seen a few people on here use this pic of Indigenous women at a film premiere to “prove” Black people, didn’t create the #SayHerName campaign
this pic is from 2021, of a short film about murdered and missing Indigenous women
#SayHerName is a 2014 campaign made by Black women
the #SayHerName hashtag and campaign was started in 2014 by the AAPF - African American Policy Forum - as a way to raise awareness about Black women that are killed by police
trying to deny Black women ownership of our labor and ideas to discredit us is anti-Black racist AF
denying Black women ownership of our labor, emotional, intellectual or otherwise, when it comes to #SayHerName is also a disgusting display of misogynoir
like, y’all feel so entitled to what Black women produce, that you get mad when we tell you “we made this for ourselves”
white women are constantly excluding Black women from feminism, and other liberatory work for women, but the moment we go do our own work, snd t our own spaces, y’all cry foul and say “we should get to use that too!”
i’m TIRED
and i have to point out how utterly gross it is to see folks, especially white gay and trans people, weaponize the oppression of Indigenous women in an attempt to silence Black women
do y’all know how racist that is to both Black and Indigenous women??
like, it’s wild how some white folks are so desperate to silence Black women, that you’ll treat the oppression of Indigenous women as a gotcha to say “see, this thing Black women made for themselves is actually for everyone!”
and sadly, this isn’t a new problem
every time Black women create something for ourselves, white people find some way to colonize it
Black women created a natural hair movement to pushback against societal discrimination of our hair, and white women inserted themselves
Black women carry on our ancestral tradition of protective hairstyles, like Bantu Knots, and white folks not only appropriate it, but erase the style’s African origins by renaming it “mini buns”
like, y’all won’t let Black women have shit, and i’m over it
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