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You’ve reminded me of the Susie Phipps case and her lawsuit to change her designation to white. She was determined to be 3/32 Negro and legally would have to remain colored. I think the law was changed later, but not made retroactive.

My identity is not annoying; other people being rudely inquisitive and/or argumentative about my identity is annoying. One of the reasons they do this is because I do not look black enough to satisfy their idea of what a biracial person should look like.

Shortest version? Because I don’t identify as white.

The most aggravating part of it for me is that if I say I am mixed but identify as black, people will tell me flat out that I’m not, as if I don’t know my parents. If I were to say that I am mixed but identify as white, people would throw ‘one-drop’ at me such that if those drops were literal, I could drown in them.…

“Faux-latto” was coined by the author Mat Johnson, author of “Loving Day” and the graphic novel “Incognegro”; I absolutely lay no claim to inventing this. His Twitter feed is really fun, but his books are awesome and you should buy them.

It was already annoying being mixed and looking white without this “tragic faux-latto” bullshit in the news.

You are not alone in this. I get very absorbed in what I’m doing to the point that I do forget to eat lunch sometimes, to drink more water, or to get up and walk around during my work day. It’s probably cheaper for me to set an alarm on my phone than to get a glowing water bottle, but I’m not going to complain about…

I think it’s more that because he is already considered short, he won’t want to be around women guaranteed to tower over him, making him look more short by comparison.

It’s a “height” joke.

It reminded me of the ending of “A Clockwork Orange” when a smiling Alex says, “I was cured, alright.”

This kind of asylum wasn’t that rare in the past. Many facilities took a more relaxed approach to dealing with their patients, providing everyone with responsibilities that helped sustain life at the hospital. If you factor in the likelihood that an asylum for the ‘colored insane’ would have less funding, the familial…

De Atramentis Charles Dickens ink

When this happened to me, I found out that it was an unfamiliar-to-me attempt to be helpful by correcting my pronunciation. If I tried to imitate them instead of just repeating myself badly, things went much better.

There's a slight difference between, "Who are you wearing?" and "Lift your skirt." In the quote we see, Julianne Moore didn't say it was a chore to talk fashion, she said that she was being asked to do things that she felt weren't dignified at her age. The public is hell on famous women's looks already and it's worse…

Now that I am not in a meeting... YouTube (part one) and BBC iPlayer

There is a good documentary about this on the BBC's iPlayer called "Reinventing the Royals". It might also be on YouTube. Anyway, they each have their own staff to manage their press and photo ops, which occasionally leads to conflict when there are competing agendas.

BBC Radio 4 is currently airing a 5-part podcast of Patti reading from Just Kids as their Book of the Week.

Neon orange liquid the color of Tang is some sort of sinus infection. I'd thought I'd had some kind of brain hemorrhage / excessive nose bleed until I looked at the kleenex. I didn't even know that color was possible.

If your very existence as a person seems devalued because you're not young enough, thin enough, pretty enough, perfect enough, something like this can feel medically necessary for your mental health. Being gorgeous probably requires even more work because you're under increased scrutiny; people ruthlessly seek out any…