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Jul. 28th, 2009
IBARW 4: Specifying your ‘others’
Jul. 28th, 2009 07:01 pm( Trying to argue with someone else over their ethnicity is never a good idea )
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oyceter's announcement
For 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2.
How to participate:
1. Announce the week in your blog.
2. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. The optional theme this year is "global."
3. Let the IBARW team know by bookmarking your post on Delicious with "for:ibarw," or comment with a link to your post in one of the link collecting posts.
For inspiration, here are the previous years' IBARW posts* and last year's POC in SF Carnival IBARW edition. You can also check out this post or delicioused recommended reading for further resources.
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* I’m in there with my rant about the right to call myself Oriental (in brief: because it’s a politically neutral term in Europe, this is what I’ve grown up calling himself, this is what my family/friends call ourselves) and a threat to give any white person who thinks they have the right to choose my terms for me a good, hard kick in the teeth.
As per
oyceter's announcementFor 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2.
How to participate:
1. Announce the week in your blog.
2. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. The optional theme this year is "global."
3. Let the IBARW team know by bookmarking your post on Delicious with "for:ibarw," or comment with a link to your post in one of the link collecting posts.
For inspiration, here are the previous years' IBARW posts* and last year's POC in SF Carnival IBARW edition. You can also check out this post or delicioused recommended reading for further resources.
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* I’m in there with my rant about the right to call myself Oriental (in brief: because it’s a politically neutral term in Europe, this is what I’ve grown up calling himself, this is what my family/friends call ourselves) and a threat to give any white person who thinks they have the right to choose my terms for me a good, hard kick in the teeth.