Posts tagged people of color
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Just A Girl and Her Thoughts
Vintage photographs of Queer Lebanese
(via fuckyeahethnicmen)
Oh, okay. Because Dev Patel doesn’t resemble ANY of the other characters more or anything. Good on ya, Hollywood, for letting your unconscious (or conscious?) biases go unchecked. Dark skin = evil. Don’t ya know? And how does this girl even come close to resembling the cartoon?! These choices are fucking irrational. A 4-year-old could do better casting.
Taken with Instagram at Bridge Street Books
Feminist texts written by women of color
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and…
(via provocatoria)
Are any of you in Ontario? Do any of you know of any interesting PoC (from Ontario) that are involved in anti-racism work?
Obviously you don’t have to be in Ontario to answer the question.
Looking for 100 different people to be highlighted for a racism free campaign! One person featured daily.
Many thanks!
Reblogging for the signal boost!
(Source: espritfollet, via fuckyeahethnicmen)
The Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students of Color in Our Nation’s Schools, 2009
For all LGBT students, having access to school-based resources, such
as students clubs that address LGBT students’ issues, school staff
who are supportive of LGBT students, and LGBT-inclusive curricular
resources, can make a positive impact on their school experiences and
overall school climate. Unfortunately, the majority of LGBT students of
color did not have these important resources in school:
• Only about a third of LGBT students of color (36%) reported that
their school had a student club that addressed LGBT issues, such
as a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). Among students who did have
a GSA in school, however, a majority regularly participated in club
activities – 57% of African American and multiracial students, 59%
of Latino/a students, 60% of Asian/Pacific Islander students, and
69% of Native American students participated in GSA activities at
least sometimes.
• The majority of LGBT students of color (82%) in our survey could
identify at least one teacher or other school staff member who
was supportive. However, only 36% of students of color reported
having many (six or more) supportive staff available to them in
school.
• Few LGBT students of color had access to LGBT-inclusive
curricular resources in school. Less than a fifth of students had
been taught about LGBT-related people, history, or events in their
classes, or had such information available in their textbooks (14%
each). Furthermore, only 38% reported that they could access
LGBT-related resources in their school library.
• Less than a fifth of all LGBT students of color (18%) reported that
their school had a comprehensive policy to address in-school
harassment and assault, which provided specific protections
based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
(via coldfish)
Okay, sometimes being a POC is so difficult and no one except other people of color understand. And I just get so worked up and so upset wondering why, why, why and it just burrows deeper into my depression. I wish that my skin didn’t scar dark. I wish I wasn’t always the odd one out. I wish that I didn’t have to explain myself. Or work harder to prove myself. I just…I hate it sometimes.
I totally feel this.
In case you’re fresh-out of Modern American Hate, here is some Vintage Old-Fashioned Hate. Did Fox News have a print magazine back in the day?
“They Pass For White”
Notice to white people: It ain’t just them negroes either…*cue creepy zombie music with mass of Latin@/o, Mexican, Native American, and other rad mixed folk*
VOMIT
(Source: blog-anglophonic, via moononwaters-deactivated2011120)
Only white people would say something like this: “color doesn’t matter.” Um, yes color does matter. For you white people, color doesn’t matter becuase it doesn’t affect you in a world that highly favours white people over non-white people. We live in a world that lives through a white perspective (TV, cinema, literature, music, mainstream media, etc..) Racism is very much alive to this day, and we, the people of color, have every right to assert our identities, ethnicites and nationalities in a white dominated world. If color didn’t matter and if we all got along beautifully, then why was this image even made in the first place?
DeafMuslimPunk on that same fucking pic of Angelina Jolie (*trigger warning* for minstrelsy)
i don’t wanna reblog all the commentary on that pic because there was an ableist use of the term “colorblind” in there. but so much of this is must-read stuff.
(via numol)
(via custerdiedforyoursins)
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
—James Baldwin (via tabularasae)
I feel like I should keep this on business cards whenever anyone asks why I can’t just “lighten up.” I’d like to think I’m quite optimistic, in the light of how fucked up this country was, is, and will (apparently) continue to be.
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