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Spent my day & evening interviewing women about their suicide attempts for an upcoming article. All I want to do is cry/rage at the things being done to women--black, white, Latinx, Asian, Native, lesbian, bi, str8, trans, young, middle-aged, older--that make us want to be dead.
I want men--men who never think about how male supremacy benefits them even if they don't active oppress/hurt women--to commit themselves to change the same way I want white people to commit themselves to anti-racism every day.
It's not on oppressed people to fix oppression.
It's not on oppressed people to fix oppression.
There was not one woman I spoke with who didn't feel tremendous pressure&expectation--either overt or subliminal--to both achieve more than the men around her&be more present to other people. As one black woman said to me, "We're just supposed to prop everyone up, all the time."
