Speaking of piercings, my mother informed me recently that in our culture, women used to wear the noluk (septum piercing) to indicate that they were newly married. If the women weren’t already pierced, the bridal party would puncture the ring through the septum on the very day of the ceremony. Septum rings have never appealed …
Continue reading Diaspora Romanticizing Discarded Patriarchal Traditions
by Inas Hyatt and TFF Non-black Muslims often (mis)appropriate the terms “intersectionality” and “white feminism” to the detriment of black Muslim women. This appropriation ranges from coopting the theory of intersectionality to defend Muslim men who threaten or deflect from Muslim women accusing them of assault, to sidetracking from the migrant slave trade by introducing …
My fever for the past few days is currently at 103°F, so I apologize in advance if this post makes jumps, but it all bears repeating. No one in the history of revolutions has ever placed sex before race, including white women, who consistently prioritize their race over their sex (see: voting for men who've …
Continue reading White Feminists Prioritize Race Over Sex: on Failing to Understand White Feminism
I'm actually not an incredible fan of anime, in that I've never really immersed myself in it, other than--of course--the obligatory elementary school obsession with Sailor Moon. But I've had friends who very much were, from elementary into high school. I went to a predominantly Asian and Latinx (thank God) high school rather than a …
Continue reading Anime Characters Don’t “Look White” and the Ridiculousness of White-as-Default
Update: Most of the attackers in Cologne were white. "On Friday, the Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer in fact told me that, of the 59 suspects pinpointed so far, just four are from war-torn countries (Syria and Iraq), only 14 are in custody, and nobody has yet been charged. Nearly 600 hours of CCTV reveals very little, …
Continue reading Racists Targeting Refugees Pretend to Care about Assaults in Germany and Sweden
When I was an undergrad about a year and a half ago, I had a professor whose class was such a frustrating experience that even the memory of it is discomforting. Aside from the horrifying discussion she entertained in the classroom about whether a student in a novel we were reading had actually been raped …
Continue reading The Racism of Being Told to Keep Your Audience in Mind
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, …
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