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Red flag : white ppl and white passing ppl who center their feelings abt "not being marginalized enough' and not being visible in spaces that are meant to center the voices and experiences of those that deal with racism.

Links back to this thread and Moraga realizing the ways in which she engages Blk Am folks. Moraga, however, doesnt have space for Afro-Mx's in her analysis & indigeneity to her is always mixed w whiteness (mestizaje) & *thats* what it means to be Indigenous/Chicana/Latina

my friend in another space wrote abt the tactics that ppl use in SM spaces to get rid of Blk women in particular off the platforms they actively create (and that others then benefit)

and if they remove ppl en masse, then its easy for them to say 'oh its not a problem about racism, antiblackness or misogyny, its a clear problem with those ppl over there'

then rinse wash repeat

which makes sense to me when i consider W.L is still abt but PV isn't.

Rage love is now the instance with visible no doubt about it People of Color and Black Folk mod team

and you will deal

So I've been reading about barn owls for a thing I'm writing, and they're fascinating!

Barn owls are adapted to be perfectly silent. With the structure of their feathers to their wing-to-body size ratio, they can fly perfectly silently. They also have such good hearing that they can catch prey in total darkness when they can barely see.

Also, barn owls don't hoot. Instead, they make this terrifying screeching sound.

re: Fediverse Meta, Fediblock 

By the way: if you agree with what I said in this, you need to send Ginny some money as she's the one that's been repeating this on loop for years: ginnymcqueen.com/support/

If you're using the Fediblock hashtag, you need to send Marcia some money as they're the one who originated it: artistmarciax.com/subscription

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re: racism, fedi & other meta, abuse ment 

@FreyaManibrandr they can't be that bad because they're leftist and don't say slurs uwu

Honestly "it's not racism unless there are slurs" is white-people respectability politics 🤷‍♀️

racism, fedi & other meta, abuse ment 

White people look down on saying slurs and sharing overtly dehumanizing images not because they are violent and harmful to racialized people (though of course they are, and should not be acceptable in any circumstance--and plenty of popular white people fail even that test :blobcatglaredrink: ) but because these are considered uncouth, lowbrow behaviors. That's why there was a strong consensus about kicking Gab off the fedi but it's hugely controversial and even dangerous to say out loud that leftist instances which harass Black and Indigenous users on ridiculous pretexts are being shitty. Even saying you're going to defederate from such an instance invites resentment, which is completely ridiculous because you do NOT under any circumstance have the right to other people's company against their will, like what the fuck is the matter with you.

posting this big list of black-owned goth brands again because i keep continually coming back to it and it's such a good resource: stephano.me/blog/black-owned-g

Hey there fedi admins!

As donphan.social is a Pokémon-themed instance, I decided a few years ago that every single Pokémon icon should be available on here! :luvdisc::munchlax::raboot:

I’ve noticed that some servers over time chose to copy some or all of them. I don’t own the copyright on Pokémon so I can’t put a license of them, but by courtesy it would be really nice to credit me and donphan.social, as adapting them all so that they look good on Masto, and importing them all took a LOT of work.

If you want to import them easily on Masto with tootctl, I made an archive you can download here: demiboy.online/donphan_pokemon

It contains all the Pokémon so far, up to the Sword and Shield DLCs.

Hope you enjoy them, and once again please credit me if you use them!

What if we put Frisk's head on top of a Cat Girl's body! 

It'd look something... like this!

Racism in medicine 

> Black US doctor is fired after complaint about talk on racism in medicine

bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n116.f

okay, you know what, I'm gonna make this more visible:

white people, stop telling BIPOC to read NK Jemisin as though we are somehow unaware of the (great!) work she has done.

stop telling us to read Octavia Butler.

find other authors to rec who need visibility, and stop reccing That One Series That Is Full Of Pain And Horrible Stuff.

Celebrate our joy, not just our pain! And stop fucking assuming that because YOU hadn't heard about it, NO ONE ELSE has.

Trust us.

WE KNOW.

Israel denounced by rights group as undemocratic, apartheid regime 

#Israel's largest #civilrights organization says the nation is pursuing, or has achieved, a non-democratic, apartheid state, stretching from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea npr.org/2021/01/12/956020789/i

ps to: PSA for trans folks. 

uh honestly, like, if you asked me for citations? Only two folks I'd previously known, and a few folks they directed me to, cause I was surprised this was an issue (though it feels obvious in hindsight) and wanted to know more.

im obviously not an expert, here, and i don't want to speak for them. but it's like a tiny voiceless group, so i felt it was worth passing along. If you've lived this and feel this was handled poorly, please DM me and I'll delete or fix.

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