Tag: white privilege

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PoC News in America

This week we talked about the overwhelming whiteness of Hollywood award season and honored Martin Luther King Jr.

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PoC News in America

Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrated Ramadan!

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PoC News In America

We hope you all had a great Pride weekend! Let’s get right into it.

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

More serious stuff this week than last, but the posts were just too good to pass up. Click on through to read about misgendering raptors, ~*~sarcasm~*~ online, and lots of other cool stuff!

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

We’re all pretty worn out from the terribleness in the news this week, so I found a lot of fun stuff to cheer you up before the weekend. (But there’s a little bit about the terrible stuff, because it’s important and I don’t feel right completely ignoring it all. Sorry!) Come on in for the latest […]

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PoC News in America

It’s still #FergusonOctober, and people are still protesting police brutality in light of the Ferguson and Shaw shootings.

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PoC News In America

Happy Yom Kippur and Eid Mubarrak to all people who are celebrating holidays this past week!

Perspectives

Dear Fellow White People

When are we going to get it? It’s definitely not about us.

Tags allies, Ferguson, Jezebel, Mike Brown, not all white people, privilege, racism, white privilege

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny: The Rest of the News Was Pretty Horrible, Too

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 30th, 2014
2 Comments on This Week in Misogyny: The Rest of the News Was Pretty Horrible, Too

Y’all, it has been quite the week. We actually have a little bit of good news, but the rest is pretty bleak. Of course, the killings in Santa Barbara dominated the news (meriting a separate post), but here’s everything else that you might have missed. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Crossposts

What I’m Teaching My Daughter About Privilege

Post author By April
Post date Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
6 Comments on What I’m Teaching My Daughter About Privilege

Recently, Time magazine published a piece titled “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege” written by a student at Princeton. (Honestly, I’m baffled that they would even publish such trash but my increasing distrust of most major websites leads me to believe that it’s all about the clicks. They knew it would go […]

Tags crosspost, disney channel, disney characters, parenting, privilege, racism, unchecked privilege, white privilege

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny has a #SolidarityHashtag

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, May 9th, 2014
11 Comments on This Week in Misogyny has a #SolidarityHashtag

Are you ready for some misogyny? Yeah, me neither. But if we must… read on for an update on the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, to see why Jezebel made my list of terrible people, and for a healthy dose of venting courtesy of our friends at Pajiba. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags #BringBackOurGirls, #RealMenDontBuyGirls, abortion, Alison Lundergan Grimes, Black Milk Clothing, Blurred Lines, Boko Haram, California, campus sexual assault, Cecily McMillan, childfree, college humor, contraception mandate, debunking, dorkly, Emily Letts, Emma Stone, Facebook, Fox News, future, gay sex, hari kondabolu, Jeanine Howard, jennifer lawrence, Jezebel, Kanye West, Las Vegas, louis c.k., Louisiana, Maryland, maternal mortality rate, Matt Bevin, Michael Fassbender, misogyny, monica lewinsky, Monte Shaw, Mother's Day, Nancy Denson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, new york, Nigeria, Obamacare, occupy wall street, Outnumbered, Pajiba, police brutality, rape, Roger Helmer, salvation army, sex ed, sex workers, sexual assault, shailene woodley, South Carolina, sports bras, Steve Hickey, teen pregnancy, the sex talk, transmisogyny, UKIP, victim-blaming, west virginia, white privilege, Willow Smith, wonder woman, woody allen, Yahoo

Feminism

A Highly Intellectual Reply to the Young Conservatives Article About Privilege

Post author By [E] Liza
Post date Thursday, May 1st, 2014
4 Comments on A Highly Intellectual Reply to the Young Conservatives Article About Privilege

I know, what do you expect?

Tags conservative assholes, is it just me or are white men seriously the worst, male privilege, privilege, white privilege, young conservatives

Perspectives

Macklemore, Tim Wise, & Anti-Racist Posturing (Or How NOT to be an Ally)

Post author By Marena
Post date Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
15 Comments on Macklemore, Tim Wise, & Anti-Racist Posturing (Or How NOT to be an Ally)

Where I’m from we have a saying: don’t talk about it; be about it.

Tags antiracism, Macklemore, racism, tim wise, white privilege

Perspectives

On Being the “Black Friend”: Or My Uncomfortable Relationships with White Women

Post author By Marena
Post date Monday, November 4th, 2013
11 Comments on On Being the “Black Friend”: Or My Uncomfortable Relationships with White Women

Picture it. I’m in Iowa visiting with two friends of mine, both white women. We sit in a booth at a local supermarket eating deli food and discussing various issues. One friend tells us about a recent classroom debate she had with her professor and others over the terms “African-American” versus “Black.” I recall discussing […]

Tags being the black friend, friendship, interracial friendship, race, racism, white privilege

Quote Post

Ayesha A. Siddiqi Quote

The way white dudes act when I ignore them you’d think *I* was the exclusive source of white male validation instead of the entire world. Ayesha A. Siddiqi

Tags gender, male privilege, race, white privilege, women of color