Passionate Present: Protecting Black Girlhood with @salamishah & bell hooks http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/PassionatePresent … #bellkooksTNS (I'm live tweeting!)- (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
- bell hooks said Black female body has no voice in 12 Years A Slave. (She critiqued it before on TNS panel with MHP) #bellhooksTNS
- 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
- Salamishah mentioned Relisha Rudd. 40% of girls trafficked in the US are Black girls. #bellhooksTNS
- bell hooks brought up DOMESTIC anti-Blackness & misogynoir in how trafficking is IGNORED in the U.S. for Western gaze aboard. #bellhooksTNS
- bell hooks said Black girls do not get coded as victims. She mentioned trying to name an abuser & ppl cared for his feelings. #bellhooksTNS
- 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
- @ethiopiennesays True; thank you. Also transphobia. This "raised as boys" versus "raised as girls" thing the interrupter said I don't like.
- @ethiopiennesays It basically was "BW alone cause the prob since BM are absent" versus "absence & problems a part of systemic oppression."
- Back to the talk...
- Salamishah mentioned Black mothers aren't arbitrarily existing outside of oppression. And patriarchy itself, many participate. #bellhooksTNS
- Salamishah mentioned Black girls punished: loud/visible (thrown out school) or overachieving ("hurts" BM achievement) #bellhooksTNS
- "How can we market decolonized images if we're marketing in frame of imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy?" #bellhooksTNS
- 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
- bell hooks mentioned how children taught to ID with talking animal characters over Black children characters in books. #bellhooksTNS
- Salamishah mentioned what does it really mean to protect Black girls. 66% of BW assaulted before age 18. #bellhooksTNS
- Salamishah mentioned the binary of invisibility and hypervisibility via stereotypical images that Black girls face. #bellhooksTNS
- bell hooks mentioned she did her dissertation on Toni Morrison and The Bluest Eye. #bellhooksTNS
- Address
Storify Inc.
149 9th St., Suite 404
San Francisco, CA 94103 - Email: info@storify.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/Storify
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/Storify