Updating to add a new batch:
The "cockroaches" in question are the cishetero white people defining trans and black (and other marginalized) identities as they see fit.
— Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) May 19, 2017
Ah well as long as it’s only cishetero white people she’s calling cockroaches that’s fine.
No it isn’t. The Hutus saw the Tutsis as oppressors too; the Nazis saw the Jews as all-powerful and oppressive; othering dehumanizing language is not always aimed downward.
So where insectification is racialized language, how am I applying structural power in service of the harm of *cishetero white people*?
— Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) May 19, 2017
That’s a peculiarly dense question. Historically, “cockroach” has been a racist epithet, but the word … Read the rest