Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

This usually happens in a couple of ways: 1) Clean up: White people quickly get overwhelmed when a couple of racist people respond to them

Tagging #POC ("read @ ThisPOC") is a way to have us fight for you. Don't do this; we already deal with enough racism day to day.

2) Ally Theatre: White people want #POC to witness them "fighting racism." Again, we don't need to see this as we do this daily to survive.

Please consider why you're *really* tagging #POC & how unfair it is to ask us to see & respond more violence that costs us more than you.

I was tagged by a White person on TWO threads last night about a previous abuser & have just received vile racism & transphobia on my blog.

Even though I'm exhausted, I have deal with that on top of other abuse. It's unfair for White people to compound what #POC go through. Think

Same style of writing & same themes: irate specificallly about sociology; it's a personal attack; angry about gender; etc. #socmoderation

That White male writer was tagged by one of my White followers on 2 threads & others are sharing his original attacks.Likely this is revenge

This is the worst, but I have another two abuse comments & four other passive aggressive comments. That's just my blog. #socmoderation

Then there's my various social media, my personal accounts & NFP groups I run. I don't accept that abuse is the cost of public science.

So please, White people, understand that despite your "good intentions" your need to have #POC rescue/validate/notice you impacts our health

*Do* call out racism. Do the work! But think about the fact that #POC carry a huge burden, greater for WOC esp from multiple minority groups

BTW multiple abuse is just today. Every time #POC writes, it's heaped abuse PER THREAD/POST. Most of us write multiple things any given time

There's racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia/ableism on street/going school/work/shopping/etc. #POC face abuse ALL THE TIME online & offline

Would you elaborate? I want to understand.

So sometimes I just want to not deal if I don't have to. Tagging me means I have no choice but to deal because now I've seen it.

As a white advocate for PWD, is it ok to ask a POC with a disability for guidance on being inclusive & not racist?