On February 10th, 2015, Yusor Abu Salha, 21, was shot execution-style alongside her husband of six weeks, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, by a man who resembles a potato. The potato-terrorist’s name is Craig Stephen Hicks, a 46-year-old while male who, according to the malestream media, shot the three innocent students …
Continue reading On the Deaths We Choose to Mourn… And the Ones We Choose to Forget
You have the right to bear children. No one may enter your body and alter the state of your existence with an entitled twist of cold medical instruments. If you are impoverished, you have the right to bear children. If you are disabled, you have the right to bear children. If you are of color, …
I've been thinking about appropriation--not just cultural appropriation, but of a variation of appropriation that is equally if not just a little more sinister: the appropriation of appearance. This is something that is bodily, involves policing the autonomy itself of women of color, and results in valuing the woman wearing the imitation more than the …
Continue reading Imitating the Appearances of People of Color
This is going to be a quick post, and it's prompted by various Muslims--and naturally, they've pretty much all been men trying to "put things in perspective"--detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian girls who've been kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by competing with the attention the kidnapping is receiving, via lists of various …
I wrote this elsewhere but am posting it here for two reasons. Firstly, I want to link you to this article written by Chally stating that white people don’t have a monopoly on genetic variation and I want to talk about it. (Actually, I’m just going to grab this opportunity to link a few essentials …
Continue reading “White people don’t have a monopoly on genetic variation.” –Chally Kacelnik
Having thrown out the idea of identifying with a race in part I, I feel I should make something clear: as much as I see the social construct of race to be problematic, I am not interested in ripping race away from other people. I know that others identify with race for reactionary reasons, or …
Continue reading The Western Muslim Woman, Part II: Visual Presentation and Interpretation
One of the incredibly inspirational women I follow on Twitter tweeted that her mother in law, who was visiting, had said about her sweet adorable daughter, "I wish the baby was fair like you and not dark like me." And it was heart-breaking. Not only the reality that would be difficult to address with the …
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