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
I’d like to say that finals are in a couple of weeks, and though the actual testing itself will not be keeping me from this blog (I can’t study even if I try) the number of research papers due by the end certainly will. Entries until mid-December may be uncharacteristically infrequent or brief. Lately I’ve …
Continue reading The Western Muslim Woman, Part I: Constructions of Race and Appropriation
"Know where you're from, and you'll know who you are."The biggest sham of a saying in history. I suppose it must be true for some people. I don't identify with being from anywhere the way most people do. I don't physically belong anywhere, really.Here's how a conversation with a stranger will inevitably go:"So what are …
the fatal feminist 