#bubbeleh's personal posts

I'm also going to need white witches and pagans to stop trying to white savior their way to "witchblr prominence" by presenting themselves as speaking for members of marginalized and minority communities, when they are in fact speaking over and often spreading misinformation about those communities. Who are you to speak for us? Speak for yourself and your own traditions. Let us speak for ours. We are capable of doing so, trust me.

And, while I'm at it, I need white people to stop using the term exotic to talk about people and cultures. "Exotic" to whom? Not to the people and cultures you're fixing your lips to speak about. To quote an old reponse by writingwithcolor from back in 2015, "To discuss People of Color as if we are inherently exotic implies that only the white (or outsider’s) view matters."

Stop labelling us as exotic. Stop speaking on our cultures and practices when you are not a part of them. Stop depicting us as uninformed or incapable people who can't speak for ourselves and need white practitioners to be our spokespeople. Stop speaking on things you do not know. This goes for religious practices as well. If you're not Muslim, stop talking over Muslims to speak on Islamic practices and traditions you have no part in; if you're not Jewish, we don't need your posts about Jewish traditions; if you're not Hindu, don't write talking about culture and traditions within and surrounding Hinduism; and the same for all religions. We do not need your opinion as a white practitioner taking up space and drowning out our voices. We do not need your opinion as a white practitioner confusing readers who deferred to your posts about cultures and practices you are not a part of, when there are countless people from those cultures and practices who can accurately and correctly speak to those things, who know the histories because they're from those practices and cultures, who understand the nuances of these traditions because they are from those traditions.

I am naming the house Luther's Cottage, after one of the men brought to the slave pen who managed to escape. The gardens and land for homesteading will be called Jim's Rest, after another man who was recaptured.

And it always disappoints me so much to see someone willing to overlook racism and maintain a friendship with someone who is racist. I can sit there and say, well, they themselves have never been directly racist to me and I've never seen them be racist, but... it still matters that they're fine with being friends with racists, and it still says a lot about that person and their beliefs.

See, I was raised to understand that if you're friends with racists, that means you're okay with racism; and if you're okay with racism, then that means you're racist. You might not know that you are or recognize that you are, but if racism isn't an immediate no for you, then, on some level, you agree with something there, and you're comfortable enough with it to stay and to associate yourself with racism.