Divestment

 Notes on Black Womanhood (On Divesting and KSC)

  • Black women as a whole place the responsibility of race before their womanhood, and adopt the struggles included in that charge. Your blackness does not come before your womanhood.
  • In accepting this charge (“I am black before I am a woman”) you accept the responsibility of racism, and become responsible for fighting it for a lifetime. Placing the burden of racism before being a woman eradicates the keystone of femininity: flow. If you are constantly fighting an invisible, irreversible force, you are never in a state of flow.
  • As seen in recent news, black men have become the driving force and face of the racism we face as a collective. George Floyd is the name and face you hear on TV, news, etc. Not Breonna Taylor. This depiction of racism being primarily at the detriment of black men changes racism into a fight against forces that impact black men only. Read that again. As a result of this, black women’s issues are, as they always have been in major movements, brushed aside.
  • As mentioned prior, black women’s acceptance of this primary role in fighting racism not only disrupts our femininity, we often also become complicit in misogynoir. Think of the aunties that support R. Kelly or Bill Cosby despite their allegations, or protect the rapist in the family. In all of these instances the black man is defended solely based on his blackness, and the woman’s womanhood is disregarded. However we may not realize that we do things like this as well. The trend of “My soulmate/husband will be black!” is majority upheld by black women, meanwhile, black men rarely say this, if you don’t believe me, look for yourself on Twitter. These self directed microagressions uphold these same standards.
  • The erasure of black womanhood at the expense of blackness also provides us no benefit. Even if we magically live to see the complete erasure of racism (let’s be realistic!) we as women still face the women effects of patriarchy! We will still be hit in the face with skateboards at the hands of black men for rejecting them because we are women. We will still have to fight for our reproductive rights because we are women. We will still have to carry weapons and not be able to walk alone at night because we are women. Do you know any black men marching for reproductive rights and holding their friends accountable for being sexual predators? No. Because the current system at least affords black men the power of patriarchy. They are not who we should be fighting for! Because when the chips fall the only person who cares about black womens issues are black women! Because no one else faces the severity of the issues we do.
  • Depictions of black womanhood revolve around either men, struggle, or race, and oftentimes, all three. Every movie of a black woman you see she is in a constant state of chaos, which she must fix or become more placatable in order to fix. This imagery teaches black women that their femininity revolves around struggle.
  • Black womanhood must be defined by something more ancient and pure. Not the practices of our enslaved ancestors whose entire lives were rooted in struggle and binding pain, but those who came before them. We must define black womanhood for ourselves, outside of men. Think of every role you believe a black woman should fill, if any of them have anything to do with men, or racism, you are doing it wrong.

In short black women, the name of the game is self preservation. No more self sacrificing, no more struggling because that is what we are told our femininity is made of, because it does not benefit us.



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