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My five-year college reunion is this weekend, and I can’t go, and it breaks my heart. I thought this week leading up to it, and this weekend, would be the worst of it. My stomach hurts a little just writing this. The funny thing is, though this possibility occurred to me last fall, though it’s […]
When I was a kid, I was in love with my sister. She was so perfectly beautiful in my eyes. And she had all the freedom and secrets and sex and romance that teenagers had, and I wanted. Last night I dreamt she and I were talking. I don’t remember the conversation, except that I […]
From Ashana’s recent post, “The Right to History“: Has anyone ever told you that you have a right to know what happened to you? You have a right to know how you felt about it? You have a right to know who you were then, who you have been either because of what happened or […]
From Yashna Padamsee’s article on “communities of care”: In the last 3 years as I talk about the Healing Justice (HJ) work I am involved in I am met with dueling responses of either deep yearning and curiosity about sustainability or a look that says “how sweet” and “call me when you’re ready to do […]
Nick, on The Atlantic’s article on Angelina Jolie’s preventative mastectomy: The title bothers me because, duh, of course she’s still a woman; that shouldn’t even need to be reiterated, but I digress. I’m sending this because of this part: Later in the piece, she makes an important point about masculinity as well. She thanks equally […]
And there’s Beyoncé’s face, mutilated into a ghoulish whiteness by Photoshop, advertising the joys of Pepsi on the side of the Muni, and I start writing: Maybe she never saw the comfort of her own brown skin. Maybe she never felt that smoothness, maybe she never loved it by smoothing lotion over the possible roughness […]
“White racism, white supremacy, white privilege and the social construction of race,” Omowale Akintunde, Multicultural Education v. 7 no. 2 (Winter 1999): Racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemologically embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality. For most whites, however, racism is like murder: the concept exists but someone has to […]
May 24, 2013
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