I\u2019ve been using the #BlizzardScale for a while now, to communicate how disappointing it is to attend an event & be the only black person there. \u00a0Some places are better than others, so I\u2019ve given them X\/10 ratings to simplify. \u00a0I encourage everyone to use this at the next event they attend, and to ask\u00a0\u201cWhy are there so few POC there?\u201d And\u00a0\u201cHow can this be rectified?\u201d<\/p>\n
1\/10 No white folk to be seen – Assume this is a POC-only event
2\/10 Only a couple of white folk – Assume those white folk got lost
3\/10 A few white folk – Excellent diversity
4\/10 Reasonable amount of white folk – Good diversity
5\/10 Even split of ethnicities – Fair diversity
6\/10 POC in a minority but not noticeably so
7\/10 POC in definite minority. Assume you’ll be asked “Where are you really from?”
8\/10 Rumour of POC in attendance, but unconfirmed – Assume this is a LGB event
9\/10 Approaching total whiteness – Assume this is a Trans\/Vegan\/Gamer event
10\/10 Total whiteout. “Some of my non-existent best friends are black”. Defensiveness of whites very high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been using the #BlizzardScale for a while now, to communicate how disappointing it is to attend an event & be the only black person there. Some places are better than others, so I’ve given them X\/10 ratings to simplify. I encourage everyone to use this at the next event they attend, and to ask “Why are there so few POC there?” And “How can this be rectified?”<\/p>\n
1\/10 No white folk to be seen – Assume this is a POC-only event
2\/10 Only a couple of white folk – Assume those white folk got lost
3\/10 A few white folk – Excellent diversity
4\/10 Reasonable amount of white folk – Good diversity
5\/10 Even split of ethnicities – Fair diversity
6\/10 POC in a minority but not noticeably so
7\/10 POC in definite minority. Assume you’ll be asked “Where are you really from?”
8\/10 Rumour of POC in attendance, but unconfirmed – Assume this is a LGB event
9\/10 Approaching total whiteness – Assume this is a Trans\/Vegan\/Gamer event
10\/10 Total whiteout. “Some of my non-existent best friends are black”. Defensiveness of whites very high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blizzardscale-racism-poc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}