Black self-love and the shaming of white allies Anti-Blackness is one of America’s best-selling products, and it is foundational to the socioeconomic hierarchy of our society. Fighting anti-Blackness, then, is viewed as a threat to both capitalism and whiteness, because whiteness has always been defined in opposition to Blackness. Anti-woke…

My biggest lesson from the last few years is that a lot of abuse apologists call themselves abolitionists. In abolitionist circles, they find philosophical validation for the victim blaming they were going to engage in anyway. Abuse apologists champion an abolitionist philosophy that is anti-punishment yet punishes survivors, that reintegrates…