- Passionate Present: Protecting Black Girlhood by The New School
- Passionate Present: Protecting Black Girlhood with @salamishah & bell hooks http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/PassionatePresent … #bellkooksTNS (I'm live tweeting!)
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:16:45 - (The talk is labeled as "Passionate Present" but bell hooks said title should be "Passionate Presence")
- bell hooks said ppl don't take seriously what happens to Black girls; didn't like her critique of Beasts of The Southern Wild. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:18:49 - bell hooks said Black female body has no voice in 12 Years A Slave. (She critiqued it before on TNS panel with MHP) #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:20:07 - Here's a link to that particular talk mentioned above: Black Female Voices: Who is Listening (bell hooks & Melissa Harris-Perry)
- Y'all, to be clear I am live tweeting a talk. I do NOT wanna discuss 12 Years A Slave. Thanks. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:20:46 - Salamishah mentioned Relisha Rudd. 40% of girls trafficked in the US are Black girls. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:22:12 - bell hooks brought up DOMESTIC anti-Blackness & misogynoir in how trafficking is IGNORED in the U.S. for Western gaze aboard. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:23:32 - bell hooks said Black girls do not get coded as victims. She mentioned trying to name an abuser & ppl cared for his feelings. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:27:48 - Someone in audience interrupted before the Q&A part and I didn't like what they had to say; very uncomfortable. I discussed it briefly w/ a mutual follow.
- The woman who interrupted them has bought into misogynoir and her comments tinge on homophobia. Not cool. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:28:38 - @thetrudz they don't even "tinge" they are aggressively homophobic
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— Hannah G. (@ethiopiennesays)Mon, May 05 2014 20:29:10 - @ethiopiennesays True; thank you. Also transphobia. This "raised as boys" versus "raised as girls" thing the interrupter said I don't like.
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:32:26 - @thetrudz you're right. i didn't like that comment at all and didn't realize what the exact force behind it was--thank you for naming
https://twitter.com/ethiopiennesays/status/463416168330829825
— Hannah G. (@ethiopiennesays)Mon, May 05 2014 20:33:19 - @ethiopiennesays It basically was "BW alone cause the prob since BM are absent" versus "absence & problems a part of systemic oppression."
https://twitter.com/thetrudz/status/463418233190875136
— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:41:31 - Back to the talk...
- Salamishah mentioned Black mothers aren't arbitrarily existing outside of oppression. And patriarchy itself, many participate. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:30:51 - Salamishah mentioned Black girls punished: loud/visible (thrown out school) or overachieving ("hurts" BM achievement) #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:35:54 - "How can we market decolonized images if we're marketing in frame of imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy?" #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:39:01 - bell hooks alluded to fact one of her children's books didn't sell b/c ppl felt happy Black girl image is not "realistic." #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:40:34 - bell hooks mentioned how children taught to ID with talking animal characters over Black children characters in books. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:42:40 - Salamishah mentioned what does it really mean to protect Black girls. 66% of BW assaulted before age 18. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:44:47 - Salamishah mentioned the binary of invisibility and hypervisibility via stereotypical images that Black girls face. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:45:47 - bell hooks mentioned she did her dissertation on Toni Morrison and The Bluest Eye. #bellhooksTNS
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— Trudy (@thetrudz)Mon, May 05 2014 20:46:30
