This year's IBARW will take place between August 4 through August 10 (although please let me know if the dates conflict with important holidays).

Poll #1186824 IBARW3 theme
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What optional theme should IBARW3 have?

Also, comments, suggestions, brainstorming, and critique for IBARW3 is always welcome here.

A brief history and explanation of IBARW

International Blog Against Racism Week (IBARW) originated in an email discussion among coffeeandink, liviapenn, minnow1212, rachelmanija, rilina and me, but for me, the origins go back to the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM. ( Read more... )

And now, massive linkage!

Please note that these were taken out of IBARW1 and IBARW2; there are about 700+ posts for both of them combined, and I encourage looking through the whole list, because there is no way I could cover everything. I've also kept all of my own posts out, though I am not above giving you all a link to them.

POC voices on POC experiences

I especially want to highlight POC voices because we are so often silenced, drowned out, and ignored. The disclaimer is as always: there is no singular POC experience, no one Asian or black or Native or Latin@ or multiracial experience. Not all written-by-POC posts are here; these are ones that focus specifically on being a POC, and they range from the very personal to the academic to every shade in between. I'm roughly grouping these by axes of affiliation. While there was relatively good representation of black and Asian posters, I still want more representation of POC, particularly of POC outside the US, indigenous people and Natives, and Latino@s. ( Read more... )

Intersectionality

Because race isn't the only thing some of us worry about, and because it's not as simple as saying "This is just race, this is just gender, and this is just sexuality." ( Read more... )

International perspectives

I wasn't sure what to title this. I don't want "international" to imply that the US is above nationhood, but I also didn't want to define the section by a negative. So really, it should be something like "the US is not actually the center of the world." Most of these are written about other English-speaking countries; I suspect this may always end up dominating given that IBARW started in English, but I really want to include more countries and continents going forward. ( Read more... )

Discourse on racism

A lot of what I've seen becoming more "mainstreamed" the past year has been talk on how we talk about racism. I use "mainstreamed" ironically, since a) the space I've been immersed in isn't really mainstream (media fandom), b) using that term completely ignores how this has been in international discourse for a very long time, and c) completely ignores the thriving anti-racist blogosphere. ( Read more... )

On privilege

White privilege, the flip side of racism. ( Read more... )

Unlearning racism

I had originally titled this "for allies," as some of the posts are specifically on being a white ally. But some are for people who just started thinking about racism and don't know what to do, and I am always aware that I can do more as well.( Read more... )

Race and Racism and ____

Tthese are posts that look deeper into a specific topic and show how race and racism works there. ( Read more... )

Critique and support of IBARW

There's been critique of IBARW from various angles. ( Read more... )

Finally, if you'd like to read more, check out the delicioused recommended reading or IBARW's race-related resources.

Thank you all for reading the special IBARW edition of the POC in SF Carnival! The fourth carnival will be hosted by sparkymonster at the end of October. Please see the main site on how to submit your links and articles next time.

My goals for IBARW3 are to get more participation from other areas of the blogsphere (fandom and non-fandom), more international participation, and more POC participation. I'd also like to see IBARW in other corners of fandom, such as the gaming community, off LJ, the RPF community, etc.

I'm also planning on checking in with the admins of various anti-racist communities to see if I can do a little "IBARW coming up!" post when IBARW3 gets closer.

I was also considering doing a topic for each year (ex. intersectionality for IBARW3); it would be completely voluntary, but may be helpful for some people as a place to start.

I'd love to hear your suggestions and what you thought was helpful this year and what we can do better.

If you posted an IBARW post after the official end of the project, you're welcome to let us know here. Please include a link, a brief description of your post, and any identifying/categorizing information here, or mark the post as "for: ibarw" in del.icio.us.

Also, at this time I believe we've made all the categorization corrections requested; if I'm wrong, please let us know here and we'll fix it by next Monday.

We may end up doing a weekly link collection post as a regular thing, but I'm going to try to troubleshoot the del.icio.us->LJ posting problems first.

ETA: OMG I SUCK! I want to say a really loud and public thank you to jinian, ladyjax, and poilass, who tagged and catalogued all the IBARW2 links this week! 500 some posts! They rock muchly, and if it hadn't been for them, it would have been impossible keeping track of how large IBARW2 got.

Also, thank you so much to everyone who helped out with icons! Please let me know if I left your name off the list, and I apologize for doing so!

Wow! Thank you all so much for participating in IBARW2! IBARW1 had about 200 posts, and IBARW2 seems to have around 500!!! I am so excited!

I wasn't able to read everything posted this week, but I saw a ton of interesting discussions and posts going on, and I'm really excited about reading all of them.

For people who weren't able to post for IBARW or who didn't post as much as they wanted to... *points to icon*

Seriously, though. Every week should be Intl. Blog Against Racism Week, and I personally live for the day when IBARW will no longer be necessary because race is a normal part of our conversations and actions. The goal of IBARW is to foster an environment in which anti-racism is safe, where allies and POC can go and have their concerns discussed and not have to worry about being slapped in the face by random acts of racism.

So if you want to post more about race, I cheer! And I say, don't wait for IBARW3! Post now! And bring the conversation into RL as well, because sometimes, just one person speaking out and letting others know that racist comments or actions are not welcome around him/her does make a difference.

I'm going to keep trying to bookmark recommended reading in the IBARW del.icio.us, and if you'd like your post bookmarked, just drop a note in the comments (let me know if you'd like it filed under "ibarw2" or not).

And again, thank you all so much for posting, and please please please keep doing so!

IBARW 2 has been amazing, you guys. Thanks for all your work! And don't forget that you don't have to stop blogging about racism when Monday arrives -- it helps anytime.

Submit links to your Sunday posts here!

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Hi all!

Given that there have been a ton of posts for this IBARW (which is awesome!!!!) and that the internet is in general somewhat problematic with regards to identification, this post is for people who would like to change the tags their own post is under in our del.icio.us. This is mainly for identifying tags such as nationality, ethnicity, and race, though if you think we got the topic wrong, please let us know.

In general, we've been trying to go by post content and user info, though we make mistakes.

We apologize for anything we've tagged wrong and are sorry that right now, the burden is lying on you all to correct it.

I'll also be going through the IBARW2 posts to try and clean things up post-IBARW, but this may take a while.

So, corrections and suggestions welcome here!

Ex. I'm not sure if multiracial/mixed race people would like a by.multiracial.people tag or by.mixed.raced.people (or both), or if the american.indian tag should be that or native.american, or if some Irish people would prefer to have their posts under ireland and
united.kingdom, or just ireland.

Feel free to also ask for tags to be removed from your post.

Also, if you think adding a tag to your post may be controversial to others who self-identify under that tag, please let us know why you'd like your post tagged as such. Ex. someone of white German and French ancestry wanting to be tagged by.poc would be controversial to most POC, whereas a nonwhite person asking to be tagged as nonwhite would probably not be controversial to other nonwhite people, or a biracial Chinese Australian asking to be tagged as chinese and australian would probably not be controversial to other Chinese people or Australians.

Thank you!
the taggers (jinian, ladyjax, poilass and oyceter)

Today's links brought to you by poilass!

Wow, it has been six days.

All links can be found here.

Oops, sort of late, but links for Friday here!

All links can be found here.

Today's linkage brought to you by ladyjax!

You can check out all the links we've got so far here.

And thank you all for continuing to post!

Today's linkage brought to you courtesy of poilass!

Also, we are still having technical difficulties with regard to the auto-link posting thing. But you can get the most up-to-date links here!

So far, IBARW2 has just about hit the same amount of posts as IBARW1 did, and in only two days! Wow. And it's gone pretty far out into the blogosphere, which is awesome. So thank you all for posting and for continuing to post!

Also also, if you haven't seen news about the Jena Six yet, check it out. You can also contribute to the defense fund or check out the NAACP page for ways you can help. In other news, Pam Noles has a link round-up regarding Pedro Guzman's wrongful deportation.

If you make a Tuesday post for IBARW, please respond here so we can add it to our link compilation, or add the IBARW Del.icio.us account to your Del.icio.us network and tag links for us there with "for: ibarw". Either works, no need to do both. Descriptive post titles are helpful, and we have an inordinate fondness for tags.

We're still working on automatically posting the Del.icio.us links to this community, but when it works it should include all of them so far. In the meantime, if you'd like to see a tidy list of the posts people have submitted, check out http://del.icio.us/ibarw directly.

Many thanks to all of you who have participated so far!

Please let us know if you have a post for IBARW here!

Or you can add the IBARW del.icio.us account to your del.icio.us network and tag links for us there using the "for: ibarw" tag.

There will be a new link gathering post for Tues., to help us spread out the labor of posting links.

You are free to use your own timezone's Monday; each link compiler is responsible for a specific post and will grab things on that post.

PSST: It will help a lot on del.icio.us if you title your entry something topical, as opposed to just "Intl. Blog Against Racism Week."

(Monday is brought to you by the number eleventy, the letter sigma, and a somewhat insane and frazzled oyceter!)

Last updated: Feb. 22, 2008

IBARW

• IBARW1 (Jul. 17, 2006 - Jul. 23, 2006) - this is the IBARW1 link round-up.


• IBARW2 (Aug. 6, 2007 - Aug 12, 2007)


• IBARW2 link collection


• POC in SF carnival, IBARW edition - covers my favorite links from IBARW1 and IBARW2.

RACE AND RACISM

The following links are meant as more of a starting point; I keep rereading them, attempt to balance out section and then realize that I'm missing so many areas. The biases tend toward American black and Asian issues, feminism and fandom, as that is apparently what I have delicioused in the past. That, by the way, is not an excuse, but a note that any gaping holes are my own fault.

• Race Relations 101


• The Global Hierarchy of Race


• Race in Science - studies on subconscious racial biases


• On safe spaces


• The Unexamined Propaganda of "Political Correctness"


• Online Vignette Exercises for Racial Diversity Training


• Some Thoughts on Race and Academia


• I CARE - Crosspoint Anti Racism - links to international anti-racism sites


• Racism and Antiracism Resources from UN Cyberschoolbus


• Communities of Color Resisting the White Wants


• Where are all the bloggers of color? - examines why this is the wrong question to ask


• Thoughts on the whole racism = prejudice + power thing - Nora Jemison on intra-POC racism and white supremacy

Colonialism and Imperialism

• How to Write About Africa


• The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa


• Decolonizing Anti-Racism (Canada)


• Race and Colonialism by Reginald Dumas

Intersectionality

Desperately need more links, particularly addressing classism, heterosexism and ablism.

• Andrea Smith's Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy


• Audre Lorde's There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions


• Frances M. Beal's Black Women's Manifesto; Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female


• Discussion based on Patricia Hill Collins' Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination


• Becoming a Black Man - the transgender community and race


• Indigenous feminism without apology, by Andrea Smith

Discourse on Racism

• How to Suppress Discussions of Racism


• The Art of Defending Racism


• White Liberal Bingo


• The Privilege of Politeness


• How Not to Be Insane When Accused of Racism


• One Thing Fandom Needs to Stop Saying. Forever. - not just applicable to fandom.


• What Kind of Card Is Race? - debunking the idea of "playing the race card," by Tim Wise.


• The Racial Reset Button


• Enough Please with the Free Speech Nonsense


• The Benefit of the Doubt

Cultural Appropriation

• Bears, Bombs and Popcorn - by Judith Berman


• Knowledge as an exercise of colonial power


• The Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM


• Cultural Appropriation Revisited panel and discussion from Wiscon 31

Allies

• Buh buh buh but...Fighting Racism Is Too Hard & Won't Make Me Popular!


• On being an ally


• Ally Work website

Affirmative Action

• White privilege and affirmative action


• On segregation, desegregation, affirmative action, and black identity

White Privilege

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - a basic overview of white privilege.


• White privilege masquerading as anti-racism


• Defining "White Privilege"

Color Blindness

• The Problem with "I Don't See Color" - a handout from a workshop problematizing color blindness.


• Colorblind Racism - because racism goes beyond Jim Crow laws.


• Helpful hint for the colorblind: BE LESS BLIND


• Colorblind Racism vs. Old Fashioned Racism


• (Color) Blindness as a Metaphor to Racism - on the problems in using disabilities as a metaphor

Recommended Reading Lists

• Ally Work suggested reading


• Recommended reading for white ignorance


• Recommended reading for feminism and racism


• Recommended reading from ladyjax


• Recommended reading for a grounding in Black feminist and lesbian thought


• Required reading from the Angry Black Woman

Recommended Blogs

Desperately need more blogs focusing on Latinos, American Indians, First Nations, indigenous Australians, South Asians, Middle Easterners, and pretty much everything international. ETA: Have some more now, but I'll keep looking for even more.

• Brownfemipower's list of bloggers of color (special section on WOC!)


• List of WOC and allies' blogs, courtesy of sex_and_race and BlackAmazon


• Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture


• Women of Color Blog


• Erase Racism blog carnival


• Angry Black Woman


• Angry Asian Man


• Slant Eye for the Round Eye


• Hyphen Blog


• DesiPundit


• Tiffinbox


• Reappropriate


• Paper Tigers - a site for YA/children's books focusing on the Pacific Rim and South Asia


• La Bloga


• The Angry Arab News Service


• The Native Blog


• American Indians in Children's Literature

FANDOM AND RACE

Currently "fandom" refers to SF/F fandom and media fandom, largely because those are the two groups I have visibility into. But if anyone has any other links, please let me know and I will add them!

Media Fandom

• Great Race Discussion Linkspam - rydra_wong has an amazing link compilation to pretty much all the race debates going on in fandom for the last few years. The bottom includes several general, non-fandom race resources as well. I think Rydra's got links to the recent HP debate over "miscegenation," the debates about Martha in Dr. Who, the debates about COC in fic in Stargate Atlantis, and the Great Cultural Appriation Debate of DOOM, among many others.


• Pirates of the Caribbean 2 link round-up


• del.icio.us posts tagged with fandom + race


• del.icio.us posts tagged with meta + race

SF/F Fandom

• People of Colour in SF blog carnival


• Race and science fiction - from ghanageek


• The Standard Race and SF FAQ


• Pam Noles' The Shame of Earthsea and a public response to comments on the essay


• Black women in comics


• People of Colour SF Carnival


• The Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM from Wiscon 30


• Cultural Appropriation Revisited panels at Wiscon 31


• The Romance of the Revolution panel at Wiscon 31


• But the Master Has a Black & Decker panel at Wiscon 31


• Genre Tokenism Today: The New Octavia Butler, panel at Wiscon 31


• What These People Need Is a Honky panel at Wiscon 31


• Why Is the Universe So Damn White? panel at Wiscon 31

Writing

• Transracial Writing for the Sincere - by Nisi Shawl, co-author of Writing the Other


• How to Promote Diversity in Fiction Markets - Angry Black Woman on diversity in SF/F fiction.


• Diversity in science fiction markets - by Tobias Buckell


• How Do Editors Reach Out to People of Color? - calling out editors for not making the effort and providing a plethora of links where POC are online.


• Damned if you do, damned if you don't - Claire Light addresses the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" issue of white writers writing POC.

Here's a compilation of links to IBARW icons. You are, of course, welcome to make your own as well.

IBARW2 (2007) official post.

• IBARW1 icons - "fans against racism," "ninja against racism" (Naruto), "speak again racism (it helps)," "Rock Lee kicks speaks against racism" (Naruto), "blog against racism (it helps)"



• More IBARW 1 icons - "pirates against racism (yarr)" (PotC2, Annamaria), "shinigami against racism // join in // speak out" (Bleach), "speak out // blog against racism // (it helps)"



• Icons based on How to Suppress Discussions of Racism



• zvi_likes_tv's icon slogans - she links to people who have made icons from her slogans and notes which ones are shareable.



• chomiji's icons - general usage, and one with sporks!



• lady_ganesh's icons - fandoms include Weiss Kreuz, Angel, Saiyuki, Heroes, House (?), Young Avengers, and D.Gray-man (?).



• fickle_goddess' patriot icons - will make custom ones!



• mercuriosity's icons - fandoms include Naruto, Avatar, and ones for general use.



• laurashapiro is sharing her white privilege: swimming in it icon (below). Please credit ^_^.



• poilass has "aliens against racism" icons - fandoms include some of the Star Treks, SG-1, SGA, and HP.



• xanphibian's text-only icons based on zvi's slogans.



• hsapiens' icons - celebrating characters of color. Fandoms include Andromeda, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: NY, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Dresden Files, Eureka, Firefly, Heroes, Lost, SG-1, SGA, Torchwood, Witchblade, Sin City, and Will Smith.



• cacahuate modified an icon and is sharing below.



• shati has text-based icons



• arielladrake has an icon on tone



• imadra_blue's Star Wars icons below!

For 2007, these people have volunteered to help with icons:
chomiji
fickle_goddess (willing to make custom nationality icons)
lady_ganesh
mercuriosity
shati (willing to make custom icons)
zvi_likes_tv (slogans!)
xanphibian (willing to make custom icons)
laurashapiro
poilass
vom_marlowe (willing to make custom icons, check out her post)
hsapiens
cacahuate (willing to make custom icons)
silveraspen (willing to make custom icons)
indigoskynet (willing to make custom icons, see comment below)
arielladrake
smillaraaq (willing to make custom icons, see comment below)
imadra_blue

(More volunteers are always welcome! And let me know if you're willing to make custom icons; I couldn't tell from the requests sometimes, so I didn't want to assume.)

Thank you all so much for helping!

For 2007, IBARW will take place between August 6 through August 12.

If you would like to participate, here's what to do:

1. Announce the week in your blog.



2. Switch your default icon to either an official IBAR week icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBAR week icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do so. Here's a round up of IBARW icons.



3. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of a race that isn't yours, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. (Linking back here is highly appreciated!)

For inspiration, here are last year's IBARW posts. You can also check out this post for further resources.

We'll be compiling links for IBARW2 as well, both in the IBARW del.icio.us account and with daily round-ups on this journal. Here's the round-up post for Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007.

Please to be noting that the nifty posting of links from del.icio.us to LJ is still undergoing troubleshooting, so right now, the best way to check for new IBARW links is the del.icio.us account.

PSST: It will help a lot on del.icio.us if you title your entry something topical, as opposed to just "Intl. Blog Against Racism Week."