Win for Jann Arden icon, my favorite song. Sorry if this was covered in a post I missed, but I'm really curious: Why did you decide to go with Brassard?
I haven't. My preference is still for Wilson but I only consulted with 1 surgeon for both my chest and hysterectomy and saw the drawbacks. So I've decided that for my bottom surgery I will consult with a few surgeons. I spoke to one surgeon already located in Phillydelphia, I've already contacted the Belgium team in hopes of having a consult with them (in theory I am just waiting for an e-mail with the confirmation of a date for the early new year but they are notoriously terrible at communication and not confirming consultation dates later cancelled.)
It's my favourite Arden song though Good Mother is a close 2nd for me. :0)
those kaplan excerpts are really poignant for me, having grown up in the southern US and being the only "ethnic" kid around, with a dad who was notably darker than other dads and got pulled over by the cops a lot, with a surname no one could pronounce (that i got rid of when i turned 18, hello assimilation), etc. i didn't realize there was any scholarship being done examining where people who are "white" but not as "white" as their neighbors fit in to the bigger picture of racism/classism. i just always felt weird as a kid, before "other" became a verb.
*nod* It is a growing field, though not one without major contestations by previously established racial/anti-racism studies. As I learnt the very hard way in feminist. There are many people who depend on the presently racist lens that dominates (ironically) anti-racist rhetoric. The charge is common, one dissecting "whiteness" is doing so to deny hirs white privilege when it is largely done (at least in academic circles) for the opposite motivation: to highlight other manifestations of racism that affect all (whether "white" or not
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I would totally delve into this text if it weren't for the fact that I just can't read large paragraphs that include words like "deconstruct" and "decontextualize". They make my head spin ;)
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Sorry if this was covered in a post I missed, but I'm really curious: Why did you decide to go with Brassard?
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It's my favourite Arden song though Good Mother is a close 2nd for me. :0)
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i didn't realize there was any scholarship being done examining where people who are "white" but not as "white" as their neighbors fit in to the bigger picture of racism/classism. i just always felt weird as a kid, before "other" became a verb.
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