POC

NOT invitations: an elementary list

  • short skirt
  • unfamiliar skin tone
  • beard,
  • locks, tresses,
  • or really, hair of any kind
  • tattoos
  • any other body mods, chosen and not
  • an idea of beauty or lack thereof
  • belly with baby (or not)
  • actual baby, child, or other kept animal
  • being alone

    Culture may allow for conversation, however annoying, with strangers about some of these things. It should be universally understood though, that touching without prior permission is never, not ever, okay. In both cases, we need more empowerment of children, POC, and women to say “no”. Let’s train our bitches to bite.

    “people of color” used to be a derogatory term

    Have you ever heard of a successful slave revolt? Did you know that white men and the American Civil War were not the only occasions of emancipation for slaves in North America? Did any of your expensive, limited, America-centric curriculums ever allow you to believe for a second that there were stolen Africans, native people, and mulatto-born who fought and reclaimed their birthright to freedom?

    Look up Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Martinique. Marvel that while these successful slave-led revolts coincided with Harriet Tubman’s epic heroics, we were not taught of them. Wonder if it’s because Tubman needed the help of the white man. Wonder now, how racism thrives.