I'd love to be part of a discussion where we challenge the normalcy of this: My default for comms that aren't specifically black is, mostly-white-but-not-entirely.
I understand why it's your default, but I am really trying to work on a world where it's not and where the people around me are discomforted by the idea that it is. I have to, otherwise I am stuck in my neverending sea of being the only one in the room. In particular, my experiences of sexism are primarily where they intersect with my experiences with race: being left out of discussions about women OR being left out of discussions about people of color. Anyway, I realize that not all women of color experience or relate to feminism in this way, but I wanted to throw that out there. I know that [Unknown site tag] and [Unknown site tag] have in part been responding to prompts from people like me. I would really hate to be part of a community where I showed up and it was supposed to be a foregone, normal conclusion that it would be largely white.
That said, I like the idea of not seeing this as a white comm but as a comm where whites are overrepresented. Maybe just semantics, but I think it sets the tone differently.
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Date: 2010-10-15 04:10 am (UTC)I understand why it's your default, but I am really trying to work on a world where it's not and where the people around me are discomforted by the idea that it is. I have to, otherwise I am stuck in my neverending sea of being the only one in the room. In particular, my experiences of sexism are primarily where they intersect with my experiences with race: being left out of discussions about women OR being left out of discussions about people of color. Anyway, I realize that not all women of color experience or relate to feminism in this way, but I wanted to throw that out there. I know that [Unknown site tag] and [Unknown site tag] have in part been responding to prompts from people like me. I would really hate to be part of a community where I showed up and it was supposed to be a foregone, normal conclusion that it would be largely white.
That said, I like the idea of not seeing this as a white comm but as a comm where whites are overrepresented. Maybe just semantics, but I think it sets the tone differently.