Notices by L.J. is not afraid of 💀 (ljwrites@fandom.ink)

"The men all ran. Only the women stayed that day. . . . We went to fight the #police with punches and kicks . . . When they tried to arrest the woman, we surrounded the car and we all screamed, 'Let her go' . . . When the police said, 'We’re going to shoot,' we said, 'Go ahead, you can kill us, but we’re not leaving her, no.' . . . When they saw that we weren’t going to give in, they let her go."
- Iraci Isabel da Silva (#DonaIraci)
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackWomenAtoZ #AfroLatina #Brazil

"When you defend rapists, and bemoan the cultural loss of their work when they get called out, think about the bigger loss that could have been the contributions of their victims. I have things to contribute too. I have art to put out there too. I matter too. Other victims do too."

(Warnings at link for #rape, workplace and interpersonal #abuse, suicidal ideation.)

http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/calling-out

White teenagers think it's acceptable to "act out" with symbols of hate because they have absorbed the white American value that racial equality is a matter of respectability, not morality. Because white ppl's idea of racial harmony is so divorced from moral values but consists of injunctions for politeness (don't say slurs etc.) their children break these injunctions for simple shock value without caring who they're hurting.

@scarlettablack Psychology has consistently found that people are above all situational, so maybe if the idea of "who I am" is to be useful it needs to come with a situational qualifier. "I am/was the kind of person who spray-paints hate in public WHEN I let peer pressure get the better of my principles." The part that comes after the "when" is something they can learn from. It's certainly more honest and helpful than just "That's not me!"