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Growing up, I was teased because of the way I spoke. I was called an “Oreo” and told that I “talk white” as if speech has a color. I was punished by my peers for my command of the Standard English language and it’s pronunciations.

Conversely, I have been praised on many occasions, by white people, for my pronunciation, as if to say Black people are not educated. I’ve been told that I’m “not like other Black people.” I’m “different.” Similarly, I shocked a white woman with my pronunciation and command of the French language. She was surprised that I was able to speak the language so well, but she was not surprised that my fairer skinned (Mexican & Filipino) companions spoke French well.

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Offering land acknowledgement within the US settler colonial context without recognizing my own Indigenous roots and identity. Perpetuating the mestizo narrative and the erasure of Indigenous peoples and culture in México and more broadly across all Turtle Island and beyond. This is an ongoing dialogue that's full of clean pain.

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Feeling like a diversity token in white spaces, where white people make little/no effort to make me or others like me feel included

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I was a sophomore in college working in an elementary classroom as a teacher assistant in a classroom in Lewiston, Maine. There is a large amount of Somali students in the Lewiston school district. That day, the teacher was out and there was a substitute teacher. The students were working on math during class. At the end of class, the substitute teacher came over to me to ask how the group of students I was working with went. When I told her that there was confusion about a particular math concept among the group, she said "I bet it was those Somali students, they just don't seem to get anything." She made an assumption and presented language that was so harmful and deficit based. I am ashamed that I did not tell the teacher how harmful her language was.

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I was pulled over by a cop in TN and he insisted that I had weed in my car (which was illegal). I did not. I was scared and felt invalidated.

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My brother was easily diagnosed with ADHD when he was 5, but my parents' concerns about me kept being dismissed with "but she does well in school," and it took until I was 24 for me to be diagnosed and treated, and my K-16 experience was much harder than it needed to be. This also relates to xenophobia/white supremacy/anti-blackness as medical research treats white males as the "neutral."

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I really struggle with knowing when and how to speak up against white supremacy (and many other "isms") and knowing when to take a step back and protect my peace. Trying to communicate with close family members is always a fight that seems like a win in the moment, and then a few months later, we're having the same fight/conversation. Do I just let it go? Do I try a new approach every time? I feel frustrated having the same talk over and over and not feeling heard. When I choose to ignore the comments and protect my spirit in the moment, I feel guilty for not fighting for my values rooted in dismantling oppression.

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a part of white supremacy culture that I perpetuate is 'worship of the written word' in the way I want things in writing, I sometimes look down upon writing that is not grammatically correct, I ask professors if we need to cite in proper APA format, I am in grad school at Harvard where I value the published work of others, and work to perfectly articulate in my writing too.

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when a my trang PhD student lady tried to teach me how to pronounce a word in Vietnamese because she was advanced level in it on duolingo and taught English in Vietnam ; A ;

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I remember as a kid in middle school feeling sexualized by adults because of what I was wearing. This happened at school when I was dress coded and in my community when my mom had to talk to me about men staring at me at a baseball game. I was 13. Now, as a teacher, I notice this in how adults talk about some of my upper elementary female students and what they wear to school, and I pushback reminding colleagues that they are kids.

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"US is the best nation in the world, becaus you guys all want to come here."

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"US is the best nation in the world, becaus you guys all want to come here."

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"US is the best nation in the world, because you guys all want to come here," reveals a perspective that neglects the complex history of global imperialism and Western hegemony. It's disheartening to witness such ahistorical arguments that overlook the diverse reasons for migration, and the intricate web of past and present geopolitical forces at play.

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Ostracized in the church/Sunday school for my sexuality when I was a child. Even before I could figure out my identity for myself.

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Ostracized in the church/Sunday school for my sexuality when I was a child. Even before I could figure out my identity for myself.

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I remember thinking that a friend in college was going through a phase or was confused when they started the journey transitioning. At the beginning I was resistant to the idea of her transitioning and being the beautiful woman she is.

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teachers raised in the community who say things like: "oh those people are so greedy when you give things out for free" referring to students' families when the school would provide free resources
it made me feel like we were perpetuating individualism... or that families are overly taking advantage of free resources... even though they themselves are from a similar SES background as students -- it discounts the systemic reasons they may need more access to free resources

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On a flight from Puerto Rico, I witnessed an encounter between a flight attendant and two passengers in the exit row. The flight attendant asked everyone if they are willing to help in an emergency. When one of the passengers didn't reply, she asked, "Don't you speak English?" When the passengers son replied that his father doesn't but he can translate, the flight attendant sighed and said, "He can't sit here if he doesn't speak English" and got another person to come and translate in Spanish. She made them both switch with me and another passenger. Although it is a rule that passengers who sit in the exit row have to speak English on US flights, considering this was from Puerto Rico, this struck me as linguistic racism and felt uncomfortable with how the flight attendant was diminishing the Spanish language.

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having people harrass my family members & partner in everyday spaces like grocery stores, the beach, sidewalks in neighborhooods

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At a grocery store in Benin, a young black cashier treated the white woman in front of me like she was royalty. When my turn came, she told me to pack my groceries myself...

This mindset of devaluing self and blackness but revering whiteness and the West reflects the crippling African struggle to shake off the long-term effects of the slave trades and colonialism.

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Let me count the ways…

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Linguicism was something new for me that I’ve learned the name for this year, and now that I know it I realize how much it came up. I see it in day to day interactions everywhere. I think one way I see it most often is in navigating systems. I remember a friend asking me to call her mother’s doctor for her because I didn’t have an accent, and knew the dominant culture language well enough to say to get her medication reinstated. I see it at HGSE all the time, as we decide who has an accent based on our own definitions of what a language should sound like. I saw it in my previous context too, where families wouldn’t teach their children their own language so they could speak English without an accent, even if it meant they could no longer speak with their own child.

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especially those who are courting you in fear that they may retaliate negatively

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The women in my family constantly enduring hurtful sexist comments by machismo men

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I was teased all throughout school for learning differently and being quirky and "the hyper kid", singled out unnecessarily by teachers and publicly questioned and teased for my neurodivergence

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My whole life I have had people in my own community tell me I am not black enough or that I am white washed. Which not only invalidated my identity.

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When I was in middle school, I would get detention for speaking during class. I always got detention by myself and did not understand why because the people I was speaking with were my friends. Savannah…Kristen…and Chloe. Lol I’m not a mathematician but it’s giving the hyper visibility of being the only Black girl at a small public charter school. 🤨

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The ways I interact with, respond to, (don't) open up to, and (don't) have patience for male-identifying students in my classes have been shaped by my own experiences with patriarchy

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I have a hard time understanding people with a different accents than me. So for a long time I would just avoid people who didn't have enough of an American accent because I didn't want them to constantly have to repeat themselves to me. I didn't realize until I became an educator and loved and supported babies with different accents how discriminatory my actions were.

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recently had a Spanish teacher (white, upper middle class, Jewish, American-born, able bodied) in Miami say that she wouldn't feel able to teach in a place like Overtown that is all students of color. she wouldn't be prepared or comfortable or something like that. It made me feel uncomfortable and I think I said different school setting can be for different educators, but obviously those students are just as capable and smart and deserve joy too. If she is admitting a bias already, she probably shouldn't be teaching there anyway (I guess?)

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Feeling less respected in the workplace because I am a young woman of color; being perceived as naive

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changing my style to be more conservative because of feeling sexualized by men growing up/ dress codes/ youth camp leaders telling me to cover up (when I wasn't really wearing anything that revealing)-- like a button up but the top button was loose

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a  white advisor for an all black female high school club refused  grant money for the team and said " I am teaching these girls how to earn things and not just have them handed to them"

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a  white advisor for an all black female high school club refused  grant money for the team and said " I am teaching these girls how to earn things and not just have them handed to them"

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I know this is a global problem, but there are such eurocentric beauty standards in Asia that drives me nuts -- the skin whitening cream!!! and how this stems from CLASSISM of working class being associated w being outside farming and getting tan

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Witnessed teachers and admin speak negatively about students who needed accommodations because "accommodations don't make a difference for them anyways"

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feeling deeply scared and unsafe as a woman living alone in Berlin, I remember running home from the train stop many night so that I wouldn't be chased (because I had been).

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I've routinely been in spaces (including internationally) where white folks have quickly felt comfortable with me, seen me as an ally, and begun spewing anti-black rhetoric. I haven't always responded to these comments as critically as I should have

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I had a student who was diagnosed with ODD and who was the only black boy in our small cohort of middle schoolers. After class one day we had a one-on-one check-in because he had talked throughout class to the point of disrupting the lesson multiple times. He described feeling singled out by me. And I knew that it was true. We held relationship with each other that was overall very positive especially in realize spaces but also I held negative expectations for how he would show up in class that were rooted in bias rooted in ableism and racism I had yet to check in myself.

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there are too many ways I see the harm of patriarchy come up in society... I think we need to so more to address how it harms men

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Thick-Fil-A ain’t big enough for the both of us

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Thick-Fil-A ain’t big enough for the both of us

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My first job was the Protestant chicken store and my third job…but that’s neither here nor there. Basically, I did all the work to get promoted and then suddenly the process got real ✨unique✨ when it came time to promote me and I dropped out of the process after eleven weeks of being dragged and told that the goal was to “gatekeep the process” WTFFF???

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Rolling my eyes at my father who raised strong women.

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Rolling my eyes at my father who raised strong women.

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My dad always saying "You wouldn't understand because you have to sit to pee."

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It was made clear to me that finding a good husband would be more important than getting a good education

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It was made clear to me that finding a good husband would be more important than getting a good education

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The bullshit line " I don't care what anyone does- I just don't need it flaunted in my face"

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The bullshit line " I don't care what anyone does- I just don't need it flaunted in my face"

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every TV show and movie  that casts only light- skinned women of color

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every TV show and movie  that casts only light- skinned women of color

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Love Is Blind has never had any seasons other than straight couples

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Love Is Blind has never had any seasons other than straight couples

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school telling a parent they need to go on the bus with child in wheelchair... the day before the trip ......because it was not important enough to solve prior

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school telling a parent they need to go on the bus with child in wheelchair... the day before the trip ......because it was not important enough to solve prior

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wearing double sport bras all through high school to look less feminine so  boys would not touch/talk about my body

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wearing double sport bras all through high school to look less feminine so  boys would not touch/talk about my body

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India.Arie - Brown Skin (Official Music Video)

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My high school Spanish teacher told me I shouldn't let my mom help me with my homework because "most Latinos are illiterate"

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Tank And The Bangas - Black Folk ft. Alex Isley, Masego (Official Video)

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a professor  here  used the phrase " a REAL women" when discussing trans issues and then pondered why we were spending so much energy on a group that is such a small part of the population 

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a professor  here  used the phrase " a REAL women" when discussing trans issues and then pondered why we were spending so much energy on a group that is such a small part of the population 

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Jidenna - Classic Man ft. Roman GianArthur

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The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)

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Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]