Your twitter feed.
You see, representation is important. You will often hear me say that, as representation is important for people in minorities or difficulties. But something I don't mention a lot is that representation are made FIRST for people OUTSIDE of those communities.
For example : If we ask media to do more representation of black people, it's because we want people that are not in contact with racialized people to still have a way to stay in touch with this representation. This is done in order to avoid stigmatisation.
So this brings me to twitter: Did you guys ever stopped and made the ratio of different representations in your twitter feed ?
For example: How many of you guys can tell me that they have a simple equal number of women and equal number of men in their subscriptions ? My guess .. looking at what was said in this thread.. will be not many. And yet this is VERY important.
Why ?
Because depending on the gender, what a person will live will greatly differ. And thus the experiences of life will differ too. Same for the creations, the discourses, the argumentations, the behaviors etc. And this applies to the color of skins, to the ethnie, to the sexual preferences.
Let's take me for example. Until a few month ago, my feed was 95% white. I almost had no racialized people in my sub.. so, when a trend started to rise about the violence against black women in France on twitter.. I was simply not aware and completely uneducated on the subject. So I missed the trend until it reached the white circle of feminists that I follow. But this is a problem since white women do not experience the same oppression as racialized women. In other word, I had no way of understanding what a black woman live day by day on the social network.
So, what did I do ? I started to search for good content coming for black and racialized minorities. And since then, I literally have been educated on a LOT of topics such as the oppressions against Tzigans, Kanaki natives, Muslims (even if I understood a lot about that already, and simply what live black women.
So... tell me. When did you last checked your subscriptions ?
If you have a majority of cis and white straight men... I recommend to search for the content of women, of LGBTQI+, black and racialized people, people with disabilities or conditions either mental or physical etc..
Truly, it can only give you a better vision of the world
Think about it :)
