yesterday I saw a tweet pointing out that there are two totally understandable ways of understanding what BIPOC means and now every time I see that acronym I wonder which one the writer means.

when you see "BIPOC," do you think:

also thinking about this bc there was an orientation event that billed itself as for "Black & Brown" students, & then for "BIPOC," but apparently they got a bunch of emails from people confused about who it was for, so they finally said it wasn't exclusive & anyone could come.

well, what these results are telling me so far is that in the same way that I try to avoid "Black and brown" because it's not necessarily understood the same way by all my interlocutors, "BIPOC" may have similar issues of clarity.

looping this in here, because I'm seeing a lot of pushback on BIPOC from Black people (which I respect!) but I think this is an important part of the convo as well https://twitter.com/polumechanos/status/1296842436262731777?s=20

to make #2 in the above tweet more concrete...I'm seeing a lot of "BIPOC is redundant because Black and Indigenous people are all already PoC."

but as Dr. Keene explains, it's worth remembering that not all Indigenous people ID as PoC. https://twitter.com/NativeApprops/status/1296840402083905538?s=20