Jan. 5th, 2010

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Okay, so I'm hoping to get the perspective of some people of color over in a post I made that's friendslocked. So far it's a festival of whiteness, and I'm afraid that if it goes on much longer, any POC who might have felt like commenting are just going to laugh at me/wander off muttering frustratedly to themselves.

One of the issues, of course, is my friends list. Wow, do I know a lot of white people. Sometimes it occurs to me how few POC I have in my life, and it bugs me. I mean, historically, I have a hard time making friends. But these days...well, I'm a little better at it. You'd think that I'd therefore have a better representation across my LJ-friends list (admittedly, not all people I know in real life or talk to that frequently) than 13 out of 275. (And that's counting generously.) Is it simply a question of numbers in the subcultures I travel in? (Partially, to be sure.) Am I less comfortable approaching POC for friendships than I am white people? (Probably, which bears a boatload of examination.) Do the POC I do know lack LJ accounts? (Maybe.) Are there people I'm forgetting to count? (It took me a second to remember and register that one of my friends is Filipino-American, and a few more to wonder if that counts, and a few more to wonder if he thinks of himself as a POC...)

Obviously I'm thinking a bunch about this stuff lately.

Anyway, if you are on my friends list, are a POC and aren't already terminally frustrated with the comments, please comment on this post, if you're so inclined.

Friends list maintenance currently underway.
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I know I've done this a few times before, but bear with me, especially if I missed your explanation the last time.

I don't know if this will change the numbers much, but I'd like to do my periodic "who are you people" thing for those I perceive have friended me whom I don't recognize. So. Who are you:

[livejournal.com profile] any_contingency?
[livejournal.com profile] ashlupa?
[livejournal.com profile] cinnabarine?
[livejournal.com profile] crownedclown?
[livejournal.com profile] derspatchel?
[livejournal.com profile] dicea?
[livejournal.com profile] elisabattagda?
[livejournal.com profile] evil_eddy?
[livejournal.com profile] fantasyscribe?
[livejournal.com profile] funkabonzo?
[livejournal.com profile] gothatfunk?
[livejournal.com profile] harmony_random?
[livejournal.com profile] hotpoint?
[livejournal.com profile] insane_violet?
[livejournal.com profile] jmarquiso?
[livejournal.com profile] kayakman?
[livejournal.com profile] lediva?
[livejournal.com profile] llama_anorak?
[livejournal.com profile] lobolance?
[livejournal.com profile] megastoat?
[livejournal.com profile] montacute?
[livejournal.com profile] myrddin7?
[livejournal.com profile] nemorensis?
[livejournal.com profile] nimocynth?
[livejournal.com profile] packbat?
[livejournal.com profile] phaedra_lari?
[livejournal.com profile] pixieblush47?
[livejournal.com profile] psybelle?
[livejournal.com profile] shibarismurf?
[livejournal.com profile] silly_imp?
[livejournal.com profile] wanderingangel?
[livejournal.com profile] willblue?

Keep in mind that identifying yourself won't necessarily get me friending you; I'm trying to be a bit more circumspect about that these days, keeping friends locked posts within a tighter circle. If you notice that I unfriend you over the next little while, or that I don't friend you after you tell me who you are, I hope you won't be offended - since my online presence has become more public and my name now has associations with this journal, I'm working on a tighter lockdown of the more personal stuff.

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