This blog is a curated post collection to help white people learn about racism, imperialism, activism, and their role in systems of oppression. This post contains the tag system so you can look at posts by subject, as well as a list of helpful resources and other blogs to follow. Any non-bold words that are underlined are links to recommended reading!
This blog is intended mainly for browsing, not just following. I will not reblog single posts more than once so please take time to look through the archived posts!
Basics: This tag contains a handful of short(ish) posts to get you started (also read the links in the next few bullets!)
White Guilt: Posts about white guilt
White Fragility: Posts about white fragility
Privilege: Posts about privilege
Appropriation: Posts about cultural appropriation
White Culture: Posts about what white culture looks like (yes, white people do have culture!). Subset of the culture tag.
Culture: Very broad tag for posts about different cultures and cultural racism
Allyship: Posts about what being a good ally looks like (or doesn't look like!)
Antiracism: Posts about the action of unlearning racism and/or teaching others to do so (lots of overlap with allyship)
History: Posts with information about historical events or figures connected to systemic racism
Current events: Posts about instances of modern-day racism and imperialism
Antiblackness: Posts about racism against Black people
Indigenous: Broad tag for posts about indigenous cultures worldwide
Orientalism: Posts about racism against people of Asian descent
Imperialism: Posts about imperialism
Antisemitism: Posts about bigotry against Jews
Dogwhistles: Posts about words, phrases, and symbols with plausible deniability used by bigots to signal one another
Conspiracy theories: Posts about conspiracy theories that are rooted in bigotry (spoiler: it's most of them)
Environmentalism: Posts about bigotry in environmentalist movements/ideals
Community: Posts about how racism appears in communities and/or how to combat it
Relationships: Posts about how racism appears (or doesn't!) in interpersonal relationships
Experiences: Personal accounts/stories about experiencing racism
Gender: Posts about the intersection of racism and gender
Incarceration: Posts about the prison system in the US (basically, it's modern slavery)
Media: Posts about racism in media
Humor: Posts about jokes & memes as a vessel for both outright and subtle bigotry (and when they're not)
Activism: Posts about activism
Recommended media: Things to watch or read!
Not every tag has a lot of posts in it (yet), many posts are cross-tagged, and posts may also be tagged with additional relevant terms.
Please be aware: your comfort is not a priority here. Due to the subject matter of this blog, some posts may mention triggering topics. Any posts that describe these actions with any detail will be trigger tagged, but I will not be tagging for keyword mentions (e.g. "women of color are often sexually assaulted"). Nobody is ever obligated to read a detailed account of something horrible, but if you're here to learn about racism you need to be willing to hear that horrible things happen. If you cannot tolerate thinking about these things at all you can use tumblr's content filtering feature for keywords, but please acknowledge that your ability to avoid this kind of information is a form of white privilege.
The recommended media tag!
Re: media, I highly recommend beginning your antiracism journey by watching this in full.
@creatingblackcharacters: Fantastic blog for learning about antiblack racism. I recommend reading all the lessons in her pinned post.
@insertspanishhere: Blog about Hispanic tropes & stereotypes
@checkyourasianbias: Blog about Orientalism & Asian cultures
@modelsofcolor: Follow to help diversify your tumblr feed and subconsciously unlearn eurocentric beauty standards
@folkfashion: Same as the above
@naturalhairhow101: Posts about Black hairstyles
@isuggestlandback: Posts mainly about indigenous cultures and social issues
@olowan-waphiya: Posts mainly about indigenous cultures and social issues
@blackcharacterpolls: Posts about Black characters in various media
@does-it-like-black-women: Poll blog about media. I recommend looking through the notes on finished polls.
@doberbutts: Posts a lot about queer intersectionality with race and other social issues
@directactionforhope: Posts about current events, social issues, and activism
Melanin Library: Database of books by Black authors
JSTOR Reading Library: Free Black liberation reading materials
Indigenous website & resource list
Masterlist of Black focused resources
In general, try to follow as many POC on social media as you can. Do not comment on posts that are not meant for you, but make a habit of filling your feed with posts by people in other demographics and cultures. Likewise, make a habit of deliberately seeking out media created by POC. Doing these things will allow you to learn new things without having to ask people, and to unlearn the gut reaction to see white people as "default".
It should go without saying but this is tumblr, so: me (the blog owner) reblogging a post or recommending a blog is not the same as me endorsing all opinions and content posted by that blog. The content I recommend here is intended to make you think and (hopefully) grow as a person, and reading and understanding differing opinions is part of that!
Remember, you are still your own person and you should think for yourself! Do not just accept everything others tell you as fact unless they are referring to their own lived experiences– even if they are telling you something is racist, you still need to understand why it's racist. If you disagree with anything on this blog or any of the linked resources, then you should do your own research to find out whether your disagreement comes from a place of ignorance or internalized prejudice. If it doesn't, then it's just something you disagree with that particular person about. People in other demographics are not a monolith and you will not agree with everyone!
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