Who Knows? @silencenolonger - Tumblr Blog

Can’t scream out loud right now, so imma do it in the tags.

#aaaaaaAaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHJHJJJJHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #finding my voice

Self- improvement is terrifying but exciting at the same time

#finding my voice

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Some (read: many) people simply aren’t anti-anti-Black enough, especially in their personal lives, and it infuriates me to no end. It is comfortable to continue to live life as you’ve always lived it. But understand that your comfort comes at a price and that it will ultimately be Black people who have to pay.

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Anti-anti-Black enough* was what I meant at first 😭😭😭😭 I really shouldn’t be writing when I’m half asleep

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Y’know, pro-Black would have worked too 🙃

silencenolonger

Some (read: many) people simply aren’t anti-anti-Black enough, especially in their personal lives, and it infuriates me to no end. It is comfortable to continue to live life as you’ve always lived it. But understand that your comfort comes at a price and that it will ultimately be Black people who have to pay.

silencenolonger

Anti-anti-Black enough* was what I meant at first 😭😭😭😭 I really shouldn’t be writing when I’m half asleep

If I’ve been anything these past few years it’s inconsistent in energy. Having random spells of high-energy followed by periods where I have no energy at all has reallllly hindered me from making progress in many areas of my life.

#finding my voice

These performative gestures from companies and institutions are sooooooo irritating.

#finding my voice

Being able to correct people when using the wrong pronouns to refer to me was always difficult, but it’s gotten easier lately. I think centering respect for myself has changed how I engage with such interactions.

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Moving forward, it is extremely important that I remember to act. My personal inaction has led to hardship for many people, and I have no intention of continuing down such a path.

#finding my voice

Some (read: many) people simply aren’t anti-anti-Black enough, especially in their personal lives, and it infuriates me to no end. It is comfortable to continue to live life as you’ve always lived it. But understand that your comfort comes at a price and that it will ultimately be Black people who have to pay.

#finding my voice #this has been said too many times

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eco-socialism

Ecosocialist praxis

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I support you poison Ivy

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im losing my fucking mind over this video

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WHAT IS GOING ON?

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

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Unfinished comic from a long time ago that wasn’t ever going to be completed. It makes absolutely no sense, but honestly in its current state i think it’s the funniest thing so I’m not adding to it.

Anyway.

Posting a video later today. Expect that. Anddd uhh yeah see you then.

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“I am a white woman. I am standing beside a black woman. We are facing a group of white people who are seated in front of us. We are in their workplace, and have been hired by their employer to lead them in a dialogue about race. The room is filled with tension and charged with hostility. I have just presented a definition of racism that includes the acknowledgment that whites hold social and institutional power over people of color. A white man is pounding his fist on the table. His face is red and he is furious. As he pounds he yells, “White people have been discriminated against for 25 years! A white person can’t get a job anymore!” I look around the room and see 40 employed people, all white. There are no people of color in this workplace. Something is happening here, and it isn’t based in the racial reality of the workplace. I am feeling unnerved by this man’s disconnection with that reality, and his lack of sensitivity to the impact this is having on my cofacilitator, the only person of color in the room. Why is this white man so angry? Why is he being so careless about the impact of his anger? Why are all the other white people either sitting in silent agreement with him or tuning out? We have, after all, only articulated a definition of racism.”

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This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.

Read the rest here !!

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

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