It’s the principle that matters. ICE is targeting people for deportation based on their political activity - we shouldn’t accept that and should be alarmed.

white men who justify, overwrite, or turn away from black pain when it’s inconvenient to their narrative are participants in white supremacy all the same. 

But his celebrity did not protect him from an immigration process that denies human dignity, thrives on surveillance, racial profiling, and harassment.

It’s annoying that people think this is funny, he’s being deported on some bullshit and if ICE can do this to 21 Savage, think what they can do to your undocumented neighbors who don’t have $$ for a lawyer...

By the time DACA came around he was too late to qualify - you have to have graduated school or have a GED (he has neither) and you have to have a clean criminal background - which he didn’t.

I see what you’re saying, but I think that one of the benefits of “identity politics” is that you’re instilled with a sense that it’s your responsibility to your community to empower those beneath you and around you as well (ex. A$AP Mob). It’s the only way historically that minority groups have been able to survive…

Yes - and I see your point, but that’s still not quite what’s going on here. We’re just saying you can’t organize a body positive revolution around the most privileged bodies - you’re not doing anything effective. That’s not an insult or a slap in the face it’s just facts.

I can see that but my frustration is that you guys are focusing so much on feeling invalidated that it doesn’t occur to you that there’s a good reason that privileged white women “subverting” beauty standards is frustrating to the rest of us.

I think the fact that you’re focusing so much on how not to hurt white women’s feelings, rather than how to affirm the OP’s experience is part of the problem.

But Frida Kahlo kind of proves her point. Frida Kahlo (despite her indigenous background which I’m 100% respectful of) was a “white passing” woman in a country of brown folks. The fact that she is the face of hairy brown women proves Prachi’s point. Even when we’re talkkng about communities of color in the margins…

No, she just gets to be persecuted for literally every other aspect of her identity IN ADDITION to her body hair. 

1. Being hairy as a WOC carries a different kind of baggage than it does for white women.

Yeah, this needs to be a follow-up ‘How I Made It’ episode. 

Dream Hampton did a really good job of letting the enablers speak for themselves and show the audience how entertainers’ support networks and the industry in general were built to enable predatory behavior.

People love to be dismissive of gender politics, but it’s everywhere. It’s weird when zoos make up these whole heteronormative nuclear “families” with animals that don’t tend to behave that way in nature.

It’s not though. Honestly what she did was a bureaucratic Rachel Dolezal. As soon as she saw herself listed that way she should have had it changed. And as someone who has graduated from a PWI, it’s not unheard of that in meeting with faculty from your own underrepresented identity group (I’m black for example) you…

It’s a shame that this silliness will overshadow the question of whether she would actually be a good president.

If she never had a relationship with the culture then she never should have identified herself as Native American or told anyone the long drawn out story about her Native ancestry. All she had to say was, “yes, my family thinks we have a native ancestor, but listen to x, y, and z things that are happening to actual…

She can take pride in it in her personal life, but what she shouldn’t do is use and identity that she’s never had any lived experiene in and claim it in a professional setting. Imagine being a Native student at Harvard wanting to speak to someone who could relate to you and ending up with Elizabeth Warren.

I’m so annoyed that she did this. It’s tone deaf shit like this that erodes faith in minority communities (like mine). If I still lived in MA I’d hold my nose and vote for her but if you have to use a DNA test to prove your ethnicity then you shouldn’t identify as a member of that group. This is just dickish and tone d…