I read in the comments either here or on Gawker that they’re divorced and she started claiming to be black AFTER that, so my guess is he was like “My ex is crazy” and moved on. If they’re still married, I cannot understand, at all, why he would go along with that. Like, your wife starts wearing too-dark foundation and…

She’s straight up lied, repeatedly. In the news interview, they ask her if a picture of a black man is her father and she says yes.

She didn’t switch ‘til after the divorce. Maybe she jettisoned her whole life and started over with a whole new persona. What I really want to know is why did the family out her now? It’s been a decade. Weirdness all around.

I heard that she divorced him before she underwent her “transformation”.

There is no inconsistency. Even for people who somehow missed out on what transgender identity means before the past week or two, at this point I think it’s pretty impossible to still think that a trans woman is just “someone who decides to be a woman” unless you’re acting in bad faith (i.e. trolling).

I think she’s seriously unwell. There was an SVU episode where a 30-year-old was pretending to be a high school student - she’d age out of foster care in one city and start over in a new one, and she insisted that she was actually 16, even when caught. I think Rachel is on some shit like that. I REALLY want to hear…

We need to bring back #COTD just for this post.

I feel like her relationship with her family has something to do with it. Hates her parents, hates her identity, and forged herself a new one that is wholly unconnected to them.

It’s not like she masqueraded as a man during the Civil War so she could fight on the front lines. She took advantage of a community’s good faith. There’s nothing brave or celebratory in that.

Well, that’s also assuming black people’s responsibility to white people is to clean up their mess. Clearly, this woman is messy. She was messy then, and she is messy now. But the rest of us worked very hard to earn our degrees. We are not suddenly going to drop everything we’re doing to correct her. It’s actually her…

I dont think anybody has the responsibility to tell her she’s nuts. I’m just shocked that she went this long without anybody telling her that.

NOPE

I think the OP was talking about how they called her out (or rather challenged her to think critically about her experiences as it related to her art/schoolwork) while she was in school, and honestly what someone chooses to do after that is not really of concern of her former classmates or instructors, assuming they…

I know this is bad but all that is making me wonder whether she even had cancer. She sounds like a pathological liar in general, not just in regards to her racial background.

claimed to be black to several people, claimed an adopted black brother was her son, darkened her skin, said she was black on a job application, said she was black and referred to herself as black to people in person and on social media, introduced a rando black dude as her father to colleages as well as students.

It really sounds like she has some sort of personality disorder. Especially the stuff in this article: http://easterneronline.com/35006/eagle-li…

Born in a teepee in the middle of nowhere Montana and hunting with bows and arrows? Moved to South Africa where her mother and stepfather beat her for being too dark?…

It’s just unbelievable. There are so many opportunities to have this kind of charade found out that it is actually surprising to me that it took as long as it did. Well that, and the notion that she thought she could get away with it.

I studied graphic design at Howard and the program — like many other art and design programs at liberal arts schools — is very small. It has a long and storied legacy, but traditional painting, design, drawing, and art history take up only one floor in the Dept. of Art at Howard University. Meaning, nearly everyone…

Take a look at some of her past FB & Twitter posts. In one she’s claiming the black guy in a “family” picture she posted was her dad, talking about how watching ‘12 Years a Slave” reminded her of when she was little she made corn husk dolls like the character in the movie but with it’s hair in braids like her…

It’s almost like a real life sequel to Soul Man, only not as offensive, but still offensive, and confusing. It’s what happens when Ang and Spike Lee co-direct a film together. so many questions.