Brief Report Back Wednesday zoom "What Will White Womyn Do To End Racism?"

 We all shared our recent most challenging aspect re:our anti-racism work and the most success we've had challenging racism/on our anti-racism journey. 

Most white womyn on this zoom live in very rural areas that are also all or predominantly white. Because of the lack of Black and brown people, overt racism is difficult for most to identify. Yet racism flourishes and is carefully taught in all white towns. 

Wearing "Black Lives Matter" t-shirt and responding to white family members; the church sacred circle study group and the Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/ - the opportunities to introduce, reflect, strategize re:racism - what it means for us, what to do. 

Challenging ThanksTaking with family members, educating re:lies and myths of ThanksTaking - Indigenous People's day of mourning.

Again we discussed and role played the vinegar vs honey & capturing flies approaches. 

"Yes I hear you" beginning, then continuing with challenge/dialogue if possible.

We talked about the myriad of ways white people have to shut down the conversation of racism, let alone the actions to smash racism. 

Dis/advantages of presenting "for" and "against". Discussing gentle approach and excuse not to hear. "Tell me more" to keep conversation going.

It is not our "approach" that shuts white people down by centuries of careful training - and we've only had months to decades of careful opposition training. The important thing is to keep chipping away - not to allow the conversation to be shut down. "I used to think that way..."

We also talked about "Your Silence Will Not Protect You" but not true - when white womyn remain silent, we are protected. But it is a false sense of protection, complicit with racism, misogyny war - and the cost we are willing - ot not - to pay for this 'protection'.

The flag, military, service and the connections to nationalism - service to white domination, white corporate profit, exploiting patriotic feelings - the lies and myths of those things.

Recommended readings/podcasts/documentaries:

"Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta" by Richard Grant

"Empathy for Black People in America" Dr. Joy Degruy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yayOUiQFkOY

Because our white lives STILL matter...

Those of you who know me know that I’m FURIOUS white people get to 'lovingly' embrace and perpetuate the myths and lies of ThanksTaking this time of year, the gratitude shit that springs directly from white privilege – and now the “great” things that have happened this 'rough' year.

A white facebook friend of mine, who her white privilege is challenged becomes enraged, and fervently denies she’s white because she’s Italian. Recently she put a post up on facebook asking us to make a list of what’s been “GREAT” this “rough” year.

Really Giovanna? “Rough?” Police murderers killing with impunity? White vigilantes stalking, hunting down and murdering young men for jogging while Black? White male murderer stomping a man to death on camera as if he was squishing a spider? Police and white vigilantes attacking BLM protesters with increased horrific violence? Black and brown people dying from covid at a much greater rate than white people?

Well here’s her post in green so you can see for yourselves and my hurried response along with the ensuing dialogue - well dialogue ended actually along with unfriending and blocking....

Giovanna: "Yes 2020 has been rough. But what great things have happened for you this year? Let's start a list."

Me: "Let's start this list of the "great" things that have not been brought to those of us who are white by our white privilege."

She very politely responded to me with: start your own thread on your own page.

This is a womon who is supposed to be much more than a friend but a sistar compañera.

Me: "You don't get it Giovanna and it hurts me so much. I'm just asking us to remember that Black lives STILL don't matter - to be aware like white people don't have to even think about our privilege when we think of what is "great" about our lives. Let alone when characterizing this past year as “rough”.

Our attention to racism is so short lived - as it is part of our privilege, as you embraced & are reminding me here - we not only don't HAVE to think about it but we get to flaunt our privilege publicly in the face of Black & brown people. We don't have to consider disparities impacting Black people STILL being shot by police, being incarcerated, Black womyn & infants dying during childbirth 8 times more than white womyn, that Black womyn pay the highest mortgage rates in the country, that fewer Black people own homes today than when housing discrimination was legal in 1968.

And much more: the average white woman has TEN - 10 - times the wealth of the average Black womon. And that white people are surviving covid in much greater numbers than Black & brown people.

And we can't even ask ourselves to think about where our "great" advantages are coming to us from during this past “rough” year?

Because our white lives matter.

Book #3: "Transwomen are Men; Transmen are Women: We ALL Know This!" to be continued...

 My next book will be titled: "Transwomen are Men; Transmen are Women: We ALL Know This"

Abolish fuckin gender - NOT sex! 

We've reached peak transdomination and common sense is starting to prevail again. 

The fact, the truth is that transwomen are NOT women but are men who embrace our misogynist, racist, war-mongering patriarchal society's stereotypes of women defined in "gender boxes.

Men claim they know how it "feels" to be a woman. Come fucking on - how male-dominating ridiculous is that. Men have little to no idea of what it means to be a womon. They only know what society teaches us from the very beginning of life what society needs and wants womyn to be - and men as well.

We have spent so much of our lives ourselves figuring out what it means to be a womon as we yank out the internalized misogyny, self-hatred and of course hatred of our bodies to smash that gender box created to perpetuate patriarchy, womyn's oppression and male superiority and domination.

Men will never know what it means to survive girlhood and embark on that glorious journey of redefining ourselves outside and in opposition to what men have created and embraced for our lives, our beings.

And it takes decades most of the time for us to survive misogyny and create our autonomous and free selves.

Part of the book will be direct quotes from transdomination individuals and their handmaidens responding to myself and other womyn. Why this? Many strate people, liberal people, people afraid of being called transphobic at best, threatened with violence at worse do not believe that transdomination is misogyny, a backlash against the tiny amount of liberation we were able to secure  beginning 40, 50, 60 years ago, and a plot to rid the society of lesbians and gays by "transitioning" children and youth before they can grow up homosexual.