Show threadkym 📚🐉6d ago
“Rather than the slovenly opposite of the chaste, white Victorian woman, Arab women came to be seen as they are largely seen today: sexually repressed, frigid, virginal, burdened by virtue, shame, and family honor, and more or less silenced — ironically, pretty much the things that supposedly made white women so special for so long”
Ruby Hamad, “White tears / brown scars”
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kym 📚🐉Mar 11

reading “white tears / brown scars” by ruby hamad. flows nicely so far because it’s mainly me nodding at the book.

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Show threadTheNeurotrustDec 22, 2022
@somevagueideas these were incredible reads. I still need to read the book by #RubyHamad
Show threadsomevagueideasDec 22, 2022
@theneurotrust For me it was #SoYouWantToTalkAboutRace by #IjeomaOluo #StampedFromTheBeginning by #IbramXKendi and #WhiteTearsBrownScars by #RubyHamad
CharleyNov 10, 2022

#rubyhamad #whitetears #blackfeminism #misogynoir

Anyone out there read Ruby Hamad’s White Tears, Brown Scars?

As a white woman/feminist it’s been a f*cking huge learning curve, to more consciously listen to & learn from Black & Brown women. Gender isn’t the single/most important way that women experience oppression - and “white feminism” adds to the problem by deliberately & oppressively refusing to acknowledge this.

I genuinely feel like I’m seeing things differently since reading it 🤯