#MarginsToCenter above all else! #CAIA2020

"Neoliberalism, political whiteness and Ahistoricism are the three main problems with mainstream antirape feminism" Wagatwe is on bsky & IG addressing #CAIA2020

.Wagatwe is on bsky & IG challenges the grandiose celebration of Weinstein's arrest as a "win for all survivors" and states that it was a win for this group of privileged survivors, asks the movement to instead center the needs of the most marginalized survivors. #CAIA2020

. Wagatwe is on bsky & IG asking us all to consider our positionality in a transnational lens. #CAIA202

👏👏👏 Wagatwe is on bsky & IG #CAIA2020

#CAIA2020 Political whiteness depends on "carceral feminism," Wagatwe is on bsky & IG challenges Alyssa Milano's refusal to understand sexual violence as a spectrum and the ease with which she dismisses a Latina woman's experience.

#CAIA2020 Wagatwe is on bsky & IG breaks down the difference in reaction to Christine Blasey Ford and Tara Reade, how hegemonic femininity privileges the experience of Blasey Ford who is higher in our societal hierarchy.

#CAIA2020 Hegemonic femininity is tied to white supremacy! Racialized women won't be believed, and won't be seen as victims OR survivors. Wagatwe is on bsky & IG

#CAIA2020 Wagatwe is on bsky & IG doesn't hold back when it comes to calling out the ahistoricism of the anti-rape movement. The anti-rape movement is FOUNDED in the work of Black women over the last 2 centuries AT LEAST.

#CAIA2020 "What does it mean to be believed? Is it neoliberal feminism where we ask the state to validate us? I think white people have used believing to perpetuate white supremacy.... I think we need to read history." -Wagatwe is on bsky & IG

#CAIA2020 Wagatwe is on bsky & IG provides some great resources to learn history and listen to Black feminists throughout time.

"As a Black surivor and first-generation American I think we need to be promoted, amplify us. The most powerful get the most heard, and we need to redistribute that power away from the 'most palatable'. I want us to be invested in." -Wagatwe is on bsky & IG #CAIA2020 #PromoteInvestListenFollow

#CAIA2020 Wagatwe is on bsky & IG shares her hope that people stop speaking about Black folks as a monolith, asks us all to use our privilege locally to support or challenge policy that affect the personhood of Black survivors.

.Wagatwe is on bsky & IG's advice to healthcare workers: check out a local anti-racism health professional society, know about the racist history of medicine, understand implicit vs explicit biases, follow other professionals investing in anti-racism.

Thank you, Wagatwe is on bsky & IG, for your expertise and work. <3 A vital opening to #CAIA2020. #MarginsToCenterOrBust

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