Episode 08: The Audacity of These Bitches: The Election Episode Starring: Mikki Kendall, Gloria Naylor & Amanda Gorman
You guys! It took 231 years for this nation to elect a woman for Vice President. Guess why? White. Male. Supremacy. It is perpetuated and nurtured in the classroom, at home, and in our government. White Male Supremacy is why Elanor’s teachers insist on all-white male curriculums and eliminate any BIPOC Women authors by saying: “I don’t choose books based on the author’s race or gender…I choose them based on quality. Now here’s another white male book!” White Male Supremacy is a failed, mediocre white man political candidate running against superior, exponentially more qualified women candidates while repeating his rhetoric that “It’s not enough to say ‘I’m a woman, vote for me. I’m Black, vote for me. Now here’s me, another white male candidate!” SIDE NOTE: WHO THE FUCK WOMAN EVER SAID THAT AND WHAT WOMAN HAS THE GODDAMNED TIME TO WAKE UP AND SAY YEAH I’M SUPER BUSY AND I HAVE NO LEGISLATIVE KNOWLEDGE BUT I GUESS TODAY I’LL RUN FOR OFFICE WITH MY VAGINA? But that’s White Male Supremacy: Only white men are ‘Quality’ authors. Only white men are ‘Legitimate’ candidates. Anything else is ‘Identity Politics’. Any book, author, or candidate not a white man or that does not uphold White Male Supremacy is illegitimate. It’s all' ‘Rigged’ and ‘Stolen’ and that leads to inevitable violence. It’s reading and writing and voting with our vaginas. Which…we don’t know about yours, but our vaginas have other business to attend to, so…
Join us as we explore our many questions and realizations about the 2020 election. We’ll ponder White Male Supremacy in school, daily life, and politics, White Blindness, our own continued efforts to be Anti-Racist and as always, our daily battle to smash the Mediocre White Male Patriarchy. We are so glad you’re here, and we especially hope you enjoy this episode’s suggestions for spectacular BIOPOC women authors, educators, and Anti-Racist books that make the world a better place. We love you all! It’s 2021 so let’s all read with our vaginas, vote with our vaginas, wear masks and hold each other close from six feet away Via Zoom.
CONTENT WARNING Bernard Sanders fans are invited and encouraged to enjoy our other episodes, as this one might make you real mad at us, and we want you to love us. Seriously, it’s not you - it’s him. Onward!
Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place
Mikki Kendall Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That a Movement Forgot
Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb and Other Poems
Layla F. Saad Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, And Become a Good Ancestor
Disrupt Texts www.disrputtexts.org
Podcasts The 1619 Project * Nice White Parents
Additional Sources Vetting White Male Mediocrity
Boston Globe Madeleine May Kunin February 4th 2016
Girls running for office, and voting for a girl running for office, is sexist.
Mother Jones Tim Murphy July 6th 2015
Politico Michael Cruse July 9th 2015
Bernard’s Life is “None of your f-ing business”. In 1974, Levi Sanders' mother, Susan Mott, is quoted in Burlington Free Press saying, "she is refused apartments because she is on welfare and has one child.” @SenSanders, with a UChicago degree, isn't working but running for VT Senator where he wins 4% of the vote as a socialist.