#14 Vocal about anti-blackness among POC

Vocal about it

In our newest episode, we tackle anti-blackness among people of color. White supremacy planted anti-blackness in all our minds - so it’s present even among the ones that experience racism themselves. Still, this is often considered a taboo and we are here to break it. It is as our auntie Andre Lorde puts it: “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Audre Lorde In order to do that, we are taking a deep look inside and talk about our own journey when it comes to anti-black sentiment and why we are now talking about women of color and black women. We need to acknowledge the particular place of anti-blackness in our societies and non-black POC need to sit down and do the work to be strong allies. Your sisters got you covered here tho: Keep on the tip of your toes till the end of the episode where we provide you with strategies and practices to tackle anti-blackness. The women of color and black women we celebrate in this episode: Thaís Muniz - Antropology researcher, creative soul and lady boss of ‘Turbante-se’, Thaís is an Afro-Brazilian designer based in Dublin who created a holistic project around headwrap-wearing for Black Women: the project’s goal is to research, promote and connect the history and ancestry of turban-wearing. Follow this amazing sister on Instagram @thaismunizthais and support her work by talking about ‘Turbante-se’ around you and liking it on all social media! Sunanda Mesquita, a queer Femme of Color with Indian and Swiss roots, living and working in Vienna on art spaces for Black artists and Artists of Color as they very rarely get access to art spaces in this very white city. Together with Jaqueline Ejiji, she co-founded WE DEY x SPACE – a permanent self-organised art and community space focusing on healing and art. Sunanda co-created an amazing list of resources to tackle anti-blackness that is for POC only This „tackling anti-blackness“* resources were created in a collective of non Black QTIBIPoCs. They hope that the list will grow in the future, adding different resources in various languages and media- interested PoC can drop an email to [e-mail] with links that you wish to include or critique you have towards the content and lets make this list grow bigger and better together! The black woman in your life. The one who is always there when you need her, knowing exactly what to do, saying exactly the right things, knowing what it takes to heal and knowing how to plot delicious revenge against any injustice against you. You don’t do this enough so get your phone right now, or even better take ehr out to dinner and say thank you, she’s worth it. Tell her she’s beautiful, tell she is allowed to not be strong for once, tell her that she deserves a break, tell her she is enough, that she is oh so much more than enough, that you for once have her back and that you will come at her enemies with the heat of a thousand suns so that she can unwind and work her black girl magic. This is for you.