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"POC" Definitions
  1. person(s) of color; people of color
  2. point-of-care; point of care
  3. port of call
  4. proof of concept
  5. point-of-care; point of care

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"There was a bit of Twitter controversy with POC [Beauty], because [POC] also means 'people of color,'" I began.
Rather, a Baby Phat comeback signifies the reminder that we need POC designers creating for POC consumers and rightfully claiming ownership in traditionally white spaces.
Klein's fellow expat John Abbey plays the title character, a square-jawed, broad-shouldered, POC-harassing sheriff by day and also a POC-harassing superhero by night.
Rather, it's about pointing out the repeatedly implied racist notion that white people are superior to POC and that POC need salvation from our own color via white strength.
Until LGBTQ are safe & healthy, until PoC are safe.
The Eventbrite page for "AfroFuture Fest," hosted by Afrofuture Youth, advertised an "Early Bird POC Ticket" for $10 -- with POC meaning "people of color" -- and an "Early Bird NONPOC Ticket" for $20.
A public sector solution, on the other hand, would: designate funding for more jobs in the sector, especially at small POC-led organizations serving POC and/or disabled, LGBTQ, and elder populations.
Other POC pitched those books and didn't get the work.
It's benefiting a certain type of people — and not POC.
We created this for Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, etc. POC.
" Another wrote, "Shame on you for continuing to ignore POC.
But that's an everyday occurrence for POC and trans communities.
This is probably so much worse for women and POC.
ProoV: a PoC platform that enables businesses to test new technologies
VICE: What was it like shooting POC subjects in Sunset Park?
Buy the POC Octal X Spin on Amazon for $179.99-$274.95
Not a single POC [person of color] in the whole thing.
Sure, this story takes place in Missouri, but PoC stories exist everywhere.
Just another #Emmys night of POC presenting every award to white people!!!!
Similarly, FOSTA/SESTA is disproportionately affecting trans, LGBTQ, and POC sex workers.
Why is the coalition of mostly POC groups so difficult to understand?
Obviously with the recent presidential portraits having been done by Wiley and Amy Sherald, there's a lot of focus on the conversation about POC artists creating portraits of other POC to display in prominent places where diversity is lacking.
The other thing I'd note is that if you're a white person who'd never heard POC talk about white people before the advent of social media, it probably means that no POC, even your friends, have truly trusted you.
Her documentary Shadeism looks at colorism among indigenous, black, and other POC communities.
To most Howard students and POC this is a sacred place, a home.
We need to put POC and trans people in positions of actual power.
Weekly Resistance suggests a different POC-run organization to donate to every week.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the only POC in SNL's Five-Timers Club.
More brands need to be hiring trans/gnc ppl and poc in GENERAL.
The Academy stays loving films where POC stories are centered around white people.
Traffic stops are especially perilous and life disrupting to undocumented immigrants and PoC.
It's not funny to ignore the creative efforts of women and PoC artists.
Keep fighting for more women & POC behind the camera by supporting their films.
I never ever thought they liked it because it represented a POC knitting.
Most women & PoC in tech have extraordinarily high stress tolerance & are incredibly resilient.
These six bases, referred to as Protection of Civilians (POC) sites, include Malakal POC -- which was unique in that it included people from three ethnic groups and reflected the political and ethnic differences dividing those same government and opposition forces.
These spaces give POC performers crucial outlets to share their art in public settings.
POC talk about racism all the time & you're only shocked when you're a witness?...
Every time Hillary Clinton fought for Civil Rights, she inspired more PoC to run.
"I ended up being the token POC expert, which made me uncomfortable," she says.
Along with this, multiplicity is rooted in POC communities as a means of survival.
They are Muslim, of South Asian heritage and identify as a non-binary PoC.
They are colonizing POC neighborhoods to benefit both their public image and their enterprises.
Homogeneity, specifically in the Anglo community, there is a lack of giving voice to POC.
How do you believe white people can advocate for POC in the most authentic way?
Clearly, many of our seed funded companies are not delivering those Fortune 100 POC milestones.
I'm here to tell you that for women/POC this only works in competitive sports.
There are tons of queer, female, and POC creators putting all sorts of perspectives online.
Reverend Jude Harmon tells Nyasha that Grace Cathedral draws a large LGBTQ and PoC crowd.
November 22018, 21953 - The POC announces that the 222 sporting venues are currently 22018% completed.
You will coach our existing team, be POC for escalations, and onboard incoming team members.
" Harris, in Delaware, added: "As a POC it's knowing that every single thing is scrutinized.
White loan officers called the police on a group of 8 POC Downtown Hendersonville. Why?
Have a plan to support and build up [POC], and allow them to be them.
To use that privilege as a power to support POC and bring attention to their culture.
Naturally, the internet went in: Not one POC qualified as an intern in all of DC?
How's about just putting my novels and novels by other POC up front and on display?
Nanjiani's experience as a person of color (PoC) growing up in the West is well-developed.
Even though I did the usual private disclosure, PoC [Proof of Concept], etc, all in private.
But for POC like myself, it's our Montgomery Bus, with the Oscars as the front seat.
We ask for complete attention to the POC who is sharing their work with the audience.
Growing up, did you have trans and/or PoC or Black photographers to look up to?
POC with mental health issues please take some time away from media if you need to.
Swedish bike helmet company POC offers helmets for every discipline, from road racing to casual commuting.
"Poc, Presentation of Monitor OSD Exploitation, and shenanigans of high quality" Hahaha it's the MONITOR EXPLOIT!!!!!
The company has built a platform that is part app store and part PoC service engine.
For a PoC who might be struggling or considering quitting, utilize the (usually free) therapy available.
There are also POC who find this discussion uncomfortable, which I find harder to deal with.
Felt understood and 'seen' by them as POC, but challenged and interrogated by them as creatives.
"There is no reason to panic," said Pavel Poc, a Czech member of the European Parliament.
Poc taking white roles is always a win and I'm sure she'll do amazing in the role.
But as you noted originally, we only interrogate the electability when it comes to women and POC.
Gone are gross, fetishizing labels, replaced instead by tags like 'POC Porn' and 'The Feminist Porn Gaze.
But Austin wanted her club to be more than a POC version of The Wing or WeWork.
Critics have also taken issue with the reductive ways other POC characters were portrayed on the show.
We ordered The Egg and Us for breakfast and Un Bien for lunch — both POC-owned businesses!
In addition to the POC groups that are part of the Boyle Heights Alliance (Union de Vecinos and Defend Boyle Heights), other POC anti-gentrification groups involved in struggles across Los Angeles include LA Community Action Network, People Organized for Westside Renewal, Resist Displacement Los Angeles, El Sereno Against Gentrification, North East Los Angeles Alliance, Uplift Inglewood, Crenshaw Subway Coalition, and Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, in addition to the five local chapters of the LA Tenants Union led by strong POC majorities.
The Academy also highlighted the rise of members of color, with 38% of 2018's invitees being POC.
"Non-POC individuals are encouraged to provide additional donations as acknowledgment of this historical inequity," the group said.
If you're threatened/hurt by POC with disabilities wanting voices in conversations, consider it evidence of their point.
We also felt it was vital to showcase the underrepresented (our folks in the LGBT community, POC, women).
Last night, I got a taste of that power through the 20 of 24 wins won by POC.
And then we moved into the POC camps after that to work with the youths that were there.
" Matthew Zuras Senior Editor, MUNCHIES "Cochinita pibil tacos and poc chuc torta at Taqueria Honario in Tulum, Mexico.
Toronto's media and entertainment industry has traditionally underserved its Black and POC, hip-hop and R&B communities.
For POC-specific options, the National Queer and and Trans Therapists of Color Network is a good resource.
POC marketed their helmets as a safety accessory and not a way to go faster or look cooler.
Additionally, 26 percent of POC developers reported earning less than $15,000, compared to 17 percent of white workers.
I am marching for the POC who will be displaced because there are only so many available jobs.
People will despise you if you're a non-binary Muslim PoC who doesn't conform to stereotypes [like me].
PoC freshman: be prepared to be your one white friend's [fallback] when they're called out for their racism.
"I usually hear queer POC complain about shadow bans, having images taken down or being disabled," he said.
In April 2014, the POC site in Bor came under attack, leading to the deaths of about 50 civilians.
"I would love the Academy to hire a woman and/or POC to fill the position," she tells Refinery29.
We're meeting at LOL (Liberating Ourselves Locally), a POC-led makerspace, and we all chip in for rental costs.
White people are looked at and heard first while POC are represented only if they excel past that standard.
It has been my experience that what most POC businesses and chefs have a problem with is the approach.
The most notable one is to double the number of female and POC employees within the next five years.
When POC are respected by this WH & they are willing to do real work, I'll sit down with them.
I also try to ensure that drivers can see me, and this is another area that POC helps with.
Coldwind said zines like PoC||GTFO or Phrack were also inspirations, as well as legendary computing magazines like Hugi.
As a general response, I'd say there's a great number of white directors with little interest in POC characters.
While there may have been a "discussion," it seems unlikely the PoC, or any minority perspective was thought about.
For Likeminds, we seek to commission and promote women and POC as speakers, artists, musicians, and ultimately, our audience.
The ceremony has already faced criticism for its lack of diversity, especially a lack of POC and women nominees.
The shutdown was "unexpected" as the company did about $400 million to $450 million in business a year, POC.
"The reality is that society isn't going to give you your dreams if you're a queer POC," he explains.
As POC creators have entered the horror field to add new perspectives, though, innovative new narratives have flipped those tropes.
"Consequences need to be seen, otherwise you're telling your POC students and also racists students that this behavior is tolerated."
A new class of sharing economy platforms, created by and for POC and LGBTQ travelers, is betting that's the case.
And they're affronts to a history of POC being inundated with segregated mentalities (if you can't beat them, leave them).
So, while they're all congratulating Hill for achieving this great feat, how about finding some POC to host the show?
And imagine not having access to capital because of your ethnicity (as many POC entrepreneurs across the globe already do).
This goes for any POC or marginalized person who feels like a piece of their story is not being heard.
Whether it's my show or my podcast, I'm trying to work with a lot of women, POC, and queer people.
We desperately need commercial rent protection for artists, manufacturers, and mom and pop stores, many owned by immigrants and POC.
The Brown Paper Zine and Small Press Fair for Black and PoC Artists ran through January 29th at MoCADA Museum.
I want to flip that around and say, Why have our communities, our POC Latino communities, not been invested in?
"As a Black man I think this term erases me and all his other women and POC supporters," he said.
While these experiences were amazing, many other POC I met in the queer scene had stories very similar to my own.
Civilians within the POC site are understandably worried about whether UNMISS will provide protection if armed actors once again target them.
I've been testing out new genres and also making up for the lack of POC authors in my life thus far.
I'm currently seeing an excellent queer therapist at a practice that centers queer people—it even has trans and POC practitioners.
The only decrease seen was on streaming platforms, where the number of POC roles dropped to 41 percent of 153 characters.
At the same time, the writers address how violent crime and anti-POC immigration policy have become intertwined in today's politics.
But not only increasing representation but also really understanding the experience of a POC at Uber — their engagement and their satisfaction.
Even more people will be targeted by law enforcement b/c they "look" like they're carrying a weapon, especially POC 2.
In fact, many organizations are still in the POC (proof of concept) stage for IoT, even after several years of trying.
To be a POC and a member of the LGBTQ community is extremely dangerous, especially in this tumultuous time of politics.
Irene wasn't able to run to the PoC for safety when violence erupted last year - the towering cathedral was nearer home.
Please notice how pilgrims on the Left are tossing POC, women, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and others under the bus post-election.
When I look at the brown POC community here, or just, like, the non-white queer community here, it's not so easy.
But as people enter the health care system, they are largely cared for by women and POC, who don't deserve dehumanizing treatment.
And those sentiments have been met with a vocal, spirited response: White gays dont like us including PoC in the Pride Flag?
Early POC time-trial helmets bore more similarities to the Super Mushrooms from Super Mario than anything cyclists were used to seeing.
"Even more people will be targeted by law enforcement b/c they 'look' like they're carrying a weapon, especially POC," Corin wrote.
"I love that there's a [clothing] line specifically targeting brown goths, POC goths, or alterna-chicks," she says of Xunise's new collection.
A few years ago, Jenny Bruso started the Instagram account Unlikely Hikers, which features LGTBQ, POC, and people with disabilities out in nature.
I've had enough Asian, Indian, and POC come up and talk to me about the show, and I'm glad that they're into it.
POC representation has been steadily growing, with a fest popping up (by the very writer of this article) celebrating black and brown voices.
Do you also think there just isn't enough of a level of interest in the issue regarding representation of POC in comic books?
Woman of color-led, sci-fi thriller released worldwide day + date w/ big Netflix muscle for black director, his super producer + POC cast.
Encounters like these could be absolutely nothing, but as a POC there is always that nagging question of why we receive different treatment.
I think a lot of women and queers and POC and disabled people, etc, doubt their own experience of the world around them.
The only decrease seen was on streaming platforms, where the number of POC roles dropped seven percent to 41 percent of 153 characters.
I'm fortunate enough to be financially in a position to do so, but POC traveling frequently for work/medical reasons might not be.
The POC Octal X SPIN is our overall favorite for most people, but we have four other great options for you to consider.
The POC Octal X Spin is well ventilated, comfortable, and offers enhanced visibility and safety features that will benefit cyclists and commuters alike.
Cars and bikes are often seen as inherently in conflict, but both POC and Volvo share a commitment to keeping their customers safe.
It doesn't take a large amount of research to see the dearth of black and POC faces within the world of photo-editing.
If this is that moment of "systemic rupture," it is also a moment for local empowerment, building new systems, and affirming POC artists.
Many of the series studied by Color of Change found that those CJPs validating or supporting bad behavior from other CJPs were POC.
Especially given filmmakers' dedication to casting people of color for traditionally POC roles, "West Side Story" could be more timely now than ever.
As I researched the origins of techno and house, I discovered how many of these genres and subgenres were birthed by queer POC communities.
The only hard and fast rule I've learned is that creators united—and in particular, POC creators united—is better than a community divided.
But "the problem isn't Twitter," Patrice Caldwell, a literary agent, writer, editor, and the founder of POC in Publishing, told me in an email.
"Lower income people, largely POC, are getting pushed further and further away, and most getting pushed out of the city all together," Louque explains.
In fact, their impact is already being felt — RSA has added a number of female and POC keynote speakers in response to the controversy.
I just wish that more women, POC, gay and trans people in club music would get more of the shine and respect they deserve.
In the meantime, we've been squadding up and throwing shows with other POC and queer prioritizing platforms like Melting Point, Discakes and the like.
Governor Brown and other proponents of the bill hopes that defelonization will begin to change some of these consequences for POC in the state.
On the other hand, you have Oscar's Papi Juice party, which is an amazing queer POC space that's thriving right now, and that's huge.
Betti OnoBetti Ono is the premier space in Oakland's downtown gallery scene for preserving and celebrating the black/POC female voice in the arts.
Ever wonder how expression that's feminine, working-class, queer, or poc isn't deemed as having "gravitas," but talking like an Aaron Sorkin character does?
Diversity barriers are being broken all around, with the biggest involving representation milestones for people of color, non-black POC, and the LGBTQ+ community.
Howes's clunky frames, which come from POC, look like an all-white version of something a mechanical engineer might have worn during the 1950s.
Like me, many city dwellers love and support our local immigrant- or POC-owned bodega (the real thing, not the bougie bot-box thing).
Ideally, Scoti should be the one that addresses concerns of POC, and I should be the one that addresses concerns of the white people.
Mai and Lei are passionate feminists and want Identical to be a label that supports other musicians, particularly female identifying, LGBTIQA, and POC artists.
They have made very little social advancements, and are repeatedly propped up by open hostility to POC, trans, queer, low-income, and undocumented people.
I was especially drawn to fanfic about the marginalized that didn't show up that often at Hogwarts — the queer and POC characters, for example.
Unlike historical gayborhoods, which tend to be white, digital gayborhoods are often more open to diversity, giving room for trans and POC queers to connect.
This week, learn about China's pulp comics, check out a new zine fair for POC artists, spend a night lost in philosophical debate, and more.
Telling the stories of POC and amplifying needs to be a bigger priority, particularly for individuals who have the power to make it a reality.
As a solution to a lot of this, there's been a tradition of comic book creators given the leeway to reimagine established characters as POC.
With this POC I can:- see all private messages- see all user info- delete what I want: a message, an user, the all database, ... pic.twitter.
The POC Octal X SPIN is the best bike helmet we've tested with its great ventilation, protective design, enhanced visibility, and other great safety features.
I've contributed a platform for queer POC DJs and artists like myself to perform in spaces where they could be themselves in an unpretentious environment.
As obvious as that may sound, it's easy to feel isolated when, whatever the circumstance, you find yourself among the only POC in the room.
There's shadow banning of queer and POC bodies on Instagram, a rise in TERFism, and even within Gay Twitter there's virtual blackface and unchecked racism.
The festival, Afrofuture Fest, initially charged people of color $20 and "non-POC" $40, according to the ticketing details on its Eventbrite page early Sunday.
These recent boosts have only raised the total number of women and POC in the Academy's 9,200-plus membership to 20193 and 16 percent, respectively.
Poc, Pro-tec, and a handful of other companies sell multiple-impact helmets, which generally use a proprietary combination of EPP foam and other materials.
" The group says its reasoning for doubling ticket prices for white people was because white people have the privilege to attend festivals in "POC populated cities.
"Jane The Virgin revealed that Rafael is actually adopted and is Italian so does this cancel out the supposed Latinx erasure?" tweeted the account Nerdy POC.
I ended my series of black people meetings and POC meetings in Milwaukee with a special lesson from professor John Diamond, an expert on implicit bias.
The free product enables companies to get comfortable with the technology and build a Proof of Concept (PoC) without making a significant investment in the tooling.
There's this other performer who is called Delish, and she's a lesbian POC, her music is kind of bounce and hip-hop, but kind of house.
Not only are they an inclusive space, but they showcase a lot of under-represented musicians and POC, and are a beacon for the LGBTQ community.
In the meantime, Ripple has its own rival protocol for correspondent banks using Interledger that it hopes to attract volume to before SWIFT's PoC gains traction.
SWIFT's DLT PoC has its own rival collection of partner correspondent banks and uses Hyperledger instead of the Interledger blockchain variant system that Ripple replies on.
The photo zine, in its third volume, captures POC New Yorkers at festivals like Afro Punk, as well as on the streets across the five boroughs.
I started booking these parties with these line-ups of gender fluid POC who were not necessarily making party music, but who definitely were rock stars.
When a POC is the victim they are treated far worse than this "godly boy" whom we are lucky didn't kill more people with his bombs.
So it's not unreasonable for people to worry that this focus on working-class whites will again lead to PoC being sold out once again. 9.
Real question is whether Dems can follow through on that, and not choose, once again, to try to win back white votes at expense of PoC.
For one, it's such a fitting forum for POC, women, and other marginalized groups because we don't need anyone's permission to say what we want to say.
Respire falls at an interesting cross-section of these topics - our large family has members that are non-binary, queer, gay, POC, female, and first-generation immigrants.
It's problematic that while the company has increased the rate of hiring underrepresented minorities (people of color), overall representation of POC has gone down at the company.
The PoC, called "Speake(a)r," first turned headphones connected to a PC into microphones and then tested the quality of sound recorded by a microphone vs.
In fact, all of my POC experts for this piece assured me that all board-certified derms are trained to treat every shade under the sun. Still.
United we stand in #solidarity with hope that this will stop abuse to the disenfranchised, the poor, women and #poc who don’t have a voice.
In short, female and POC employees have been quietly leaving the company — by way of layoffs and resignations — from many departments, including engineering, marketing, operations and product.
Berghain is the most obvious example of this school of thought; its stony-faced guardians weed out basics at the door while privileging freaks, queers, and POC.
It's a room with primarily women and POC, but only the two or three white men in the room speak about their struggles, which I find concerning.
We're in a climate where people feel like there aren't enough stories that are relevant and interesting, especially movies that speak to queer POC perspectives, you know.
" She speaks of an "internalized model-minority narrative" in which people of color "need to be at the top to make way for other minorities or POC.
The organization has since halted food distribution in several camps, including St Mary's, but continues to supply those living in the city's United Nations protected site (PoC).
"The mission of the center is very much tied to increasing the presence of black and POC voices in contemporary art discourse," Duplan tells The Creators Project.
I would like to clarify, I believe this shoot is from when I was around 15 and didn't understand cultural appropriation or the impact it has on POC.
It's happened before, the CNN anchor explained, when Trump has talked about immigration in relation to gang violence, inner city crime, and the female POC members of Congress.
We have the same problem here that scenes everywhere are plagued by—an overabundance of white cis men and lack of representation by women, POC, and LGBTQ voices.
Tax changes have negatively impacted operators, with the increase of machine games duty and the new POC tax denting profits over the last few years for all operators.
The last couple of years have been filled with diversity reports with stats around gender, race, POC and women in leadership positions and technical roles, and so on.
Issey Miyake's A-POC, a long, continuous dress that several models wore simultaneously, and Moon Boots will be on display in an area focusing on size and form.
Dan classed himself as the black sheep of his middle class family, made worse by the fact he was the only POC, having never met his biological father.
The furniture was chosen, designed, and even upholstered by artisans of color; the free food in the kitchen and the goods for sale highlight smaller POC-run companies.
"What we do with our bodies is a choice," Sardina said, and reproductive rights, queer rights, trans rights, POC rights, and poor people's rights all concern sex work.
Her latest musical venture has come in the shape of "Poc That Still a Ryda", a track that references Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter and the #OscarsSoWhite movement.
We heard from critics that they need editors and mentors, particularly given the racism they encounter at prominent publications and the economic challenges that POC‑led outlets face.
Part of it's sad cus it's what POC use to whiten their skin, but she didn't even think twice to slab it all over me for a costume.
Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, and BlacKkKlansman—films that all had directors of color and/or majority POC cast—are being considered for multiple categories, including Best Motion Picture.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Irena Szewinska, Poland's most decorated Olympian with seven medals across five track and field events, died aged 72 on Friday night, the Polish Olympic Committee (POC) said.
One thing we can say with certainty: Obama is the only living former president who would have this much hip hop, rap, and music by POC on his radar.
I won't waste energy on preemptive outrage, but I'm not interested in this park unless we experience it through POC or its equivalent of the maze is Lagaan IRL.
He serves as an adviser to several startups founded by women and minorities and is an investor in a fund dedicated to entrepreneurs who are POC, LGBT and women.
Between Morris' movie critic background and Wortham's observant perspective, the two blend together in a fabulously queer, POC gabfest that was just what the dark times of 2018 needed.
I've been lucky, as the majority of people at my school are PoC so I blend in a lot more than I ever did in my hometown [in Wales].
For weeks, POC knitters have used Instagram, and specifically Instagram stories, to share their observations, tag other knitters, and conduct polls about others' experiences with racism in the community.
From the quiet racism that's endemic to Silicon Valley, to the shallow attempts to appease women and POC, tech is still a well-fortified bastion for white male elites.
Marginalized groups, such as women and POC, are especially on guard since the president-elect spent most of his campaign detailing how he would work to take away their rights.
POC regularly face obstacles to operate and sustain nightlife, including inaccessibility to venues, exclusionary social circles divided by race and class, and micro-aggressions inside and outside of the club.
Locals also attributed a rise in crime to the young POC hanging out on the street, sparking a charged debate on whether the problem comes down to violence or racism.
Yes, there is a double standard — the label "terrorism" being applied to Muslims and POC is certainly hypocritical — but expanding the government's role in policing terrorism is a difficult proposition.
Lamar delivers a fuck you to privilege and conversations that exclude POC, while SZA croons a chorus of longing for something better that tells us that there is still hope.
Black and POC wins are an affront to similar status quos of alleged hate crime hoaxes, hate mongering, and the inbred morons that weaponize them to ignore issues of race.
It is in the early stages of a distributed ledger technology (DLT), aka blockchain, proof of concept (PoC) that is not expected to come to fruition for many years yet.
I think that's probably a result of a system that's favored putting white males in the director's chair, many of whom probably didn't have many close POC friends growing up.
There is no reason (other than white supremacy and its reverberations) to foreground the work of the white accomplices in B.H.A.A.A.D. over the work of POC resisters in the coalition.
"We have been unable to serve people outside the PoC as we did not have assurance of safety and security for our staff members," said WFP's communications officer George Fominyen.
While Kavalry members did have their own reasons for wanting to absorb Manhattan&aposs powers — namely, white supremacy and the eradication of POC — Trieu was the mastermind behind it all.
So just be really cognizant of the space that you're taking up because it does make some of us POC uncomfortable when we see too many white people in here.
But current and former employees say that ABI has lacked focus on people of color and leadership has been resistant or dismissive when asked to make inclusion of POC a priority.
The collective, started four years ago and based in Atlanta, is increasingly taking its concert series on the road, bringing together local diverse bands and carving out communities for POC rockers.
As universities have historically handled racist incidents fairly poorly—unless their reputations are at risk—it's no wonder that surviving (and thriving) on campus can be a minefield for PoC students.
Quick plug for Oakland's Ships in the Night, a favorite of queer POC bae area girls, whose organizers are particularly aggressive about barring cis white straights from attending, so win/win.
I'm POC and queer, so for me, just sort of trying to balance and talk to other people and doing self-reflection about what the responsibility is: Is it to educate?
On social media she has said that she has a separate account just for people of color, and one where she creates a persona that's read more by non-POC folks.
But, according to DeMartini of Poc, action sports athletes need to shift the paradigm of what we consider an injury, the same way American football is in the process of doing.
Matt Wells is the senior adviser on peacekeeping at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and author of the report, A Refuge in Flames: The February 218-18 Violence in Malakal POC.
It's time for the Security Council to deliver a clear message: Anyone who attacks a POC site will face consequences, as will any peacekeeper who fails to respond appropriately in protecting civilians.
Matt Wells is the senior advisor on peacekeeping at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and author of the report, A Refuge in Flames: The February 17-18 Violence in Malakal POC.
Disenfranchised from mainstream gay bars that catered to a white clientele, the queer POC community found a safe space at the saloon which functioned as a bar, gathering place, and community center.
It's been empowering in so many ways to tell my story, but also to have an incredible team of mostly female-led crew and POC cast who really care about the story.
As a result, Sisters Uncut is campaigning for longer term, secure funding for services to support all survivors, including POC victims and those whose immigration status leaves them out in the cold.
The fact that he was a black golfer also helped open up the sport for future POC athletes, and fans, who might never have connected with the often elitist, whitewashed sport otherwise.
February 6, 2018 - The POC says that 20183,200 security guards have been pulled from duty following a norovirus outbreak at the Olympic facilities, and 900 South Korean military personnel have replaced them.
Because hiring new POC staff to rectify racist systemic policies will create additional emotional labor for them, shifts in administration must be accompanied by in-depth yearly training on undoing systemic racism.
"I started the fair as a means to create a community of black and PoC creatives working in print mediums," explains artist and fair founder Devin N Morris to The Creators Project.
Responding to a question from attendee Lucia Diaz-Martin about how legalization in the US would affect POC, panelist Brooke Carpenter of Flow Kana spoke candidly about her involvement in Oakland politics.
Many people have pledged, whether on Instagram or in Reddit comments, to buy more knitwear and supplies from POC sellers, and say they've taken to heart the stories that have been shared.
"I feel as though tagging me as an 'editor' of the poem was an intentional way of showing that a PoC" — a person of color — "co-signed this offensive poem," he wrote.
I think what we are seeing right now is a focus on white-passing and white-adjacent Muslim women on TV. Some Muslim women are only POC when they wear a hijab.
In an attempt to create a new cadre of "base characters" that represent people of color, she has been conducting workshops that bring together POC to chart their bodies moving in space.
I've copied a few examples below: I don't see how Sarah's tweets are much different than how a lot of influential younger POC have been talking on Twitter these last few years.
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, reported two of its staff members were among the 18 people killed, while their medical facility at the PoC site treated dozens of wounded people.
"A lot of the club owners circumnavigated being overtly racist by instituting these highly exclusive dress codes," says Lauren Black, a Lesbifriends Cartel promoter whose parties cater to lesbian POC in the city.
"My main concern is the presence of straight white males who often fill entire line-ups with little to no POC, queer, or female artists," says local event creator and DJ Cid Ikarus.
For one, the mainstream is finally starting to pay attention to the voices of trans, non-binary, POC and queer communities, as opposed to honing in solely on white, cisgender, gay male identities.
Vine's demise also raises concerns about the large number of POC (persons of color) who found artistic autonomy through the platform in a media environment that's still biased in favor of white creatives.
Dion Mac: Overall, the demand has been continuously building—people definitely want these spaces and want to go out—but there's differences between a queer POC party and parties that are for everyone.
When I see fellow queer POC who have dyed their hair the way they like it, I know they went through arduous hours of bleaching, toning and complicated processes to achieve the color.
Feminists are rejecting the politics of elite representation in favor of intersectional work that recognizes women's rights are LGBT rights are union rights are sex workers' rights are POC rights are Palestinian rights.
Then he pivots to how his signature plan, a "freedom dividend" of $1,000 a month for all Americans, would help since POC don't have as much disposable income to donate to political campaigns.
Its permanent collection includes only a handful of fashion items — among them are a white T-shirt, a pleated Fortuny gown, a pair of Levi's 501's, and Issey Miyake's A-POC Queen Textile.
Many POC nightlife organizers have also turned to newer underground DIY or event spaces, largely in more diverse neighborhoods on the city's South or West Sides like Pilsen, Little Village, Humboldt Park or Bronzeville.
The new Matrix should build on, not run away from, the original's unique roots by bringing on LGBTQ and POC talent in key roles and inviting them to share their experiences through the franchise.
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And big clubs looking to throw profitable parties are likely to reach out to established promoters, and unfortunately, there aren't very many trans or POC promoters who are prominent enough to get those opportunities.
Leonce: It's been in our heads for a long time in 2015 to start a party, because we feel that young LGBTQ and POC in Atlanta needed something fresh and exciting in Atlanta's nightlife.
In the last three years it expanded the collection to include recently launched webcomics; curators also made a conscious effort to add works that represent women, POC, and LGBTQ+ artists as well as characters.
If you are a white liberal and have never sat down with your POC friends and discussed their daily oppression, there is no way you would understand the gravity of the rise of Trump.
As New Yorker writer James Surowiecki explained in a series of tweets, reaching out to the white working class in the past has often been coupled with racist messages against people of color (POC).
"The biggest challenge to a safe community comes from white people who see themselves as intrinsically good," Sukrita, one of the members of the POC fiber art collective Unfinished Objects, told VICE via email.
On the flip side, you can easily get other like-minded POC folks together and establish communal support networks and events, where oppression and queerness is discussed in an open forum of love and support.
In 83, EBIT fell 43% to GBP80m, largely due to the introduction of point-of- consumption (POC) tax, which together with an increase in marketing spending, wiped out the digital business's profits for the year.
Danaher Chief Executive Thomas Joyce, on a call with analysts, said ease-of-use, scalability and the opportunity to shift to POC testing had given Cepheid a differentiated position despite increasing investment in the industry.
While Uber does not have that same goal in place, Uber expects to see the representation of women and POC double within the next few years on a year-over-year growth basis, Lee said.
" Knowles responded to the "haters" immediately, tweeting, "Peeps try to give POC, a 'u can only speak out racism 3 strikes...or U r the problem' card [...] But surely after that, YOU are the problem.
Swedish sport-safety brand POC burst onto the cycling scene seven years ago with a series of helmets that, at the time, were widely hailed as looking far too goofy for any fashion-conscious cyclist.
The facts are that poc, women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks.
But while the absence of queer POC-centric establishments is definitely an issue, many of the other Black men I see at gay bars around Manhattan and Brooklyn are booed up with white men, too.
Organized by Jasmine Nyende, lead singer of "Black femme and them punk band" FUPU (Fuck U Pay Us), A Right to Defiance is a day-long festival celebrating the intersection of queer/punk/POC cultures.
The displaced population in Malakal -- indeed, all 160,000 people still in POC sites in South Sudan -- deserves to know what happened, who was responsible, and what actions are being taken to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Nowadays, Venture Out offers multiple options for people in the queer community: youth trips, POC trips, adult trips, trans trips, and family trips, where at least one person in the family is queer or trans identified.
Do you envision Planet X to be an incubator for upcoming designers, in the same way that GG has long served as a platform for rising DJs and producers, particularly within the queer and POC communities?
Watch Broadly Meets Malala: VICE: One of the most interesting episodes in the second season is "New York, I Love You," which exclusively follows POC service workers—a doorman, a convenience store clerk, a taxi driver.
The image of POC winning on any white-owned stage is the reminder that one of us can do it regardless of the obstacles—listen to any acceptance speech, and you'll find the recipes for that.
Freetown Sound is deeply personal, an R&B-new wave mixtape named after the birthplace of Hynes's father that samples POC reference points including Paris Is Burning amidst Hynes's multi-instrumental genius (two words: synth guitar).
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And in the background, there's a rising movement in metropolitan areas around creating social spaces exclusively for people of color, with the first POC-only membership club/working space, Ethel's Club, coming to Brooklyn this year.
The bright red "A-POC Queen" (for A Piece of Cloth), an ensemble was formulated by Issey Miyake and his engineering designer Fujiwara Dai, from a single tube of knit fabric (like the one trailing overhead).
So if coronavirus-related social distancing measures have you turning to your list of television shows to watch, bump up these titles and relish some brilliant, nuanced storytelling that happens to have POC at its center.
Laura Owens and Gavin Brown, the same hip artists, wealthy investors, and blue-chip gallerists are developing their enterprises on both coasts, many of them directly in Boyle Heights and in other working-class POC neighborhoods.
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"As a POC knitter, I have noticed that it is alienating among the older crowd," the user u/GiantKiller130, commented on one extremely active Reddit megathread that cropped up in the wake of the Ravelry statement.
I mean that any POC superhero blockbuster greenlit as a result of Black Panther's success will take at least another couple of years to reach the big screen, because that's how long these movies take to make.
In a climate where anti-immigrant racism and Islamophobia—already rife in public life—persists in the LGBTQ+ community, it stands to reason that queer PoC like Ryan might choose to sacrifice their culture to come out.
It was a clumping together of disparate movies in a way that regrettably implied the POC blockbuster was its own genre (or that the two titles were in competition, and one had to come away the winner).
They've ID'd the top 10 employers in each of those sectors, Graham says, as well as the top 10 employers of women and POC workers at risk of both job automation and maltreatment via biased AI systems.
We'll zoom in on the history of New York's Cabaret law—which, somewhat bewilderingly, remains in effect to this day—as well as some of the ways the city continues to disproportionately target LGBTQ and POC nightlife.
Make sure to RSVP here if you plan on going, whether you're a sex worker or an ally, so organizers can plan accordingly—they're making special accommodations for trans/GNC POC, rural sex workers, parents, and more.
I think non-POC need to acknowledge their privilege and use it for good [and] learn what is needed while working within their own community, to know that their privilege needs to be consistently and constantly challenged.
But that organization has its own global payments innovation (gpi) DLT Proof of Concept (PoC) third stage project, which is trying to catch up, to protect its incumbent position as the processor of global cross-border payments.
There's a growing pressure in PoC cultures to succeed and take the college route as our parents or grandparents were immigrants who left their homes seeking a better life, and particularly better career opportunities, for their kids.
You've become a fixture in this queer POC underground scene you just described—even though this album is based on a super personal journey, do you feel like it's also inspired by your experiences in that scene?
Despite increased net revenue driven by higher sportsbook staking (up 29%) and favourable football results in 68.93Q, the division was lossmaking due to the full-year effect of the new POC tax and higher marketing costs in 2H15.
Rianna Jade Parker and Pelin Keskin, who founded The Lonely Londoners in 2013, are gathering artists of color together to tell the stories of this generation of PoC artists, whose efforts are many but often cloaked in insignificance.
POC has continued to design bike helmets that, first and foremost, focus on safety and not aesthetics, but has also worked out innovative ways of slimming down its helmets, bringing the look more in line with other brands.
" The author Mercedes Siler wrote, "So instead of paying poc to write new fresh stories, they're hornswoggling people into paying for the same old stories with covers that are heavily stereotyped & have nothing to do with the content?
"Anyone can make the safest helmet in the world, it's just that it would be the size of a beach ball," said David DeMartini, North America marketing director for Poc, a Swedish manufacturer of cycling and snowsports helmets.
" It was the follower, though, who got the final word: "i cannot turn the other cheek while others use their 'free speech' to advocate genocide, enact violence on POC/lgbt community/etc while the state refuses to punish them.
Picking up from last season's finale, Dev (Ansari) is in Italy, single and pastamaking; once he returns to NYC, the show touches on issues ranging from the Ansari family's Muslim background to the experiences of various POC service workers.
Lyndon Barrois' Meme series, Beverly Hills PoC, for instance, appropriates stills from the film, Beverly Hills Cop, to present the protagonist Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) as a young artist trying to gain entry into the Los Angeles art scene.
"I don't know what happened behind the scenes, or overnight, but what I can tell you is that there [is] no way I would ever have allowed production to move POC [people of color] to the back," France wrote.
Update on that front: It appears the line is no longer available on the store's website, nor can I find it anywhere else at the moment (and the POC social media accounts haven't been updated since April of this year).
Erik Bloch, Director of Security Products at SalesForce says that while he keeps an open mind and is willing to look at innovative startups, it takes him weeks to arrange calls with the right people, and months to scope a POC.
Scarlett Johansson "Ghost In The Shell" Film - 2017 To step back for a second, this makes Ghost in the Shell a story about a bunch of white people who forcibly kidnap a POC activist and turn her into a white person.
Cepheid, which is expecting revenue of $618 million-$635 million in 2016, anticipates launching in 2017 its Omni point-of-care (POC) device, which is portable and allows testing to be conducted near to where the patient is receiving care.
So in April when they announced there would be a new Editor in Chief taking over British Vogue, I would never have predicted that they would be the ones to add another name to my PoC Editor in Chief list.
And I realize that much of my success, whatever it is, is due to the fact that there's been a change, albeit not total, but a historic change in the way that women and POC are seen as integral to society.
ShayShay actively prioritizes those marginalized within the already marginalized LGBTQIA+ community, often presenting full line-ups of non-binary, female or POC performers to celebrate the strengths and talents of those who don't get the platform as much as they should.
"It also makes me think that perhaps maybe more POC will have the opportunities to not only star in films, but also take the lead in their everyday sphere, inspire future generations, and just fucking be who they are," Tinsley said.
She strolls around her neighborhood, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, analog camera in hand, and spots POC subjects radiating affection and intimacy: twin girls walking hand-in-hand, a father and son playing soccer, a young couple hanging out by the pool.
Quick plug for Oakland's Ships in the Night, a favorite of queer POC bae area girls (although in recent years that vibe has somewhat dissipated), whose organizers are particularly aggressive about barring cis white straights from attending, so win/win.
"When I hosted the WGA Awards last year, I pleaded during my opening monologue that NEXT year's WGA Awards needed to be a woman or POC or LGBTQ or all three or ANYTHING but another straight white male," Oswalt wrote.
"The facts are that poc (people of color), women, and queer police are complicit in upholding the same law and order that routinely criminalizes and terrorizes black and brown and poor folks, especially youth, trans, and houseless folks," the post read.
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Uncompromising, jarring and chaotic, the record subverted mainstream R&B and pop culture (see their deconstructions of Beyonce's "Drunk in Love" and "Formation" on that tape) and, in doing so, soundtracked the hedonism and articulated the struggles of Berlin's queer and poc communities.
"There are now serious concerns that the South Sudanese are turning to the mission to 'open its gates' in periods of minor unrest, or in some cases, simply turning to the POC sites to receive better shelter and humanitarian assistance," he said.
Breaking the stigma that exists for POC around therapy is the first step—and to that end, we asked three queer people of color how they found mental healthcare that worked for them, and their tips for how others can do the same.
Participating artists include Paul Pescador, whose DIY films recall personal and historical memories through everyday objects; photographer Amina Cruz, who captures the queer POC community on Los Angeles's Eastside; and Megan Koth, whose paintings portray the internalized violence of rigid beauty standards.
It's comprised of enough elements that seem worth your time (promising franchise, popular genre, a POC-heavy ensemble filled with rising stars like Gugu Mbatha-Raw) that the fact that the film itself is not actually worth your time doesn't seem to matter.
"In a country where immigrants are significantly contributing to its livelihood, many conservative Americans love to tell people of color who speak languages other than English to 'speak English' in order to make these POC feel like they don't belong," Chen says.
JC: Just the pure act of being present and visible as a female photographer and a POC can take back the control of how we're seen and understood and challenge any misconceptions of what place we have in the industry and the arts.
A third brigade is due to arrive in Puerto Rico in January and will be made up of POC and black farmers from the U.S., and are involved in the land struggle here to unite and rebuild with farmers on the island.
The collective has curated four exhibitions over the last two years, in both London and New York, edited a digital zine entitled Queenies, Fades, and Blunts—a PoC meditation on hair, sexuality and coming of age—and co-produced a short documentary.
" The event described read: "Celebrate the resilience, power, and sexy dance moves of our queer, POC, immigrant, undocumented, Muslim, feminist, trans and non-binary student communities with a yuuuge DANCE PARTY and POTLUCK outside MLK Student Union to detract from Milo's talk!
Actors like Emma Stone or Timothée Chalamet come to mind as examples of young artists whose careers have been boosted by awards recognition, whereas POC award-winners like Jennifer Hudson or Jamie Foxx haven't had the same post-win exposure or opportunities.
Well, sorry if I don't want to live in a world where straight white men in their forties with mustaches can't go to the queer POC dance night and nonconsensually grind on lesbians they don't know without people getting weird about it!
The more stringent protocol that POC and Volvo have developed aims to increase both brands' understandings of the forces involved in such a crash, so products can be refined in the future to help riders emerge with fewer injuries should the worst happen.
For too long, music, art, and nightlife industries have profited off the culture of POC, queer, and trans people while not actually prioritizing them; instead, using their lifestyle as a buzzword for more money, clout, and opportunity for their own personal gain.
"Season 9 Reunion" (the one where Shea and Farrah came for Valentina), "Season 10 Reunion" (when Vixen called out RuPaul's double standards for POC queens versus white queens and walked off-set), and "Season 11 Reunion" (when Kahanna was reaching for airtime).
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I understand that this is a very personal story for Nanjiani, and one of my biggest frustrations is when people of color (POC) are tasked by white people with being stand-ins for their entire culture rather than simply being allowed to tell their stories.
Things like that, personally, kept me away from veganism for years until I met other intersectional POC vegans who provided me with literally a safe space (especially as a woman of color) to explore it without judgment, having my culture shat on, or obnoxious hounding.
White veganism has a tendency to erase the existence of many POC vegans, and vegan organizations that are doing good work addressing social justice issues beyond speciesism or the domination of nonhuman animals, connecting animal-related issues to other forms of oppression as well.
Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit vegan food justice advocacy group based in California, is a great example of a POC-led organization doing this kind of work by supporting migrant farm workers and fighting for accessibility to healthy food in dispossessed and impoverished communities.
Everything about us (Black and POC) — all the creative things that come out of NYC from and because of us — are already criminalized, and this plan would just accelerate this process while creating the infrastructure to sustain the oppression of Black and Brown people's existence.
Even more recent shows, like Modern Family and Transparent, feature primarily white characters; with the killing of Poussey in 2015, even Orange is the New Black—a show that has always been exemplary for queer POC female representation—chose to bury one if its gays.
The show seemed to try to course-correct by front-loading POC presenters at the top (Monae was followed by Rock, who was followed by Mindy Kaling, then an inexplicably backstage Kelly Marie Tran, and Questlove) and making self-referential digs at its overwhelming whiteness.
Shows like Luke Cage, Elementary, 9-93-1, Lethal Weapon, and How to Get Away with Murder had the highest amounts of POC CJPs committing wrongdoing, while shows like Law & Order: SVU, The Blacklist, Blindspot, and Blue Bloods showed characters endorsing illegal practices most often.
But born out of frustration with how overwhelmingly white the punk scene can still feel today, a group known as the DIY Diaspora Punx collective joined forces to set up the UK's first music festival created by and for people of colour (AKA POC).
On the night of February 17, youths from different communities inside Malakal POC fought one another, using weapons that, as described to me by camp residents and U.N. officials, people in the camp had smuggled past security at official gates or through cuts in the fencing.
The violence exploded the following morning when attackers -- many of whom arrived in pickup trucks, wearing uniforms of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the country's military -- entered the POC site through an enormous breach in the camp's perimeter fence, only meters from a U.N. sentry post.
Although working with corporate partners might go against many people's understanding of how the underground should operate, it might also give POC creators additional opportunities to build more of the events they hope to see–ones that are inclusive of all races, genders, sexualities, and income levels.
In between Q&As with actors like Alfred Enoch (Dean Thomas), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), and Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them's Jacob Kowalski) — a photo and autograph opp is a huge draw — are panels discussing queer and POC representation in J.K. Rowling's work.
"Any time we can partner with people or groups to increase accessibility, resources, and platforms to under served or otherwise marginalized populations (as POC are in Iowa City), we see that as part of our mission and mandate," Public Space One Director John Engelbrecht told Hyperallergic.
Hometown: Santa Ana, California / Houston, Texas Favorite DJ/producer: Chulita Vinyl Club, who's an all-female POC DJ crew with several chapters in the U.S. They have an appreciation for every style and genre of music from funk to disco and soul, which speaks directly to me.
"I feel like I have an extra responsibility, especially as a queer woman, to think about representation and what kind of stories we're enabling—LGBTQ or sex positive or POC or people who don't get a shot at the microphone," says Caitlin Thompson, ACast's head of content.
I hope that in seeing POC faces on the cover, readers might see the humanity in all those people at home or in faraway places who are suffering the terrors of war or violence or oppression, instead of just seeing a mass of faces that blend together.
That means: fully champion decarbonization, make it a winning political issue, cobble together coalitions at the state and city level, and eventually force Republicans who want to compete for young or POC voters (should they ever again want to do so) to come to the table.
These include Riverside's Zines Rasquache, which explores the "Xicanista" experience; This Goth Bitch, which offers a queer POC perspective on gloom and glam; and pioneering veterans Third Woman Press, who have been publishing books by feminists of color since the late '70s, but only recently branched out into zines.
Is there a danger in taking a party like Ghe20 G0th1k out of the context and scene that it belongs in—namely, the New York underground—and putting it into a new environment like a rural town that wasn't ready or willing to accept its crowd of queer POC?
Photo: Work-Bench Work-Bench has set up their headquarters as space for hosting regular events that help introduce founders to key people in the community and learn about different subjects, such as writing a successful RFP, negotiating contracts and setting up a successful proof of concept (PoC).
Allowing for the worries and frustration of people of color to be expressed and the concealed structures that dictate mobility of people of color to be seen, BOOST MOBILE exemplifies the frightening spirit of our time and looks to fight through it by elevating PoC voices through art.
While no scene is perfect, venues are also becoming safer places for POC, women, and the LGBTQ community, with the TGAF crew crediting online communities that allow people to discuss harassment and discrimination without relying on the often unreliable systems set up by clubs and promoters for these problems.
" Thus "many of us feel the violence inflicted upon the refugees — and against mostly POC-protesters in Ferguson and mostly-Indigenous protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, just two of many other instances of militarized tear gassing of unarmed citizens — much more personally than it seems to affect leadership.
Many of us feel the violence inflicted upon the refugees—and against mostly-POC protesters in Ferguson, and mostly-Indigenous protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, just two of many other instances of militarized tear gassing of unarmed citizens—much more personally than it seems to affect leadership.
So interesting... The funny thing is that I don't want to comment more on it, because I think it's super silly, to be honest, and everybody knows that the name of my company is Pop of Color, and Pop of Color was not available, POC Beauty was, so there you go.
"We have a number of tools already in place we have to fine- tune others and we also, to be honest, want to make sure that we come up with a POC in the marketplace that accurately reflects the requirements and the creativity of what the demand is in the marketplace."
Instead she blamed her lapse in judgment on a late-night joint and apologized to "anyone POC" who may have been offended—ignoring the fact that "nigger" is not a historical slur leveled against an undefined "people of color" but one bound up in this country's painful history of anti-blackness.
Most larger companies want to find ways to use more modern tools, but they are often stuck for a variety of reasons including lack of internal resources to run a PoC, regulatory hurdles around using customer data for testing purposes and skepticism that the startup can deliver what it's promising.
With the first few weeks of classes now firmly underway, I spoke to six current and former PoC students about how their time in college has affected their personal identities; how they navigated "othering"; and asked for the advice they would give themselves if they could do it all again.
Maybe I had some Herculean desire to effect change without losing the press pass that would allow me to do so, but I do know that I could have done a better job at focusing on the talents that placed POC in the positions they landed in the first place.
"Addressing racial justice through medical schools translates to improved outcomes in very broad arenas, such as a better environment for POC (people of color) medical students, faculty and staff, health equity among patients, and economic benefit of local communities," said Mariquit Lu, co-founding member of White Coats 4 Black Lives.
Alongside Reizman, participants include designer, educator, and Harvard GSD student Mindy Seu; paige watkins, a Detroit-based community organizer, archivist, and co-founder of the Black Bottom Archives; Color Coded, a POC-only space in Los Angeles working with historically disenfranchised communities to teach and create new technologies; and Feminist.
Who Tried It: Lindy Segal, Style Social Editor RHONY fans remember POC all too well (Kristen chronicled the line's inception throughout her time on the show, including a tense meeting with Bethenny Frankel over the name) — and I recall being pretty impressed that the line was sold at a legit retailer, Ricky's NYC.
"We can't have tolerance for crimes motivated by hate and things like that, but we also need to reckon with the fact that our justice system is one that disproportionately incarcerates our queer communities and especially our queer POC communities," she said in an interview with BuzzFeed News' AM to DM on Tuesday.
"It feels weird to ask you to watch @InsecureHBO tonight when the country is on fire, but my hope is that you'll tune in and support us because our show dares greatly to promote the humanity of POC [people of color] — something that is under attack in this country right now," she tweeted.
Rather than alienate white viewers, the writer of color enters an unspoken contract: The POC character will have a narrative arc, and with an arc comes the promise of a resolution, which puts the labor on the writer of color to "make up" with whiteness and "resolve" the conflict inherent in racialized identities.
By the time it expanded, to Atlanta, Paris in 2015, then London in 2016, Afropunk had earned a reputation as a place for black and POC misfits and radicals and distressingly well-dressed people to come together and celebrate being part of a subculture that was hard to pin down or name.
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Inside volume one, there are fashion editorials that break from convention—one spread features a mother wearing Hood By Air while breastfeeding her child—fashionable art collages, that draw on the history and diversity of Latinx communities, and photo stories that highlight some of the most pressing contemporary issues facing POC communities locally and globally.
"I wanted to circle back and ask you if you could connect us with your colleagues as you've mentioned, as we would like to meet with them and get a better understanding of your requirements so we can send you a POC [proof of concept]," a July 2014 NSO email to the DEA reads.
POC venturing to North Side venues are often met with resistance, as was the case in the late aughts and early part of this decade, when black queer youth from the South and West sides of the city said they faced racial epithets or felt racially profiled when they spent nights in Boystown, a traditionally gay neighborhood.
The Weekender brought together a selection of underground performers, including a broad swath of queer and POC artists; all sets would be streamed and recorded in lush 3D, giving kids around the world the chance to experience cutting-edge performances as if they were there and exposing artists from tight-knit, homegrown scenes to an international audience.
But the main point here is marketing, and since the "Not a Socialist" hat has already sold out, I'd like to humbly throw out some ideas for new merch to follow this groundswell of GOD-I-HOPE ironic uptake on the Bloomberg message: Mike Bloomberg: Not a Democrat Mike Bloomberg: Not a Fan of POC // It's Frisky Business!
Cynthia Erivo, a British actress of Nigerian descent who won this year's Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her performance in "The Color Purple," posted a series of comments on Twitter, saying "It saddens me that after such a wonderful multicultural season on Broadway a piece set in AFRICA has not one POC," meaning a person of color.
Square is 21.5 percent female globally, and 57.3 percent white, 6.4 percent black and 5.8 percent Latinx in the U.S. Although Square's overall representation of people of color is low, there's greater representation of POC at Square than at companies like Facebook (2 percent black, 4 percent Latinx), Google (2 percent black, 153 percent Latinx) and Twitter (3 percent black and 4 percent Latinx).
It's heartbreaking to overhear a white male friend say the only way he's going to make it in comedy is if he becomes a trans, female, gay asian, amputee — as if men aren't still largely comedy's gatekeepers and decision-makers — as if any time a woman or queer person or POC gets a comedic opportunity, it's somehow been implicitly stolen from the white comic who truly deserved it.
The heated debate extended to box office coverage, as people on social media argued about whether reporting that the film came in second to Black Panther was business as usual or just a way of pitting POC filmmakers against one another; one viral tweet insisted, though it did not turn out to be the case, that new estimates showed Wrinkle in Time making over $10 million more than originally reported.
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After a contentious piece ("Why I'm Quitting UCB, and Its Problem with Diversity") made the rounds on social media, a former U.C.B. diversity coördinator, Keisha Zollar, responded on Facebook, expressing her wish that "POC, women, the LGBTQ+ community, people over 35, and persons with disabilities" be better represented at U.C.B. The organization made headlines last month, when a U.C.B. performer in New York was accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and banned from the school and the theatre.
"Convince yourself that that this CATASTROPHE of a President who you said was better that HRC IS NOT ripping children away from parents seeking asylum, holding children... INDEFINITELY in internment camps with their new policy, DESTROYING all attempts to protect our environment (yes the water you properted to care about), endangered animals, taking away women's ACCESS to health care and legal abortion, trying to block POC from Voting with extreme... Judges who will support jerrymandering efforts, not to mention destroying ALL good will and allied relationships across the Globe," Messing continued.
And here's 14 reasons to attend The Europas: • Ultra-high quality Investors, speakers & featured guests • New startup founders brought into the eco-system • New deal-flow for investors • Our "Diversity Matters" Free pass bringing in more women and POC • Expert speeches, discussions, and Q&A • Intimate "breakout" sessions with key players on vertical topics • The opportunity to meet almost everyone in those small groups, super-charging your networking • Convivial, relaxed atmosphere conducive to networking • Key press including WSJ, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, attending • A stunning awards dinner and party which honors both the hottest startups and the leading lights in the European startup scene • Content independently curated by journalists • The only truly independent, industry-backed awards in Europe • Percentage of profits will be donated to charity • All on one day to maximize your time in London Plus, as a special offer for TechCrunch readers, we have discounted tickets of up to 60% off: • Daytime conference plus evening awards tickets (£250, 60% discount) (valid all day, July 3rd) – this ticket includes the daytime conference and the awards dinner with ceremony and after party.

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