RosaleenBan

6/15/15

If we give people a choice to (or not to) donate their organs, I feel like this is a very similar thing.

6/15/15

Is it bad that I think it’s better that he did it to flirt?

6/15/15

I don’t understand. Is this the case of a person who revered (fetishized???) a community and co-opted their culture when she wasn’t let in as herself (at Howard)?

6/15/15

No, I’m making a joke based on the fact that the media always looks for mental illness when white people do something wrong, but almost never consider the issue for others.

6/15/15

The joke was that white people’s terrible behavior (up to and including mass shootings) is almost always explained in the media by mental illness, whereas non-white people are almost never given the same treatment - as though blackness itself is enough of a problem that they need not look for an affective or cognitive…

6/12/15

I’ve posted this to other replies, but this is the clearest example of her calling herself a black woman specifically that I could find (see the last paragraph particularly).

6/12/15

Truth, but it’s not just her family, actually (now that I’ve read more):

6/12/15

You may be right, because I didn’t read anything that said “I am a black mother” directly, for example, but she does make it pretty hard to read her as anything other than a black woman here:

6/12/15

I want a reality TV show featuring her and Tan Mom

6/12/15

It’s just mental illness! She can’t help it!!

6/12/15

She wrote a lot about “black families like [hers]” for her local paper/blog

6/12/15

New life motto.

6/12/15

Maybe it’s all performance are in protest of....something.

6/12/15

So, I know tumblr was terrible enough to coin the word transethnic a few years ago. Would this be transracial?

6/12/15

Went to bed with a 10. Woke up with a 2.

6/11/15

Not at a wedding, but after midnight, in a shore town we were all unfamiliar with, at a New Year’s Eve party, one of my friends once did the same thing! Got drunk, ran away. Showed up around 2 am, after I had slipped on ice and skinned my knees while we were looking for him,

6/11/15

Was this done by the bride and groom? Usually brides don’t throw their own showers, and it looks like this is coming from someone else who will then deliver the checks.

6/10/15

“MIL was able to embarrass herself in numerous other ways at the reception.”

6/10/15

+all of the points for finishing your MBA work! congrats!

6/10/15

I love the detail of the ‘imperfectly’ wound ribbon - it looks so soft and real! Lovely!!