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Do you think it's appropriative for white people to stretch their ears? I knew that some Africans (not sure exactly where) were the first to do it, but I thought it was more of a beauty tradition rather than a cultural tradition (like a Native American headdress).

Quee: appropriation is still appropriation, whether its beauty thing or its part of a culture.

its not just white people who get to have beauty styles and culture y'know. other ethnicities have their own style of beauty which is part of their culture and so, when someone takes on their beauty style, they are taking on part of that person’s culture, and so they are appropriating and its exoticism.

so yes, there are cultures out there who stretch their ears for either beauty annd/or cultural purposes and unfortunately they are being appropriated by POCs and white people who aren’t from said culture to look cool or ‘deep’ or whatever crappy excuse they use to get away with appropriating.

on ear stretching, well its up to you what you wanna do in the end. i personally don’t mind it but only because I don’t know to much about it. When it comes to scarification though, its clearly appropriation and Im against it

takingbackourculture

So I saw something about plugged ears back when I first found your blog, but I can't remember if it was considered cultural appropriation or not. I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the matter? Btw, I've learned a lot from your blog!

Stretched ears are cultural appropriation and terribly hypocritical for white people to have since the very people they oppress have the same look and are called ugly for it.

Here’s something I caught from the web:

If you travel to different countries, piercings can be interpreted in different ways. I’ve never been to Africa, but I know from doing a little bit of research that they don’t just get piercings because they like the way they look. The stretching of the ear lobes and lips is a tradition. Unfortunately, the African men are starting to frown upon the lip plate because they don’t think it’s attractive. I feel like this has to do with Western influence. In other countries, they pierce peculiar parts of their body to honor their gods.

Above is a picture of an Ethiopian woman with a Trapezium lip plate, stretched ear lobes, and multiple piercings in her upper ear.

The United States and Africa are like night and day when it comes to body piercings. I have multiple piercings in my ears because I like the way it looks. The reason I wanted these piercings had nothing to do with my religion or culture. I definitely think that people in the United States with gaged ears and multiple piercings have culturally appropriated this practice. I once watched a documentary about a man who had stretched ear lobes, tattoos all over his body, and multiple piercings on his face. He wanted to go to Africa to see if he would be accepted in their culture because he told stories of when he didn’t feel welcome in his own country because of the way he decorated himself. Many people in this country definitely shine a negative light on people with body art.

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Stretched ears are culturally important in many POC cultures, just as tattooing and other piercings. But like white people, Western culture stole the cultural significance of stretched ears, tattoos, and other piercings and only got any of those because it was “cool”.

- Jess

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The Nib ( @thenib ) is doing a whole month of queer comics and I was honored to contribute this one! You can read all of the other comics I’ve done for them here, and here is my comic from last year’s Pride Month. You can find more of my comics, including my Genderqueer series, on instagram and you can support me on patreon or on ko-fi if you’d like to help me keep making this work :)

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Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (link updated 1/14)

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki (link updated 1/14)

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks (link updated 1/14)

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks (link updated 1/14)

Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

Black Feminist Thought-Patricia Hill Collins (updated 1/14)

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba (updated 1/14)

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey (updated 1/14)

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey (updated 1/14)

The Disability Studies Reader (updated 1/14)

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3

Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge

This blog also has a lot more.

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

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I made a quick music video for the whole underwater temple underwater monk thing

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