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28 Mar

Why being transgender isn’t similar to appropriating an ethnicity

And yes, trying on blackness with make-up continues to be black face Last week, I discovered a thread on the web. The Tweet I saw read “Can we start a thread and post the entire white girls cosplaying as black women on Instagram? Let’s air them out because that is ALARMING.” I couldn’t stop scrolling through the replies. There have been dozens of photos of white girls from Instagram who looked like they were trying to rework themselves into mixed race and black girls with fake tan, make-up, hoop earrings, tightly permed curls, bandanas (I mean really?) and possibly even a little bit of Photoshop to make themselves look thiccer. I cackled on the racial...
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10 Sep

Blonde Kim Kardashian on cover as she stops appropriating

Kim Kardashian once presented herself as a beauty alternative to the thin blonde models of the ’90s. But when her much-mocked appearance on the front of Interview magazine’s ‘American Dream Issue’ this week is anything to go by, the times of which are well and truly behind her. The quilt – and subsequent shoot – features Kardashian with Farrah Fawcett-esque blonde hair (an addition to her look since May, when she cosplayed Marilyn Monroe on the Met Gala), wearing denim and standing in front of the US flag. “It’s an all-American image if ever there have been one,” Olivia Truffaut-Wong noted in a bit for The Cut, “and a distinctly different aesthetic from the look that made her famous –...
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