Please don't take this the wrong way, but you realize that this show is explicitly about the poor, Midwestern white male experience? They lack privilege on multiple levels which the show explores (sa m the janitor, Dean the grunt), and all of the queer issues stem almost directly from the poor white male's low level of self determination/ agency or the perception thereof I'm a poor whitish person from a similar area, and it feels unique to see a poor white show that isn't Roseanne.

Hi nonnie,

I have a lot of things to say in response to your message — which does display ignorance of societal organization across systemic racial lines — but without creating a huge extensive post, here are some crucial points to consider:

- The “poor Midwestern white male experience” does NOT discount the insulated bubble of white privilege that Sam and Dean Winchester occupy, and neither is Supernatural immune from racist narratives and/or racist character implementation (especially ‘cause SPN has predominantly white production crew/writers around the table. Again, any literary narrative or script they conceive can and most likely will be influenced by internalized unconscious white dominance —> white-painted narratives perceived by POC viewers. I mean, scour this blog/google ‘Supernatural and racism’ and you’ll get the picture.)

- Additionally, stating that the show is “explicitly about” the poor Midwestern white male experience is false. Yes, you’re a poor white person from a similar area, and so you believe that, as a white person, the show’s premise reflects your experience. However, your statement doesn’t represent reality. The racial blind spot here is: media consumption by (realities of) white people will not equate to media consumption by (realities of) POC.

As I said here, we cannot talk about other systemic forces like socioeconomic class without addressing race. Race is inherently interweaved into other structural dimensions. It’s why BIPOC (Black Indigenous POC) + POC are: statistically paid less than white employees, unequally treated in terms of job capability, encounter unconscious bias across the hiring market, struggle to find jobs, unable to afford three-story suburban houses, and can never seem to find favour no matter how hard we work.

Reni Eddo-Lodge reiterates what white privilege is. When we say ‘white privilege’, we aren’t referring to white people always having it easy, or living in the lap of material wealth (but economic race disparities are instrinsically linked to material wealth), or lacking suffering, or living in poverty.

White privilege: the unearned set of societal benefits, advantages, and positive attitudes/behaviours bestowed upon white people solely because they are white (because of the pale/white colour of their skin). Claiming that Sam and Dean “lack privilege on multiple levels” perpetuates the continuous erasure of the POC reality, as well as intersectional BI+POC realities (being PoC, queer, and disabled, etc). What’s our reality? We actually lack privilege on multiple levels because of the colour of our skin. Your claim could imply that white privilege isn’t a thing, but it is. Think of white privilege as the air we breathe: it’s there, and we’re surrounded by it, and we breathe it in, yet because air is mostly invisible, some people aren’t always aware of it until you tell ‘em “Hey dude, did you know you’re inhaling oxygen?” The answer would be: “Obviously. Idk why you’re pointing that out - I already know that. You saying I’m dumb?” (lol not too far off from white defensiveness, right?) White people are so used to their privilege that they feel weird, ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘unsafe’ once people of colour point out their privilege. They subconsciously (and consciously) refuse to lose their place at the top. They’ll be offended.

To address your message, specifically — Sam and Dean hold white privilege as white men despite being poor. This is an uncomfortable fact that white SPN audiences must acknowledge.

If translated into real life, Sam and Dean will walk inside a bar and not be suspected of crime at first glance. They won’t look suspicious. They won’t get physically assaulted, shot at, killed, and/or lynched, both by police and fellow white men. They can speak, eat, and behave however they please without getting kicked out. They’ll chase after people they wanna bang or make inappropriate moves without being accused of sexual harrassment; BI+POC are typically falsely accused. (*Bonus Salt incoming* Sam and Dean won’t die permanently on their own show. The BI+PoC allies they have are often killed off to forward their plot and channel white manpain, then embody racist narrative tropes. As an Asian, Kevin Tran’s Stereotypical-Asian presence upset me, and his death further hurt my sensibilities. It did not shock me at all to see yet another Asian character killed off. Again, I must mention the horrible Asian-fetishist-exotificating Busty Asian Beauties, as well. Heck, S8 episode title “What’s Up Tiger Mommy?” was blatantly racist that I can’t believe no one demanded they change the episode premise + Kevin and Linda Tran’s characterizations. JUST KIDDING, of course I know why no one emphasized the issue - there are barely any BI+PoC in the writer’s room. This is why hiring us must become important).

Unfortunately - and unlike your opinion - Supernatural is not “unique” for us BI+PoC fans. It’s a show manned by predominantly white cast/crew that centralizes two white men and their respective narrow realities. We don’t live in a bubble. We’re everywhere. Depict us properly, with cultural/racial sensitivity, in entertainment, media, art forms, and more. Acknowledge our lack of privilege on multiple levels.

We live within a society set up for people of colour to fail. Whiteness is the default, and the privilege intrinsically linked to that ensconces an entire array of political, social, cultural and economic structures advantaging white people while disadvantaging People of Colour.

You’re a poor white person. I’m not, and the likelihood of the white poor person being given an opportunity to escape poverty is statistically MUCH, MUCH higher than the likelihood of poor POC to escape poverty.

Hi. So can one use PayPal as a payment means/method or do you only take credit cards?

Unfortunately, Indiegogo doesn’t use Paypal :( Only Apple Pay, Google Pay, Credit and/or Debit @tohellandbackanthology

We could technically use Paypal in that you send us money directly, and we could technically buy your tier that way, but it would no longer be transparent, and TH+B values transparency. It also makes things muddy for us, with possible hidden fees etc that may be difficult to account for.

We’re so sorry if this is an inconvenience for you!

Our revised shipping schedule!

Hi everyone! In a previous post, we mentioned that we had begun the packing process for our books and that our goal was to ship out all books by May 31, 2021. However, due to some unfortunate real life stuff happening, we fell significantly behind, and as we always strive do when things like this happen, we wanted to give you all a swift update about when to expect these books.

Pictured above, 200+ books that we packaged from May 29-31. All these books have been sent out now via Canada Post. Canadian and U.S. residents whose books were sent out today will receive these books within the next two weeks, if not sooner. International residents can expect to receive them within 4-12 weeks depending on their country of origin (please check the Canada Post website for more details about this). 

From May 29 to May 31, mods @justholdingstill, @destimushi, @pray4jensen, @casthewise, @naruhearts and @ravenscat-tumbler all congregated at pray4jensen’s house to begin a massive packing weekend. It was also a reunion of sorts. Many of us had not seen each other in person since a Christmas party in December 2019 and, before we could meet up once more, the Covid-19 pandemic came swinging in full force in 2020. Believe it or not, we fundraised this project on Indiegogo while social distancing. We consulted with vendors, ordered merch and organized 800+ orders all while working virtually over Zoom. One of our much beloved mods @dusky-rambles coordinated from India, and it was with great sadness that she couldn’t join us for these packing sessions due to Canada’s border closures. Our other mod @thebloggerbloggerfun​ similarly has been in the U.S. and unable to cross the border.

To say the least, this whole journey was not at all what we envisioned when we first started, and we’re proud to say that despite all the hurdles that we had to overcome during this trying time, we made it! We’ve had a steady flood of pictures of books reaching their destinations, and we couldn’t be happier and more thrilled to see them in their new homes! And please, if you do post to social media, tag us! We really, really want to see your photos, your bookshelves, your faces, and we can’t wait to retweet/reblog them!

So...on to packing. As we just mentioned, we had a slew of personal life difficulties recently which slowed the packing process considerably. More than one mod last week had a family member unexpectedly pass away. We know everybody has been waiting for these books for a long time so in between funerals and grief, we all pushed on despite this, but we’re going to be honest—it’s been hard. We also had some difficulty scheduling a time where everybody could meet up—even when we thought we were all free, something inevitably would come up which reduced the number of hands we had on deck. Balancing full-time work, full-time school, and full-time family lives while working on this full-time not-for-profit project has been tough, but we promise we’re going as fast as we humanely can.

We won’t lie. Packing in itself has been quite a challenge. Some things we didn’t expect: a looot of back pain, sore muscles from lifting these heavy AF books, the immensely time-consuming task of generating mailing labels and invoices for customs agents, and so on and so forth. On these three packing days, we worked 10-12 hours straight, barely had time for bathroom breaks or food (turns out eating 8 potato chips and 2 strawberries for the entire day isn’t enough to sustain oneself). We also had fun! We laughed, we basked in the much needed socialization after a long and lonely year, relieved that we were all vaccinated with our first doses of Pfizer and Moderna, and that we could finally see a light at the end of this tunnel.      

What we’re asking for now is patience and support, something we’ve always gotten from you lovely folks, but something we need for just a teensy bit longer. We will post to all our social media when we finish shipping all books, so please hold off on messages to confirm whether your package has shipped until we say that we’re done. We totally understand the anxiety and fear of missing parcels and orders, and we promise that we are being as thorough as possible when shipping your order, with multiple checks in place to make sure all information and items are correct. For folks who have changed their addresses, rest assured that Canada Post has your latest address, but that we were not able to update your address on Indiegogo or Big Cartel. For this reason, please don’t worry if you get an email from Indiegogo or Big Cartel with your old shipping address. Your book is on the way to the correct address.

Now on to our revised shipping schedule. As we mentioned in our previous update, our priority to ship out orders is as follows: Indiegogo physical copy backers first (highest-priced tiers go out first), then Big Cartel physical copy backers, and finally, last but not least, once all physical orders have shipped, we will ship out all digital E-books.   

A tentative schedule (subject to change):

Week of June 14: All Indiegogo backer orders will have been shipped 

Week of June 28: All Big Cartel orders and digital E-books will have been shipped 

What we’re hoping to do is be faster than this. All Indiegogo orders, for example, have actually been packaged already (yes, we really did package 500+ orders this weekend!), but as we mentioned before, generating the mailing label and invoice takes time—we’re only able to ship these out once both those tasks have been accomplished. For that reason, our revised schedule is meant to take into account any further unexpected delays and what we really hope is that we will actually finish shipping out all orders in two or three weeks time. 

We’re also a little hindered by Canada Post’s pick-up limits. Understandably, since we’re just some really passionate fans whose undying love for Dean and Cas’ relationship has inspired us to undertake this project, we don’t have the budget to have things that a business might have, like a forklift. For that reason, we’re technically only able to ship out a maximum of 50 orders a day since we can’t book a bigger Canada Post truck (that’d require a loading dock, which we also don’t have :P). That said, our local Canada Post mailman has been phenomenal, and yesterday alone, he took 200+ orders despite the maximum limit—not only did he stuff the back of his truck full, but he also stuffed his passenger seat. The man’s a Destiel Hero, and he doesn’t even know it!!!

So TLDR? Like always, we’re trying our damn hardest to get these books out to you ASAP and we can’t wait ’til they’re in your hands (psst pleaseee tag us in your photos!).

So that’s that! A super longwinded update post as usual with the promise of more updates to come! :P

Much love,

your 8 Vancouver nerds    

rec one fic and one blog to your followers and send this to five other people, let's spread the love during this impromptu hiatus! ❤️

i’m gonna cheat right now and maybe do a little shameless promo by saying all the fics in the to hell + back anthology are the bomb and my fellow mods/dear friends are killing it; i rec their blogs wholeheartedly: @justholdingstill, @casthewise, @dusky-rambles, @naruhearts, @ravenscat-tumbler, @destimushi and @thebloggerbloggerfun

Would the POC members of the SPN community be amenable to tagging their posts on Tumblr/AO3 with a tag such as 'POC Creator' or 'POC SPN' in order to assist non-POC like myself and other POC fandom members in finding content created by POC fandom members?

I'd love to support more POC fandom members and to educate myself on representation via an actual POC, but I know that for safety concerns a lot of POC do not display their ethnicity on their profiles, and it seems horrifically rude to message people and ask.

I know this would potentially make it easier for assholes to find POC creators, but I'd really love to be able to support and interact more with the POC members of the fandom who've gone ignored and oppressed for so long.

Hi nonnie!

Wow, thanks for this - it’s a really interesting question!

Hm, safety concerns — and what POC perceive as unsafe — differ between individuals/groups of colour, but in general, as a POC I wouldn’t be amenable to identifying any of my fanworks as ‘POC-made’ via tags etc unless I make the conscious choice to do it on some days. Contexts and situations also matter. For example, I’m posting on a POC-run blog. The audience is BI/POC / white allies. So it’s logical for me to tag this as ‘poc’ or ‘mod: naruhearts’ (since I’ve made it clear that I’m POC). Another example is me self-identifying on twitter as a POC, which elevates my ethnic identity and allows me to carry out social activism + find other POC with whom to share solidarity and safe spaces; I’d use tags like #POCOpinions or #Filipinx4BlackLives (I use the latter more). Keep in mind that I do all this with the conscious thought that I’m opening myself up to white supremacy, but it’s still my autonomous choice to tag myself as such and form an online POC identity.

Fanfics and fancreations, however, can belong in a different realm. POC creators may or may not choose to make their POC and ethnic identit(ies) clear. I’d say that your job is to set aside assumptions. That includes assuming any person you come across within differing social platforms is white. It lies with you to advocate cultural awareness using your privilege, exercise cultural sensitivity, and dismantle any perceptions of Whiteness that may negatively impact your ability to engage with POC creators safely. On the other hand, it’s a fine line as well when it comes to the internet, since white people can absolutely disguise themselves and endanger POC.

If you want to support our communities without doing anything untoward as a white ally, a good place to start is to seek POC fanworks, businesses etc. How do they present themselves? What is important to them as creators/business owners? How do they engage with white audiences and allies? We may or may not want to draw any attention to ourselves. Then, one of the most important things you must do is ask. Ask POC what you can do to show your support/maintain our safety — what you can do to create safe POC spaces and tag systems — instead of making the suggestion first as a non-POC person. That way, you can present that your intentions are genuine, which paves the way for change.

FAQ - Updated (Nov 2020)

1. Can BIPOC fans ask questions and seek advice?

Yes, of course. Our ask box will always be open.

2. Can I ask questions anonymously?

Yes. We won’t reveal anyone’s personal/fandom identity unless we’re told/given permission.

3. Is this blog a safe space?

We always intend for our blog to be an inclusive and safe space, and the protection of BIPOC/WOC/intersectional perspectives are of tantamount importance to us. Hate speech will be filtered as well as reported if possible.

4. I’m a BIPOC and I don’t feel comfortable asking questions pertaining to BIPOC issues publicly. Can I send you direct messages?

Yes. Feel free to send direct messages to Monika (naruhearts), destiel-is-real-idgaf or dusky-gold – they are our sole BIPOC members as of now.

5. Will you add more BIPOC/intersectional BIPOC Supernatural fans as co-authors/admins/mods of the blog?

Yes! This is the key tenet of our blog: to empower and encourage BIPOC fans to share their perspectives on tough race-based and intersectional issues underpinning Supernatural fandom and production as well as advocate for BIPOC representation. However, in order for us to effectively achieve this, there must be willing BIPOC/intersectional BIPOC/queer BIPOC fans present as co-authors/admins/mods. Membership is 100% voluntary, and one can withdraw or take a break if needed.

6. Are white/white-identifying/light-skinned identifying Supernatural fans not allowed to engage with this blog and/or become co-authors/admins?

FCS is anti-Whiteness, and white people uphold Whiteness (white supremacy). White people are allowed to engage only if they create a SAFE SPACE for BIPOC by listening, learning, and dismantling their own white privilege and white positionalities.  

Our overarching mission is to include all marginalized non-white races in conjunction with intersectional discourses of gender, social class, religion, and sexual orientation. We want to centralize and emphasize BIPOC fan perspectives that are continuously dwarfed, sidelined and ostracized by the hegemonic white Supernatural fandom and/or production lens.

Therefore, white people who disagree with our mission and/or create unsafe spaces for BIPOC while interacting with this blog are strongly advised to head elsewhere.

7. Are you going to offer virtual panels/livestreams/podcasts?

FCS is in its very early stages, but we’re considering interactive activities for the future!

Omggg! I just want to say thank you for your blog. This fandom especially is overwhelmingly white and interacting with it and having to call out a lot of the racism/anti-blackness often for feels like I’m shouting into the void so seeing your blog and another POC involved with spn honestly makes my heart soft. Thank you!

OMG anon!

I’m so happy you found us <3 and SAME, my heart just grew bigger!

Also, we 100% relate: our small yet humble group of colour no doubt experienced similar racist lived experiences as you in this fandom, which is why I sought to create FCS for BIPOC solidarity. 3 of us are BIPOC (4 mods in total run our blog as of now; 1 is a white ally). 

As to the neverending work we do - we try our best both online and IRL! Feel free to scroll through our About, Resources, and FAQ links in the sidebar *hugs*

Ive gotta say, after reading your post yesterday, I watched a couple of episodes last night with new eyes. I love SPN but it's also fair to explore the ways that the show (and entertainment in general) can improve. Thanks for sharing!

👍🏾 Awesome! This is why our blog exists — to highlight the important issues of racial justice that a predominantly white/historically white-helmed entertainment industry (a generally white supremacist world) often sweeps under the rug.

Don’t get us wrong - we’re all SPN fans who adore the show, but in our eyes of colour, it’s fundamental to criticize and point out racial injustice in all its forms; it causes us racial pain and trauma to see us and our realities/stories/histories be mischaracterized, misrepresented, and improperly portrayed. For centuries, we weren’t - and aren’t - valued as much as white lives.

We exist. We should matter. We should be seen. Entertainment - especially media art forms like TV shows and pop culture - reflects reality in that they serve as mediums to perpetuate certain worldviews, perspectives, and belief systems. The White cishet male perspective always dominates - it can oppress, suppress and repress through media.

All lives can’t matter until Black lives matter - until BIPOC/POC lives matter.

what does BIPOC mean? I'm sorry for my ignorance

Where Did BIPOC Come From? by Sandra E. Garcia || The New York Times, June 17 2020

In recent weeks, as protests against police brutality and racism have flooded the streets and social media, another more inclusive term has been ascribed to the population: BIPOC.

The acronym stands for “black, Indigenous and people of color.” Though it is now ubiquitous in some corners of Twitter and Instagram, the earliest reference The New York Times could find on social media was a 2013 tweet.

As a phrase, “people of color” dates back centuries — it was first cited in The Oxford English Dictionary, with the British spelling “colour,” in 1796 — and is often abbreviated as POC. The other two letters, for black and Indigenous, were included in the acronym to account for the erasure of black people with darker skin and Native American people, according to Cynthia Frisby, a professor of strategic communication at the Missouri School of Journalism.

“The black and Indigenous was added to kind of make sure that it was inclusive,” Ms. Frisby said. “I think the major purpose of that was for including voices that hadn’t originally been heard that they wanted to include in the narrative, darker skin, blacks and Indigenous groups, so that they could make sure that all the skin shades are being represented.”

Charmaine Nelson, an art history professor at McGill University, said that the history of black and Indigenous people in Canada calls for the distinction between them and other people of color. In some parts of Canada, mainly east of Ontario, Indigenous people were colonized but not enslaved, she said, unlike Africans who were subjected to chattel slavery everywhere.

“We understand that under colonialism African and Indigenous people had very different experiences,” Dr. Nelson said. “To conflate everything in one is to erase, which is the very nature of genocidal practice.”

So in yet another Bucklemming ep, they revisit the classically racist Busty Asian Beauties trope as some kind of throwback/nod. Just no. WHY is this still a thing? 

#Nevertrustthese2whitewriters

Hi everyone,

We acknowledge the followers we’ve gained today! ♥️

After the flurry of support, we also have an administrative addition to announce: please welcome @destiel-is-real-idgaf to our moderator team!

Again, we hope that this safe fandom space for constructive, productive dialogue elevates BIPOC fan folx voices continuously, and we must all work together to better ourselves.

hi naruhearts! thank you soooo much for this blog. as a white person i want to do better and i know this is emotional labour for you, but i do ty for putting links that i can search up myself so u don’t have to educate me. i’m also glad j2m used their platforms. You’re an Asian supernatural fan and I’m sorry. i’m so sorry on behalf of white people who made it so hard for u and black people and other poc in this fandom. I’ve seen ugly things :/ we’re here to stand with u. like you said idk why it

Oh, your message might’ve gotten cut off! But nonnie, I acknowledge your message 🙏🏾

It’s definitely difficult. BIPOC/POC fans are pretty much outnumbered in the SPN fandom because the show has traction in white rural American demographic areas; the majority of fans are also scattered across USA. That being said, I’m not in the mood to revisit racially traumatizing interactions I’ve had in SPN fandom thus far (there’s been quite a few though, oh boy, tiring) — and white women, some of whom I considered friends in the past, eventually thought that being friends with an Asian activist-and-fan was too exhausting, unsettling, or uncomfortable for them (Note: I make mistakes as an individual; I’m not perfect at all) — but let me get to the point, and I don’t want to detract from it:

The Asian community is still complicit in the murder of George Floyd and countless other Black folx. We are complicit via colonial manipulation, in which our people were written off and implemented as “model minorities” by racist North America to establish respectability politics and further the -otherence of Black folx. Anti-blackness is global. Again, although I’m part of another marginalized, -othered, systematically oppressed ethnic minority — and although we stand in solidarity/rage with Black folx against the same racist, white supremacist, and colonial system — our lived racial experiences are not the same. We’re not equal (of course, YELLOW PERIL, Orientalism, and anti-Asian racism are prominent in the age of COVID-19 — and always has been — but we still remain another cog in the white supremacist machine collectively against Black folx).

In particular, internalized (anti-Black) racism is engrained in Filipinx culture. The Philippines has been colonized for so long — by Spain, then America (termed benevolent assimilation by McKinley during the Philippine-American war; such colonial attempts were disguised as (white) saviourism from Japanese occupation in WW II as well; we were supposed to “owe” the Americans) — that we have absorbed white colonial ideals of anti-Blackness ourselves. Skin-whitening products run rampant back home. We were taught that USA and Spain were the true lands of opportunity — an entire behavioural and physical model for the attainment of white perfection. Filipinx were taught by their parents, and their parents’ parents, to be scared and racial-microaggressively aware of Black folx in hoodies walking by you on the street. Black has become the “trend”, with fellow Filipinx spewing the N word freely, incorporating cornrows into their everyday fashion routine, and/or expressing eagerness to label white-passing/biracial Filipinx, be it 1/30th or 1/2 Filipinx blood, as one of our own. Miss Philippines candidates often — not always - but often — fit the biracial mould of white-passing beauty standards, henceforth erasing the value of darker — Black — skin. Decolonization, desegregation, and removal of this internalized anti-Blackness by the Asian community is a lifelong process and must continue.

George Floyd died at the hands of white Derek Chauvin and a fellow Asian police officer. We’re solely responsible for holding our entire community accountable, both online and offline. Black folx must be empowered by our non-Black POC allyship and white allyship in a predominantly white supremacist system. Please use your privilege to elevate their voices!

Hello everyone,

Hope you’re all staying safe out there. ♥️ Reminder that Black Lives Matter and advocacy for BIPOC will never stop. This is a life-long movement. Don’t post a mere hashtag and retweet/reblog/share resources for a week then stop entirely. Unlearning and dismantling the white supremacist world we all live in requires the constant drive to actively self-reflect, educate, and incorporate anti-racist and anti-Black behaviour into our daily routine outside social media trends.

It’s extremely sad that it once again took the recent deaths of George Floyd + many, many other Black and BIPOC lives to shake a white world - to remind them that ALL HUMANS cannot matter until BLACK AND BIPOC HUMANS matter.

The global struggle of my people, and the struggle of Black folx and BIPOC, never get a pause. Racism is the invisible and visible force we fight against everyday. Continue to step up.

Hello to everyone involved in this blog! I am very grateful that you are doing what you are doing. It has helped me understand a lot of the issues of race with the show that I had overlooked as a white person. (Obviously i knew there were issues with representation but there were many things that I did not understand or that just went past me because of my privilege and I appreciate being able to learn more about how the show treats POC). 1/2

Im starting a series on my small youtube channel(only 40 subs at the moment) abt SPN, talking atb my opinions on it & all that & Im wondering if I could reference your blog(w/ credit verbally & linked in description) in my next video. I didn't want to do it w/o asking. I want to address SPN's mistreatment of POC, but not in a way that makes it seem like Im an authority on it, & want to link ppl to a place where POC are talking abt it. I totally understand if you decline! Thanks for your time! 2/2

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@clusterjam Oh wow, thank you for reaching out 🙏🏾 I think I speak for the BIPOC mods here when we say you should absolutely do it, and we acknowledge you asking for our permission!

Don’t forget to show us your awesome video once you’re done!! We want to try and mobilize everybody in spreading awareness about race — especially in light of recent events — and SPN’s historical legacy of BIPOC cast/character mistreatment; you discussing our blog will only bring us good things, like helping reaching wider audiences in any way. We’re soo excited!

- Mod @naruhearts

https://lettersforblacklives.com/about-the-letter-ed27ea67eb2e

Fellow Asians, we have a duty.

This is also available in various languages, including Tagalog, Telugu, and more. Please share it. Please show your support.

-Mod @naruhearts

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Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.

We began as a group of Asian Americans and Canadians writing an intergenerational letter to voice our concerns and support for the Black community. We have since grown to include other immigrant groups and communities of color. Our goal is to listen, support, and amplify the message of Black Lives Matter within our communities.

We encourage people from all communities to adapt and build off of these resources.

Can white spn fans ask this blog questions? I don't want to open you guys up to having to deal with ignorant questions or take up space, but I would love to ask a question if it's welcome.

Absolutely, anon!!

While ignorant questions do exist, it’s always encouraged to educate oneself, listen and learn by asking them :)