Big shout out to Feminist Voices Zimbabwe.

These amendments need to occur. We cannot keep running off colonial ass laws baked in christian nationalism and conservatism that continue to enable predators and abusers, while stripping women of their autonomy!

#BlackFeminism #AbortionRights #Abortion #Zimbabwe

If you're not familiar with the 1965 Moynihan Report and how the literal U.S. government was like "the actual problem of the Black community is that the women emasculate the men,"

if you're not familiar with how this antiblack settler colonial nation used the concept of "emasculation" to gaslight Black Americans about the source of our oppression being Black women rather than the white cishet patriarchy,

I don't wanna hear a defense of the term "transemasculation." Cause you're facilitating some antiblack genocidal logics with the use of that term and your cavalier engagement with Black feminism and Black history is the root cause.

#transphobia #antitransmasculinity #BlackFeminism

"In the time that has passed since Little’s case 48 years ago, young Black girls and women who are victims and survivors of sexual assault are still treated as criminals and dehumanized when they attempt to defend themselves. Not only is their youth taken from them when they are assaulted, but they are put through an adultification process during trials that foreground juvenile indiscretions, their “non-traditional” upbringing, and utilizes their gender to discredit them in their attempt to hold their perpetrators responsible. With Black women still being disproportionately incarcerated, there needs to be a continued effort at dismantling the structures and systems that place them on this conveyor belt that leads to prison."

— Karla Méndez, "In Defense of Black Women: The Case of Joan Little." https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/in-defense-of-black-women-the-case-of-joan-little

#BlackFeminism #BlackFeministTheory

"Angela Davis spoke out in support of Little, writing an essay The Dialectics of Rape, which recounted Little’s assault, connecting her experience to that of Cordella Stevenson, a Black American woman sexually assaulted and lynched by a mob of White men in Columbus Mississippi in 1915. She wrote that in our white superiority and male supremacy-obsessed society, being a Black woman means being raped and murdered with absolute impunity. Little’s case was one in a long history of a court system that punishes its victims and was sentencing more political activists than any other state.

Davis also wrote that the other two women who were on death row at the same time as Little were also in North Carolina, a Black woman, and an Indigenous woman. This is crucial to note as it highlights how Black women and women and women of color were more likely to not only be arrested but face the death penalty for a crime that was committed in self-defense."

— Karla Méndez, "In Defense of Black Women: The Case of Joan Little." https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/in-defense-of-black-women-the-case-of-joan-little

#BlackFeminism #BlackFeministTheory

"These stereotypes continued into enslavement and shaped society’s perception and treatment of Black women’s sexuality. The erroneous idea that Black women had an insatiable appetite for sex was used as justification for the rape of enslaved Black women and as a result were consistently pregnant. Further, it had the added effect of producing additional people to enslave and contribute to a terrorizing labor system. Because of these institutional beliefs, until the 1960s, it was rare for Southern White men to be convicted of rape, despite the fact that it was a common crime."

— Karla Méndez, "In Defense of Black Women: The Case of Joan Little." https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/in-defense-of-black-women-the-case-of-joan-little

#BlackFeminism #BlackFeministTheory