otherness-being the other

the question is, how does one deal with (one's own) otherness? do you underscore it or eliminate it? what does that say about you?

Eating the other

http://genius.com/Bell-hooks-eating-the-other-desire-and-resistance-annotated

Though speaking from the standpoint of his individual experience, Foucault voices a dilemma felt by many in the west. It is precisely that longing for the pleasure that has led the white west to sustain a romantic fantasy of the “primitive” and the concrete search for a real primitive paradise, whether that location be a country or a body, a dark continent or dark flesh, perceived as the perfect embodiment of that possibility.

Word up, Rousseau.

Henri Rousseau inspired jungle fever drawing:http://davidleggett.tumblr.com/image/119693594698

Asian vaginas end racism!

Disturbing.Dark Meat

Musical Break.

Yes.

On the Jagged Edge of Whiteness

http://elizabethaxtman.com/artwork/30363_Where_s_The_Party_At.html

Swimming Pools

Matisse dissected paper painted blue into the fragmented silhouettes of swimmers, divers, and stars. The figures were pinned onto the wall until his death in 1954. Kendrick's:

Shut up, Man

They say I act white, but sound black, but act black, but sound white, but what's my sound sposed to sound like? I think I sound aight. I sound tight. Ey el, don't worry bout how I sound aight?

"Why are White People so mean?"

But this was no rhetorical question.