I’m so tired of people in fandom flipping the fuck out over their “right” to write slavefic in fandom.
If “freedom of speech” is why you get to write slavefic (like in general, but like I saw that T’challa story and OP is going to get theirs for sure), then it’s also going to be why Black people cuss you out until you cry because #whitefragility.
You can’t call criticism censorship when you think you’re being silenced for writing fanfic that is ridiculously racist… Even as you actively go out of your way to silence people of color talking about how racist your shit is. Again, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Look, censorship is when your government stops you from doing a thing/creating content that it doesn’t agree with. It’s NOT when many Black people in fandom are like “hey, why the fuck would you write literal USian South slavefic? Fuck you and I hope bad things happen to you.”
Like… The lack of empathy fandom has for Black people never fails to astound me because like we totally try to be nice and explain why slavefic and other forms of fandom antiblackness are beyond awful, but literally the response to Black people writing about why x thing isn’t just problematic, but harmful to us is either:
Trolling responses where they do the thing and mock us for being upset
Crying because they’re being censored because they can’t make slavery erotica without getting yelled at
Those ridiculous pseudo academic “I’m x, y, and z and this is why writing slavefic is me using my first amendment rights and totally empowering to women” (usually from other poc, sexual assault survivors, or queer people – bless your heart but like… I didn’t ask for your traumatic backstory. Trauma vomit is so not my thing.)
Honestly, we’re all on the same internet (give or take a few countries) and fuckers still don’t seem to get that slavery was literally a horrific period in history that serves as metaphorical and painful scar tissue on the souls of black folk across the diaspora…
Because they just really can’t figure out another way to do bdsm-esque power exchange beyond literally writing stories where the transatlantic slave trade is sex…
Like… I’m really REALLY not looking forward to writing that piece about slavery and slavefic in fandom because I don’t have time for tears but I mean… Y’all… It has to happen in 2018
People keep defending writing porn backgrounded in the traumatic treatment of Black folks’ ancestors on the basis of empowerment and I swear im going to mcfricken lose it if I have to keep seeing people share those “ah, fandom is supposed to be for freedom of speech” posts that ignore the fact that hmm… Maybe writing slavery porn where
White people experience the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade (because they’re alphas or omegas, because they’re mutants, because blah blah blah)
Fucking black characters are enslaved (and assaulted) but then conveniently fall in love with a white savior or God forbid, one of the white people enslaving them
Is really fucking racist and only empowering if like part of what empowers you with these stories is Black suffering or Black anger (because fuck, none of y’all are new, y’all know y’all don’t have to write literal slavefic to get your bdsm power imbalance on… Y’all just do it anyway…)
Read some fucking Toni Morrison or the entire Black Atlantic, you fucks.
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