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What was meant to be a celebration of women filmmakers at the Sundance Festival turned into an unyielding debate on feminism in the face of Donald Trump’s divisive administration.
Sponsored by Glamour and Girlgaze, the “Powered By Women” luncheon held days after the Women’s March on Washington did more than bring a host of influencers to one table. It ultimately ripped the guise of sisterhood to shreds, unearthing the distance women have yet to go to live in solidarity.
According to the Los Angeles Times, veteran actresses Salma Hayek and Shirley MacLaine offered their shared opinion that women shouldn’t reduce themselves to victims. “Change your point of view of being victimized. I’m saying: Find the democracy inside,” MacLaine told Jessica Williams, who alluded to the oppression of black, brown and queer communities.
Hayek chimed in to challenge the former Daily Show correspondent to “investigate” who she is beyond her race and womanhood.Williams, however, noted that it’s impossible for her to turn a blind eye to the inhumane legacy of white supremacy. “If you have to do that, then do that,” the Frida star retorted. “Then that’s your journey. But I want to inspire other people to know it’s a choice.”
Williams later brought the issue of “mainstream feminism” to the forefront, expressing that she often feels her concerns as a black woman are cast aside in spaces dominated by white women.Transparent creator Jill Soloway jumped to the comedian’s defense. “With intersectional feminism, it’s our responsibility as white women to recognize that when there are people of color or people who are queer — we need to prioritize your voices and let you speak the loudest and learn from your experience, because we haven’t been listening. So please, Jessica, finish your thoughts.”
But others weren’t having it, including celebrity chef Cat Cora who eventually emerged from the kitchen to side with Hayek as she probed Williams on the muffled voices of black women in feminist circles. “What does this mean, ‘speak over?’” the one-time Ugly Betty executive producer asked.
“To project your ideas on me,” Williams explained. “I think there is a fear that if we present an idea that, ‘Hey, maybe [black women] have it a little bit harder in this country’ — because we do; black women and trans women do — if we’re having it a little bit harder, it doesn’t invalidate your experience. I really am begging you to not take it personally.”
And yet, she did. “Baby, I’m Mexican and Arab,” Hayek said, after cutting through mingled reactions. “I’m from another generation, baby, when this was not even a possibility. My generation, they said, ‘Go back to Mexico. You’ll never be anything other than a maid in this country.’ By the heads of studios! There was no movement. Latino women were not even anywhere near where you guys are. I was the first one. I’m 50 years old. So I understand”—a response that prompted Williams to shake her head among the discourse that made it clear that some women prefer to skim over the plight of others.
Even in the aftermath of a historic demonstration across the nation, showing up in the name of progress isn’t nearly as essential as listening, if lasting change truly is the goal.
Salma deadass kicked off that exchange with: “I’m sorry. Can I ask you a question? Who are you when you’re not black and you’re not a woman? Who are you and what have you got to give?” Bitch what?!
Just look at that whole exchange. This is exactly why we (Black women) don’t and will not fuck with y’all, especially when it comes to your white ass feminism that is drenched in racism and microaggression.
A non-Black woman will aggressively interrogate, shun, and belittle a Black woman’s entire existence with the intent to uplift THEMSELVES and label Black women as “divisive.” It’s always that “Me, me, me. I, I, I.”
A non-Black woman will speak on a Black woman’s experience as if they too are a Black woman and dive into their usual victim role when called out.
A non-Black woman will seek to navigate a conversation along the lines of “we are all women and need to stick together” while marginalizing Black women…as always because that’s the history of white feminism.
A non-Black woman will hurriedly interrupt and talk over a Black woman while asking “what does it mean to speak over?”
Thisis why we create our own spaces…and still y’all unsuccessful asses always seek to infiltrate because y’all salivate at the idea of “inclusiveness” just to overtake us in our own shit and diminish our voices. We are Black and woman at the same damn time. Ain’t no separating the two nor silencing us.
Fuck YOU.
Damn. Shoutouts to Jessica.
Jessica Williams is a fucking treasure. I am so tired of being told I’m “victimizing myself” by recognizing that I’m treated differently for certain parts of who I am.
What a disgusting display by Salma and Cat and others. Listen and support black women my fellow non-black/white feminists. Don’t be an asshole.
To be fair, there's probably nothing in Islam that's any more offensive to Trump than any other religion. It's just that the people who follow it tend to be brown or black skinned. Can't let those kinds of people have anything good for themselves, you know.
The Trump regime will not be out trying to stop the next Dylann Roof or Timothy McVeigh. They might have killed nine people and 168 people, respectively, but they’re the wrong religion for Trump to care how many people they kill. You can hear it in Trump’s rhetoric any old time, but it’s on the brink of becoming official, with the planned shift of a government program away from focusing on all violent ideologies to just Islamic extremism:
The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States. [...]
The CVE program aims to deter groups or potential lone attackers through community partnerships and educational programs or counter-messaging campaigns in cooperation with companies such as Google and Facebook.
Some proponents of the program fear that rebranding it could make it more difficult for the government to work with Muslims already hesitant to trust the new administration, particularly after Trump issued an executive order last Friday temporarily blocking travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Just this week in Canada, a shooter killed six people at a mosque, again highlighting the fact that extremist killers do not only come from the Muslim community. In Trump’s America, though, the government won’t be worried about the killers going into mosques and black churches and Sikh temples—showing that Trump’s not worried about extremism. He just hates the one religion.
So, I need to attach something to a tree but I thought that a nail might do damage to the tree so I went to the internet to see if they had any ideas and I was like, “Can I glue … Continue reading →
Forceful resistance works. Going after them and revealing their ugly faces to the public works. Punching them in the jaw works. Showing them no mercy works. Make.Them.Tremble.
Let's see... Did actually apparently sleep through a fire alarm, and woke up when the fire department broke into my apartment. I asked them if there was actually a fire, they said no, so I went back to sleep. I did actually do the eye drop bottle switch, but not with superglue, with a mix of rubbing alcohol and vinegar, that I use to dry out my ears after I shower. I honestly WISH it had been superglue. And I am absolutely convinced about the "almost having an accident spawns an AU where I'm dead or disabled" thing.
Lawblr side of Tumblr, here. I don’t think anybody even understands how terrifying this is. If the Executive can ignore the Judiciary, then we have a full-on Constitutional Crisis on our hands. Our country immediately falls apart. The only options for enforcement of judicial orders are 1) U.S. Marshals (which are ordered around by the Judiciary but ultimately still a part of the Executive as part of the Department of Justice), in which case we have an ACTUAL ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, or if the Marshals refuse to comply, 2) the Governor of the state, say Virginia, sends in the National Guard of the state, which leads to AN ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN A STATE MILITIA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
In case you weren’t getting the picture, let me be blunt and dramatic: this is literally Civil War-level shit right here.
And Trump has been in office a week.
This is fucking terrifying.
I spent the day at SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport). We got very little done because CBP refused to talk to us at all. When one of the attorneys with us annoyed them so much that they finally answered their office door (she literally knocked on it for 10 minutes straight), they directed her to the press release on their website (side note: I don’t know if there even is a press release on the CBP website). They told her they don’t care how many attorneys show up, they don’t take orders from attorneys or judges. Senator Patty Murray showed up just after 4:00 & CBP refused to talk to her, too. I will repeat that: Customs and Border Patrol refused to talk to a sitting United States Senator. They refused other senators at other airports, too, according to a WaPo article I read earlier.
I had to return to Portland tonight because I have work tomorrow. ACLU & International Refugee Assistance Project attorneys will be back at SeaTac tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. (including my law school bestie, I am so proud).
There were 13 people detained at SeaTac yesterday who were secretly transferred to a detention facility in Tacoma, so the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is working with attorneys to straighten that right out.
Basically: Shit is going down, y’all. The women I went up with today? Both were Arabs. One was from Pakistan, the other was from Lebanon (a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew walk into an airport…). When I asked them if I was overreacting by feeling like this was a coup-in-progress, they said no. That’s precisely what this is.
I thought we had a coup-proof system. I was mistaken.
Keep fighting the good fight, lawyers. And if you’re in Portland, I’ll see you at Perkins-Coie tomorrow at 5:30 for the L4GG meeting.
At Dulles, CBP has been stonewalling four members of the US House of Representatives, the governer and attorney general of Virginia, and Senators Cory Booker (NJ) and Mark Warner (VA)–the latter of whom chewed out the head of CBP in person. No dice. Not even with a federal court order telling CBP at Dulles, only them, and them in particular to give detainees access to lawyers.
And they’re pulling an old trick from the national-security handbook that’s been used to evade the courts on issues like domestic surveillance: “Lawyers and advocates still didn’t know how many people were being held in the secondary inspection area at Dulles or what their immigration status was, which led to a catch-22: Attorneys couldn’t file for contempt of court without having proof that legal residents were being detained and not being given access to lawyers, but they couldn’t get proof without getting access.” (x)
At least two VA reps have found out (via friends and family) about constituents being detained at Dulles, at which point CBP released them in order to dodge the access-to-lawyers issue. The representative for my district is on the warpath–and also on the House Oversight Committee. Here’s hoping these fuckers get slapped with contempt of court so hard their ears ring, then get hauled in front of a committee hearing to see if they want to try their chances with contempt of Congress.
All of which doesn’t even get into the Monday Night Massacre clusterfuck inside the executive branch, when the acting attorney general of the United States refused to make the DoJ defend the lawfulness of the immigration order in court. And was summarily fired and replaced with someone more compliant. So here’s also hoping the Senate puts Jeff Sessions through absolute hell on his role in all this before they vote to confirm him as AG.
People will tell you that emotional abuse isn’t real and what you’re dealing with isn’t that big a deal and you’re just exaggerating, but let me tell you something.
If you’ve ever been wary of everyone you know, even people you trust, because you’re expecting them to get angry with you over literally anything, make fun of you, or start making threats, something’s wrong.
If you’ve ever had to plan things in anticipation of a potential tantrum that you fear will be taken out on you, something’s wrong.
If you succumb to someone’s demands because you’re never sure if their threats are empty or legit and you just want to play it on the safe side, something’s wrong.
If you find yourself jumping at smaller noises in anticipation that they’re a warning sign for a tantrum, something’s wrong.
If you hide things - especially things that make you happy - because you’re so afraid that they’ll make fun of you for liking them, scold you for liking something they don’t, take them away, destroy them, or that they’ll defile them and ruin that love you have for them, something’s wrong.
If you find yourself being silent in the face of mild disagreements or thinly-veiled insults, rather than standing up for yourself because you just don’t want to start an argument and make things worse, something’s wrong.
If that very lack of standing up for yourself eventually leads to you never offering your opinion in any sort of discussion out of fear of ridicule or being scolded because that’s what you’re so used to, something’s wrong.
If you end up spending a lot of your time in your room keeping to yourself and keeping any trip outside of your room to an absolute minimum because you don’t want to risk putting one toe out of line and setting off a tantrum, yet you’re also aware that hiding out will also cause an issue and you’re probably just minimizing the risk instead of erasing it entirely, something’s wrong.
If you ever habitually glance outside the window to keep watch for your supposed abuser’s car to return from their work, errand or trip, and then heading to your room or other hiding place to keep out of their way, erasing any obvious signs that you’ve been out and about in the rest of your living space, something’s wrong.
If one of your greatest fantasies involves not a dream career or winning the lottery but instead an escape plan succeeding, something’s wrong.
If you could basically summarize your life as living in constant, subtle fear, Something. Is. Wrong.
Emotional abuse is very, very real, and it has lasting consequences that can affect people’s relationships, their jobs, and their lives all-around.
Don’t you dare tell me it isn’t real.
Okay but seriously please reblog because if I had seen this as a teenager maybe I would have booked it outta That Relationship instead of putting up with 14 years of hell and before the abuse escalated
thank you
It took me YEARS to overcome all the scars emotional abuse left. I don’t care how fake people say it is, it’s REAL.
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Sadly, the boyfriend hates pot pie. It's not his fault, he just doesn't have a soul to warm. So the easiest pot pie in my house is Marie Calender's.
Pot pie, chicken or otherwise, is the height of homey comfort food. Topping it with a pastry crust is all fine and good, but to up the nurturing quality (and ease of recipe) I suggest topping yours with biscuits.
*sigh* He's probably got a point. "But the Nazis did their fair share of fighting too. One of the great ironies of their rise to power is that they goaded leftists into fights, murdered them in the streets, then endeared themselves to the public by restoring law and order."
Honestly, though, what I've been seeing is that the "Punch More Nazis" things is more about refusing to mince words and just straight up calling these folks Nazis. Because everyone knows that Nazis are evil, and they aren't EVIL, they just want everyone who looks different from them to die.
Let’s say you’re the president of the United States giving a speech about Black History month. You have a piece of paper in front of you and there’s a name written down—one you’re not familiar with—but you want to say something about him anyway.
