By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

Time Magazine reports on women migrant workers who have been raped, and the resulting pregnancies:
While globalization has turned much of the world into a wide-open labor market, it has also created complex human and societal dramas. Women account for up to 50% of the world’s 100 million–strong migrant-worker population — and [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
**TRIGGER WARNING**: The following post is about physical and sexual abuse in detention, and focuses on a trans woman who has chosen to speak out about the abuse she endured. Her choice is incredibly brave and her story is deeply distressing.
Restore Fairness has a post about Esmeralda, a trans woman [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
On the SCI FI Wire (surprise!) I saw this:

This photo is one of 20 colour photographs taken by Dulce Pinzón for her exhibition “The Real Story of the Superheroes,” running at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in DC, from November 4 -28.
On her website Pinzón writes:
After September 11, the notion [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Colourface fatigue, I haz it.  Who here is tired of reading about blackface? Because I sure am tired of writing about it. And at this point I don’t know what more there is to say.

Well, come to think of it, there was never much to say in the first place.  Because [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
The Colbert Report is pretty hit and miss.  But most of the time I enjoy it.  Potentially that’s because Stephen Colbert’s satire is so impenetrable that I have little idea as to what his real politics are…which means I can just project my own politics onto him.  Jon Stewart on the [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

I suppose it is a good sign that we can still be shocked speechless by the racism in pop culture, right? Because it means that we aren’t totally cynical and embittered. Right?
This morning we received a tip from reader Cassandra, letting us know about last night’s episode of America’s Next Top [...]

Compiled by Thea Lim, with Andrea Plaid and Wendi Muse
My day job takes me into some pretty non-anti-oppressive environments. Generally I try to steer clear of conversations that deal with any parameter of power in depth (race, class, gender, sexuality, ability…) because in my environment, I find these conversations excruciating. It’s not [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
A writer friend of mine working on a novel about his Indian experience has lamented to me about a particular response he keeps getting to his work in progress. His non-Asian peers tell him that he can’t write his particular story, because it’s already been told by say, Rohinton Mistry, [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Well, it’s almost Halloween.  And every day that we get closer to Halloween, the more our intrepid readers point out for us some of the season’s most ghoulish examples of racism. Sigh.
Reader Joel sent us a link to this Illegal Alien costume being sold by Walgreens and Target (though word on [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Note: This post isn’t about Buffy Sainte-Marie, but her photo seemed like a good one to meditate on while I wrote this harrowing piece.  See my endnote for more info.

I get a little sensitive when it comes to how transracial parents represent themselves and their families.
So when reader Carleandria sent us [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
The Racialicious inbox has been flooded this week with emails about this race scandal from Australia:
A comedy act involving five men in afro wigs and black make-up on their faces during an Australian variety show has been criticised by Harry Connick Jr.
The US singer and actor, who was serving as a [...]

Compiled by Thea Lim and Jessica Yee

No Thorough Probe into Racist Email Sent by Police Officer – CBC
A thorough internal investigation was never conducted into an allegedly racist email written by an Edmonton police officer…[the email] makes several references to aboriginal people. One suggests that the police van used to transport suspects “should always be [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

It may very well be time we stopped giving Kanye West attention, but what do y’all think of this NSFW graphic from his blog, promoting his upcoming Fame Kills Tour with Lady Gaga?
Check it out after the jump…

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Last night while I was browsing the Sociological Images website, I saw this:

Sociological Images explains that the ad is for Swiss company Max Shoes, to advertises its sturdy laces.  The ad made me immediately think of these cell phone charms that my bf’s friend brought back from Japan:

Called Oshibari Girls (does [...]

By now most people have probably seen this clip of Obama on Letterman, responding to Jimmy Carter’s blunt assertion that the healthcare hysteria is about race:

Multiple blogs (like What Tami Said, The Hutchinson Report, and Racewire) have eloquently argued that Obama simply can’t call racism the way Carter can. But is that why Obama is [...]