#OnThisDay in #history - in 1954, Mary Eliza Terrell (nee Church) died in Maryland, #USA .
Born in 1863 in Tennessee, her parents were both freed but recently enslaved people.
She was one of the first Black American women to earn a bachelor's degree, later becoming a teacher.
In 1892, she helped found the Colored Women's League in DC, and joined the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights (she was also a founding member of the NAACP). #OTD#histodons#civilrights#activist@histodons
I posted this to Instagram since it's most relevant there, but thought I'd post it here as well in case there are other male presenting people in mastodon that could make use of the new viewpoint from a #freeTheNipple#toplessEquality#activist who is sick of having anti-censorship #malePrivilege shoved in my face even by self-professed allies
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To those of you who support my mission for anti #censorship#genderEquality freetheneepel/topleesh equality*, I have one request:
When you're posting topleesh content to the many, many #sexist#nisogynist anti #feminism mainstream platforms run by #thePatriarchy, PLEASE censor out ALL neepels, not just "female presenting neepels) (look the phrase up at knowyourmeme.com for a fun time, lol). I ask this for two reasons:
Honestly, given how sexist our society is, it's as shocking to see" male presenting neepels" that ARE censored as "female presenting neepels" that AREN'T. so if you share my goals of highlighting the hypocrisy of gender-based censorship, this is a great way to do it.
While I value our male - presenting allies, it feels a bit like a slap in the face when you flex your privilege by posting your "male presenting neepels" knowing full well that we can't. It's a bit like standing in front of someone with dietary restrictions and deliberately eating the thing we can't eat right in front of us. I know it's a challenge to everyone to step outside of our own world experiences enough to realize something might be a problem for others without being a problem for us, but teaching ourselves empathy is a cornerstone of the lifelong effort to be better people overall ❤️
Thanks for reading! I'm really not trying to sound H condescending, just maybe raising the issue to men posting themselves topleesh without a second thought, despite considering themselves allies of the topleesh equality cause.
*sorry as always for the incoherent baby talk, but as longtime followers know, haters have weaponized false flagging to get my content unfairly banned so many times already that I'm on every algorithm's sheet list, only compounding the reality that my content is banned to a degree no one else is. This post will probably also get banned, so feel free to screenshot it and share it yourself!
It's been depressing how many allegedly #leftist#activist accounts I've followed for years have clearly been bought out by #meta to hype up #threads - this is why we can't have nice things...no matter your moral convictions, very few are willing to give up big pay checks to shill crap, especially data harvesting crap.
“In the midst of an ecological crisis, the [French] government has chosen to criminalize those who fight for life on Earth,” Green MEP Marie Toussaint says, but “it's the climate that must be saved, not the revolt against it!”
I have no problem with people posting about #activist causes, #petitions, writing letters to #politicians, or anything like that. It's a healthy part of a #democracy, and encouraging others to take part is a noble thing to do.
Anti-gang community defense activist Hipólito Mora slain in Mexico (apnews.com)
The leader of an armed civilian movement that once kicked a drug cartel out of the western Mexico state of Michoacan has been killed.