Tag: white privilege

5yearoldalien:

femsaphique:

dragonenby:

anna-discourse:

mattloveslgbtqpeople:

babe-beyond-the-binary:

wholockkk98:

hummmhallelujah:

fuckkyliejenner:

Buzzfeed made a privilege test, I got a 13 and the highest I’ve seen this go was 78

I got 63/100. The gender ones really brought it down, if I was a guy it would’ve been way higher

I got 31/100. It was brought down by all the gender/sexual orientation question, and the questions about depression/suicide, ect.

I got 48.

29

31

60. I live in a very safe place and my family is secure financially so yeah

With the above additions, I kind of thought I’d at least go above 30…

This test is pretty good, but it oversimplifies some things. Like, I don’t have any student loans because 1, I was poor enough to get my one part time semester covered by financial aid, and 2, I never went back to college after that semester because I couldn’t cope with it mentally. I have never done my taxes myself because I’ve never had a job so I’ve never done taxes period, I was on welfare & disability the first 32 years of my life. I don’t count either of those as privileges.

24 out of 100, and I’m white. Some of the questions are regional, I think, though, because Sallie Mae is not a thing in Australia. I don’t have student loans because I flunked out of high school because I had a mental breakdown due to mental health/PTSD/undiagnosed developmental and learning disabilities, but I owe a bunch of money for other reasons (car, vet bills). I also didn’t answer yes to ever being homeless, because I haven’t, but I did sleep on my girlfriend’s bedroom floor at her parents’ house for about eight months because I couldn’t live at home with my uber-religious homophobic mother any more, so. Also, yes, my mother pays some of my bills, but that’s because we live with her because we can’t afford to rent because the rental market doesn’t have anywhere cheap enough for people on disability, so if the questions were different, it might have been lower.

Only twice have I ever actually seen a physical copy of an Octavia Butler book in all my trawling of bookshops, new and used.

First, I found a copy of Fledgling for $2 in a Salvos. It has european stickers on it – proof it was imported at some point, rather than bought here. I grabbed it, because it was like seeing some mythical kind of Pokemon that I knew I’d never see again.

Today, I was walking past Dymocks and on the markdown table I saw the Kindred graphic novel. Even though it was only published last year, it was 50% off, possibly because of the small amount of scuffs to the dust jacket. Possibly because they hadn’t bothered promoting it and it hadn’t sold. I certainly never noticed it in there before. It was $17.50. I bought it, because, though I don’t really have the cash right now, I knew it was my only chance.

I have no doubt I’ll struggle to find the others without buying them off the internet, but I can read them digitally on Scribd, so at least the lack of physical copies won’t stop me from being able to read them.

Still, it shouldn’t be so hard for me to find works by a groundbreaking Hugo and Nebula winning author. Oh, that’s right, it’s racism/sexism/homophobia. And if a book isn’t stocked by a shop, PEOPLE CAN’T BUY IT. Instead, let’s fill the shelves with Tolkien, Jordan, McCaffrey, and Pratchett and pat ourselves on the heads for stocking what will sell. PEOPLE WILL BUY DIVERSE BOOKS IF YOU STOCK THEM.

I will add that my Dymocks’ YA section is GREAT. Lots of queer and other flavours of diverse titles. But the adult fantasy sci fi section for the most part sucks if you want anything that isn’t by or about someone cis het white published by a major publisher.

bougiegaara:

hello i just want to say that i understand the thought process behind “wlw cant fetishize women” and i understand where this comes from but also its still relevant to the conversation to talk about how white wlw sexualize woc. i saw a post claiming that bringing this up is derailing and that “ppl know what we mean” but i really dont think it is!

white wlw need to be aware of how they view woc. they need to be conscious of this sexualization. conscious of how they speak about our bodies. conscious of how they touch us. conscious of their expectations on our sexuality and wants and desires. white women have a long history of violence! yall contribute to our fetishization and abuse!! its relevant to the conversation and it may be uncomfortable to acknowledge but it needs to be said and heard.

a woman viewing another woman sexually is not inherently dehumanizing, but you still need to take into consideration the way race plays into it.

sonneillonv:

No lie, I do appreciate how Tan and Karamo speak out on this to the others, and the others LET THEM, and give them the floor when they’re talking about how being brown/black and being gay intersect.  Similarly to the way they give Jonathan the floor when he’s talking about the difference in presentation being being, for example, someone like Antoni and Bobby who straight people generally don’t find threatening, and being someone like Jonathan who, in his own words, never had a CHOICE about being in the closet because “Sky is blue, water is wet, Jonathan is flamingly homosexual”.  There are different experiences here, but Queer Eye actually gives them air time to talk about intersections of prejudice??? and that’s… so weirdly cool????

Dear non-natives

magicusersresource:

dogbearspeaks:

The Plains warbonnet is not a Cherokee thing. It is not a Navajo thing. It is not an Indian thing. It is a Plains thing.

Stop calling every silly thing you draw that even vaguely resembles a native “Cherokee” or “Navajo” or “Aztec.”

Stop drawing the warbonnet everywhere as the apparently definitive native thing. It isn’t part of all of our 600+ cultures.

Same goes for the tipi, not part of every one of the 600+ indigenous cultures.

Stop thinking that if a native person doesn’t have dark, “mahogany” skin, that their heritage is invalid. Even without admixture, we actually do have varying skin tones.

Stop wearing crappy fake warbonnets.

Stop wearing redface.

Stop using us as your silly mascots. We are people.

Stop saying “spirit animal.” It’s derived from a New Age bastardization of a something that actually exists in some of our cultures.

Don’t smudge. Cleanse all you like, that’s fine, but don’t smudge.

Don’t call us “Indians.” “Native American” isn’t great either, it is not our name, but it’s slightly better than “Indian.” “Indigenous” is also fine.

Don’t use NDN/ndn. That is ours.

Step off about our hair. If you meet a long-haired native, admire it if you like, maybe even ask them about it (RESPECTFULLY), but do not touch. The same applies for someone with short hair, but additionally for those with short hair, don’t say things like “oh you’d look more native/Indian/etc if your hair was long.” We didn’t all traditionally have long, flowing hair. Believe it or not, there are actually different haircuts existing in our various cultures, and aside from that ultimately it’s a personal choice, one does not need to have long hair if they don’t want to. Doesn’t make them any less native to have short hair.

Don’t pray to our spirits/gods/energies. Native spiritualities are closed, they are not for outsiders.

Don’t say “The Native Americans believed…” Firstly, the past tense is silly, we still exist and do things. Secondly, we are NOT A MONOLITH. As I mentioned before, there are upwards of 600 different Native American cultures.

Don’t ask about someone’s “Indian name.” That’s not only insensitive, the name you are referring to in that instance is something sacred, and might not be something that person wants to share with you.

Don’t call yourself silly crap like “howling wolf” or “flying eagle.” That’s also racist and insensitive.

Regardless of whatever you might think you’re doing, or what your intentions may be, if a native person tells you that what you’re doing is disrespectful, STOP DOING IT.

You aren’t honoring us. You’re just mocking us further, demonstrating your continued ability to treat us like shit and get away with it even now, centuries after our colonization began. Your feelings are not more important than our history and survival.

To those doing your best as allies, thank you, keep doing what you do. HOWEVER, don’t let opportunities to educate others escape you. By letting them continue to be ignorant, you are failing. Spread the message.

There will be no “please.” It’s been more than 500 years, and we still are made to be invisible in our homelands. Still we are treated like less. Some even think we all died long ago.

We are still here

We will still be here

Treat us with respect.

Appropriation of Native cultures runs rampant in the pagan/witchcraft community. Remember, it’s just like kindergarten. Be kind, be respectful, and ask before touching something that does not belong to you.

-Bri

As a white person, a white AUTISTIC person, I am horrified that some of these things even have to be stated. The hair thing. WHY WOULD YOU TOUCH SOMEONE’S HAIR, that is their body, that requires consent. Why would you tell someone to be more ‘native’ in their physical presentation for you, that is just as bad as telling women to smile for you, worse even. White people, why are you like this.

And yeah, stop it with the appropriating culture thing. I grew up in a country (NOT AMERICA) where you made ‘dreamcatchers’ in Brownies and played ‘cowboys and indians’ in the playground and New Age shops were AWASH with things stolen from indigenous cultures (STILL ARE). Indigenous names were a joke with a punchline. My (white) cousin named two of her (white) kids Navajo and Cheyenne. It all sucks. It all happened. But we have an opportunity to be better. We have a choice to listen to native peoples and NOT DO THAT SHIT. Same goes for Indigenous Australians and their cultures, and all of the other cultures and peoples impacted by white imperialism and colonialism. Just because your ancestors stole it doesn’t make it yours to use now. It’s almost twenty fricking eighteen. If you ask, and if you’re told no, don’t touch. Any kindergartener knows that.

alisso:

sebanstianstan:

sebanstianstan:

sebanstianstan:

if you’re white. being,,,not straight ,,does not give you a “poc card”. i think a lot of you think it does. like being ,,not straight,,does not mean you can seperate yourself from other white people.

@appuzzoclay nicely said

white people. you can reblog this. especially if you’re not straight.

I am both surprised that this is a thing, and, totally not surprised *facepalm*

I am queer, autistic and female and I TOTALLY benefit from white privilege. What I can do about it is USE this privilege to make noise and make room for people who are NOT white in any way I can. To listen to voices different to mine about what is needed, rather than thinking I know. To admit when I fuck up, because I have fucked up, and I KNOW I will again, not because I don’t care, but because my whiteness permeates every aspect of my experience. Being white doesn’t mean I’m not discriminated against for other reasons, but NONE of those reasons mean I know what it’s like to be anything other than white. I can listen, I can educate myself, I can try to empathise and open my narrow world view to try and imagine what it would be like for someone who is not white, but none of this means I KNOW. That only comes with living in a white supremacist society as a person of colour, and I can never be or experience that.