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Writing With Color – Featured POC Profiles

Writing With Color is grateful to receive PoC Profiles from folks all over the world, PoC Profiles being a snapchat in the life of folks of marginalized race, ethnic and religious groups who share their stories. This post features some that have gained traction from readers and resonated with many (Based on 2014-2016 results).

Top Frequented Profiles

• Female Korean-American Teenager 
• Orthodox Jewish 
• Mexican Woman (born and raised) 
• Americanized Mexican-American Teen Girl 
• Being White-passing and Native in America 
• Being a Nonbinary Black Teen 
• Being Chicana 
• Chinese-Canadian
• One Perspective of a Filipino American

• Being a Queer Asian Scientist

Personal Experiences on Important Topics

• Missing Links and Identity Issues
• Racism/Microaggressions among POC
• “Next Village Over” Face Mixed Woman

We highly encourage reading all of the perspectives WWC readers have to offer. You may find them insightful, especially in regards to getting that “real” perspective as well as learning more of how people would like to be portrayed in media, as many offer thoughts on their representation.

View the rest of the collection of PP here.

If you’ve got some experiences to share as a PoC and/or ethnic or religiously marginalized person, submit them to writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/submit.

Don’t know where to start? Topic ideas provided here.

–WWC