Tag: FEM

  • However, white passing privilege is not the same as white privilege. People who are white passing are considered so because they contradict the narrow racial stereotypes perpetuated by white people, and, as Niloufar Haidari notes, these “borders of whiteness are policed often in self-interest rather than out of genuine attempts by inclusivity.”

  • Multiethnic Women FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2015-12-04 Kali Croke Out of all the things that compose an individual’s identity, one’s culture (defined by similarities in ideals, religion, language, habits, etc.) is perhaps the most significant. While we mostly understand the experiences of people of different singular cultures, oftentimes the experiences of individuals with…

  • Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-04-28 Graciela Barada My father, born in Cuba at the end of Castro’s Revolution, migrated to the United States in 1980. He was a young, black, Spanish-speaking political refugee who left his wife and months-old daughter behind in hopes of building…

  • Gendered (Mixed) Race FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-05-26 Laura Jue “You’re so exotic.” That’s a phrase that many mixed race people like me have heard at least a few times in their lives. That sentiment is usually accompanied by other similarly dehumanizing compliments such as “mixed people are so beautiful,” “mixed babies are…