Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility
Anti-blackness, predictably, got in the way of something that had the potential to be a commentary on the politics of visibility under racial capitalism.
Non-Black Muslims will never find justice without ensuring Black Lives Matter
On Saturday, June 20th, 62-year-old Ejaz Choudry, a Pakistani man living with schizophrenia, was tragically and violently killed by Peel Region Police in Mississauga, Ontario. Choudry’s family called the non-emergency police line to help the man as he suffered through…
It’s not Black people’s responsibility to end anti-Asian racism
Where was all this concern about not referencing a group of people or a place when talking about a disease, when Ebola was named after a river in the Congo?
If “interracial dating” isn’t influenced by white supremacy, why does it imply a white partner?
For many POC, “interracial” dating is more often than not about scoring a white partner, in an attempt to liken oneself toward a more legible humanity
It matters that the Proud Boys’ night of violence began with celebrating a Japanese assassination
The model minority myth uses Asians to prop up white supremacy. The Proud Boys did the same with Yamaguchi’s story.
Appropriation is not a matter of authenticity
Fixating on the difference between others who "put on" our culture & those who create from "authentic" experiences obscures why we challenge appropriation in the first place.
