Little Ms What's Her Tights
I research and practice fashion & femininity as queer, performative, political, creative, intellectual, cunning and socially transgressive acts of insurrection.
To be black&brown “professionals” performing our individual versions of femininity feels in many ways affirming and powerful. It also (unfortunately) means encountering and having to arm ourselves with responses to racist, cissexist, misogynist attitudes and remarks that are entrenched in colonial-subject-master ideologies. Pleased to report that we are getting sassier and better at it all the time.
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2A Collective Response to “To Be Anti-Racist Is To Be Feminist: The Hoodie and the Hijab Are Not Equals”
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1 Armando Cabral for OUT Magazine, March 2012.
Photographed by Dean Isidro.
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Taken by my lovely friend, Casey.
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: White Privilege: Now What & Other Such Fallacies
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
- Apologize for being white
- Believe white is bad or wrong
- Be ashamed of being white
- Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your Privilege.”
- You…
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Cute fashion, great kitchen. This is my friend Mike “The Cupcake.”
More white mannequins model S. Asian clothing (Jackson Heights, NY)
More white mannequins model S. Asian clothing (Jackson Heights, NY)
Nuestra Hermana: Women of Color vs "Colored" Women (in handy bullets)
- The word “colored” is a loaded term based in racism. DON’T USE IT.
- The word “colored” does have different context in different countries, but the end result seems to be always based in racism/affirming the value of whiteness and societal stratification based on shadeism…
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