Rina ִ ࣪˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ 🪽་༘࿐

1. Black enslaved men physically & sexually violated black women on the plantation, which is patriarchal & systemic. In fact, we know that slave masters expected & allowed enslaved black men to exert social and sexual dominance over enslaved women, indicating a qualified inclusion within a vast anti-black fraternity of differently racialized & positioned men. Misogynoir & anti-black racial patriarchy as critical lenses help us understand. Císhet Black men also sought to find paths to the development of cís-masculine identity while withstanding the castrating indignity of slavery. This path was often paved with misogynoir-istic violence & domination against fellow enslaved women. See the archival work of Antebellum South & slavery historian David Doddington on slave masculinity, sex, & power in slave communities. There was patriarchal thinking in the slave quarters because of **inherited political categories** amidst the white sexual violence of slavery itself. (It’s not just horizontal violence between equally traumatized subpersons: it’s the time, place, manner, & motivation of violence that defines its classification and asymmetry. Hence why it’s black patriarchal violence.) 2. cís Black men in the west have NEVER had to be chief arbiters of the topography of the political in order to experience & enjoy wages of patriarchy and misogynoir. US Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction demonstrates cís(het) black men’s black patriarchal preeminence over other black people in the family, black civil society, industry, government, academe, electoral participation, sports, medicine, militarism, finance, diplomacy, the church, US politics, black politics, activism, science, and so on. This spans the general white public spheres, the black counterpublic spheres, and the private and intimate spheres of black life. 3. Misogynoir IS a dynamic institution that both white and black men wield for their respective ends. There are several forms of decentralized, dispersed, & disciplinary black patriarchal power that don’t have to come from legality or the state as it often, not solely, works thru interpersonal violence via the power relations between black men/boys & women/girls, based on the disciplinary social institution of misogynoir: domestic violence rates with high lethality & longterm injuries for black women and femmes, intimate partner violence, black men’s same-race street harassment that disciplines & kills black girls and women (Sakia Gunn) —-& alarming black femicide rates overwhelmingly committed by cishet black men. Several black men have been arrested for sex-trafficking black women and children. All black patriarchal violence. All these things demonstrate subordinated black men’s ability to yet perform as SUBJECTS who impose themselves on to black girls, black women, black trans femmes. CONTINUED BELOW. ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️