–yes yes fuck yeah. i am so sick of hearing how we just have to be patient and slowly folks will see the light and then we can acquire the power to change our communities. we can do it now.
thanks for writing this. its exactly what i needed to hear.
(i told you always seem to find the poetic in the difficult space…;)

hey can we xpost this for ravens eye?
pretty please?

See, I don’t understand these criticisms at all. When I see the work radical women of color are doing, I see lots of awesomely practical work filled with love that takes the needs of everybody in the community into account *from the beginning* (as opposed to, “oh, we’ll worry about Group X later”) and doesn’t get caught up in theory and abstractness. (Holy cow, that was a terrible run-on sentence).

Like the Boarding School Healing Project. The Allied Media Conference. BFP’s posts about gardening and self-sustainability. (Okay, and everything else she writes ). The Sylvia Rivera Law Project. The Empowered FeFes. Kortney Ryan Ziegler’s film “Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen.”

And this isn’t “putting on your big-girl panties”? Wha?

Looking forward to that next blogpost!