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29

I turned 29 on Monday. The last year of the decade that’s the autonomous version of teenage-hood in American culture today. This is the year to hammer it out and get it right, right? I spent the day (really, a few days surrounding it) camping on Cape Cod, and at the beach on the bayContinue reading “29”

I Am a Native American Woman With White Privilege

I Was the Black Guy in a White Frat | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/education/i-was-black-guy-white-frat A worthy read, from the perspective of a Black man who all but grew up a white boy… culturally and educationally, at least. Settle in, it’s a long, thought provoking read. Some explicit language within.

Austin Landlords Demolish Family-Owned Piñata Store For SXSW Party

On the effects of gentrification, SXSW, and the tech industry on race relations and non-White business owners and neighborhood dwellers in Austin, TX via Austin Landlords Demolish Family-Owned Piñata Store For SXSW Party.

Blame It On Jamie Lee Curtis

Originally posted on Silver in the Barn:
Why I would imagine that the color of my hair would hold an iota of interest to you, dear reader, cannot be explained other than to say I learned the hard way that it’s a subject that can ignite opinion, solicited or not. I was serving as parliamentarian for a…

Quote by Pauline E. Hopkins, Contending Forces, 1900

Originally posted on mixedmemes:
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Around the World: How do YOU tell time?

We tend to think of time as a pretty universal concept. Most of us know it’s pretty human-made, the way that we use the hours on the clock, and that some countries or regions use daylight savings and some don’t, that military time versus am/pm is a factor, and that where you are in theContinue reading “Around the World: How do YOU tell time?”

I am not dating a racial slur.

Originally posted on Ashlynsully:
I work as a waitress. Last night I had a table of about 6 extremely drunk guys come in. Although they were not my table, every time I would walk by them to fill someone’s drink (They were sitting in a table right next to our pop machine) they would cat…

Being Unapologetically Ashkenazi

Originally posted on JN Magazine:
Being a Jew who has skin shaded past the color described as olive–but is not Ethiopian–is a unique identity to occupy in American Jewish spaces. Identifying as Black or biracial means that there’s more to me than Ashkenazi. Now re-read that sentence. “More to me”. There’s more to Judaism overall…

Privilege amongst the privileged; discussing “the terms” at Lehigh University

Reposted from The Brown and White: While pursuing the humanities and social science sections of any library, you’re likely to come across a laundry list of politically-charged and contested terms: white privilege, male privilege, the gender gap, heteronormativity, rape culture, American exceptionalism and first world problems. Well, okay, maybe not that last one. These highbrowContinue reading “Privilege amongst the privileged; discussing “the terms” at Lehigh University”