#Whiteness

trussleadership

Whiteness (a thread) Whiteness is absoluteWhiteness is “invisible”Whiteness is ubiquitous I’m tired of whiteness. Whiteness is not synonymous with white people but white people benefit from whiteness. We worked so

Let’s retire the statement “pro-black is not anti-white” because it is useless and inaccurate. Race is a product of capitalism and the existence of whiteness is dependent on the subjugation

Elle M. (they/them)

I am a queer, disabled white person. While I may face marginalization based on being queer & disabled I am still white. My whiteness is not overwritten by being queer/disabled.

Jorge J Rodríguez V

I go back and forth on whether “whiteness studies” is an important field that helps us deconstruct and analyze how whiteness functions or whether “whiteness studies” is just an academic

✨lesbian trophy wife✨

i’ve been trying to say this for longest and people don’t understand. whiteness is a construct meaning it doesn’t necessitate being passed linearly. looking white means society treats you as

Une année sans lumière

are allies actually claiming allyship fatigue ...? we need to be talking about this differently. i can imagine why allies are fatigued — there is no place within whiteness for

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

People defend policing because it’s a pillar of white supremacy and they are emotionally, psychologically and/or financially invested in preserving it. There are Black people who are invested in preserving

David Dennis Jr.

so it's pretty clear to me that all this reopening stuff is all about white people feeling deprived of their believed God-given right to be served. They need to go

We were told we couldn’t be good on our own but God could make us good if we just accepted Jesus. Being perceived as not good meant we didn’t have

One of the great ironies with this legislation is that critical race theory essentially predicts it. CRT argues that whiteness will do almost anything to defend itself against critique, that

wikipedia brown demands #MoreThanDiversity

Seeing this @CJR joint circulating...opinions vary & i understand journalists may feel differently, but I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again— imho this is the wrong approach. “White”

It never ceases to amaze me how scared some people are of admitting they're white.Whiteness is totalizing, surely, but one of the keys to dismantling whiteness is to recognize the

Marcos Gonsalez

MarcosSGonsalez

2nd year in grad school I promised myself I’d stop talking about “racism” & opt for terms like “white supremacy” “affective whiteness” in academic situations. convos definitely pivoted, & the

Vijay Ramjattan

Vijay_Ramjattan

In this thread, I'll live tweet some noteworthy points from"Worth the Risk: Decoding and Decentering Whiteness in English Language Teaching."An @iatefl talk by @JPBGerald! .@JPBGerald: There's a growing literature on

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

In the hopefully unlikely event that Bad White Lady kills herself, we'll hear this:She did it to recenter whiteness. The real issue in this case is racist police violence killing

WalkingInAustin

WalkingInAustin

I mention my whiteness a lot. I'm certainly not proud of it.I mention it because occasionally I get misidentified as someone w/Indigenous heritage.It speaks volumes of how many white people