I’ve reblogged some essays here already, but here will be a growing list on critiques of sex positivity by mostly black women. A few even bring up asexuality.
- John: Rethinking Sex Positivity
- Compulsory Heterosexuality, The Myth of Uniform Heterosexuality and Black Women
- A Few Thoughts on Sex Positivity
- I am Not Sex Positive: A Riff On the Collusion Between Sex Positivity and the Carceral State
- Sex-Positivity Isn’t So Positive
- The Problems with Sex Positivity
- On Consent, Sex Positivity, & Cultures of Color after Colonization (tw: rape)
- Are You Being TOO Sex Positive?
- [ask] What is your opinion on sex workers, sex positive feminism and the inclusion of sex worker feminism in womanism?
- Why I won’t call myself a “slut”
- Excerpt by Patricia Hill Collins
- Another excerpt by Patricia Hill Collins
- Activist Spotlight: Deon Haywood on Justice and the Movement in New Orleans
- Feminism Can’t Just Be for White Women
- An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk
- Sex-positive feminism cloaks patriarchal notions
- 3 Ways to Improve Sex Positive Activism
- What Sex and Politics Look Like
- Missing intersectionality in sex positive feminism: the unaddressed racism in porn
- The Problem with Sex-Positivity
- Sex-Positive Racism
- The Large Space That White Supremacy Occupies In Conversations About Sexuality
- For Me, Sex Positivity Involves The Word “NO”
- A Brief History Of SlutWalk Racism
- Things wrong with the sex-positivity movement (a nice concise list)
All I had to do was Google. Funny, isn’t it?
Additions:
More:
- Protect Me From What I Want: Radical Sex for the Revolution
- White feminism & body image
- An excerpt from Ina May Gaskin’s “Birth Matters”
Also, as a reminder, this list was in response to the white asexual community’s co-opting of womanist (i.e., black women) and other WoC/PoC dialogue about sex-positivity and how it is harmful. It is a way to encourage white asexual people to consider how the asexual community is a whites’ only space through active and passive exclusion, and to let other ace/etc PoC know that we are trying to make this space open to us or else form our own. It is not a critique on black feminism/womanism nor those who find individual empowerment in sex-positivity and the benefits of it.
It is also probably relevant to many of you out there. Please keep adding resources as you see fit and I will update the list.
More:
- How White Supremacy Creates Paternalism and Violence in “Sex Positivity” Discourse
- Representations of Black People in Film
- Eating the Other by bell hooks
- The Good Black Girl Complex
- Stopping Jezebel: Some Thoughts on the Complexities of Black Women Owning their Sexuality
- Black Women & The Continuing Problem of Respectability
- Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased (I think this is relevant, especially in regards to whitewashing movements)
- A long list of free books on a range of topics, from Black beauty and Black women’s bodies, to stereotypes of the Mammy/Strong Black Woman, to gendered violence
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