all that it entails doesn’t exist doesn’t erase it. For example, street harassment doesn’t become “flirting” just because a woman fails to hold men’s sexism and misogyny accountable, or have internalized them. In the same manner, White privilege and dehumanization through objectification and fetishistic gazing/touching of Black people does not change it into something nice simply because a Black woman decides at what time and place it can occur.
Related Essay List: On Natural Hair…
Related Post: White Women Who Seek To Dominate Black Women’s Spaces and Discourse Are Not There To “Learn” Anything
(Credit: hxdbzxy via Shutterstock/Salon)
shouts out to them
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Why do you think you can tell anyone about your own?
Because privileged people are socialized to think they own the experiences of marginalized people. That marginalized people only get to exist insofar as privileged people recognize their existence.
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Pocket Penguin by Jacqueline C. [tumblr | twitter]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/589a7c993b55466fabe8c3c99d42d762/tumblr_mn6ep6BEqZ1qc4uvwo1_400.gif)
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fatbodypolitics Said:
I’ve only heard horrible things about the college program. This was just worse than anything else.
