I want to thank my mother for allowing me to embrace being honest over being nice.
Niceness has always been about policing Black girls and women into silencing the potency of our voices and mostly rejecting our internal guiding systems that allow us to map out the boundaries
Niceness has always been about policing Black girls and women into silencing the potency of our voices and mostly rejecting our internal guiding systems that allow us to map out the boundaries
that make us feel whole + respected.
Antagonizing Black women for expressing very vital emotions like anger, rage + sadness has allows allowed the oppressive classes to trample over our calls for collective liberation.
Antagonizing Black women for expressing very vital emotions like anger, rage + sadness has allows allowed the oppressive classes to trample over our calls for collective liberation.
No matter how much we are framed as " crazy, non-respectable, undesirable", niceness is political desirability and is only weaponised against non-yt women who are de facto criminalised for merely existing
there has never been a day in my life where being "nice" has brought me anything but vultures ready to suck on my energy and exploit my kindness.
Pretty much, being a Black women and being respected has always been seen as mutually exclusive, so why would I pay the cost of being nice just for people to speculate on my value and create cultures determined to vilify me and make me the antithesis of heteronormative feminity?
I might as well give people reasons to fill their broken moral compasses with vitriol because the only thing I actually care about is revolutionary justice, liberation + healing.
I will not be anyone's mule and especially not the one to role play the submissive mammy for anyones white supremacist sadomasochistic pleasure.
I do not desire to be liked, appreciated or even considered equal to oppressors. I want them to feel all the smoke.
I do not desire to be liked, appreciated or even considered equal to oppressors. I want them to feel all the smoke.
I hold this quote dearly and I hope you all too
“It’s that you are disliked by someone. It is proof that you are exercising your freedom and living in freedom, and a sign that you are living in accordance with your own principles.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked
“It’s that you are disliked by someone. It is proof that you are exercising your freedom and living in freedom, and a sign that you are living in accordance with your own principles.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked
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