Selection from Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, by Benita Roth, 2010.
Black Women and Changes in the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s featured Black women activists in prominent roles (Crawford et al. 1990; Giddings 1984; Gray White 1999; hooks 1981; Joseph and Lewis 1981; McNair Barnett 1993; Payne 1989,1990; Robnett 1997; Standley 1990; Terborg-Penn 1978). Although the most public leaders were men, Black women played significant parts in the movement, both on local and national levels, contributions that were noted within the Black community at the time (see Bender 1969; Thomas 1964). Southern Black women’s networks were central to the struggle, since Black women had been active in clubs and other political organizations that agitated on behalf of the race, such as the Montgomery Women’s Political Council. Among Black college students, 48 percent of participants in sit-ins and Freedom Rides were women (Prestage 1980); Orum’s (1970:72) survey of Black college students’ participation in Civil Rights protest found that nearly twice as many women as men in the sample participated in protest (2,047 women versus 1,142 men).0As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas. They become a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.
-Audre Lorde • The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House
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Yorgunluk Sadece Beden'de Olmazmış….
En Çok Da Yürek'te,,,
Hayâller'de, Umut'lar Da Olur…!!!
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57Feminism on tumblr is so weird cause it’s either the ones that does shit for funsies and says they’re ‘not like other girls’ who enjoy feminine things and bash them for enjoying it, the white feminists who benefit from being racist to get in kahoots with white men for change and not aknowledging their own white privilege compared to woc, or the terfs. I’ve met only a few women on here who don’t fit in those categories and guess what? All black women or woc, with the acception if 1 or 2 white women.
4HAVE YOU OWN SH*T
It’s all good and well having someone who takes care of you, provides for your every need and treats you like a princess but I cannot stress the importance of having your OWN shit too! What someone else gives you should be a extra/bonus to your life, not the be all and end all, and these people you connect with should be aware of that!
I’ve seen so many girls get into relationships and situations with affluent/wealthy/ celebrity men to later be left high and dry for a new girl. (It happened to me) You have to have your own shit! you have to have your own money, your own hobbies, your own friends, your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own self confidence and most importantly your own mind, otherwise people will leed you astray.
Furthermore you shouldn’t even be seeking a “lifestyle” or a certain “individual” or “status” that you’re not even 75% prepared for, knowledge is power the more you know the better it’ll always be for you, don’t listen to these blogs telling you to seek wealth but you still have a poor, broken, self, sabotaging mindset, not to mention having a lack of ambition.
TIPS
• get a education
• start a course (udemy and skillshare)
• have a social life outside of your relationship
• get fit
• look your best so you can feel your best.
• sell clothes on Depop or posh mark
• start a amazon associates account and earn a % on sales you make
• Have multi side hustles
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Damn I miss being this awsome. It’s Thursday somewhere, right?
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