#poc tag

[inejqhafa]

the scene where anthony tells kate that he wants to go to India so that their child knows their history and that he does too is so important especially for brown girls who are so often told to focus on integrating into their new households and forget their family once they get married. it really shows how much he values all parts of kate’s identity and who she is beyond just being viscountess, a wife, a future mother, etc. and then kate’s reaction of being fully and completely overwhelmed because she could never have imagined that he would be the one to bring it up, let alone being there for the birth makes me so emotional 😭

[illusory-torrent]

i saw a terf on twitter yesterday saying that “severe adhd / asperger’s are just terms meant to differentiate cis men as special from women / trans people and that they don’t exist in women and trans people and that we actually just have autism”.

like wow thank you!! god bless i’m finally cured of my adhd. 🥰🥰

but anyways this take itself really doesn’t make even sense since:

• getting diagnosed for adhd/autism as a woman is still an uphill battle to this day!!

• telling women they can’t have adhd won’t suddenly make the medical community more likely to diagnose them with autism!!

• the medical community has inherent biases and faulting women for trying to get correctly diagnosed is fucked up!!

it’s even worse because it’s especially more common for people of color (including men of color!!) to be diagnosed incorrectly due to sexism/racism in the industry. terfs purposely ignore how non-white cis men have lower rates of being diagnosed too, because they’re cis men and terfs just believe all cis men are inherently bad.

but seriously, this is why i despise terfs. women and afab folks are way more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety or mood disorders rather than adhd / autism because of the bias that exists within the medical field and healthcare industry. this is a fact. but men of color also suffer from the pitfalls of a white/cis/male-centered worldview. that shouldn’t be erased either.

[thebisexualwreckoning]

PSA: STOP COMPARING POCS TO FOOD ITEMS.

Tw: slavery, death, racism and violence

(Please tell me if there are any other trigger warnings i should add)

Alright. So you're writing a story with a person of colour in it. Cool! We love diverse casts. But you need to describe the colour of their skin and your mind immediately goes to food items. NO. don't do that. That's is bad.

As a desi, I'm sick and tired of seeing other desis and pocs being compared to food items. No matter how well you write or how much research you do, that is still super fucking racist.

My ancestors and the ancestors of so many cultures around the world were forced to grow and harvest those same food items you are comparing our skin to as SLAVES.

What y'all think of as symbolic and lyrical description is ignoring centuries of abuse and intergenerational slavery. People died in those fields. People were born in those fields with their fates already written for them. And you don't get to brush that aside with a simple, "But it sounds pretty!"

And it's not just something white people do. It's something I've seen my desi friends do as well. Hell, i did it myself at one point before i knew better. It's not alright but still understandable. But if you continue doing it after reading this post or the many many other posts that reiterate this exact point, that is when you start being racist.

You are willfully ignoring the suffering of poc people for your own pleasure and that is not fine. That is anything but fine.

My people did not bleed in your fields, fight in your wars and starve for your sins, surviving only due to the slim hope of freedom for you to ignore the pain caused by your actions.

[underwaterspiderbird]

Friendly reminder if you're Indigenous/Black/Brown in any way, you're not white. You're a POC, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If you're even a drop of BIPOC, you're BIPOC, not “white diluted by mud”. Blood Quantum is colonial horseshit meant to try and genocide us, so treat it like the load of baloney it is. You either are Black/Brown/Indigenous, or you're not. Our👏🏼 people 👏🏼do 👏🏼not 👏🏼come👏🏼 in 👏🏼parts. 👏🏼

[brbremaking]

Why don’t you clowns talk about Henrietta Wilson more often? Every week I gotta sit through this bullshit only for you to sleep on the best part

[boysaints]

...........poc people.........people of color people.........when will y’all learn that poc isn’t an adjective 😭.......

[bisexualrhee]

almost my whole Instagram feed consists of black squares and posts about white privilege and how one can help black peoole, and even though most people will forget this whole thing in a week or so, it's nice to see that i have so many people around me that supports the blm movement.

[hyyhp2]

hey rb and tag a food from your culture that everyone loves but you hate