For 2009, IBARW will take place between July 27 to August 2.

IBARW collects links to participating posts during the week; we try to get posts from people who blog about racism all year round and from people who habitually blog about other topics. As with rydra_wong's link spam, all posts regardless of content are linked to, so there may be fail appearing. ( Read more... )

IBARW3 ran from August 4 through August 10 in 2008 and had a total of 236 tagged posts, 209 of which had content (i.e. were not just announcement-only posts). This is down from last year, which had around 500 some posts, but around the same level as IBARW1. On the other hand, the percentage of nonwhite people/POC posting is growing, from roughly 25 ( Read more... )

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For 2008, IBARW will take place between August 4 through August 10.

If you would like to participate, here's what to do:

1. Announce the week in your blog.


2. ETA: If you use a blogging system that allows post icons/pictures, switch your default icon to either an official IBARW icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBARW icon, ( Read more... )

This year's IBARW will take place between August 4 through August 10 (although please let me know if the dates conflict with important holidays).

Poll IBARW3 theme

Also, comments, suggestions, brainstorming, and critique for IBARW3 is always welcome here.

A brief history and explanation of IBARW

International Blog Against Racism Week (IBARW) originated in an email discussion among coffeeandink, liviapenn, minnow1212, rachelmanija, rilina and me, but for me, the origins go back to the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM. ( Read more... )

My goals for IBARW3 are to get more participation from other areas of the blogsphere (fandom and non-fandom), more international participation, and more POC participation. I'd also like to see IBARW in other corners of fandom, such as the gaming community, off LJ, the RPF community, etc ( Read more... )

ETA: OMG I SUCK! I want to say a really loud and public thank you to jinian, ladyjax, and poilass, who tagged and catalogued all the IBARW2 links this week! 500 some posts! They rock muchly, and if it hadn't been for them, it would have been impossible keeping track of how large IBARW2 got.

Also, thank you so much to everyone who helped out with icons! Please let me ( Read more... )

Here's a compilation of links to IBARW icons. You are, of course, welcome to make your own as well.

• IBARW1 icons - "fans against racism," "ninja against racism" (Naruto), "speak again racism (it helps)," "Rock Lee kicks speaks against racism" (Naruto), "blog against racism (it helps)"


• More IBARW 1 icons - "pirates against racism (yarr)" (PotC2, ( Read more... )

For 2007, IBARW will take place between August 6 through August 12.

If you would like to participate, here's what to do:

1. Announce the week in your blog.


2. Switch your default icon to either an official IBAR week icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBAR week icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do ( Read more... )