the letters in BIPOC stand for black, indigenous, people/person, of, color. okay great; the term has emerged in the past couple years as a new iteration on POC, "people/person of color."
so if you are BIPOC does that mean you are
- a person of color who is black or indigenous?
- a person of color or a black person or an indigenous person? this confuses me because black people are already people of color and so are most indigenous people, but maybe this is done for redundancy's sake, and also to cover white-passing1 indigenous people? or for some other reason i'm not understanding?
- a secret third thing?
i am an indian-american woman, as in the south asian kind of indian, and i have heard people say "BIPOC" in a way that includes me, but i've also seen occasions where folks who are like, east asian, will say "i'm not BIPOC" and that confuses me because, like, chinese people are still very much of color! genuinely, any clarification appreciated here
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"white-passing" probably doesn't strictly cover indigenous groups like the saami but i mean to include them by this
