Dry the Rain

sleeping-in-is-giving-in:

velocicrafter:

peopleofcolor:

From the moment the first call for a SlutWalk in the US went out, the AF3IRM membership – transnational women who are im/migrants or whose families are im/migrants from Latin America, Asia, and Africa – has been analyzing and discussing this burgeoning movement to address the issue of sexual violence and continuing victimization of rape victims by police, the justice system and other agents of authority.

It is a testament to the compelling nature of SlutWalk’s call against women’s victimization that we hung fire for months, hammering out our position and analyzing why, while we applaud the effort of those who organize SlutWalk, we remain uneasy about responding to such a call.

We realize that we are the ones who compose the majority of sex trafficking victims in this country, who comprise the majority of those sold in the mail-order-bride system, who are the commodities offered in brothel houses ringing US military bases in and out of this country, who are the goods offered for sexual violation in prostitution. We who are and historically have been the “sluts” from whom traffickers, pimps, and other “authorities” of the global corporate sex trade realize $20 billion in earnings annually cannot, with a clear conscience, accept the term in reference to ourselves and our struggle against sexual violence and for women’s liberation.

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They don’t get it at all. This is a women in general thing, not an opportunity to get on a soapbox about race again. Women, no matter what the colour, have been subject to this. I can’t sit here, with a clear conscience, and not reblog this pointing out how utterly selfish PoC writings like this can be. The writer of the above text has, again, made this all about PoC and stolen an opportunity for reclaiming, turning shame and highlighting that this, historically, is an issue of ALL women and *gasp*, not just PoC.

STFU.

Just. STFU.

I’m not familiar with this person so I don’t know if they’re for real or some kind of dead-on parody of stubborn cluelessness but whatever. Stop. Talking. Stop. I’m not even going to break down all of the ways you went wrong here because it’s been done. You need to not open your mouth or type on a keyboard until you understand just how ignorant this is. How self-absorbed, how tunnel-visioned, how selfish and embarassing and childish. Not to mention exclusionary and, yes, racist. Just stop. And if you can’t do that, if you can’t take a few minutes to research this subject and see where other people are coming from, GTFO. Or maybe I will. I don’t want to be in any movement that says this kind of bullshit.

(edit: It’s not that you can’t support Slutwalk, it’s that this response is seriously awful in every way.)

(I recommend this user for some good analysis on the subject of Slutwalk. This is also appropriate.)