#im white tag
There are the people who like just blatantly did not bother to show that they cared about what’s happening in ferguson but then there are the people who are like trying to gradually go back to their old way of blogging with like maybe one or two ferguson posts sprinkled in so they can still seem like they are good people and somehow I feel like that is just as bad
Reproductive Justice (RJ) isn’t just abortions. And it’s not just just about cis white women.
• RJ is folx of color not having children bc they are afraid of them being killed due to racist injustice.
• RJ is transmasculine (transmen, non-binary afab people, bois/boys, etc) folx being denied medical care because of our trans status, that is if we can even afford it.
• RJ is predominantly folx of color not being to keep their children or give them up for adoption, even if they wanted to, bc they can’t afford the medical bills that come with having a baby.
• RJ is folx who don’t speak fluent English having limited access to medical care, no matter what their decision is.
• RJ is dark-skinned folx receiving less pain meds during pregnancy or the doctor will ignore them all together bc of racist stereotypes which puts their bodies under unnecessary stress which in turn effects the fetus.
• RJ is transmasculine folx being misgendered by hospital staff.
• RJ is transmasculine folx having to teach our health care providers about our bodies, HRT, detransitioning (bc you can’t be on T if you’re pregnant), basic do’s and dont’s, etc. all while being sensationalized as a “pregnant man”.
• RJ is medical staff assuming you want an abortion since you’re transmasc.
And that’s all I got so far. Please add more. And I like the word ‘folx’.
So it was a white woman who killed Botham Jean, and a white woman who killed Dante Wright, and it’s been white women at the center of almost every video of someone unjustly calling the police on black people, and it’s white women who have been directly or indirectly responsible for many horrific massacres of black peoples across the US like the one in Wilmington and the famous Tulsa massacre, and it’s white women who have a deep history of weaponizing their white womanhood by falsely accusing black men of rape even so much as to accuse black children like emmet till which resulted in the entire civil rights movement, and white women who constructed the idea of preserving the confederacy, and it’s white women who have gained freedom by steeping on the backs of black women, and white women who have fought to preserve the racist ideals of the 50s Nuclear family, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
So are we ready to talk about how white women are not incidental participants in white supremacy but rather the architectures and safe-guards of it?
