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1. What Do We Want? Posted 13 Nov 2009 under Uncategorized

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse One of the things that is constantly on my mind while I am blogging here is, “What do we want?” It’s a question regularly flung at groups outside of the dominant culture when they launch a complaint against some effort to appease them. But I, too, often ponder what the end [...]

2. The Brazil Files: Bela or Bust Part 3 – On Race Posted 02 Sep 2009 under The Brazil Files, beauty, race

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Continued from “Bela or Bust Part 2 - On Class” . . . “We always want what we can’t have,” so the saying goes, a saying that is most fitting to describe the intersection of race and the significance of beauty in Brazil. Though many Americans think of a raven haired, dark-eyed, sun-kissed, [...]

3. Barack Obama: Black & Lucky Posted 13 Aug 2009 under politics, racism

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse I recall hearing once that success is where preparation and opportunity meet. Apparently this expression is not suited for the President of the United States. Obama’s moments of success in office, according to some, are occurring simply because he is, well, black and lucky . . . just like Felix the [...]

4. The Brazil Files: Bela or Bust Part 2 – On Class Posted 10 Aug 2009 under On Beauty, The Brazil Files, beauty, class, money, poverty

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Continued from “Bela or Bust: Part 1: On Gender” . . . Author’s note: My apologies for the delay between part one and part two! I have recently moved back to the United States and in between re-adjusting and job hunting, I had not had the chance or the mental clarity to sit [...]

5. No Laughing Matter: President Obama Depicted As the Joker Posted 06 Aug 2009 under We're So Post Racial

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Since President Obama’s earliest moments in office, one of the biggest issues on the agenda has been healthcare reform. Yet as the clock ticks, many Americans have expressed disappointment, asserting that the healthcare goals are far from having been met and that they may have even been poorly planned and misguided [...]

6. The Brazil Files: Paper, Plastic, or Racist Caricatures? Posted 20 Jul 2009 under The Brazil Files, marketing, race, stereotypes

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse I go grocery shopping almost every day here in Brazil, but I rarely really study the packaging of the products I buy beyond checking out the price and the contents. However, a few weeks ago, while sitting down to remove my nail polish, I noticed that a grocery store purchase yielded [...]

7. The Brazil Files: Bela or Bust Part 1 – On Gender Posted 16 Jul 2009 under On Beauty, The Brazil Files, beauty

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse  Continued from “Bela or Bust (Introduction)” . . . Author’s note: I recognize that to say that the preoccupation with being beautiful for women in Brazil boils down to three separate entities is oversimplifying. Gender, class, and race obviously intersect constantly and are difficult to consider beyond their Venn diagram-like existence. Yet [...]

8. Dear Porn Industry, Must Interracial Porn Always Be So . . . Racist? Posted 10 Jul 2009 under racism, sex, sexual stereotypes

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse *Warning – Links and Content NSFW* For those of you who watch mainstream porn out there, I have an assignment for you. Pull up any film or video clip in which the characters who are busy bumpin’ uglies are of different races and/or ethnicities. Now see if you can get through the full [...]

9. A Tattoo’s Worth a Thousand Words Posted 07 Jul 2009 under art, cultural appropriation, language

   by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Take a look at this photo. What are your initial thoughts on this tattoo? After being tipped by reader pinkyloveswhisky, I headed on over to the BMEZine blog to check out what all the fuss was about, and I tried to do the exercise I recommended above. What were my initial thoughts [...]

10. links for 2009-06-29 Posted 29 Jun 2009 under Uncategorized

    Feministe " I'm Not Like Other Guys… "Even at the age of eight, I had begun to believe that I was a monster too. That there was something horrible inside me that would mean I needed to be shot with a silver bullet or decapitated. My feelings had to do with a lot of things: family [...]

11. links for 2009-05-08 Posted 08 May 2009 under Uncategorized

    Boston Review — State of the Nation "In order to assess explicit prejudice toward Jews, we directly asked respondents “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?” with responses falling under five categories: a great deal, a lot, a moderate amount, a little, not at all. Among non-Jewish respondents, a strikingly high 24.6 [...]

12. Your Sex Acts–And Partners–Aren’t Uplifting the Race Posted 03 Apr 2009 under african-american, black, celebrities, dating, hip hop, interracial relationships, sex, sexism, sexual stereotypes, stereotypes, white

    By Sexual Correspondent Andrea Plaid My gurl S., who followed the Justin Timberlake/Ciara post and thread very closely, just about fell out while we talked on the phone. She was apoplectic over Timberlake pulling Ciara’s chain in the video, of that salient image of BDSM (and possible race play) as well as the article about race play [...]

13. Series Introduction: The Brazil Files Posted 18 Feb 2009 under activism, international

    by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse For those of you who are longtime followers of Racialicious, you may remember me as a Special Correspondent. For those of you who are not, let me re-introduce myself! My name is Wendi Muse. I’m a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I created a major [...]

14. links for 2008-03-06 Posted 06 Mar 2008 under Uncategorized

    SA Women ‘Pissed Off’ – Stereohyped “Hundreds of tough broads took to the streets of Johannesburg today to show solidarity with a woman who was sexually assaulted for wearing a miniskirt.” (tags: sexism violence africa) Fusion Restaurant Objectifies Women – reappropriate “This is a truly disgusting ad. The naked torso has the Chinese words for “Chinese Laundry” written on [...]

15. links for 2008-03-04 Posted 04 Mar 2008 under Uncategorized

    Black and White and Graphic All Over: A 1930s Tale of Race, Passing and Pain – New York Times Our own interview with Mat is coming soon. “Zane Pinchback, a reporter for The New Holland Herald of New York, is a black man who can pass for white. Zane uses this ability to go [...]