DAY 37: Give up white savior movies and other entertainment that upholds white supremacy

One of the things I am so grateful for as a person of colour is that I am living in a time when I have access to the works of black historians and other people of colour.  For me, as Ido my own work around decolonisation, it is feels like a gift to grow deeper in my awareness and knowledge of histories that are personal to me that don’t take the perspective of championing white supremacist narratives. 

 I have had to work my way  through text while separating from the story the lens of the white-identified authors, a lens that affirms the white supremacist superiority narratives that.

When reading black historians and other people of colour that lens isn’t present. I am acquiring through reading and exploration of text, an accounting of histories that hold a more equitable and more compassionate viewpoint of people who have been traditionally marginalised and oppressed. 

People of colour, despite the horrific oppression many have experienced in their personal and ancestral histories, are speaking to us now about the ways they have survived, the cultures they celebrate, and the ways they have thrived. I’m here to listen.

The same is true for works of art that include fiction, movies, plays, even paintings. We all now have access to the art that that celebrate resilience, own-voices narratives, and authentic tellings of the histories that have been intentionally ignored because of white supremacist culture. 

TIP: Expand your own perspectives by taking advantage of the creative and other arts being created by people who come from the cultures that are explored. Support Black, Indigenous, People of Colour by selecting their films, their books, their art that shares stories from lived experience. Be curious, explore and discover.