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Multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic

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Alicia Vallecilla by Maria Videl for Glamour Hungary Magazine July 2026

[this-is-orientalism]

People who think they can be "transracial". The primary target of these are Asians, but I've seen people trying to transition into African Americans and Hispanic.

this is racism.

[mxworldwyde]

Adding onto this, because it's extremely important to me—

The word "Transracial" was originally for Transracial Adoptees. These were, and still are, people adopted by parents whose race differs from their own. This can be any race, but more often than not, it's white people adopting global majority kids and then proceeding to utterly strip them of any connections to their culture, food, language, and community.

However, this is rarely recognised. When we say "Transracial," most people don't think of us. They think of white people Asian fishing, or wearing blackface, insisting to a rightfully outraged audience that the "real them" is trapped inside a white body, and they have to wear the global majority's skins to compensate. These people are not Transracial. They're RCTA. And they have appropriated this term to describe their own perception of their own identity. This word is not theirs! It was never for them!

Please, please, do not let the RCTA (Race Change To Another) community take this word from us. Transracial has always meant, and will always mean, Transracial Adoptees. The less we talk about this, and the more we refer to RCTA using the word Transracial, the more that word becomes associated with them and not us. It has already become so difficult to find community and meet people with shared experiences due to the appropriation of this word.

Call them what they are, and bring us up when our words are used!

[mxworldwyde]

God I'm so fucking sick and tired of the appropriation of Hellenic culture and identity by Western spiritualists it seeps into absolutely everything

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[rationales]

misogynoir and antiblack narratives are baked into damn near every reality tv show. black women are constantly being labeled "abrasive" "combative" "controlling" or "difficult" for behavior that will get brushed off or even rewarded when nonblack contestants do the exact same thing. if they're confident they're seen as aggressive, if they have boundaries they're seen as having an attitude, if they have a sense of leadership they're too controlling.

nonblack contestants can cry, lash out, manipulate, lie, or be openly messy af and still be given the benefit of the doubt, chances at redemption arcs, and given sympathy edits. black women don't get that luxury. one mistake is a character flaw. one reaction is proof of a stereotype. there's no room for grace and no room to be human, just constant surveillance and punishment disguised as "opinions"

reality tv loves black faces but still relies on antiblack tropes to move the story along. it's not about personality at all it's about who's allowed to be complex on screen and who's only allowed to exist if they're quiet and endlessly palatable. if you don't see it it's not because it's subtle it's because it's normalized.

[mxworldwyde]

Non-black people, make sure to look out for this not just on TV but in your personal groups, too. Where there are disagreements, who's expected to be patient or understanding and give more chances? Who's immediately expected to be nice? And who's allowed to be upset and vent about it without being immediately told to consider the other person's point of view? Who's reaction is considered "reasonable," and who's considered to be "overreacting?"

Call it out when you see it. They won't like it, but you gotta do it anyway.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[mxworldwyde]

Especially when certain demographics of people (cough cough black and brown) regardless of their actual traits, likes, dislikes and personalities are automatically labelled as difficult or antisocial or prickly due to The Racism and then promptly excluded from said communities for, as they say, Ruining The Vibe

[this-is-misogynoir]

Misogynoir is having to work 2x harder than everybody else around you just to be even slightly recognized. I’m tired. I’m tired of pushing my disabilities to the limits just to be respected by white people

This is Misogynoir. (Also sending air hugs cuz me too)

[elliespectacular]

ok, maybe you didn't say the thing I accused you of saying - but you heavily implied it by speaking to me, someone who wants to be mad at you

[creatingblackcharacters]

So! Given recent events on here, I've been looking into books about the Afro-Latin experience, and I wondered if y'all would be interested in adding it to the reading list for book club!

Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackn…

Through a collection of theoretically engaging and empi…

This is one I found; it's a collection of essays for different locations that I thought would give a... Beginner's dip into the region. What do y'all think? If any Afro-Latin folks have a better recommendation, or one you think is essential, let me know! Just keep in mind that it's for book club- for accessibility, we do try to keep entries to a "new at theory" to "middle level" approach.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Here's another one!

[ninthwhisperinguts]

so, I'm brazilian and idk if any of these books that are in pt-br would be found in english for international readers. but if anyone has the opportunity to use a translator tool, i think it could be a great read. i study black identities and colonization in my country, so i found these while studying. it's not an exhausting list, there's much more out there!!! but in the case anyone is interested and can take the time to use the translator or look for the english version of any of these, they can be of great value.

A Terra Dá, A Terra Quer - Antônio Bispo dos Santos

O Quilombismo - Abdias do Nascimento

Raça: novas perspectivas antropológicas - Osmundo Araújo Pinho, Livio Sansone (org.)

Epistemologias Afrolatinoamericanas - Amanda Motta Castro, Raylene Moreira (org.)

Por Um Feminismo Afro-latino-americano - Lélia Gonzalez

Decolonialidade e pensamento afrodiaspórico - Joaze Bernardino-Costa, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ramón Grosfoguel (org.)

Raça, ciência e sociedade - Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos (org.)

Aportes Teóricos de Epistemologias Africanas - Mariana Martha de Cerqueira Silva

Uma História Feita Por Mãos Negras - Beatriz Nascimento

Breve Histórico do Pensamento Psicológico Brasileiro Sobre Relações Étnico-Raciais - Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos, Lia Vainer Schucman & Hildeberto Vieira Martins

Estudos Afro-asiáticos (it's a magazine)

Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon

The Damned of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

[creatingblackcharacters]

Thank you!!

[mxworldwyde]

I wake up and log online to a community I'm in that labels itself as a safe space. I head to the general chat, and I see that a staff member has posted an ai-generated image of a Jewish woman, adorned in Semitic accessories, and a Nazi soldier in SS uniform. The two are posed in a tense, forbidden romantic encounter, reminiscent of a tragic ya novel. "I just found this. Isn't this so fucked up?" He asks. Two other staff agree, shaming the ai "artist." They talk about how the person who originally posted the image has posted others of a similar nature, and they all agree that it's disgusting. I'm still looking at the image. I would not have seen it if it wasn't sent. I know that my fiancé, who is openly Jewish, has likely seen it already. These people know our heritage. I feel anger bubble inside me, and try to swallow it.

Nobody asks why he thought that was appropriate to send in the first place, nor does anyone admonish him for doing so. I delete the image, and respond to his message calmly telling him this was not appropriate. He agrees, and says he won't do it again. Another user, having missed the spectacle, tags him to ask what it was. They ask again. "What was it, though?"

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Why do so many people think that going "oh my god I can't believe *insert common expression of widespread bigotry* is a real thing what the fuck??!!" is some kind of progressive flex - like you're just telling on yourself that you know nothing about the lived realities of said marginalized group and probably never engaged with any of us in depth which is the opposite of progressive politics

[this-is-antiarab]

”Punch a racist” Until it’s not as obvious as shouting slurs at people.

“Kill a Nazi” Until it’s your neighbour.

Seriously, it feels like you people say those only to virtue-signal. Seeing people say how much they hate racism but not even bothering to help us when we face it says a thousand words.

I get it if you don’t have the money to donate to our campaigns and charities.. but not even a few kind words? Nothing?

You are just as bad as those racists.

[creatingblackcharacters]

"We cannot understand modern forms of racism if we cannot or will not explore patterns of group behavior and their effects on individuals. I ask readers to make the specific adjustments they think are necessary to their situation, rather than reject the evidence entirely.

For example, perhaps you grew up in poverty, or are an Ashkenazi Jew of European heritage, or were raised in a military family. Perhaps you grew up in Canada, Hawaii, or Germany, or had people of color in your family. None of these situations exempt you from the forces of racism, because no aspect of society is outside of these forces.

Rather than use what you see as unique about yourself as an exemption from further examination, a more fruitful approach would be to ask yourself, "I am white and I have had X experience. How did X shape me as a result of also being white?""

Chapter 1, White Fragility, Robin diAngelo

[smsomah]

Mosque. Isfahan, Iran, 1962. Josef Breitenbach

[this-is-anti-romani]

Hot take, many gorjes outside US dont care about UK Romneychal because its harder to shove us into their stereotype of an exotic mysterious people

This is anti romani (Romanichal) racism

[slewfootwitch]

If a person's friends are racist and they don't care because it doesn't impact them or they try to reframe their buddy's racist behavior as something else, they are also racist, okay? 🫶

[slewfootwitch]

Also if your friends are saying racist, antisemitic and otherwise heinously weird things about people, you may want to consider just not being their friends instead of just sending anons to the people they're talking about. 🫰

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Not only is it okay to stop being friends with someone because they're racist, it's the bare minimum thing to do.

And just so we're clear, if you stick around with racists, you can't get upset that you're associated with racism or that people think you're a racist too. Because if your friend's racism isn't enough to end a friendship over, that means you're okay with racism. Being okay with racism means you're racist. Just so you know.