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hypersexuality of race

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Asian Feminism, Books, Inner Queer Dewd, Orientalism, Racialization, Sexpox Feminism, So Very 1998, Teh Sex, The Hypersexuality of Race, Womn of Color Feminism

hmmm. couldn’t resist. i visited amazon and this book was screaming at me to buy it, buy it, buy it. I can’t wait to read it and can only hope i have time! i finished a couple of books in the last couple of weeks and am currently reading Katherine Newman’s No Same in My […]


desexualizing brown women

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Imperialism, Orientalism, Racialization, Social movements, Teh Sex, Third World Feminism, Whiteness

Last year, brownfemipower criticized u.s feminism because its rhetoric desexualizes women of color — a discourse that also exists within a wider u.s. discourse where women of color are racialized by hypersexualizing their bodies as well. And this can seem puzzling. How can both be going on? It’s also harder to illustrate, I think, because […]