“Men and boys are seen as the primary target of racial injustice,” AAPF associate director Rachel Gilmer told TakePart in May. “This has led to the idea that women and girls of color are not doing as bad, or that we’re not at risk at all.”
But studies show otherwise: Black women are killed and sexually assaulted by the police, and incarcerated at almost three times the rate of their white female counterparts. Yet news coverage of these cases are focused largely on the relationship between law enforcement and black men.
From the linked article above. None of this diminishes the importance of any Black Lives Matter protests or the lives of black men.
“sat out” You mean young people who work shit jobs with shit hours and shit benefits couldn’t get out of work to go vote in the same numbers as the retired crowd? 6 hours to vote at colleges in Texas yesterday in the middle of midterms yeah shocking…
Remember kids. If voting didn’t matter they wouldn’t be making it so hard to vote. Voting absolutely matters. So please go out and vote
The strangest thing about Little Women and Louisa May Alcott is that everyone is like, “oh, it’s a re-telling of her life it’s so quaint” and then you find out she was secretly writing gothic fiction, was a civil war nurse and wrote about it, her parents were involved with the underground railroad. She grew up knowing people like Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas,and Henry David Thoreau. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.Her father, Bronson Alcott, was an abolitionist and a feminist. The family was also basically the first american hippies and lived on a commune called Fruitlands which failed, but they were doing something different. Her Mother did social work with immigrants. Louisa was also the first woman to register to vote in Concord, participating in a local school board election and also helped with voter registration encouraging other women to do the same. And then she also cared for her sisters daughter until her death. And so no one bothers to look into her life because we think we KNOW her life because of the books when in actuality Little Women is only a faint outline of her life.
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Eliza Scanlen as Beth March in Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig
