Highlights from ibarw roundup post

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 :)*

Good Geek/Guy Gadvice

I keep seeing posts like this and then losing them again, so a (currently pretty sparse) compilation of all the useful-looking (to me) social-advice-for-geeks I've seen and can think of right now. I'll add more stuff if I think of it/am linked it.

Not all of these are explicitely "advice", but I think the important factors are (a) Talking about issues of social interaction and (b)largely being aimed at the people they're complaining about, ie not a woman ranting to her female friends about a particular male behaviour.

Also, note that I don't neccesarily agree with everything in all of these, but they are least thought provoking.
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