Grody, Brody.

I watched the first one with my students recently. The dinosaur parts have held up, so has the appeal of Goldblum. But some parts are pretty terrible, I didn’t remember those kids as being so insufferable.

1. Sex and gender are two wholly different beasts. Femininity and masculinity are nebulous and fluid. Sex biology is much less so, and doesn’t necessarily correlate with gender.

What confuses me most is that she is in a position to be very familiar with all the reasons this is problematic. As both an adjunct professor for African-American studies and someone who works closely with PoC on racial issues, she has to be fully cognizant of how offensive appropriation is to PoC, and that a white…

“Hang the fuck in there.”

From a news article I read, I was under the impression that it all started when she applied to Howard University with a portfolio art exclusively featuring African-American subject matter. Apparently they presumed that she was black, and gave her a full ride. So, her original intention might not have been to say she…

It looks like the reporter from the oft tweeted YT clip had a picture of her white dad and was all “Umm... this is really your dad?” and when she walked away from the interview he likely contacted the parents for more info/background and they just told the truth. That’s how this all seems to be playing out. It’s not…

This all day. ‘Cause girlfriend was straight up lying — about her paternity, her son and who knows what else. Shit, she couldn’t just be a white ally? Why the blackface and impersonation, the positioning herself as a light-skinned sister among her peers instead of living truthfully and fighting for progress and…

Whatever you do, for christ’s sake, stop making this about mental illness with no proof whatsoever. You know you’re working to diminish her responsibility if you do that, you know it. As far as we know, she is an extraordinarily committed liar, and a very harmful one who subjected her own kids to faked hate crimes.…

But why now? Where have they been? Were they finally like “ok, that’s it. This charade cannot continue into its second decade”?

Not gonna lie, some of these tweets are totally ON POINT. That being said, she didn’t have to pretend to be black to make those statements.

She checked a box that she was African American on a form to apply for a city position, when, ethnically, she’s white. I have no problem if she feels like she’s black, but should she really lie about it?

i love, so much, that her parents, more or less unprompted, blew up her spot.

Bitches be cray.

She can be both not-lying about feeling black and still be lying about actually being black. We have no way to judge the first, but there seems to be a pretty strong case on the second.

Not the same, at all. Passing people did so because it was the result of a racist system where you could literally be someone’s property if you were black. And the emancipation of former slaves still maintained system where whiteness had significant benefits. Passing was a survival technique, this is straight bullshit

if some white person says that they “identify as black”, they are saying that they identify with black culture, which is not a monolith, first of all so that’s basically intrinsically offensive, especially if they hypothetically identify with being a “thug” or any of the other negative stereotypes forces on people of…

Things like white people with dreads, Chet Haze, and Mitt Romney make it embarrassing enough to be white. This chick just stepped it up a notch. So sorry, y’all.

Sadly, based on interviews she has given in the past, it sounds like she has had a very rough life. According to Rachel, her parents were abusive, and when she was an adult her parents adopted 3 young black children; around the same time, she began altering her appearance. Also around this same time, she allegedly was…

Over on Gawker a lot of shitty shitty people are all like “but if you can have trans-gendered people how is this not the same thing?” And I hope to fucking god this comment section doesn’t go down that shitty, shitty, path. not the same thing people.