...videos like this are things we all show our daughters to offer insight as they travel on their journeys into puberty and beyond rather than things some of the wimmin I've encountered end up using to help themselves love themselves and their Black bodies as they struggle to embrace their own sexualities.
For me, this was useful as a teaching tool as I continue to educate my daughter.
I've already been doing the work figuring this stuff out for myself for most of the last twenty years. By the time I saw this video this afternoon, I just felt sad about the level of ignorance I encountered in this city as I attempted to openly ask questions about what it means to be Black, decolonizing, female, sexual, queer and historically and socially constructed as "deviant" on a few different levels.
I remember...
I don't forget any of what has transpired as I walked conscientizing among the backward, stunted, arrogant, self important, fearful, shame-filled, oppressive children of christian west indians who immigrated here to kkkanada mostly during the seventies.
When I saw this video I thought of my own work and wondered if it would have made a difference among this city's Diasporic African artsy "intelligencia" who are so elitist when it comes to education, if I'd have been a pHd instead of a homeschooling rogue explorer. heh. Pathetic.
Hats off to Goddess Glory the bombiiciously intense and man destroying who is a middle passage sib finding answers that work for her based on what she's experienced. Her blog is where I found this short film earlier today.
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Hey mama. I actually found that video from researching her after reading an interesting article she wrote called "because I'm sexy and smart" which was about black woman's place in internet porn industry which you can check out here: http://dpi.studioxx.org/index.php?id=70
and I was just thinking of those free bodies, naked bodies, exposed bodies being seen as pornography, to be consumed in the eyes of the colonists. naked bodies! babies come out of the womb naked. are we/they saying that babies are born to be sexually consumed or pornographied by those who have the power to colonize them? yup, thats or culture in a bucket.
it's a trip how folk viewed being cloth-less as savage beast-like while fuckers pumped their dicks to their images and plunged their dicks into them. Retarded perverted pedophilic zoophiles is what they are/were.
Now to get objects of desire/disgust/fetishes to decolonize/depornography themselves. releasing worry about being desired/valued on a scale weighed against actually valuing our bodies as homes to souls. de-barbie-ing ourselves.
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