Creatrix Tiara: I am deeply uncomfortable with how discourse around People of Colour tend to be centered around the Black American experience
and that anything from anywhere else tends to have to be named with its own category to be relevant.
I agree with a lot of what Tiara says in this post. Not necessarily about SlutWalk (because it’s a subject I haven’t kept up to date with and towards which I haven’t dedicated much attention so far) but with discourses of race and politics and how they are still often played in a very US centric way.
Living in Europe, where race, politics and activism are coded very differently, it’s often difficult for me to relate these experiences in ways that are relevant to an audience while, at the same time, unique to our situations and to our very particular activism/ lives. Moreover, there is a tendency towards homogenization in discussions of race in the blogosphere (as much as I dislike this word because it sounds like a name for an antibiotic).
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