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Activist Demands Reparations for All ‘Fat, Black’ Women
Posted on: September 28, 2017 at 11:59:59 CT
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436475/lgbtq-activist-demands-reparations-all-fat-black-women
According to a piece on an “intersectional feminist media” website, “fat, black” women are owed reparations due to the “trauma” that comes with being one. “The case for reparations for fat Black b****** is: f*** you, pay us,” self-described “queer, agender Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer” Ashleigh Shackelford writes in a piece for Wear Your Voice. https://tinyurl.com/y8ese79v
Now, although Shackelford is discussing black women in particular, she also makes sure to clarify that this, unlike the case for slavery reparations, is an issue specifically tied to weight: “I see thin femmes and women (of all races, actually) who are offered protection and care in ways fat black *****es are never granted,” she writes. “Our dehumanization is used to humanize everyone else in the entire world, but no one wants to protect, save or celebrate us.”
“Everyone just wants to eat off our flesh until we can’t satisfy or provide for them anymore,” she continues. What kind of reparations? She makes sure to clarify that, too: Let me be clear, though: when I say, “F*** you, pay me,” I mean, “F*** YOU. PAY ME.” Pay me a check, pay me consistently, provide me safe housing, offer me a job with benefits, run me those Beyonce tickets, finance my clothes and wigs and aesthetics, cultivate accessibility to spaces and provide seats that fit me, see and validate my humanity. Shackelford insists that these reparations are well-deserved, because “[t]he intellectual, emotional and actual physical labor fat Black b****** provide is actually invaluable to the entire world.” “Yet here we are and I’m still owed, still taken from, still waiting,” she writes, adding, “F*** you.”
Edited by JeffB at 12:03:03 on 09/28/17
According to a piece on an “intersectional feminist media” website, “fat, black” women are owed reparations due to the “trauma” that comes with being one. “The case for reparations for fat Black b****** is: f*** you, pay us,” self-described “queer, agender Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer” Ashleigh Shackelford writes in a piece for Wear Your Voice. https://tinyurl.com/y8ese79v
Now, although Shackelford is discussing black women in particular, she also makes sure to clarify that this, unlike the case for slavery reparations, is an issue specifically tied to weight: “I see thin femmes and women (of all races, actually) who are offered protection and care in ways fat black *****es are never granted,” she writes. “Our dehumanization is used to humanize everyone else in the entire world, but no one wants to protect, save or celebrate us.”
“Everyone just wants to eat off our flesh until we can’t satisfy or provide for them anymore,” she continues. What kind of reparations? She makes sure to clarify that, too: Let me be clear, though: when I say, “F*** you, pay me,” I mean, “F*** YOU. PAY ME.” Pay me a check, pay me consistently, provide me safe housing, offer me a job with benefits, run me those Beyonce tickets, finance my clothes and wigs and aesthetics, cultivate accessibility to spaces and provide seats that fit me, see and validate my humanity. Shackelford insists that these reparations are well-deserved, because “[t]he intellectual, emotional and actual physical labor fat Black b****** provide is actually invaluable to the entire world.” “Yet here we are and I’m still owed, still taken from, still waiting,” she writes, adding, “F*** you.”
Edited by JeffB at 12:03:03 on 09/28/17
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