IBAWR - a couple of links

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Tomorrow is the end of International Blog Against Racism Week, which I haven't participated in. I don't know enough to say anything without putting my foot in it, so I've been trying to listen/learn rather than talk. Here's a couple of things from people I know:

Skin Coloured is intended to be a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture. Make-up, plasters and tights - even when they’re marked “flesh-coloured” - are not the colour of skin that isn’t white. And whilst white women may have trouble matching these items to their skin, for women who don’t class themselves as white, this inconvenience is symptomatic of a wider problem. To help illustrate this problem, therefore, Skin Coloured is looking for submissions. Send us photographs that illustrate the inadequacy of provisions for non-white people, and we’ll post them on the blog, and hopefully both those submitting, and those who’re here to learn, will gain something from it. Further information can be found here. Please help us by reposting this.

The Cake Theory of Being an Ally

Some general resources on race and racism

Feel free to add your own favourite links from this week in the comments. I'll come back to this later; I'm not well-slept enough yet to add incisive commentary (even if I felt confident doing so) but I wanted to make sure I posted these at least.