Leaving isn’t your defeat.

It’s to the shame of the space that refuses to recognize they have blocked your equity.

But it still building the road that leads back to the opening of fascism.

That should worry people. Because again it’s not just the red hats and the cross burners.

It’s liberal spaces that cannot bear critique & disguise the rejection as rule breaking, thus the fault of the justice worker.

Staying isn’t a victory.

Because you’re not free.

You’re perpetuating the illusion of freedom, in the hopes that your presence and conduct as a leader shields others.

Which partially works - not well enough apparently - and also plays into respectability politics - oppression in fancy clothes.

Because again, people whose voices are gentler than mine,

some who agreed to stay behind CW or move to “better” instances?

Still got suspended.

TWO this weekend.

I’m not going to list names. That just sends them more abuse.

I’ve been doing this work 30 years. I know when I’m being put on a merry-go-round.

So just please remember all parties need a certain amount of privilege for name & shame to work.

The fact that it happened means I don't have enough to cover them.

If they have enough they'd still be here.

The most frustrating thing is going to be

when the voices that have been silenced in this space

are needed inALL spaces to rescue us from fascism

yet again.

They will appear when called and do their duty.

Because THEY know what most don’t.

We need them.
Because they serve The World, not just other Black women.

Securing our rights secures everyone higher in the caste or intersected.

We need the voices from the Black community that are also the most shunned.

The world treats us so horribly but also can’t exist without us.

And by the time it is realized in the macro, it is ALWAYS too late in the micro.

Notes: I don't know why an image that only says #BlackLivesMatters is marked as sensitive media when hashtags like #/BlackLivesStillDontMatter are not.

Also I only marked the rest of the thread with CW so I would not be overwhelming the stream.

#BlackMastodon I see you. I am just thinking and exhausted.

@Tinu

Images in a CW post are automatically marked as sensitive content by the software. That post doesn't have a CW, though, so.... yeah.

@haven4books I figured it was automatic. But I don’t know WHY that set it off when it hasn’t before.

Or who programmed it that way. Or why no one fixed it.

So when I don’t know the reason? But can speculate? I say I don’t know. Maybe that’s annoying but it’s an integrity thing with me. 🤷🏾‍♀️

@Tinu @haven4books Perhaps it’s because it’s a reply to a post with a CW?

I’m still learning the subtleties of how things work here, but I’m fairly sure there isn’t any of the algorithmic ranking/tagging that we’re used to on social networks.