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ICYMI - Encore: Tumblr’s “This Is White Privilege” Stays Ahead of Its Time

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher speak with Dion Beary, a writer and online community builder who founded the Tumblr blog This Is White Privilege. They talk with Beary about where that blog began, its impact on online discourse, and why he stepped away.

Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.


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0:00.0

If you thought you were a wolf or in the human body, you were a wolfkin.

0:04.9

But you could be a phycus, or a money tree, or a Harry Potter yourself.

0:11.3

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher, and you're listening to ICYMI, in case you missed it.

0:18.1

Slates podcast about internet culture.

0:20.4

And you probably didn't miss it, but Rachel is obviously not here with me today.

0:25.4

Which means there's only one thing for me to talk about, and that thing is Tumblr.

0:29.4

It only seems fair that the number of times Rachel has talked about musicals alive

0:32.6

been a way, means that yes, I am talking about her favorite thing in her absence.

0:46.1

We thought we would take the opportunity to share with you an interview from one of the

0:49.8

earliest episodes of ICYMI, but one that still feels strikingly prescient today, especially

0:56.3

given the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York allegedly perpetrated by an avowed

1:01.1

white supremacist.

1:02.6

I'm talking about a conversation that we had with Dion Berry in April of last year.

1:07.2

Dion is the founder of the Tumblr blog, This Is White Privilege.

1:11.0

Today we'll be sharing an extended cut of that interview, featuring a few more of his

1:15.0

insights that we feel are even more relevant to the current conversation.

1:20.1

After the break, Rachel and I will be back with Dion.

1:26.3

This isn't just midweek football, it's wide-eyed, shared with Jordy's on a European tour.

1:38.2

It's noisy neighbours turn trebles winners during the post-NAM, it's the red devils burning

1:43.3

with scores to settle, it's the young gunners all fired up with their site set on glory,

1:48.7

it's the chance to compete with Europe's elite.

1:51.5

This isn't just football, this is everything.

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