update: still here :~)

men really be like “well this woman has studied this subject her whole life, and i am a man, so we have equal knowledge on this”

— Robin DiAngelo

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i can’t believe we live in a society where most witch/magic shows/movies are about white people. where’s the flavor. where’s the bujeria. where’s the vodou. the santeria. the taste.

tv show: *a group of cracker bitches sit together around a pentagram with cloaks they bought at party city for half price* *starts mumbling some shit in latin* *candles light up* *maybe some levitating if there’s a budget*

the girls with no taste:

This has been said a thousand times and articulated better than I could ever hope to, but I’m so tired of yts and nb pocs using aave. y’all abuse, misuse, and take credit for language created by black folks (esp black women and black gay men) and then toss it aside when it’s no longer cool and trendy.

So many black ppl grow up feeling alienated from their own language, having parents, teachers, and peers that scold and make fun of them for sounding “uneducated” and now the same people that teased us have taken claim of language that black people had to eliminate from our lexicon just to be taken seriously.

So no, nonblack El Be Gee Tees, you did not coin let’s get this bread, wig, shade, or tea. It was uneducated blacks that you look down your nose at that did.

And honestly I just have to laugh when y’all complain about cishets misusing bottom and top or whatever. Because when we ask for not to do the same thing, y’all give us the same ole, “well no one owns a language” or “it’s just slang anyway.” It’s tired and pathetic.

Y’all are no better than your cishet counterparts.

White people and nonblack pocs can reblog just keep your thoughts to yourself

I seen several people in the tags say “x is aave? i won’t use it anymore” And like,

1. That’s a lie. Even if you stop for couple weeks, you’ll definitely start again when you see the next cool, new “internet slang” (i.e. aave) that stan/gay twitter “came up with.” So saying you won’t do it anymore is just an empty platitude to make you feel better about yourself.

2. That isn’t the point. Whatever, keep using let’s get this bread or wig, like I said, y’all aren’t going to stop anyway. I want you to become conscious and hyperaware that you’re doing it. Every time one of those words/phrases crosses your lips I want you to think, “What would be the reaction if a black person said this? Would they treated the same way as me? Or would others (and myself) view them as lesser and uneducated? Why is that I don’t face scrutiny for using these words and they do?” And think long and hard about the answers to those questions because you already know what they are.

Be aware of your privilege, y’all. And be better allies to black folk.

Paintings by Baya Mahieddine, 1947

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Eunice Atieno Onyango photographed by Yoo Young Kyu for Avenuel Magazine May 2017.