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I have been thinking about the work that interracial relationships require from a justice framework I have been thinking about how the world and these systems impact how i get to love and be loved. How the systems live in us and so the work is always intimate. And i am thinking how i love this human who loves me. How we practice in us what we want to see in the world: equity, justice, care. I love my love @shyvolcano75 . I am grateful to journey with them. Practice radical love with them. Undo the world with our choice to love each other. repost @rachel.cargle I am sick of White people, thin people, able-bodied people, neurotypical people debating my Gotdamn life!!!!! #Repost @kaliandkalki • • • • • Am honestly quite depressed. I’ve been crying on and off since the news broke. ➵ * #whitesupremacy kills. It maims. It destroys. When will white people take responsibility for what they have wrought? ➵ * I’m exhausted. Imagine how exhausted we are, fighting to be heard, to be treated as human, to remain alive. ➵ * Please, we need comrades, not allies. We need white people who will step up and put their bodies on the line and defend us publicly. ➵ Where are all the good white people? Where are you when this happens? Where are you when white supremacists call us terrorists and put refugees in camps and deride immigrants? ➵ * Just so tired. * * * #christchurch #newzealand #terrorism #shooting #whitepeople #racism #colonialism #race #allies #allyship #feminism #feminist #intersectionalfeminism #intersectionality at WOMAD festival in New Zealand a day after a white supremacist carried out one of the most heinous acts of xenophobic islamaphobic Terrorism in the modern history of this country and world and a white woman with a store unapologetically calling itself "Hipstar" is selling rastafarian Sambo dolls. When i tell her so she tells "they" don't mean it " that way". Whiteness is so violently indifferent to its harms. It is committed to itself unto death. I am tired. So very tired. PS. I promise this whole journey gets easier when you realize we are ALL fucked up. We all have the tools of oppression buried inside of us. We all use them on each other because we have been raised in the soil of fear. Stop being shocked that people are oppressive. YOU ARE OPPRESSIVE. We have all been indoctrinated into a system of violence and marginalization, a system of body terrorism. None of us have escaped. Nope not you!Now stop meeting this truth with judgement and shame. Meet it in yourself with some damn compassion and commitment to grow (cause that's a different tool), then go out into the world and meet it there with the same. The question is not, "am I an agent of systemic oppression." OF COURSE YOU ARE! The question is, "to what lengths am I willing to go to stop being and to what lengths am I willing to go to help others do the same." THAT IS HOW WE GET FREE. #Repost @wherechangestarted • • • • • I’m so tired of hearing white women say they want to “use their white privilege” as “intersectional” feminist. That shit is a lie. All they want is to ensure that power and benefit flow through them first. Which just means that whiteness will be prioritized, leaving us with ... drum roll please... white supremacy. Shocker. White privilege is the unearned legal + economic advantages and benefit of the doubt given to white and white passing individuals within a white supremacist society. That’s it. It’s a blanket privilege that is a direct bi-product of white supremacy and it plays a crucial role in its survival. Its not unique to you. And having a large platform on social media doesn’t make it super charged. Neither does being in a leadership position at work. It’s the same old garden variety white privilege that everyone else has. Your white privilege isn’t special. I see this too often. White woman starts to wake up to the systemic racism of the world and immediately thinks that being antiracist means “using their white privilege for good.” And then they F up. Hard. Why? Because they haven’t spent time dedicating themselves to their own self work. No. They’ve been too busy trying to figure out how to use their influence to “inspire” others to do theirs. And likely capitalizing off that posturing in a big way during the process, taking up space that should be given to the voices and labor of BIWOC. That shit is performative, steeped in white saviorism, and perpetuates the very systems of oppression we’re trying to dismantle. The goal in antiracism isn’t for you to continue as the gatekeepers for all access and opportunity afforded to the BIWOC you think deserve it. That changes nothing from the current flow of legal + economic advantages within our society. It disrupts nothing. In order for you to “use” white privilege, it has to actually exist. In order for it to actually exist, white supremacy as a system and way of doing life must exist. Using white privilege fight white supremacy is lie. [continued in the comments] #wherechangestarted #changestartedwithme #antiracism #becomingantiracist #dismantlewhitesupremacy #
 

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