Vanitta’s Reviews > Women, Race & Class > Status Update

Crazy learning in depth how the inception of pro-birth control was a means to implore eugenics, which lead to sterilization of Black and other POC women (and some men), while whites women were encouraged to have babies. And it got to the point of white women fussing about wanting abortions but being denied because god forbid white women can’t reproduce. I’m so sick. FUCK MARGARET SANGER

Finding out how the myth of the black rapist was born from reconstructing a new reason to mercilessly murder black men was interesting to say the least, as well as the parallel to the black male rapist and the promiscuous black female. I love how every modern tragedy of the oppression against black & other poc men and when can be attributed to capitalism! FUCK SUSUAN BROWNMILLER JEAN MACKELLAR AND DIANA RUSSEL AND-

crazy how socialists didn’t gaf about Black struggles but communists did..that’s something that is almost hidden from history. i loved the part of the chapter about the different communist women truly caring about rights of the working class and BLACK women almost altruistically. Shoutout to elizabeth gurley flynn and anita whitley. more white women need to take from them. i love you claudia jones ❤️

uhmm so susan b anthony is not only a racist bitch she’s also a CAPTIALIST bitch who only cares about white women having rights. Not only did she stop Black woman led organizations/clubs from being seen as valid orgs, she shat on working women for not giving a fuck about suffrage because all they cared about was “wages” and “surviving”. Evil bitch. Black women r also used then abandoned and excluded ofc!

FUCK SUSAN B ANTHONY FUCK WHITE WOMEN ALL OF YOU DIE

basically slavery being over meant slavery was never over, especially for black women when it came to occupation, autonomy, and virtue. white middle class women (feminists or otherwise) are found at the scene again being racist pieces of shit, who’s surprised?! And, white “superiority” is mask to hide just a mixture of white inferiority, fear, and jealousy at the end of the day

FUCK susan b anthony FUCK elizabeth cady station and FUCK fredrick douglas. Black men and white women have been the weakest links always and will be forever.

shoutout the the Grimke sisters who actually gaf about Black slaves ESPECIALLY Black women slaves.. also the major misconception of the North being this haven for Black people is debunked again and again.

Chapter two delves more into the intersectionality of early woman’s rights— how white women were in their own oppression that *somewhat* mirrored slavery & the white women who spoke out about the intersectionality of the two. I liked it and can’t wait to get to the part where the white feminists are racist af!

just finished the first chapter which covers black women and slavery and the complexities of how they were treated equal to men (an equality that made them suffer more, but also made them even stronger and brazen than men when it came to acquiring freedom by their own hands) all i have to say is, black women have been the strongest link for centuries not just for themselves, but everyone after them.