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Posted: January 23rd, 2018 | Tags: | Comments Off on yes

Yesterday after attending the NYCLU rally for immigrant and reproductive rights and hearing a diverse roster of speakers breakdown abortion access and #DACA politics; and then after doing me and going to Pilates I was checking out my TL and saw that someone put a damn pink pussy hat on the statue of Harriet Tubman in Harlem. #Pinkpussyhats in no way represent the rage, power, and constant radical, resistive stance of a Black feminist like revolutionary Tubman! I was pissed! All day I watched white women many, if not mostly, in their pink pussy hats marching who I never see the rest of the year at DACA rallies, at forums on violence against Black transgender women, or in #Harlem at meetings regarding affordable housing or tenants rights. I was on 14th St and couldn’t get back uptown fast enough last night to snatch that joint off her head. When I got there the hat had already been removed. Someone knew like I knew, the statue was fine as is. #HarrietTubman, like most Black women activists, do not need to don a pink pussy hat, a safety pin, or any other (white) feminist accoutrements to show that we are down with the movement! If recent elections aren’t proof enough, WE ARE THE MOVEMENT! The time and energy used to knit this hat and to climb the statue to place it on top could’ve been used to help and support the real lives of Black women in Harlem. I wish white women would stop playing activist. 45 is a racist misogynist. This is no time to be cute! If you want to f*ck with a statue, go and show your disdain for the statue of J. Marion Sims the “gynecologist” who bought Black women slaves to conduct surgical experiments without anesthesia. Leave this statue alone! #BlackRadicalWomen are already good. We are enough and matter just as we are! #handsoffharriet #BlackHarlemLives #timesup #blacklivesmatter

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