The creator fucking left us out solely bc the creator said some “aphobic” things and decided ppl who don’t fuck r more a part of the community THAN THE GOD DAMN L
Ace and Aro people are just as much a part of the community as “the god damn L”. We are much more than people who don’t fuck.
Honestly.
Shitting on and excluding a part of the Lgbtqia+ spectrum while you yell about being excluded is more than a little tone deaf. Tap dancing baby jesus on a fucking unicycle, it isn’t that hard.
Really? What have you contributed?
what oppression do the Ace community face exactly?? You don’t feel valid?? Fuck off.
Remember when an ace person got “homosexuality” removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses? Oh wait, that was Barbara Gittings, a lesbian. Did an ace person punch a cop at Stonewall and incite the riots? No, that was Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian. Were there any asexuals helping to organize the first Pride? Again, those were lesbians (Ellen Brody and Linda Rhodes) and gay men (Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant), as well as a bisexual woman (Brenda Howard). Were asexuals known to help gay men during the AIDS crisis? No, that was lesbians. Did an ace person overturn the discriminatory “defense of marriage” act? No, that was also a lesbian, Edith Windsor. Even outside of the US, you will find that activists for the gay rights movement (now referred to “LGBT”) were, well, gay people.
Our fight was always one of sexual freedom. And, while asexual people have their own struggles, I’m sure, the idea that they belong in the “LGBT” community is very new and misguided. To assert that asexuals are “just as much of a part of the community” as lesbians is absolutely absurd. Lesbians are the ones who, throughout history and still today, were oppressed because of their same sex attraction. They (along with gay men) built this community from the ground up, struggling for centuries to get where we are today.
You all didn’t even force your way in until the 2000s. In fact, I’m old enough to remember when the “A” still stood for ally.
The Q used to stand for Questioningin order to offer solidarity to those who were struggling with internalized homophobia or who couldn’t come out bc their parents were homophobic. But straights just couldn’t fucking resist calling us a homophobic slur
I still can’t get over how genderqueer and nonbinary are the same made up thing and they put both of them.
^^ This. They won’t include lesbians, but they’ll include 2 completely meaningless terms??? That’s like kicking us when we’re down. The misogyny is RIFE.
When I was 22, I achieved my dream academic internship. It’s been an interesting road since that time. I’ve developed tenacity in my chosen fields and have accomplished work of which I am truly proud. I also find gratitude a naturally occurring and sobering part of my days. I’m truly thankful for everyone in my life both past and present. It’s through passion and perseverance and love and grief from which I’ve grown. And I thank God every day for my family, friends, and teachers from whom I’ve been spiritually and intellectually nurtured.
I recently listened to episode six, “My Little Hundred Million,” of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast series. Every Rowan alum should listen to it in entirety; Gladwell and the late Henry M. Rowan translate incredibly important and timely moral compass components.
A recent episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History, delves into the unfair dismissals of black teachers after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Gladwell pieces together a narrative drawn extensively from archival sources, including oral histories from Duke University Library’s collection: “Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South.”
Gladwell explains that as school systems consolidated, white educators kept their teaching or administrative positions and black educators were fired in many cases or pushed out through marginalization. The National Education Association (NEA), as an advocate for the fair hiring practices of educators, drew attention to this inequity through the dissemination of reports, lawsuits, and statistics for decades after the ruling. The archives of the NEA are held by GW Libraries Special Collections and contain details of this injustice.
After our NEA Archivist, Vakil Smallen, heard the episode he immediately went to the collections to look for further original documentation of what Gladwell described. He found many sources and over the next few weeks we will share examples on our Tumblr.
What follows are some of the examples of the mistreatment endured by educators of color in the Louisiana public school system documented in this 1970 report:
Former administrators being demoted to teaching or janitorial positions in newly integrated schools.
In one case, an elementary school principal with 27 years of experience was asked to teach a subject he was not certified in and he was later terminated on the grounds that he was unqualified to properly instruct on this subject.
Some accounts detail former principals being reduced to offices in closets or given menial tasks such as being put in charge of attendance or distributing textbooks instead of leading schools.
Black teachers were far less likely to receive the school assignment of their choice and had to accept assignment to an unwanted school or quit.
Black teachers were instructed that they could not discipline white students for misbehavior.
Images above:
1. Photograph taken from the December, 1967 issue of the Southern Education Report.
2. Report Snapshot: Sample text from the NEA’s report on Desegregation in Louisiana
3. Headline taken from the Oct. 6, 1968 issue of The Advocate, a Baton Rouge based paper serving the entire state.
We’re told the play Hamilton is progressive because of its racial diversity. So I wondered, what other white male historical figures will benefit from such revisionist storytelling?
When it comes to race, liberals and conservatives have a good cop/bad cop dynamic. Even though they show it differently, both are racist and use the same tactic of weaponizing POC as tokens. Hamilton is a perfect example of the insidious ways bigotry functions in liberal spaces. Whereas POC tokens on the right espouse obvious bigotry, tokens on the left will mask their self-hate by appearing to push back on racism. Instead, they perpetuate racism through more “acceptable” means, such as colorism, colorblind casting, classism, exceptionalism, etc.
As many in the Black community have pointed out, the so-called progressive casting of Hamilton and its hip-hop infused storytelling turned Black characters into slave owners and villains to the lighter-skinned heroes. But none of that criticism mattered because liberals loved it. Once liberals love something, it feeds an impenetrable ouroboros-esque media ecosystem—from who gets cast, which platforms write about it, who goes viral for praising it, etc. They push white-worshipping narratives into the mainstream to say to POC “this is how you do it.”
A few years ago, most of the complaints about Asian representation is that there wasn’t any. Since then, we’ve made progress in getting more Asian faces on screen. However, many of the narratives for this newfound Asian rep is still white at their core—the same way Hamilton is.
Darren Criss is a good example of what white-worshipping media liberalism looks like in action for AsAms. He once said “I always say one of my favorite things about myself is that I’m half-Filipino, but I don’t look like it. I just look like a Caucasian guy, which is nice.” Criss refused to apologize or acknowledge he (and other white-mixed Asians) benefit from the colorism he blatantly gushed about. Everything he said afterward was clearly damage control and revisionist. But here’s the most frustrating part: he’s still touted as positive Fil-Am rep.
Darren Criss is hardly the only example. Media like To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before or Raya and the Last Dragon have been touted as progress, but they’re just Asian faces on white stories. White people—especially white men—still control the purse strings and decide what gets approved.
Where does that leave creators of color who truly challenge white supremacy? They get left behind, while the ones who mold themselves into tokens—to keep the system in place—get boosted to the top with resources and accolades because they don’t want to “throw away their shot.”
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