The battle hymn of a dangerous black woman… (Shark-Fu)

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

Since we have yet ANOTHER racist anti-choice campaign geared towards the black community (the website is literally called abortioninthehood FFS), I think it’s time to revisit Shark-Fu’s amazing piece about her own agency in the fight for reproductive justice:

I am a black woman.

I am your enemy if you seek to oppress me and mine.

I am dangerous as hell if you seek power through my oppression.

I am suspect if you fear someone who does not actively seek to be like you, to please you, or to give you strength through my submission.

I am something to be feared if you fear the empowerment of others.

I am - unbought, unbossed, and unashamed.

Reproductive justice didn’t happen to me. 

Fighting for the right to determine whether to have children, to raise the children we have, and to raise our families in communities free of violence and oppression…all of that wasn’t done to black women. 

All of that was and is done with black women, by black women for black women.

We are of this movement. 

Always have been.

Always will be.

So reproductive justice didn’t happen to me.

I am reproductive justice.

The entire thing is worth reading.  It’s spectacular and powerful and (sadly) necessary.

(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)