"What I have learnt from being (occasionally) white-passing" Loving the content on @galdemzine thandiekay.com contributor @rosalindjana told us about this excellent online magazine. Reading the post. Check them out! #galdem KayX. ???????? "You out yourself as an ethnic minority, make everybody feel awkward, then experience a weird misplaced guilt for making everybody feel awkward” Also not fun are the existential issues that come with being white-passing; when I read Du Bois’ definition of double-consciousness: “this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”, I felt that while he referred specifically to the experience of black people there were aspects of his writing that could be applied to discussions about other races. Although I’m sometimes white-passing, I’m pretty Asian-looking too, and I scrutinise men’s sexual interest in me, only too aware of the hypersexualised Asian female trope in Western society, and question my “genuine” attractiveness outside of being “oriental”...." READ IN FULL at gal-dem.com ??

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"What I have learnt from being (occasionally) white-passing" Loving the content on @galdemzine thandiekay.com contributor @rosalindjana told us about this excellent online magazine. Reading the post. Check them out! #galdem KayX. ???????? "You out yourself as an ethnic minority, make everybody feel awkward, then experience a weird misplaced guilt for making everybody feel awkward”

Also not fun are the existential issues that come with being white-passing; when I read Du Bois’ definition of double-consciousness: “this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”, I felt that while he referred specifically to the experience of black people there were aspects of his writing that could be applied to discussions about other races. Although I’m sometimes white-passing, I’m pretty Asian-looking too, and I scrutinise men’s sexual interest in me, only too aware of the hypersexualised Asian female trope in Western society, and question my “genuine” attractiveness outside of being “oriental”...."
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