Emma Curzon
Stories (2/0)
Black Trans Lives Matter, too- and we need to keep saying it
It’s been over three months since George Floyd was murdered, and the tidal wave of anger and resistance unleashed by that latest in a long line of dead black bodies is still at the forefront of our consciousness, even if it no longer dominates the newspaper headlines. The demonstrations- which started in Minneapolis and spread rapidly, first across the U.S.A and then worldwide- have made the already widely-known Black Lives Matter movement a household name. Calls for justice for Floyd’s death were swiftly joined by the same demand for Breonna Taylor, shot eight times by police officers who’d burst into the wrong house. And the resulting media attention, from the New York Times to Instagram, has drawn an unprecedented level of cultural and societal attention to issues of systemic racism and police brutality. In particular, calls to “defund the police” have highlighted the nauseating extent to which police forces have both neglected and outright persecuted non-white- and particularly black- communities.
By Emma Curzon4 years ago in The Swamp
- Top Story - June 2020
Dear Fellow White Women: Want to Smash the Patriarchy? Stand Against RacismTop Story - June 2020
When Emma Stone, at the 2018 Oscars, referred to the Best Director nominees as 'these four men and Greta Gerwig', she was met with a mixture of praise and heavy criticism- and it wasn't from misgoynists. Sure, the actress was right to call out the ridiculously low number of female nominees- but she was swiftly criticised for ignoring the fact that "these four men" included a Latino man (Guillermo Del Toro) and a black one (Jordan Peele). Men of colour, as Stone's critcs pointed out, don't exactly get everything handed to them. Why should they- along with women of colour- celebrate one wealthy white woman for cheering on another wealthy white women, ignoring their experiences, and calling it feminism? (Plus, no-one's forgotten Aloha.)
By Emma Curzon4 years ago in The Swamp