"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases"

"[T]his particular young lady, like most of the other patients Dr Thomas treats, is indigenous, and she lives in the Northern Territory. And despite sixty per cent of the indigenous women Dr Thomas treats with facial fractures being victims of domestic violence, the outcry is yet to occur.
But why is it that when a woman gets told not to breast-feed in a Sydney café, a brief social media campaign was all it took to get a news story up and a mob of mothers out protesting. Good on them, for sure, but why aren’t more of us joining those already fighting to improve the situation for indigenous people, particularly indigenous women, victims of violence and abuse at a rate higher than most of us could imagine? According to figures from Family and Relationship Services Australia, the risk of a woman in the Alice Springs being assaulted is 24 times is higher if she is indigenous. Aboriginal women comprise about 0.3 per cent of all Australian women - but they account for 14 per cent of assault hospitalisations. Come International Women’s Day, how many of us stop to think about these victims?"

"White supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that it exists always in other people, never in us."

"When feminists can see the problem with all male panels but can’t see the problem with all white television programmes, it’s worth questioning who they’re really fighting for."

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It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” –

I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on.

So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.

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