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A thread on #JameelaJamil : So last year @jameelajamil reached out to me to be on her show @i_weigh I thought okay.. not sure how this will go since I don’t position myself as part of the body positive movement so I figured I would talk about body positivity being co-opted.
@jameelajamil @i_weigh I sat down with #JameelaJamil to discuss the interview in roughly 15 minutes. I got the feeling like black folks talking to a NBPOC or a white person that I’m going to do a lot of explaining. She even told me, “she’s ignorant so she wants to learn and give me a platform...
@jameelajamil @i_weigh Because hers is huge” We do the interview where what she said would happen, happened: I explained a lot of concepts to her. Fast forward, a few weeks later and #iweigh announces they are releasing the interview they did with #RoseMcgowan
@jameelajamil @i_weigh Now, we are on Whitney Houston’s free internet and you can google #RoseMcgowans transphobic rants and insincere apologies- I’ll leave you to that. But, me as a (a person period!) Queer and non-binary person am not going be on a show that features a transphobic person.
@jameelajamil @i_weigh So I asked #Jameelajamil to pull my interview if #RoseMcgowan interview was not going to be taken down. Please also note the thousands of comments from queer and trans people asking her NOT to feature #RoseMcgowan on her instagram
@jameelajamil @i_weigh To my non surprise, I was met with a long email gaslighting me to believe that #RoseMcgowan deserved a second chance. That we need to hear each other out and “not throw people away” Reminder: #RoseMcgowan is a white cis woman - she is and will be fine.
@jameelajamil @i_weigh #jameelajamil uses Black people and other marginalized groups as her pet projects for celeb social justice experiments.
newsflash: You can be queer and TRANSPHOBIC. A transphobic apologist should NOT be the executive producer along with two white cis men for a show on ballroom
@jameelajamil @i_weigh Just to give you the world of it, here is another direct quote from our email
exchange: “you were just a voice I wanted to elevate I have access to enough powerful and impressive people to not need any props”
@jameelajamil @i_weigh And this is the issue, people with this “I wanna give a voice” infantilizing anti Black hogwash- if you want to give a voice to the voiceless SHUT THE FUCK UP. MOVE ASIDE. STOP SPEAKING “OVER THEM”

Ballroom does NOT need #JameelaJamil. #JameelaJamil needs ballroom to convince
@jameelajamil @i_weigh Herself that she’s a good person rather than just another money grubbing corporate cog in a capitalist celebrity white adjacent wealth machine.
@jameelajamil @i_weigh And @jameelajamil STOP GASLIGHTING THE “VOICELESS” who are rightfully critical of you co-opting their
community.
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