Hi,

I'm involved in a History society at my university and want to post resources on our Instagram to share resources/advice/issues that pertain to black individuals/communities.

I'm writing to ask for some perspectives - from black individuals ideally - on what I could include. (If you are or have been a uni student that would also help.)

Are there any resources that you think may be worth sharing with black uni students?

Any mental health-related advice that you feel you'd need (especially at uni but I suppose in general)?

Any issues that you wish people who weren't black were more aware of when it comes to your mental health?

Feel free to share your thoughts if you feel comfortable doing so (obviously no pressure to answer everything I just asked :))

My friend and I are both white (however my family has many people with darker skin than hers does, but that's unrelated). She has the habit of picking up other people's speaking habits (due to her having autism), and since she's recently been watching a Youtube channel made by a black person who talks with AAVE. She has been picking up their speaking habits and is scared it would be considered offensive to others who speak with AAVE or black people or any people of color. I don't think it would be but since I'm white I wanted to get other people's thoughts on the matter. She would never pick up speaking habits to seem "quirky" or to make fun of others, I have watched her manner of speech change drastically due to watching things like Harry Potter or anything where there are characters with different accents. Please let me know if this would be offensive or not! Thank you, have a wonderful new year.

idk if y’all have been feeling this but i’ve been feeling more connected with POC.

i think it’s really time to begin supporting all POC. together we are more than non-POCs. im no longer using any white people associated businesses and even with black friday shopping coming around i will only be using POC of influencer promo codes

it’s really time for us POC to take back what has always been ours 💪🏾✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

He is fully expecting to do everything that is actually required for the wedding, and finds every aspect of the wedding style beautiful. The only thing that could possibly be wrong with it is the fact that he is not Indian himself. Would this be okay? From hearing him talk about it, it sounds more like cultural appreciation, but I want the opinion of the people of the culture

I receive anywhere from low key racism to pretty overt racism. It’s just disheartening. Makes me not want to go.

some finnish dude has posted me trying to rost me and my heritage and ITS THE FUNNIEST thing because how could i be offended by some skinny yt kids and i couldn’t be happier. i don’t really care for them so it don’t hurt me but i be seeing so much racism especially against my people and when ever i see news on tik tok and i look at the comments i just get blasted with racism and that hurts cus these people aren’t dumb and with 30min of research understand the racial issues but they won’t and their good people (most are) their are just so scared of the crimes and poc in sweden (thanks media that’s on you) and it’s so easy to change their mind if they wanted to. this became a bit of a rant and of topic my bad but like DAMN

I'm Romani, which should already tell you I don't get much representation. In fact, with all the media I've consumed, I've seen one prominent Roma character, which was Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame. I get that there are several other marginalized groups, that's why we're all here of course, but the Romani people are so vast with so many beautiful cultures that it hurts me to never be able to point at a likeable character and say "they're like me". Now that I know where my roots are I grow from them with pride, but it feels like they're being stamped out and I hate that. There is so much representation for everyone, and then I feel like I'm drowning trying to speak up. Until today, I didn't even know the significance of April 8 to my people. I don't want my people's culture to fade away, I want it to be able to flourish just like any other.

I’m Middle Eastern and White, IDK if I can stay because I’m half white

... that center Black and Brown peoples. The ones I'm subbed to, it's only white people posting. I'd like more color on my feed.

I’ve been getting a lot of tiktoks talking about the benefits of wearing a bonnet like less breakage and tangling. However, I’ve been hesitant to buy one because I don’t know if it’s considered cultural appropriation if I, a Hispanic woman, wear a bonnet.

So this isn't exactly racism that I face, more just a post that's stating a fact. I'm Indian, and I'm pretty brown, so I get mistaken for Mexican alot. The fact I can speak Spanish (specifically Mexican Spanish) dosent really help. Do any other south Asians get mixed for Mexican? If so, what's your reaction?

This came up in a thread with another redditor after I said something along the lines of "Rich white folks don't like using their taxes to pay to help brown kids"

As a knowingly ignorant straight white cis man, are there people who consider it offensive to be called brown (assuming they are brown of course) or is the person saying I shouldn't use that term just being an overconcerned Karen?

For the record, the other poster didn't claim themselves to be a POC offended by the term only that other may consider it so.

Hello I’m 23(F), I live in the UK in an extremely white area. I’m Mexican mix but people tend to assume I’m Pakistani or Indian (slurs have made that clear). Anyway, majority of my life my friends have been white and I’ve always found in groups people don’t tend to warm to me, even when I put in a lot of effort to be nice and chatty yet my white female friends particularly seem to get along extremely well socially. I’ve experienced this throughout my whole life and it’s really starting to bother me because I just want to make and retain friends but it feels like from the get go some people are cold towards me and quick to write me off.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or understand why?

So I heard the Native American community lack in education. Is this true? My father's side the Native/Italian side always finished highschool and college. Even the cousin that's still on the reservation. But my French side my mother side. A lot didn't even make it through highschool. I'm going to college in a few days for pre med. I was always number one of my class but that's only because of my mother. She always told me I don't want to end up like her so I got to work hard.

And I also heard abuse is a big problem as well. My father and my step mom where severely abusive to me and CPS had to step in. Does this happen to a lot of people who are or have Native I'm them?

So when people ask what I am I usually say French/ Native American/ Italian. My father if Italian and Cheyenne while my mother is French. I don't know much about my culture because things happened between me and my father that causes CPS to step in. I really do want to learn about the Cheyenne culture though but I don't know where to begin...can I even call myself native American though because it's not like I'm full or even half Native....I also don't look like my dad's side of the family...I'm pale like my mother. The only thing that looks native on me is my cheekbones and eyes....

As it says on the tin— the game is modern fantasy set in LA and is heavily inspired by Bleach and Chainsaw Man (aka we’ll be fighting spirits and demons and stuff). Having noticed that I play a lot of white characters, I wanted to expand my horizons a bit and felt that this was a good opportunity to do so, since if I mess this up the only people to see it will be my DnD group.

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The character I’m going with is a POC ghost girl named Cleo with the (heavily reflavored) monk class. Our DM also had us use random rolls to determine our starting wealth, and I rolled low enough to fall under homelessness, adding an extra layer of “outside my experience” to this.

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I really do wanna do right by Cleo and address these aspects of her character without solely defining her by them, so if there are any common pitfalls and stereotypes to avoid that you guys have seen in fiction, I’d really appreciate the guidance. Pointers to other subreddits that can help with this would also be very helpful.

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A few points of note:

- Cleo died at around age 21, and has been dead for 10 years now. She’s been a ghost for long enough to have processed a lot of the grief of dying, though I imagine she has deeply mixed feelings about her life arguably being better after it ended. I’m also currently undecided as to how she died.

- Following up on the above point, I feel like anxiety regarding police presence is very much a given; there’s no way Cleo didn’t have a few run-ins there. Are there any nuances to note there?

- I’m aware of the stereotypes regarding black women and sexualization. I was thinking about making Cleo come off as confident with a touch of flirtiness, but I want to be careful about it.

Again, any help would be appreciated, even if it’s pointing towards a different subreddit.

I've noticed for years that my dead skin is often grey, for some reason, and given I glow in the sun, not very shocking but that got me thinking: What color does dead skin look like with more melanin?

Hi I posted this in a different sub Reddit and didn’t get any feedback so I’m hoping to have better luck here as I continue to struggle with this feeling:

I (F24) have been struggling with an overwhelming feeling of loneliness for as long as I can remember.

I was always convinced is was because I haven’t had a lot of solid friends, and I’m not close with family, which naturally would be lonely. I’ve always been shy, and have social anxiety that has gotten worse since the pandemic.

However, after a bit of a break down today I came to the realization that there might be an entirely different reason I’ve always felt this way. This is because I sat down and realized I am the only person of color in my life, and have been for the majority of it.

My mom is white, my dad is black. I talk to my dad on the phone time to time, but he has never been in my life consistently. I was raised with my mom and her dad, in rural PA. There we less than 10 poc in my school.

I went off to college and joined a sorority which sadly, despite only having maybe 5 or so POC sisters, was the most diverse.

But I came to realize it was the only time in my life I’ve had people who were like me in that sense in my life. People who look like me.

I’m now 3 years graduated, no longer close to those people, living with a white roommate, dating a white man, and the only black person at my job.

I’ve come to realize that despite how much anyone in my life loves me (which already seems limited), how truly isolated I’ve felt indirectly because of this. What’s worse is I have no one to talk to about it who could ever understand what it feels like which hurts even more.

I guess I’m here in hopes someone else has been in a similar situation and has any advice on how to cope with this.

I’m even having a hard time thinking about bringing this up to my white therapist, because again, how could she understand?

Any wise words would be appreciated.

Thank you.

hi I'm Tate I was born in America to a Cuban mother and Croatian (country in Europe) father so I have white skin. some kids in my class found out I'm half Cuban and keep calling me Mexican and making fun of my brothers Spanish names and is that considered racism? it's all good fun, I think. it's like jokingly? and that sounds kinda stupid but is joking racism still racism? and my second question is do I even have the right to call that racism? I don't think I can be a victim of racism if I have white skin, that's not possible right? idk thanks for reading respond if you want