Thread by @RukminiPande

Noticing trend of characterizing the convo around anti-Blackness and #AO3 as “US/Western-centric” convo, and in danger of reinforcing "US/western" norms of racialization.

I'd just like to point out that:
- Anti-Blackness is transnational
- Centering this will NOT harm nb-POC

Apart from anything else, the resonance the current #BLM protests are having all over the world is showing us how depressingly globalized ideas of anti-Blackness are!

So why would this be a less valuable convo if we DID center this??

Anti-Blackness, through euro-centric race-science AND popular cultural narratives has been transmitted to non-Black POC cultures for centuries.
Both via colonization, and globalization of US cultural products. It manifests in different ways, but its v much there in our cultures.

Would we be actively harming other FOC if we acknowledged this specific history and its weight??

Is solidarity in this space not possible? Even as we see it elsewhere?

Why are we framing this as a convo that HAS to solve ALL problems, at ONCE, otherwise it will be useless?

Why not consider it a first step, that tackles an issue with a heavy historical weight and transnational relevance?

A step that is particularly relevant and urgent if we look at the specific history of anglophone fandom spaces, of which #AO3 is a key part.

What will we lose?