#Whiteness

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« And now it sucks that paler POC are labeled as white girls, not because we look like them but because they look like us »White girls have been getting tans too

Megan N. Fontenot

MeganNFontenot1

I want to clarify: Yes, Tolkien often uses the color white as a designation of goodness that is not necessarily tied to race, as in the case of wizard garments.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

I taught Newell's "Being a White Problem and Feeling It" in class today and it was brutal. Like, absolutely soul draining. Especially because of the ways that I could hear

Mx. Jessica Schomberg

schomj

Below is a definitely-not-exhaustive reading list about diversifying librarianship primarily related to including more people of color and addressing our whiteness problem.Sharing here in case it's of use to folks

Kevin Minofu

SKevinM

critical race theory argues, amongst other things, that race and whiteness in particular were created and weaponised to subordinate and exploit non-white folks and how that racialised system has been

Sarah Rose Kearns

Persuasion_JA

“Will her fans listen?” It would have been lovely if this article had quoted JUST ONE PERSON OF COLOR who is into Jane Austen and/or doing racial justice advocacy in

Eileen A.F. Joy

EileenAJoy

BINGO. Let’s please stop doing this. I 100% admit I’ve done this myself as a white ally, claiming my “rightful” victim points as a #GenderQueer #nonbinary who is also a

Jeff Hall ♿

JHallinPeel

I'm all for holding the govt to account but this take and others like it downplays the blatant white and abled entitlement demonstrated for us yesterday. They weren't just "people"

rayne fisher-quann

raynefq

honestly really hate the "this is how you age when you're unproblematic" joke because at some point we are going to have to address the continued implication that ugliness or

Nadia Shammas

Nadia_Shammas_

hello reminder that it's no one's place to invalidate your ethnicity based on what their personal standard of whether you "look enough of the race you're part of" for their

The Red Hen

The_Red_Hen

As a hairstylist on the border of DC/Maryland I have a unique opportunity to speak candidly with a lot of women, they feel safe to be open with me. Let

Chris Green

cewgreen

Cornel West is right: it is a wonder—a miracle—that black leaders in America have responded to the systematic abuses of their community not as terrorists but as prophets. "Whenever you

Ingrid M

iMusing

in fact, the vast majority of the population have absolutely nothing to do with these failures and many actively struggled against the powerful vested interests who caused the death of

sippin on that

vivafalastin

it’s maddening that a palestinian from al khalil of all places was the one who called the cops on george floyd. we know these systems aren’t for us in palestine!

🏴 bauhinia black

bauhiniablack

Some clarifying points (thank you @ashwinnnair and @Aryl_Ether) :C1: Colorism, anti-blackness and anti-migrant attitudes remain rampant in Hong Kong. Sino-HongKongers have held a privileged position closer to Whiteness in our

Bee

Ben_Scerri

10/10 baffled at the thread circulating atm about whiteness being 100% about skin tone, and not thousands of factors (both physical and cultural).A good reminder (though there are many every