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“But discussing sexism without acknowledging white privilege…allows people like Applebaum and Steinem to minimize their access to power, which by any objective measure is greater than that of black Americans of either gender.”
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“to me, and many other younger feminists, it’s far more radical to embrace a feminism that’s inextricable from my anti-war, pro-gay rights, anti-racist beliefs.”
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“Here’s a funny story from the CBC: Harlequin of the Harlequin romance novels have created new imprints to appeal to (female) readers of African and (East?) Asian descent”
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“Within months of starting male hormones, “I got pulled over 300 percent more than I had in the previous 23 years of driving, almost immediately. It was astounding,” says Mitchell, who is Black and transitioned while living in the San Francisco area”
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“White women are making far greater strides in the workplace than their African-American female counterparts, according to a recent report.”
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“New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will quit the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after fourth-place showings in the campaign’s first contests, sources said Wednesday.”
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“It’s time we realized that passing off Arab culture as authoritatively Islamic is inaccurate, exclusionary, and disrespectful of other Muslims’ cultures.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Cynthia wrote:
Question: Do you REALLY relate more to a character of your own ethnicity/culture, especially if it’s literature set in the present? I don’t see how a reader like me, a 80s and 90s suburban born and raised Chinese Canadian woman, can really have anything in common with someone who was born and raised in Chinatown.
I can see a plot set in 1920s-1930s high society Shanghai working well, but a story like that can very well take place in New York just by changing the location and the names!
Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 9:17 am ¶
Latoya Peterson wrote:
Cynthia –
There’s a post coming up where you can address that. My answer is yes, I do, but that is because I am looking for certain things in my narrative. So when I read things like Tia Williams’ “The Accidental Diva” I can read about a fabulous magazine beauty editor who isn’t blonde, who isn’t obsessed with thinness and who deals with other ethnicities without thinking they are the help.
Now, that doesn’t mean that you can’t relate to women of other cultures. Some characters are just great characters and you can relate or empathize with them. It really depends.
Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 11:02 am ¶