Anti-Sexism

We stand for acknowledging the value of all Black women’s lives whether cisgender, transgender, or genderqueer. We value Black women regardless of religion, sexual orientation, social status, body type, skin tone, age, etc. In acknowledging this value, we must also actively engage in acts that uplift and provide support and amplification for Black women. We believe in giving Black women’s lives and Black women’s issues equal significance and exposure to that of Black men by voicing, highlighting, and attending to injustices against Black women and Black girls. This calls for rejecting the notion that police brutality, the prison industrial system, school to prison pipeline, and things of the like are exclusive to Black men thereby erasing the effects of structural racism unto Black women. We stand for the sexual, political, social, and overall liberation of all Black female bodies believing that women should have the agency to control their own bodies through reproductive rights and sex positivity. As such, we condemn all forms of violence against any and all women, including but not limited to: rape and all facets of rape culture, sexual and physical assault, domestic violence, invalidation, erasure, shaming of any sort, harmful slurs, and body objectification.

In addition, we stand against Eurocentric beauty standards that are made to lessen the beauty of Black women and Black women’s features. We also reject the appropriation of Black women’s features by non Black women. Too often, Black women are made to believe they have no value to society outside of their physical assets and are devalued at the hands of white and “foreign” women who appropriate Black women’s bodily features for means of capital and/or fame. It is important to understand the way Black women have historically been hypersexualized causing excessive sexual violence, as well as objectification of Black female bodies for means of entertainment. In rejecting Eurocentric beauty standards, we also heavily reject colorism as it dehumanizes and devalues Black women of darker skin tones. We denounce the idea that women must respect themselves or earn respect in order to be respected as it implies that respect for men is inherent in such a way unavailable to women. We believe in respecting all women regardless of clothing, occupation, sex life, and things of the like.