so the thing about that buffalo soldier shirt is that the text deliberately downplays the antiBlackness of their situation and it originates from a 1966 book written by a white man that was repeated piecemeal in other places that then was scraped by AI. the shirt's text is not designed to reflect true "nuance", it is a piece of propaganda that intentionally leaves out that the buffalo soldiers were specifically protecting white settlers who directly owned slaves and/or explicitly believed in the institution of slavery.

the idea that east asians aren't aware of race is funny because Korean nation-building during the 19th century involved taking up Western race science placing Black people and nonblack Natives in America as being inferior via the first major Korean newspaper, Hanseongsunbo. in November 30, 1883, the Korean newspaper Hanseongsunbo declared that Black Africans were "escape from the category of savage" and "the word savage is for these people." funny enough, white people were placed *above* them in the racial hierarchy they took up.

everytime something like the transphobe gym happens, ppl immediately jump to talking about how it'll affect everyone else other than trans ppl. it's not helping, and it isn't how you show solidarity. this is truly the limit of empathy-first politics. solidarity is uniting despite not sharing the positionality of another. you shouldn't need to imagine yourself in their place to care. if we accept that premise, we are doomed.

why do people keep saying that solidarity is about finding shared struggle? it isn't, it's about struggling together /despite/ not sharing a struggle. the word you are looking for to describe finding shared struggle is empathy. empathy does not address antiBlackness because in order to empathize with Black people, white people have to appropriate Blackness which reifies it as a thing to be owned and enjoyed.

goal for funeral costs for a Black trans woman who was murdered less than two weeks ago still hasnt been met.

$14,416 raised of $20,000 goal

gofund.me/c4be15b3 UPDATE: $15,843/$20,000

i know plenty Black people are still angry over the latest example of white trans people being antiBlack, but i think y'all should take this as an opportunity to move beyond anger/rage and enter pessimism. Black rage has its place and is necessary, but it can be co-opted. unfortunately, theft of Black struggle is necessary for white trans people because they don't carry any revolutionary potential which is why they have to appeal to white supremacists. Black rage can be more easily be commodified but Black pessimism can't.

what a fascinating account in terms of gazing into the incoherence of rad feminism. this is a white woman trying to pander to cis Black women by saying treating "trans" as a descriptor like "Black" is wrong, yet appropriates Blackness to present "woman-face" as a concept. antiBlackness has nothing to do with transphobia according to rad fems, yet Blackness becomes a resource for analogy when it comes to "sexism". it doesn't make sense until you realize that they believe in race realism (this account has said race is an "immutable characteristic")

nonblack "leftists" should be setting up actual group chats/networks for redistributing their money and sharing fundraisers to Black people, especially maGes, and if they are not currently doing that, have no business expecting solidarity from us

https://twitter.com/madblackdyke/status/1512158465917136902

also i have another, and i have a whole essay on this on my patreon, but nonblack leftists simply donating their money to Black people is not actual mutual aid. they should actively be [redacted] from other nonblacks and redistributing that, cosigning leases, etc.

that you-know-who children's author using autistic children as a bludgeon to be transphobic is utterly unsurprising. ableism and transphobia are both eugenicist enterprises and the two honestly cannot be disentangled. historically, both autistic people and trans people have been studied by people who are allistic and cis respectively and we have been pathologized on that basis. there is a commonality of removal of our capacity to be autonomous because we are incapable of "knowing ourselves".

nonblack asians could try asking Black people whether solidarity is possible, what solidarity means for us, etc. instead of just telling us that our theorizing on anti-Blackness leads to the conclusion that it's impossible without even understanding said ideas. you can't build solidarity upon the presumption of shared experience or source of oppression because anti-Blackness carries no analogue. this is why i make the distinction between mere empathy and hyper-empathy or solidarity.