Fake White Allies In A World Of Make Believe

They said they wanted to help, but then I realized that it was all performative allyship

Rebecca Stevens
ILLUMINATION-Curated
4 min readApr 6, 2021

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Photo by Chien Nguyen Minh on Unsplash

The first time I wrote an article about racism, I was surprised by the number of people who read it, and even more surprised by the number of white people who reached out and said they wanted to help dismantle racism. The amount of enthusiasm…

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Rebecca Stevens
ILLUMINATION-Curated

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.