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Morning Madness

Its 5.00 am and you have woken up early as you have a test when you get to school at 9.30 am, you have gotten dressed and washed to help wake yourself up. You have grabbed a drink of orange juice and have decided to work at your desk. You open the curtains and draw back the blinds, its still dark outside but that doesn’t stop you. You pull out your laptop, your flashcards and your notebooks. You read through your notes whilst playing Hans Zimmer music on spotify. You then highlight your notes and test yourself on your flashcards. You then pull out a test you made a while back and complete that. You run over anything you don’t know by going on bbc bitesize. Then after two hours you take a well deserved morning bath followed by packing your bag and eating a breakfast of scrambled egg on toast. 

And of course you ace your test, and if not then you spend more time and learn from your mistakes ;)

*Just an idea feel free to change to your needs.

silent rebellions.

I mean don’t get me wrong the loud ones are great too but there is something so poetic about the quiet ones.

Like when a kid hides a pride flag in their room or paints their stuff the colors because they know if its not rainbow their parents won’t know what it means.

or when someone hides a binder in their backpack to change into and out of at school, “plus school takes up most of the time I can bind anyway”

The kids that are never deadnamed at school but in front of their family their classmates will never betray them.

The kids that have secret blogs

the kids that have secret lives

because you simply cant live in a world without some of you in it.

Kids that all flock to the one with supportive parents

the kids that sneak out to pride festivals with their friends

the kids that are secretly themselves

the kids that are secretly heroes

and those secret silent rebellions

are fantastic.

So please

Please

keep it up.

you got poland lookin nice

Namibia workin it

Costa Rica goin big, what did you expect

Haiti fuckin rockin it

Great Britain got damn

Switzerland hell yeah

and then

….Miss USA.

fall out boy’s myspace faq section, april 21st 2005 !

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

White people reading this, you’re gonna feel at first indignant or ‘that’s not true’ about this, or maybe guilty, but this is the truth. You cannot control being white or having white privilege. While your trauma and struggles and oppression are harmful, painful, and damaging, you do not have the extra layer of oppression that not being of European origin gives you and you do have these privileges. 

Take that moment to feel the guilt and indignity and then set it aside. They aren’t helpful or useful, not for yourself, and not for anyone else. It’s a painful truth, but it’s one you cannot afford to ignore if you want to be an ally to others in your community.