IBARW 3 – 5, no 6! Questions

I’ll answer sparkymonster’s questions today. Note that you’re going to get mixed answers, because white people know some obscure everyday shit too, and I am, don’t you know it, half.

August 10th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

IBARW 3 – My first flowchart!

Feel free to give feedback.

This one’s about whether you should write an angry response to being called a racist.

Idea totally ripped off from Gary Dauphin’s Should I use blackface in my blog? flowchart. I hope it meets with his approval.

August 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | One comment

IBARW 3 – It’s possible for white folks to be decent about privilege

Sorry to miss yesterday’s IBARW post. I was thinking, definitely, about it, but didn’t have anything that seemed worthy. I do think I will plan, soon, to come up with a flowchart (or possibly more than one) in the style of the “using blackface on your blog” flowchart, that has to do with how to [...]

August 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

IBARW 3 – Cultural Appropriation is often the inverse of Respect

Apropos of a friend’s IBARW post, I went looking for good links that talk about Cultural Appropriation. For those with no time to read about it on Wikipedia, Cultural Appropriation is the selective adoption of elements of a culture one does not belong to, and is characterized by in some way idealizing what we like [...]

August 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: LJ XPost | Leave a comment

IBARW 3 – US – Directive 15, the One Drop Rule and you

I had cause recently to go (re-)read Directive 15 (because I had been speaking authoritatively about it and hadn’t reviewed it in quite some time – a couple of decades, probably). The last time (before this time) I thought I had reviewed it (or potentially related regulations with the IRS or some other governmental organization [...]

August 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

IBARW 3 – Links to my various related entries from last year

This summary/links post is toward providing more contributions to IBARW 3, but may be interesting for my readers as well. Also, it’s helping me declutter my tags, so that’s also good.

Links and summaries after the cut.

August 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

IBARW 3 – Ethnically Aware Cosmetic Surgery

An almost 17-year old New York Times article.

An aware (we presume) surgeon.

August 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment

Welcome to International Blog Against Racism Week!

Feel free to join in, if you like.

August 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Everything, LJ XPost | Leave a comment