appropriation
Hi! I'm new here, and I'm very new to the process of examining my various priveleges. This is a great community for me to start learning, but I might make some mistakes- so call me out! but be considerate please? :)
I'm also an interested reader of feminist, though they haven't accepted my membership requests yet. I'm a member of kissmyass_cosmo, a community with sort of a self-explanitory name, though it's about way more than Cosmo.
Ok, anyway- I liked that post by karnythia here and in feminist. Somebody in feminist commented with a link to an essay by bell hooks, and I thought the essay was great (gotta read more of her!) I posted my reactions to that article on kissmyass_cosmo:
http://community.livejournal.com/kissmyass_cosmo/295307.html?view=5720971&style=mine#t5720971
There are a lot of comments on that thread, but there's one I wanted to ask about over here: that white people wearing dreadlocks is "appropriation".
I'm going to reply to that commenter to ask what they mean by that, but I thought I'd also ask you all to help educate me.
So, after that long explanation :)- What is appropriation? (and what isn't?) How wrong is it? I'd really appreciate your thoughts, thanks!
Stacey
I'm also an interested reader of feminist, though they haven't accepted my membership requests yet. I'm a member of kissmyass_cosmo, a community with sort of a self-explanitory name, though it's about way more than Cosmo.
Ok, anyway- I liked that post by karnythia here and in feminist. Somebody in feminist commented with a link to an essay by bell hooks, and I thought the essay was great (gotta read more of her!) I posted my reactions to that article on kissmyass_cosmo:
http://community.livejournal.com/kissmyass_cosmo/295307.html?view=5720971&style=mine#t5720971
There are a lot of comments on that thread, but there's one I wanted to ask about over here: that white people wearing dreadlocks is "appropriation".
I'm going to reply to that commenter to ask what they mean by that, but I thought I'd also ask you all to help educate me.
So, after that long explanation :)- What is appropriation? (and what isn't?) How wrong is it? I'd really appreciate your thoughts, thanks!
Stacey