thinkblack:

1. You enter safe spaces for people of color to talk about your own experiences, saying you understand (when you don’t) to derail a conversation (ex: in middle school, I was bullied for being blonde so that’s kind of like racism).
2. You feel the need to constantly point out…

nativeappropriations:

brightmoments:

fuck paul frank

Paul Frank took down all the Fashion Night Out pictures off the facebook page…but that doesn’t mean we’ll stop fighting. This is messed up. 

sparkamovement:

“I used to draw myself as a white girl in my first grade journal, until I realized that I didn’t look like that and it was OK—it was more than OK.”

blackgirldangerous:

by A.D Song and Mia McKenzie

White people who are confronted with their white privilege and the white supremacist acts they perpetuate have been known to cry, “You’re being a reverse-racist!” That is completely true: people of color have the power and control to create, perpetuate,…

Feminism F.A.Q.s: What do Race and Racism Have to Do With Feminism?

siddharthasmama:

can we get our Boys Don’t Cry?

Because trans WOC get killed/abused at a far more alarming rate than our white counterparts.

and can we get our Natalee Holloway missing-beautiful-young-girl type movies?

Because 60% of 2010’s missing people were Black, and 87% of that…

futurejournalismproject:

This Day in History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese Internment Camps

On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the US military to create domestic exclusion zones and remove people from them.

“Within days,” the Los Angeles Times reminds us, “the military began removing all Japanese Americans and Japanese from the West Coast.

“Within months, about 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans – almost two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens –were moved to internment camps scattered through eastern California, Arizona and other Western States.”

The LA Times Framework blog has a great slideshow of the images they published at that time.

Images: Lead image is a sign notifying people of Japanese descent to report for relocation, via Wikipedia. Photos via the LA Times Framework blog.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

thatneedstogo:

“White People Solve Racism: You’re Welcome Black People”

[better movie poster for The Help] 

(via The Sociological Cinema)

seeshackstumble:

Guerilla Girls (Taken with Instagram at Tate Modern)