International Blog Against Racism Week: Four Posts

[browngirl]

(Well, three and a website.)

I haven't done enough for ibarw by any measure (not least since I haven't written anything for it, since everything that presented itself to my mind was something where I couldn't really file the serial numbers off quite effectively) but here, at least, are four links:

sparkymonster's discussion of Fatness and Uplift, how fatphobia, classism, and racism converge and interact.
brown_betty on some of the ways in which using analogies concerning racism to describe sexism can be problematic.
princessofg's wise and warmhearted post about listening, learning, and balancing fandom-as-escape with real-life issues that emerge in fandom.
From micheinnz, Skin Coloured, "a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture."

Comments

[brownbetty]

Skin-coloured is such a great, simple, immediate way of pointing out the white-normativity of our culture. LITERALLY: white skin is 'normal'. (Maybe someone can ask them if they established this by using the mean, median or mode?)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

That first one especially was an awesome post! And that last one -- normal to darker? Hmmm...what's normal then?

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Nobody knows. The other product in the range is "Normal to fair".