Tapping out

It’s been an informative few days.

I want to declare publicly that while I am Hanne Blank’s partner, her words are hers and mine are mine. Any conflation of the two is solely the responsibility of the conflater.

Otherwise, I need to take leave of the discussions about activism, race, racism, etc. These discussions are getting too [...]

A few things to say about cultural appropriation

Apparently we’re having that discussion again (this link is from 2007, probably around June). Cultural appropriation discussions are very fraught. Start here. Author’s response here, both with many other links available. (I should note that I am one of the author’s friends, but that I know she is strong enough to pick her own battles [...]

It’s official. I’m TURNING WHITE!

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education anyway (abstract). (a short-term link will potentially be available for up to 5 days here)

The article basically talks about how we’re assimilating with the white folks.

The shame of it is I will no longer be able to scream, “WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT!?” and have it be remotely [...]

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 [...]

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.

IBARW 3 – Ethnically Aware Cosmetic Surgery

An almost 17-year old New York Times article.

An aware (we presume) surgeon.

Welcome to International Blog Against Racism Week!

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Privilege 201: My answer to a straight white guy about privilege

I’m copying/pasting the entirety of my answer here because sometimes comments are deleted from Ask Metafilter if they’re deemed “off-topic” by the moderators.

Anyhow, the original question is here. Essentially this straight white guy read “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” and is looking for more resources to self-educate, having had eyes open a bit.

Actually, I am going to say this again

Or at least it feels like again, though maybe it isn’t actually again. Maybe only in my head. It echoes a lot in there when I think stuff like this because it should be obvious, and it never actually seems to be, so the echoing is usually due to the strident rage that’s incipient.

Unfortunately, I [...]

Daily Kos – I created an account there

Can’t do much with it for 24 hours (comments)/a week (diaries), but I do have more political things (about race, about party unity) to say and I think I need to say them there.

Here’s the account.