Facebook Groups Are Where Safe Spaces Go To Die

This week we talk about Facebook groups, university campus culture, fandoms and what they all have in common: safe spaces. 

We discuss the ways in which a lot of safe spaces have lost their meaning, often facilitate racism and white fragility, and remain notably unsafe for many marginalised people.

 

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Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea & Linktree

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Sources 

Catherine Fox, 2007, “From Transaction to Transformation: (En)Countering White Heteronormativity in ‘Safe Spaces,’” College Text, vol. 69, no. 5.

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