Trudy on Twitter: "bell hooks mentioned how *many* BW are beautiful like Lupita and how White supremacy pretends BW + beauty is "exceptional." #bellhooksTNS"

Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Salamishah and bell mentioned thinking about the images ppl create of BW and the lens/perspective used to create them. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Addie Mae Collins. Cynthia Wesley. Carole Robison. Denise McNair. "4 little Black girls" bell hooks mentioned they were LOVED. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Salamishah mentioned how ppl went from Emmett to Trayvon yet Addie, Cynthia, Carol, Denise to Renisha not mentioned. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks gave shoutout to Spike's film 4 Little Girls; 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Addie. Cynthia. Carole. Denise. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks mentioned importance of acknowledgement of pain, healing, & mental health for Black ppl. Affirmation of humanity. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Salamishah mentioned where does empathy begin is issue. Centering BW automatically brings in many issues but ppl can't see us. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

If ppl are really against multiple oppressions, why can't they support BW who experience almost all/all of them? Right... #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks mentioned parallel between BW having to reject ppl to protect ourselves from harm and rejecting support via shame. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks mentioned working through shame and pain to allow vulnerability as BW. (Vulnerability ≠ desiring harm, abuse.) #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks mentioned how PoC participate in White supremacy; oppressed ppl internalize oppression. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks said concept of Obama impacts BM in terms of representation but not in terms of policy b/c of position he occupies. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

"Representations are necessary, radical representations, but they only take us so far. What are the actions?" - bell hooks #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell hooks mentioned how we see Malia/Sasha but don't hear from them yet we heard from Chelsea when in WH. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

And she did complicate this by mentioning Obamas do wanna protect them from hypervisibility but their voice still missing. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Salamishah mentioned Hadiya Pendleton & Obama's paternalism speech in Chicago (hated it myself) didn't address State violence. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

Salamishah mentioned how Obama addresses sexism in general yet on Blackness, Black girls remain invisible. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

bell mentioned the purposeful ignoring of Black girls happens by Obama admin b/c of WW gaze, yet BW voters are BASE. #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

"Think about the images we would like to see that we've never seen." - bell hooks (how *we* don't reimagine new images) #bellhooksTNS
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Trudy ‏@thetrudz May 5

i.e. Wrote about envisioning new Black TV characters. Can't desire new images if can't imagine. https://twitter.com/gradientlair/status/431347216423600128 … #bellhooksTNS
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