Fannie’s Room: Being Better Allies

Fannie’s Room: Being Better Allies

(1) QUILTBAG. Awesome. (2) “Shorter: It’s important for white people to deal with racism, but more important than that are white people’s feelings.” “Shorter: It’s important for women to be equals, but more important than that are men’s feelings.” “Social justice activism, to me, is based on the premise that people’s feelings are very important, but more important than that is social justice.”

Talk-o-Meter shows, how much everybody is talking.

Talk-o-Meter shows, how much everybody is talking.

There are friends, colleagues or even partners who do not notice it, when they dominate others in a conversation. They just talk too much. A little iPhone app helps. The iPhone is placed between two people having a conversation and learns to separate the two voices. At intervals of 1, 2 or 5 minutes you see different lengths of red and blue bars that show what percentage of time each speaker was talking. Nobody has to be unpleasantly exhorted – from time to time everyone will have a cursory glance at the Talk-o-Meter and adapt if he is talking too much. Gentle biofeedback works.

Some Basic Racist Ideas and some Rebuttals, & Why We Exist | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

Some Basic Racist Ideas and some Rebuttals, & Why We Exist | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

“The resistance Jessica got is so standard that we can categorise it into three, typical responses that entitled folks make when called out for their privilege. So here, organised for your reading ease…”