This week in LJ land: International Blog Against Racism Week (thanks skibbley)
For more info go here and here but basically:
2. ETA: If you use a blogging system that allows post icons/pictures, switch your default icon to either an official IBARW icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBARW icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do so. Here's a round up of IBARW icons.
3. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. (Linking back here is highly appreciated!) The optional theme this year is intersectionality.
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I'll be thinking about a post over the week, but I have one thing I'd like to ask.
While one of the obviously really important things about this is to get more POC(people of colour) voices out there, I'd really like to ask those of you who don't ID as POC to consider writing something. And if you don't want to feel like you're hijacking, write something small and brief and link to/highlight lots of POC stuff you might not otherwise read/link to.
Most of my life is in environments where there are very few (visible) POC.
I find I'm looked to to talk about/work on racism/racial diversity stuff, as if this is only and/or (which really is shit) more the responsbility of those who are affected by it, and not a collective issue. Or people assume I have knowledge/contacts that I don't have on eg BME* LGBT* issues. And when I don't, don't themselves go off and generate some leads ie google stuff (which is only what I'd be doing anyway)
Conversely, I have one or two environments where racism is regarded as a collective responsibility and other people generate work and ask/invite me to contribute/consult in a way that's to me pretty much exemplary.
(and if you want to debate POC, race stuff, ask me about this, share stories please do feel free to do it on this post. This has come up at a very timely moment for me and I'm very up for talking about it)
* Black Minority Ethnic, one of the current UK jargon terms for POC
* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
2. ETA: If you use a blogging system that allows post icons/pictures, switch your default icon to either an official IBARW icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBARW icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do so. Here's a round up of IBARW icons.
3. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. (Linking back here is highly appreciated!) The optional theme this year is intersectionality.
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I'll be thinking about a post over the week, but I have one thing I'd like to ask.
While one of the obviously really important things about this is to get more POC(people of colour) voices out there, I'd really like to ask those of you who don't ID as POC to consider writing something. And if you don't want to feel like you're hijacking, write something small and brief and link to/highlight lots of POC stuff you might not otherwise read/link to.
Most of my life is in environments where there are very few (visible) POC.
I find I'm looked to to talk about/work on racism/racial diversity stuff, as if this is only and/or (which really is shit) more the responsbility of those who are affected by it, and not a collective issue. Or people assume I have knowledge/contacts that I don't have on eg BME* LGBT* issues. And when I don't, don't themselves go off and generate some leads ie google stuff (which is only what I'd be doing anyway)
Conversely, I have one or two environments where racism is regarded as a collective responsibility and other people generate work and ask/invite me to contribute/consult in a way that's to me pretty much exemplary.
(and if you want to debate POC, race stuff, ask me about this, share stories please do feel free to do it on this post. This has come up at a very timely moment for me and I'm very up for talking about it)
* Black Minority Ethnic, one of the current UK jargon terms for POC
* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender