Gender and race in the cult of true womanhood
trigger warning for rape, sexual assault, coercion. I came across this video by Jamilah Lemieux, aka Sister Toldja, on how cultural assumptions about race and gender shape the way we respond on a...
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Part 1 Growing up, I had to make sense of two divergent messages I heard about female sexuality. On the one hand, there was the constant refrain about “Women” as a monolithic, universal category,...
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Part 1 Part 2 Sexualized stereotypes about black women are not isolated to my former church or denomination, but rather representative of beliefs about black sexuality and family life that remain...
View ArticleGender, race, and the cult of true womanhood, cont
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 It’s really telling to me that, while laziness and hypersexuality are stereotypes are applied to black people in general, so many of the evangelicals Emerson interviewed for...
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That time of year again: Mark Driscoll’s “Daddy Christmas Tips”
Dalek Driscoll is baaaaaack (Image by xneurospasta, CC license). I see that Mark Driscoll has recycled his “Daddy Christmas Tips” for 2011. Since all the “tips” are identical to last year’s, it seemed...
View ArticleK. Ryan Ziegler on Black male feminism
Content notes/Trigger warning: street harassment, gender/gender identity discrimination, gender dysphoria, racialized misogyny I love this post by Dr. K. Ryan Ziegler (@fakerapper): How my past as a...
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Why Rivers Cuomo would be the worst boyfriend ever
Image by Mike Smail, CC license. Originally posted by Lydia Harris at Swimsuit Issue. For a long time now, I’ve been struggling to find a phrase which accurately and succinctly describes men like...
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People are not check boxes
So, Don Miller wrote a thing about gender difference and gender equality (warning: transphobia and misgendering). Like previous things he’s written about gender, it’s pretty wrongheaded. The title...
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Body Impolitic
Jennie Kermode is a journalist and activist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She’s also the chair of Trans Media Watch, a UK media literacy and activism group that addresses media coverage of trans* and...
View Article[Petition] Cibu: Stop using racism to sell products
Please take a second to sign and share this petition to ask Cibu to stop using offensive stereotypes about Asian women to sell their line – especially the really gross “Miso Knotty” [“Me so naughty”]...
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