Here some good 2020 interacial wlw representation!
This addition is nice! But I want to mention that it is also important for white people to unlearn the “racial blinders” we are socialized to view the world with, that make the kind of overwhelming whiteness from the original tweet invisible to us at first glance. It’s an inherent bias that serves to preserve the racial status quo.
When you look at group photos of a graduating class of doctors or a lineup of cabinet picks, when you see a list of all the faces of people nominated for a prestigious award or announced for the cast of a film, when you sit down at a table of leadership — you need to form the habit of noticing what is absent (WHO is absent) in those tableaus of white homogeneity. I am still working on doing this as consistently as I want to — but once you start making a frequent practice of deliberately stopping and examining situations through this lens, the “invisible” whiteness you realize you’ve been overlooking can be really stunningly stark.
For example: I recently got into watching North American men’s pro ice hockey over the summer. Ever started actively paying attention to the number of non-white players on any given NHL team roster compared to the white dudes? Holy shit.
Bottom line: we cannot expect the world to improve if we only ever depend solely on Black and brown people to do the labour of speaking up and pointing that overwhelming hegemonic whiteness out to us.
Learn to pay attention. And get comfortable pointing it out.
I just wanna take my headcanon of “Naruto don’t gender good” and run with it.
Like Naruto, who grew up with the spottiest of educations in all ways, doesn’t really understand gender. Like he knows a lot about the human body (see his Sexy Jutsu being a full transformation) but even though he knows some people are packing kunai and some are packing shuriken downstairs he’s still, somehow, super fucking hazy on like what actually determines gender.
Plus he figures out real quick that he can’t just ask what someone’s hiding in their uh weapon pouch without getting the shit kicked out of him and that sometimes it’s not cut and dry either.
So, being the innovative little fishcake he is, Naruto comes to the conclusion that it has to depend on something else.
Like, let’s say, hair length for example.
So, anyone with long hair is a girl, short hair is a boy. Cause that’s what the matron at the orphanage said when she hacked Naruto’s hair off when he was little and thus is the reason why his Sexy!Form has long pigtails.
Boom. Simple.
Cue him proceeding to piss off a lot of people for a very very long time and changing pronouns every time someone does or doesn’t get a haircut.
He just kind of squints at Kakashi and calls him they/them for literal years because Kakashi’s hair is tall.
No one can figure out why he does this shit and none of them think to just fuckin ask.