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Are you a Black leftist? Are you a Black progressive who wants to educate themselves further on Black leftist theory? Are you a Black person wanting to know more about the Black radical tradition? Are you tired of walking on eggshells in nb online leftist spaces when trying to explain ANYTHING concerning Black liberation? Well, have I got a place for you! (Must be 18 or older to join)

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

The fact that "politically correct", "identity politics", "intersectionality", were all birthed and come from Black feminism, had very specific meanings that have been wholly flouted or extraordinarily distorted is...interesting.

"This focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity politics. We believe that the most profound and potentially most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody else’s oppression. In the case of Black women this is a particularly repugnant, dangerous, threatening, and therefore revolutionary concept because it is obvious from looking at all the political movements that have preceded us that anyone is more worthy of liberation than ourselves. We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind. To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough." from the Combahee River Collective

"And a man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist too" from On The Issue of Roles by Toni Cade Bambara

Intersectionality is not primarily about identity, it's about how structures make certain identities the consequence of and the vehicle for vulnerability.

Kimberlé Crenshaw

A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)

Women aren’t vessels for you to grow your ejaculation into a baby. We grow it ourselves. Stop pretending we’re just vessels.

Black Femicide and intimate partner violence

Kelis

i didn't hear about Alice Walker defending JK Rowling! she's a womanist/Black feminist who speaks so much on the unique Black female experience, which is often ignored and depreciated as Black women often are, so is it any wonder she questions the erasure of the female experience for all women? it's mad for anybody intimately familiar with her work to be surprised by this, madder still to construe this as "cis feminist ignorance" when this is so in keeping with everything she's been about.

for any fems unaware she received backlash from within the Black community after 'The Color Purple' film was made based on her novel, as it depicts Black male violence against Black women. Black men particularly accused her of being "anti-Black men". certainly she knows how important the discussion of sex, sexuality, sexual violence and exploitation is for feminism and isn't concerned about disrupting male supremacy.

i really love her for it & i'm sad Black folks, particularly Black women, are shutting her down instead of listening and considering her perspective. she is one of the Greats of Black literature and Black feminist thought, having coined the term womanism to mean Black feminism. it's insane to dismiss or even "cancel" an elder as great as she is.

revolutionary women’s art.

Panther Rally flyer from a Boston women’s liberation front

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

I think of Debbie Africa, who gave birth secretly in prison, how the other women prisoners used sounds to shield her birth process. They protected the two of them from guards so that she and the baby were able to share precious time together, undetected for days. I think of Assata Shakur too, impossibly conceiving and giving birth to her daughter while being a political prisoner, mostly in solitary confinement. And how she listened to her angry daughter, and the dreams of her grandmother when they told her she could be free. They could be together.

from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Being a radfem is so nice sometimes. Everyone in this community that I’ve interacted with is so kind. It’s like having a bunch of aunties/sisters. Love the girlies 🫶🏽