Critical Race Theory
Struggling to find my place at the Y still, reading Critical Race Theory and beginning to feel better about it. True, I need to work on reading these things for their own merit in order to really understand... but I'm finding it to be very healing.
The idea that by coating over one's "difference" with a veil of shared experience is actually a dismissal, a refusal to see. I feel this keenly when dealing with Cis straight people and can immediately recognize its affect on my professional development. Ie, how in order to be seen or heard you must present in a certain way; skirted, lip-sticked, smiling. These highly feminine attributes, costumes, or somehow recognized as professional and prepared--and deviance is therefore not examined, but immediately written off. Would natural kinky hair been seen in this same way? Perhaps a little quirky, but really, girl, get it under control if you want to be respected?
Just thinking thinking
The idea that by coating over one's "difference" with a veil of shared experience is actually a dismissal, a refusal to see. I feel this keenly when dealing with Cis straight people and can immediately recognize its affect on my professional development. Ie, how in order to be seen or heard you must present in a certain way; skirted, lip-sticked, smiling. These highly feminine attributes, costumes, or somehow recognized as professional and prepared--and deviance is therefore not examined, but immediately written off. Would natural kinky hair been seen in this same way? Perhaps a little quirky, but really, girl, get it under control if you want to be respected?
Just thinking thinking