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over privileged is the new phrase now, eh?

By shag carpet bomb • Dec 6th, 2008 • Category: Feminism -- So Very 1998, Horseshittery, Identity Politics, Performative Contradictions, Queer

Even though the gay community is made up of people of different ethnicities, races, cultures, and class backgrounds, it’s public face is pure over privileged white male. Right after the passing of prop 8 all over the news the white male gay leaders came out in force to verbally protest.
honestly. I think, collectively, a […]


identity political powerlessness has its privileges

By shag carpet bomb • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Election 2008, Feminism -- So Very 1998, Film Theory, Identity Politics, Performative Contradictions, Playing the Race Card, Queer, Racialization, Theory, WMF, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]