#standing between creators of color and. u kno. creating.

[equalseleventhirds]

actually every white person who acts like they’re morally superior for ‘never having liked’ a racist piece of media (whether bcos there’s racism in the media or someone involved in making it was ~revealed~ to be racist), or who goes on about ‘you’re a bad person for watching/enjoying any media made by a white person’

is legally obligated to do AT LEAST one of the following

write an essay displaying a thorough understanding of the racism inherent in our society, academia, and the entertainment industry, and how that provides more resources and connections to white creators, thus making it easier for white creators to effectively create and advertise their work, for other white creators to find work with them, and for fandom to find and consume their work, and that this is a MUCH bigger & more systematic issue than ‘small groups of mostly-white people who all attended the same classes made some popular indie media’ or ‘more people are finding and consuming white-made media’ (which is more readily available/better advertised by the industry). pinpoint the larger powers at work and provide suggestions on how to rectify this besides ‘well maybe if People Just Made POC-Led Media Popular’. 7000 words at minimum. i will be grading.

actively uplift, recommend, and participate in fandom for media made by people of color WITHOUT saying some variation of ‘watch to make a racist mad’ or ‘well if you were REALLY anti-racist you’d watch this’ or comparing it to whichever piece of white-made media you really hate lately. talk about the actually well-done parts of the storyline and characters, not just ‘this is by poc’ and leave it at that. show that you actually LOVE this media and are not boosting it to Seem Woke. (seek out media actually CREATED by people of color. writers. directors. we’ve already seen how racist white ppl will hire a couple of actors of color and then be TERRIBLE. i mean do definitely support actors too but.... come on, aren’t you so fucking special in ur media consumption?)

pay me myself personally like idk $20 so i, a person of color, can continue my pursuit of a degree in making entertainment media, hopefully not only learning skills but making the necessary connections to find a job in the industry upon graduation.

(note that all my fellow poc are exempt from these requirements, for obvious reasons. this is Just For Fucking White People.)