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No one has ever suggested it is her right to be happy. Instead, she hears she should be appreciative, and maybe a little bit sorry for availing herself of help.
Jill Filipovic • The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Franchesca Ramsey, an activist and actress who gained fame from a series of viral YouTube videos, writes about this poignantly in her book Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist.
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips • The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World
‘light skin privilege’. In the UK, the lack of visibility of dark-skinned Black women – even within urban music genres such as grime and R&B – is endemic, with the spotlight largely falling on biracial or light-skinned Black women with ‘good hair’ and enough Blackness to make them credible as urban artists without offending or alienating the wh
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People of color sometimes cope with abuse from individual Whites by hiding those individuals behind the generalized banner of Whiteness. “She acted that way,” we say, “because she is White.”
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
All of my status characteristics screamed “competent,” but nothing could shut down what my blackness screams when I walk into the room. I could use my status to serve others, but not myself.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
“A young woman I’m very fond of said to me: it’s always a problem with men, I’ve had to learn not to overdo. She meant that she had trained herself not to bee too beautiful, too intelligent, too considerate, too independent, too generous, too aggressive, too nice. The “too” of a woman produces violent male reactions and , in addition, the enmity of
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