Tag Archives: privilege
There is no right way to hate your body
TweetThis weekend, I had the great honour of speaking on a panel with the incredible Hanne Blank and the estimable Therese Shechter. We were there – at Momentum – to talk about sex and body image online, and our panel was what Hanne called a confetti conversation: we threw a bunch of bright and diverse [...]
Also tagged Body Image, Deep Thoughts, empathy Comments closed
White savior complexes, hurt feelings and the undue pressure put on writers of color
Tweet Teju Cole has a deeply nuanced and informative piece at the Atlantic Monthly about a phenomenon that now finally has a name: the White Savior Industrial Complex. According to Cole, the specific type of activism where white and/or other privileged people enter communities, countries and cultural contexts that are not their own, is still a site rife with misunderstanding, [...]
Also tagged International, kony 2012, Race, transnational, writing Comments closed
Wednesday Weigh In: ‘White Male Nerd Culture’ Edition
TweetOver at Salon, Irin Carmon examines the “white nerd male culture” after this week’s #SXSW attempt to diversify led to sometimes awkward results: On Monday, an enthusiastic white man congratulated film blogger and software development manager Malaika Paquiot-Mose for how well she’d done on the South by Southwest panel that had just ended. Inconveniently, Paquiot-Mose [...]
Roundup: The many ways “If I Was a Poor Black Kid” got it seriously wrong
TweetHave you seen this BS? A self-described “middle aged white guy who comes from a middle class white background” wrote an article for Forbes called “If I Was a Poor Black Kid.” [sic] If you haven’t seen it yet, first of all, bless you for not spending all your time on the internet! And second [...]
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Guest Post: Femme Privilege Does Not Exist