Son of Baldwin

As always — Black women do all the work — and the credit is automatically swayed to their White counterparts with ease and blunt assumption. There is also the evidence that proves why Black women who’ve been sexually violated — prefer to remain silent — rather than speaking up about their ordeal.

Dunham represents the branch of White feminism that helps to seal the divide that keeps Black feminism miles away from any hopes of reconciliation or even the beginning stages of a truce. Her actions help to fuel the ugly truth of how White women prefer to maintain their position in a hierarchy that propels their worth above all others — at the expense of those that are typically regulated to the bottom of the barrel.

In real life — Dunham and her cohort are embodying the characteristics that make them unsettlingly intolerable as they willingly and destructively set out to maim the character of an up-and-coming Black actress by vilifying her almost immediately after her story made headlines.

Interestingly enough, Dunham has been quite vocal about her own experience with sexual assault and just like anyone who bravely shares something so personal and hauntingly revealing — the weight of such a decision can be over-burdened with the threat of being tragically dismissed.

I also don’t think liberation for queer people can be found in assimilating into straight institutions such as the military and marriage. Some people believe our inclusion in those institutions is “progress” and change them for the better. I think what our inclusion ultimately does is change queer people to make us suitable for straight enterprises such as imperialism, colonialism, and bigotry. How, for example, is giving queer Americans the right to openly bomb black and brown nations — which contain black and brown queer people — liberatory?

I also don’t think liberation for queer people can be found in assimilating into straight institutions such as the military and marriage. Some people believe our inclusion in those institutions is “progress” and change them for the better.

I think a better strategy is to fight out of sight and let go of the fiction that “If people knew what he is actually up to, they would wake up and demand an end to his reign!” because that does not seem tenable in a country where a presidential candidate could brag about sexually assaulting white women and still receive the majority of their votes. Turning all of media into a four-year-long commercial for malevolence is how you sell it to a materialistic nation, not how you dissuade it from purchasing.

I think a better strategy is to fight out of sight and let go of the fiction that “If people knew what he is actually up to, they would wake up and demand an end to his reign!” because that does not seem tenable in a country where a presidential candidate could brag about sexually assaulting white women and still receive the majority of their votes. Turning all of media into a four-year-long commercial for malevolence is how you sell it a materialistic nation, not how you dissuade it from purchasing.

I think a better strategy is to fight out of sight and let go of the fiction that “If people knew what he is actually up to, they would wake up and demand an end to his reign!” because they does not seem tenable in a country where a presidential candidate could brag about sexually assaulting white women and still receive the majority of their votes. Turning all of media into a four-year-long commercial for malevolence is how you sell it a materialistic nation, not how you dissuade it from purchasing.