‘The White Lotus’ says nothing at all, except for what we already know, which is that those who benefit from whiteness are very rarely willing to divest from it. By Arielle Gray [CN: this article contains spoilers for HBO’s “The White Lotus”] In the opening scene of HBO’s The White Lotus, viewers know that someone...
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White Women Have Always Voted In Their Self-Interests
Williams is free to tell every white woman to vote in her “self-interest”, but white women’s self-interest will always spell disaster for the rest of us. Having white faves is a dangerous fucking game. And something about having that orange baboon in the office has made white folx…sloppier than usual. I was reminded of this...
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Scrub Your Legs: Being Unclean By Choice is Such White Privilege
When Black and brown people are marked as dirty, we pay for it in ways that white people sulking on Twitter will never understand. By Gloria Oladipo The amount of shit white people can get away with is amazing, like being unwashed and unapologetic about their stink. Despite having sufficient resources and abilities to clean...
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Why Are Awards Shows Still Even a Thing?
As the veil began lifting, I started to see that award shows are an integral cog in a misogynistic media machine driven by capitalism. And it started to make me sick. When I was young and an aspiring actress all I wanted was to have my work honored at an awards show one day. This fairy...
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When White Latinxs Cry Erasure
The conversation about erasure in the Latinx community cannot be centered on white Latinx voices. By Mariana Viera Latina magazine recently published an article titled “Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Question My Latina Culture.” The piece details the frustrations of Alexis, a U.S. born-Latina woman who feels that her light skin robs her of Latinx authenticity...
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Keaton Jones, Ashawnty Davis and the White Supremacist Limits of Empathy
We live in a society where empathy and compassion is limited for Black, Indigenous, and children of color and it is instead reserved to white children, who only have agency due to their white privilege, period. It’s hard not to look at the viral video of Keaton Jones, an elementary school boy, looking straight into...
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What We Need White Allies To Do About The White Supremacists In Virginia
The year is 2017 and no, racism hasn’t evaporated, it has been inherited. Right about yesterday would have been a great time to see white liberals denounce the white nationalist, tiki-torch bearing, khaki and polo shirt wearing protest which occurred at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville last night. Right about today would be a...
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White People Can Have A Torch-Wielding Mob, But When Black Folks March Peacefully, It’s Martial Law
Torch-wielding alt-right demonstrators took to the streets of Charlottesville shouting “all lives matter” this weekend — and got away with it. I’ve lost count of the number of marches and street protests black citizens have planned and led in this Black Lives Matter era. Lets go with “a lot.” What isn’t lost on me is...
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How to Stop Being Ignorant of Your White Privilege
You’re not a bad person for having white privilege. However, you do need to accept that this unequal system unfairly benefits you. [Content Note: Racism] Are you white? If you answered yes, this lesson is for you. This is Part 3 in a series I like to call, “How to Be Less of a Jerk:...
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Lady Gaga: Performing and Discarding Freakishness is Another Example of Her White Privilege
Lady Gaga Version 20.17 is peak whiteness. No wonder Joanne didn’t resonate; she didn’t write it with monsters like me in mind. Because I’m someone who has quietly advocated for the use of monsters and horror as means of healing and social commentary since the mid-’90s, when Lady Gaga hit the scene with her outsider monster narrative...