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
Yes, yes, yes. From The Question of Fetishization, by Natalie Reed (via Lisa Millbank at A Radical TransFeminist) Clearly, people have all kinds of different idiosyncratic attractions. Red hair, dark hair, blond hair, curly hair, straight hair, particularly large or particularly small breasts, lean body-types, curvier or heavier body types, muscle (in many different proportions), …
Continue reading “I’m into/not into [insert race here]” is racist.
Click each of these to enlarge. (Institutionalized racism, in case you're living under a rock and need proof white privilege exists.) In other fun news concerning the representation of women: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying Congressional Birth Control Hearing Involves Exactly Zero People Who Have a Uterus and …
Continue reading Gender Wage Gaps by Level of Education (2008); by Gender and Race (1970—2010)
The last installment. This little series has felt quite tentative, possibly because I’d attempted to discuss an expansive subject in three parts. An appreciative ‘thank you’ to anyone who tolerated the disorganized writing and disheveled thoughts between essays and finals. I hope that somewhere in the midst of it all I managed to make some …
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
You mean ethnicity. Well, I like parallel universes and far away places and standing on a balcony in the cool night air watching the lights in the mountains. Sometimes I’m shy around animals and accidentally play treble clef with my left hand. I like wondering to a friend what amoebas would dream about and feeling …
the fatal feminist 