CaribeñeMarciaX @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social

Working on my thesis and I have been starting to share bits and pieces of my drafts along the way.

I am researching Black women artists and our relationships to monuments and sites, for me specifically here in Barça that relate to Puerto Rico.

If you want to support my research, art practice or just are interested in general, check out my Patreon
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Its been difficult for me to merge a few concepts together.

but thats what im supposed to do. sort it out. find where it fits.

i wonder how many points its gonna cost me that i dont quote the old WM directly in my paper, even tho i say that they will not be my focus.

black women writers will be

shrugs. we'll see

I have had a hard time w the basic texts of phenomenology I have to admit. Reading Fanon and looking at Uri McMillian's work on Black women performance through a phen. lens has been super helpful.
But writing about what I call the existential cultural crisis WOC face in the Diaspora thru this phen. lens has been tricky.... I realized I kept switching from ontology and phenomenology and I think my tutor wants one or the other and then I get lost.

amelia bedelia!!!!!! @balrogboogie

i just clocked this lmao

Using Christian P, a former NeoNazi as an example as to why we should allow them to speak is so disingenuous. Firstly, the POC in his life that showed him kindness and therefore he changed....nah. It shouldn't always be falling on us to change a Nazi's mind.

Also, does Chris think that it is our responsibility to do the work that ppl should be doing for themselves? Personal responsibility no longer a thing?

Do I look like your magical savior negresse? FOH

Words mean things.

You don't even for once consider the fact these ppl have jobs in which their bigotry affects other ppls lives, their childrens lives, their health, their education, their access to services.

Black women die at high rates giving birth bc of bigotry, students are sexually assaulted & given gag orders when they report it, I can go on.

You dont have the range but assume that you do, that's how your white maleness works.

I am for one, tired of debating my existence to others. Which is what the convo's always boil down to. You can yell at me until you are blue in the face that they deserved to be heard, as if that does nothing to my mental health, bc again, they want to let me know that I have no right to exist, fundamentally.

You think that me defederating does more harm? It doesn't. It keeps me sane & healthy. ++

It doesn't ever occur to, particularly white cis hetero men, that for someone such as myself, 'debate' or 'hearing other views' has been a part of my life since childhood.

Frankly, debating issues regarding race or sexuality isn't an academic like adventure that happens within this neat little controlled environment.

This has been a near everyday experience w bigots. ++