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If your history is full of villains, don't reclaim it—dismantle it. A manifesto for architects, not heirs. We explore why whiteness is a double-bladed weapon and how to forge a self-esteem that doesn't rely on the poverty of melanin.

https://open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/p/pride-and-prejudice?r=6y14a6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"Pride & Prejudice" is up! Next, hopefully in a few days or less....

"No True Scotsman: The Tragedy of Sysmedicalism in Plural Communities"

#AntiRacism #Whiteness #SocialJustice #Allyship #TCK #Culture #WritingCommunity #Plurality #Sysmedicalism #Systems #DID #OSDD #Neurodivergent #EllisArcwolf

All right. I did it. I worked extra hard and put together all that we discussed into a final version of the essay.

It's called: "Pride & Prejudice: A Call to Dismantle Whiteness From Within." Another English allusion felt appropriate since the English were such consummate colonialists and so we'll pick on them a lot here.

I really liked doing this! It was a little like writing with all of you, @Tattie, @melanie, @spacelogic, @mllsc, @coppercrush, and @melindrea! 💙

I really hope it leads to actionable change for all of us, and that it results in a net increase in worldwide levels of anti-racism.

Check out the full essay here!

https://ellisarcwolf.com/#pride-prejudice

P.S. Guys? Guys! We built culture together today. 😊 😻

#AntiRacism #Whiteness #SocialJustice #Allyship #TCK #Culture #WritingCommunity #EllisArcwolf

Y'all have definitely inspired me to add to this essay. I have a lot of things to add, including what the proscription may be for TCK's like myself who have made their own culture and for those whose cultural information has been lost to history.

There's a lot of pain here that we're tapping into that I think is really showing me how hard this hits with a lot of you.

We, people who benefit from white privilege, need to make a better world for POC now. We, POC, are owed that. (See what I did there? ;) ) I could definitely name, like, five populations that should come ahead of any of mine, but we do that with you, not against you, not over you, and can't really even without you.

So we make it work. Somehow. Fuck purity tests. This is about humanity. And we fucking suck sometimes. Acting like we're all beautiful is clearly fucking us up. Learning to live with the discomfort of a shitty history is part of growing up, and everyone has to do that some time.

I assure you, every POC has contended with what it's like to have a shitty past. Some of us contend with a shitty present. We know it's possible to do. I believe in you, and if I can help, fuck yes, please. 💙

There are other bigotries, I know. We'll fight them all. We have the energy, the motivation, and the fucking done-with-this-shittedness to make it happen.

We're not gonna get 'em all, but the point can't be to get rid of evil. In a universe where you have to eat to live and babies can die of nothing at all? Nah. That's impossible. The point is to corral it like an angry moose and point it towards the dark metal box that it just keeps getting out of every so often. And to minimize that frequency as much as humanly possible.

#AntiRacism #SocialJustice #PurityTests #Humanity #TCK #CoalitionBuilding #MakeItWork

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