Jessica Krug is a white woman, who has been lying for years about Blackness, including saying she's AfroLatina - gaining her social currency, book deals, and tenure in Black studies. all the jobs, grants, space she has stolen from Black women sickens me. medium.com/@jessakrug/the…
y'all want to be Black SO BAD. without having to deal with the lived experience and reality and trauma and cosmic weight of Blackness day in and day out. Black women in academia, and all the folks who have been hurt by her really deserve to grieve and experience their anger.
also, I'm just gonna say it. it's not lost on me that part of the reason non-Black people of color and full on white women can cycle in and out of "nebulous Black Latina" identity in this was is because she looks exactly how y'all want your AfroLatinas to look. that's the gag. 🙃
meanwhile *actual Black Latinas with the lived experience of being Black in the world* literally have to fight for tiny crumbs of representation, have to prove our Latinidad in the most egregious ways, have to walk over hot coals. Black women have every single right to be mad.
also, I'm seeing that a LOT of Black men defended her Blackness, even when Black women said their spidey senses were tingling. and that in itself is some serious misogynoir, colorism and anti-Blackness. the protection of light-skinned, white, and NB WOC at our expense.
last thing before I ignore that this ever happened (lol). Questioning people's relationship to Blackness is not policing. I will create a thread some other time about how this shows up re: Black Americans vs Black Latinas. but anyway, we *can* ask questions. JUST LOOK AT Y'ALL.
