#pushinghoops

[cubiclelifestyle]

[shduff]

hearts should have spit valves

pushinghoopswithsticks

[culturite]

Visibility in a surveillance state is not power.

Ayesha Siddiqi ( pushinghoopswithsticks ) #Superscript15

some necessary pushback against the spectacle of representation.

[youaskwepep-blog]

What is some advice you have for women who want to write online? The voice in your head that’s asking how dare you is the voice produced by an environment that’s going to be challenged by your daring. The risk of undervaluing what you have to offer, especially for women of color, is so much greater than the risk of overvaluing it. Your contribution may not be grand, but its absence is going to be deeply felt and be part of a much greater void in our culture and history. What I’d recommend next is to find your women. Seek out and support, at all costs, women of color and put their testimony above all else. We have to go out of our way to support and value each other. Love is practice; you don’t gain expertise by never enacting it. Whether that’s liking a friend’s selfie, not withholding a compliment from another woman, or publicly supporting a woman who is being publicly piled on to. That just barely approaches equalising what we’re up against. Ayesha Siddiqi: 'We need to stop waiting for permission to write' - The Guardian

[womanspacevt]

pushinghoopswithsticks at Virginia Tech. This event is free and open to the public. For more details, and to rsvp, see: http://goo.gl/fjRnr1

[womanspacevt]

Womanspace at Virginia Tech is proud to present our Fall speaker Ayesha A Siddiqi (@Pushinghoops on Twitter). Ayesha is editor in chief of The New Inquiry, as well as a popular online twitter activist and social commentator who has helped bring prominence to awareness of feminist issues in the media, especially pertaining to women of color. Ayesha is planning on giving a presentation on “Radical Feminism in Non Radical Spaces: a Millennial Centered Alternative to 'Lean In'”. This event is free and open to the public.  Womanspace at Virginia Tech is the premier on campus feminist organization at Virginia Tech. For more information please visit us online at https://www.facebook.com/womanspacevt

RSVP to our facebook event here! goo.gl/fjRnr1 

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[mehsblurb2k15]

It bothers me. [Mindy Kaling] is allowed to be attracted to whomever she wants. It’s fine if she has a type; it’s clear she does. But when the racial economics of desirability are so obvious, it’s awkward. And here I’m drawing a lot from her book, but she clearly grew up the chubby brown kid not coded as attractive or even a romantic option for the people she’s around. And the people she’s around, and the romantic comedies she loves, most often warm to some rando who isn’t even that good-looking but just purely and conventionally “white dude.” It feels like engaging a fantasy that shouldn’t have appeared fantastic in the first place. Based on her book, I see her casting choices as a way to seek validation from an environment that effectively rendered/renders her sexless. The project in The Mindy Project seems to be “Take that, high school — I can too attract white guys.” So why isn’t it a Channing Tatum type instead of literally Seth Rogen? What bothers me is these guys don’t have to be/never are anything special. They’re just white and available, have stable jobs but rarely any distinguishing traits to speak of. And she is enthralled. Meanwhile the women these guys date are bombshells: Ed Helms with the “other Indian” girl, Mark Duplass with Maria Menounos. It maintains an apparatus that falsely inflates the value of whiteness and further undermines the self-esteem of brown kids. It’s her own show and her character doesn’t do better than random doulas and DJs? Even Liz Lemon dated James Marsden and Jon Hamm. In a fairer world the guys Dr. L dates would not be considered leading-man material, at least not opposite the women of the show. I don’t need the show to make her race explicit but rather whiteness — to do the bare minimum of what is honest and acknowledge that whiteness is not a neutral position from which the rest of us deviate/should aspire to.

Ayesha Siddiqi tells it like it is on A "Mindy Project" Roundtable