https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg Think about an example in your own life when you were either impacted by one of these toxic rain clouds or when you unknowingly perpetuated one of these clouds. (at home, school, church, organization, etc.) What happened? Where? How did you feel? en-us 2022-04-01 03:16:55 UTC 2023-04-18 16:29:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2601.png https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558809612 Feeling like a diversity token in white spaces, where white people make little/no effort to make me or others like me feel included ]]> 2023-04-18 15:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558809612 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558809716 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 ; ]]> 2023-04-18 15:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558809716 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811484 having people harrass my family members & partner in everyday spaces like grocery stores, the beach, sidewalks in neighborhooods ]]> 2023-04-18 15:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811484 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811669 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811669 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811722 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558811722 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812629 2023-04-18 15:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812629 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812860 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.]]> 2023-04-18 15:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812860 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812896 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558812896 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558813335 Let me count the ways…]]> 2023-04-18 15:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558813335 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558813658 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."]]> 2023-04-18 15:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558813658 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814076 especially those who are courting you in fear that they may retaliate negatively]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814076 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814180 The women in my family constantly enduring hurtful sexist comments by machismo men ]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814180 j6k4gvmpbb https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814240 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.]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814240 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814344 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.

]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814344 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814995 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

]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558814995 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815044 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815044 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815256 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815256 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815711 Feeling less respected in the workplace because I am a young woman of color; being perceived as naive]]> 2023-04-18 15:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558815711 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816139 2023-04-18 15:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816139 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816367 "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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816367 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816423 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816423 thekimberlykaye https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816497 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558816497 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817176 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817176 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817269 Witnessed teachers and admin speak negatively about students who needed accommodations because "accommodations don't make a difference for them anyways" ]]> 2023-04-18 15:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817269 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817638 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. 🤨]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817638 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817773 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.]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817773 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817899 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.]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558817899 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818175 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818175 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818291 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?) ]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818291 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818362 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). ]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818362 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818455 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818455 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818456 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818456 j6k4gvmpbb https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818591 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.]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818591 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818750 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818750 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818958 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]]> 2023-04-18 15:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558818958 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558819984 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. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558819984 j6k4gvmpbb https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558820301 My dad always saying "You wouldn't understand because you have to sit to pee."]]> 2023-04-18 15:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558820301 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558821270 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???]]> 2023-04-18 15:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558821270 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558826288 2023-04-18 15:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558826288 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558828639 2023-04-18 15:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558828639 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558833322 2023-04-18 15:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558833322 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558835778 2023-04-18 15:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558835778 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558837677 2023-04-18 15:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558837677 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558842142 2023-04-18 15:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558842142 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558845134 2023-04-18 16:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558845134 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558848551 2023-04-18 16:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558848551 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558849063 2023-04-18 16:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558849063 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558849682 My high school Spanish teacher told me I shouldn't let my mom help me with my homework because "most Latinos are illiterate" ]]> 2023-04-18 16:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558849682 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558850921 2023-04-18 16:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558850921 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558852057 2023-04-18 16:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558852057 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558858625 2023-04-18 16:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558858625 https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558868146 2023-04-18 16:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/missv81/c1dm2bqv5wwtz6rg/wish/2558868146