#EduColor was created both as a resource for intersectional discussions of race and education and as a safe space. Therefore, even though hashtags are open to the public, those of us who started it reserve the right to push back and challenge tweets we see as leading the discussion astray (see “derailing” for more details). This includes using #educolor on bios, blog titles, and paraphernalia.
#EduColor A5: Not recognizing my own flaws. Seeing the way I process and define things as “normative”. Believing that there are ways one must act in order to be deserving of respect. Using my experience as a cisgender straight Black man as the world’s measuring stick.
#EduColor A5: Not recognizing my own flaws. Seeing the way I process and define things as “normative”. Believing that there are ways one must act in order to be deserving of respect. Using my experience as a cisgender straight Black man as the world’s measuring stick.
#EduColor A5: Allowing my own inadequacy to be the “hard place” that I don’t think I can call other folks in on. Not standing up, because I dont believe that I (or we, collectively) can rise past the toxic traditions that I have inherited.
