Highlights from ibarw roundup post

[alias_sqbr]

Someone on debunkingwhite posted a link to these race related resources from ibarw, which has a BUNCH of really interesting essays, many of them on topics I'm interested in.

But I'm actually a little burnt out about talking about race etc for a little while (Complex concepts! Brain hurty!) so go read these yourselves :)

• Radical Knowledge: Where are all the bloggers of color? About some of the problems inherent in asking "How can we be more inclusive?".
  
• Thoughts on the whole racism = prejudice + power thing A topic I've found hard to get my head around, how racial predjudice between non-white groups relates to anti-racist defintions and ideas abour racism
  
• Feminism 101: Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination On intersections between race, gender etc. I knew my Phd in matrices would be useful eventually :)
  

Something I would like to get a better grip on, and haven't seen discussed anywhere very well, is how to deal not with, say, white feminists vs non-white feminists (the power differential there is at least pretty straight forward) but, say white feminists dealing/conflicting with non-white men. Or gay men, or transexuals. Or white non-english speaking non-americans vs non-white english speaking americans. I think the ideas about intersectionality I linked to above are a good place to start, though. Acknowledging everyone's experiences and not trying to create a linear hierarchy of oppression. I think aknowledging people's experiences is important even when the power differential is really straightforward: even straight white men can have deeply traumatising experiences to do with race/gender etc, and it's important not to dismiss individual experience even as you emphasise that individuals privileged place in an overall unjust society *insert thinky essay here :)*

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

"Where are all the bloggers of color?

This question makes the rounds in blogland oh, every three or four months. Invariably, a white blogger is the one doing the asking and a whole slew of white folks are speculating about the answer."

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard a 20something white male game developer ask "Where are all the female gamers"... always ignoring that their little niche of first-person-shooters is now (by sales) a minority genre, and that actually Women Do Play (http://www.womengamers.com/)...

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, that's a very comparable situation. And of course the term "gamer" just happens to be associated with the sorts of games men tend to like...