May 2012
16 posts
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"Dealing with Discrimination" - Laughably Bad...
Earlier this month, Dr. Christian Head at UCLA’s Medical School decided to sue the university for racial discrimination. Dr. Head, the only tenured African American professor in his department, reported that he was repeatedly mocked as an “affirmative action hire” and was depicted in a slideshow at a student roast as a gorilla being sodomized by a white man (meant to depict his...
Dear white-washing avatar fans: Toph is NOT white...
damnlayoffthebleach:
lightspeedsound:
1. Toph is a member of the Bei Fong family. I hate to belabor the obvious here, but that’s NOT a white name, or a hispanic name. That is a Chinese name. Translation here.
2. Now on to the good part. This is Toph’s dad:
…as you can see, he is obviously Asian. You get that, right? That is just not a white person. I don’t care how pale his skin is....
pityplease:
reallifedocumentarian:
With previous APIA posts said, I don’t think that you can:
1) say that there isn’t anti-blackness in a lot of our communities or step away from the fact that it needs to be address (and we can’t shy away from it or try to resolve it behind closed doors).
2) compare the experience of all APIA oppression as equivalent to all other POC oppression. We face...
uhh i am not comfortable with how readily people...
bankuei:
cosmopolitan-fascist:
that was the explicit 2nd point bankuei makes and i am not seeing enough people problematize that
now its being reblogged by people like stfuconservatives, who are white, and i really do not appreciate the uncritical way this is playing out. white people like stfu take cues from the poc community, and we should not be sending such a false msg.
signed,
an asian...
“For women, getting angry is socially unacceptable, even when the anger is over...”
– Allan G. Johnson (via avengered)
Riding my High Tauntaun with my Minority Agenda
eschergirls:
jedifreac:
taken from my personal blog, May 2011
Shelly Shapiro, the editor at DelRey in charge of Star Wars books, did a Facebook chat today which you can read here: Star Wars Books Facebook Chat with Shelly Shapiro. (racist comments in response to my question redacted.)
I went out on a limb and decided to ask her about diversity in Star WarsExpanded Universe (EU). I guess...
BLOODBENDERS
slytherinmyswagkorra:
blasianovr9000:
fangirlingforeverz:
fuckyeahavatarshipping:
legnaangel:
makoseyebrows:
Yeah, you don’t call yourself something like that without blood bending…it’s a yay/nay thing for me. I lvoe the ability but it’s scary as hell at the same time.
Scary headcanon accepted.
Haha. OH LORD. I AM HORRIFIED.
I am beyond excited! >D
OH GOD SAME HERE
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“When feminists ‘call-out’ other feminists for their racism, transphobia,...”
– Shaunga Tagore, a contributor to Feminism for Real, a REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT BOOK for allfeminists,allies, PEOPLE interested in social justice and changing the world.
More on this written in a DOPE article by Jessica Yee over at Racialicious.
(via androgynius)
I need this book. NEEEED.
(via...
“Finally, since this is a blog about academia and not journalism, I’ll forgive...”
– Black Studies, Part 2: A Response to Critics - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education
In other words, “I’m a frequently-published white lady. I can say whatever I want about black scholarship because nobody is actually going to read that bullshit, and lots of people will read what I write...
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“My only minor criticism is that you sometimes came across as angry and while you...”
– Final grading comments from my Critical Race Theory professor (a white woman) to me (an Asian American woman.)
I’m not sure I know what to feel about this. I wish there was space for my anger to intersect with my intersectional identity. I wish my anger over institutional racism was not an... 