Three Reads, Two Scholarly

Scholarly Read- talking about someone's "ridiculous shape, their tacky clothes" using something you've learned or read in class.

Random White Girl: Oh my God, I love you're outfit. Are you going somewhere today?

Me: No, I just wanted to attain the white normative gaze so they will listen when I assault their privilege. I like your shoes though...as I continued to walk down the hallway, effectively administering a hair flip with my light Caesar haircut.

Last week at the Theorizing Blackness conference at the CUNY Graduate Center, I read a professor because he was LIVING in his patriarchal privilege, the same way that WASP men live in, well, everything. (white supremacy, privilege, heteronormativity, hegemony, patriarchy, etc.)

Me: "I'm interested in the assumption that masculinity, specifically, black masculinity, is innate to maleness. I think this psychology negates the masculinity of women, especially within the context of the black woman whom, historically, has been masculinized as, essentially, a 'black man with a vagina' through popular portrayals. I feel, moreover, neglecting to recognize the masculinity of the black woman in theory and reality works to emasculate black masculinity as a whole. Lastly, I am intrigued in how these ideologies neglecting the black woman in this discourse is upholding patriarchy and misogyny".

OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK

This is a cute thing that are in many New York papers when people write in funny or shady things they hear in the city.

Location: Downtown 4 train

An old black Christian woman is screaming at the top of her lungs, "Come to Jesus, he will save your soul. The world is going to end and do you know where you are going to go, we are all sinners, but the Lawd will save you".

I was sad that she was trying to indoctrinate people, especially since Christian rhetoric was used to indoctrinate and keep her mother, no shade, (ok, maybe her grandmother) in slavery.

There is Old Chinese man, about fifty, and he is tired of this woman screaming in his ear.

CM: Can you be quiet?

BW: NO I CAN NOT! I refuse to be quiet about the goodness of my Lawd and Savior Jesus Christ

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CM: Everyone do not have to believe like you.

BW: This is America, which means I have a right to freedom of speech, if you don't like it here, you know what you can do.

I GAGGED for dear life that this older black woman just told this man to fucking emigrate back to his country.

CM:I have right to not believe like you.

BW (continued): This is America, on our money what does it say, "In God we trust," not "in Buddha we trust". OH HALLELUJAH!!!! I bind you up in the name of Jesus, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

Marz (in my head): That is the devil!! Chinese man keep subverting her.

P.S. My blog, my baby, I have a boyfriend!!! (I'll be back to write more, but I have to subvert people in class and refuse to half step.)

-Marz