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Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

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“What about, say, Terry Crews, who is a man who decided to break silence and that shit was major. In this culture of toxic masculinity, men speaking up about their victimhood is revolutionary.”
— Luvvie Ajayi, I Know Why Taylor Swift is on TIME's Person of the Year Cover But WHY is She on the Cover? | Awesomely Luvvie
Tagged: Me Too, Time Magazine, Pop Culture, BLM, Victimhood, Survivor, toxic masculinity, Sexual Harassment
“I am not questioning the validity of Taylor’s experience or her story. What I have a problem with is what Taylor is being positioned as the face of a movement by being placed on this cover, because she won a lawsuit. She lost nothing when others have lost everything when they break silence, but don’t get visibility. Just look at Ke$ha, whose abuser was her record label boss. She took him to court and lost everything, including her career. She broke silence when there was zero room for it and got shamed into hiding. He even put a gag order on her. Why is she not on the cover?

Why is Tarana Burke not on this cover, when she’s been doing this work for 10 years? Yes, she is on the inside and gets to tell her story but she deserves to be on this cover, because if there is a face for the movement, hers is it.”
— Luvvie Ajayi, I Know Why Taylor Swift is on TIME's Person of the Year Cover But WHY is She on the Cover? | Awesomely Luvvie
Tagged: Me Too, Time Magazine, Pop Culture, White Feminism, Taylor Swift
“Sisterhood doesn't mean yelling "RAH RAH RAH GO YOU" at everything the women and girls we know do. Sisterhood is being able to cheer you on when you've done well, challenge you when you can do better, and admonish you when you drop the ball.

White women, you wanna talk about sisterhood. Welcome. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Get comfortable with being called out. Drop the victimhood, and know that being disagreed with is not always "bullying." Communication is cultural and it's interesting how we have to temper how we speak to you, and put critiques in the middle of compliment sandwiches. If you wanna be a part of anything resembling sisterhood, you're going to need to know that your feelings will be hurt along the way.”
— Luvvie Ajayi, via Facebook
Tagged: White Feminism, Western Feminism
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