Every undergrad on tumblr wants to quote from Black female feminists and womanists.
When I was an undergrad I experienced the same thing in classrooms.
As I checked in and out for a message I was waiting on today on tumblr, it has been a very bad bad day for me as I read quotes from Black female feminists that have been co-opted and posted by men and white folks.
The words of Black female feminists whether directly from them or used by people who are outside of the experience of being a Black woman lose their meaning when they undercut, silence, and erase the very Black women the words are meant to be for.
I’m done.
blackguy
So what I’ getting from this is that Black Feminists’ quotes/words should either only be meant for black women (which would mute the words almost entirely) or that they lose meaning when not observing that they were intended for black women. Could you please clarify?
Taviante Queens
I suggest you have another read because that’s not what I’m saying at all. What I’m saying is that people other than the Black wimmin whose identities and experiences these words speak to are being used against them or co-opted for other people’s purposes, therefore oftentimes removing the meaning and context. ~Queen