Right now is festival season in Sydney. I'm currently attending 3 (Writers Festival, Spanish Film, & Comedy). I make it a point to watch works by Indigenous women, other #WOC, other #POC & White women. But I'm always surrounded by White people. Quick thread on the experience
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I'm always weary of Q&A time, Erich invariably means a non-Indigenous, White person will get up and ask the exact sane things: 1) I'm trying to be a good White person, here's a list of the Brown people I work with (e.g. at Boochani talk while he speaking from DETENTION)
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2) What can White people do to help? (Even though we just spent one hour in the room together, all hearing the same talk, which covered a plethora of things we can all do. This is because White people want to feel special, like there's a special but EASY tip just for them)
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White people walk away from these events not seeing themselves as part of the problem. They think paying for a ticket for an once-off event is all that's needed to end racism Gotta go now. Back to the Latin Film Festival, one of the few places I can hear my language in a theatre
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