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Chakita Sharnise (19)
RP @rachel.cargle.. Original tweet from @ll_mckinney
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White populations have been putting communities of color through dystopian circumstances for centuries.
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The novel Handmaids Tale is a good example. Before you clutch your pearls in horror, consider how true the storyline is for women of color.
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“The premise of The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopic in nature and, at its core, imagines a world where white women are stripped of all their modern rights—the chief among them being autonomy over their own bodies. But as you read more into what makes this universe specifically dystopic for white women, it starts to sound a bit familiar.
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As this wonderful piece by Ana Cottle of The Establishment elaborates, white women find themselves being raped; being herded around like cattle and property; being forced to breed; being barred from coming and going as they please without some special note from their master, and adopting the name of said master as a mark of ownership; and being beaten or killed if they do not comply.
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It is a nightmare, for sure, but it is a nightmare that black women have experienced firsthand in this country and still experience in some places abroad. And ironically enough, we are erased from Atwood’s fictional and narrative hellscape just so that our struggles can be cosplayed by white women.”
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And I’m going to use the sentiments of @ll_mckinney to address those who say “well Atwood was AWARE that she was making a novel of a white dystopia based on the realities of the dystopian situations white people have put POC through for generations.” Her acknowledging that she made a profit off of the story of the pain of communities of color while not actually addressing the realities of these structures....doesn’t absolve her of participating in the collective racist imagination that white America thrives off of.
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Chakita Sharnise (19)
RP @rachel.cargle.. Original tweet from @ll_mckinney
...
White populations have been putting communities of color through dystopian circumstances for centuries.
...
The novel Handmaids Tale is a good example. Before you clutch your pearls in horror, consider how true the storyline is for women of color.
...
“The premise of The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopic in nature and, at its core, imagines a world where white women are stripped of all their modern rights—the chief among them being autonomy over their own bodies. But as you read more into what makes this universe specifically dystopic for white women, it starts to sound a bit familiar.
...
As this wonderful piece by Ana Cottle of The Establishment elaborates, white women find themselves being raped; being herded around like cattle and property; being forced to breed; being barred from coming and going as they please without some special note from their master, and adopting the name of said master as a mark of ownership; and being beaten or killed if they do not comply.
...
It is a nightmare, for sure, but it is a nightmare that black women have experienced firsthand in this country and still experience in some places abroad. And ironically enough, we are erased from Atwood’s fictional and narrative hellscape just so that our struggles can be cosplayed by white women.”
...
And I’m going to use the sentiments of @ll_mckinney to address those who say “well Atwood was AWARE that she was making a novel of a white dystopia based on the realities of the dystopian situations white people have put POC through for generations.” Her acknowledging that she made a profit off of the story of the pain of communities of color while not actually addressing the realities of these structures....doesn’t absolve her of participating in the collective racist imagination that white America thrives off of.
.
.
.
#UnitedStreetTours #blackhistory #Allyship #changingthenarrative #inclusion #love #antiracism #nashville #nashvillehistory #musiccity #united #nashvilleblackhistory #WhiteAllies #Racialjustice #blacklivesmatter #Racism #Antiracist #antiracism #whitewashing #chakitasharnise #Whitefragility #buyblack #WhiteAlly #reparations #blackowned #FemaleEntrepreneur #feminist #feminism #antiracisteveryday