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This was linked to me from deadbrowalking - Becoming Visable: On being a Woman of Colour in Fandom.

Excerpt: I'm part of the so-called "model minority" (raised properly to speak only when spoken to) and it's been hard for me to cause a ruckus, especially when it comes to pointing out the unthinking and often condescending privilege of white/mainstream feminism. That kind of uppity behaviour on the part of PoC is usually met with lectures about 'tone', or 'politeness', or how you're being 'divisive' within feminism, or how you're ignoring the oppression of people who identify as gay or have red hair.

It's all bullshit. You are not required to resume polite, pained silence simply to make white feminists feel less awkward about being hurtful. Don't let them rattle you when they whine that your critique is 'political correctness gone mad'; your purpose in being does not centre on making them feel comfortable. Have they bothered to make you feel comfortable?

I know it's hard, and it's frustrating, and there comes a point when you want to just throw up your hands and stop having to 'teach race' all the damn time. I reach that point with maddening frequency, and I am not even a full-time anti-racist feminist blogger or anything.

But the alternative is letting it slide for so long that we forget each other, we erase each other. I'm tired of being a visible minority in real life and an invisible one in fandom and online; I'm through with accepting the perception that I am never truly the Default.

It's an interesting article - it expresses somethings about the anonymity of the internet and being a PoC that I hadn't consciously considered before.

( Just me rambling )