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

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 24 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you thought you were a wolf born, a human body you were wolfkin.

0:04.7

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

0:13.1

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

0:18.0

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:20.2

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

0:25.0

Which means there's only one thing for me to talk about.

0:27.4

And that thing is Tumblr.

0:29.2

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

0:32.3

while I've been away means that, yes, I am talking about her favorite thing in her absence.

0:49.7

We thought we would take the opportunity to share with you an interview from one of the earliest episodes of I-CYMIMI, but one that still feels strikingly prescient today,

0:55.9

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

1:00.6

an avowed white supremacist. I'm talking about a conversation that we had with Dion Barry in

1:05.6

April of last year. 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,

1:13.6

featuring a few more of his insights that we feel are even more relevant to the current conversation.

1:19.8

After the break, Rachel and I will be back with Dion. Exclusively on Disney Plus.

1:33.3

It's hard and it's brutal and that's what makes it special.

1:38.3

The multi-award winning series FX's The Bear is back for a brand new season.

1:43.3

Apart my signal, unleash hell.

1:47.4

And every second counts.

1:49.9

When that shows zero, this restaurant ceases operations.

1:53.9

FX's the Bear.

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