Who are our Pansexual Icons?
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Alcohol for the New
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Asides from what everyone else has said:
Enjoy the crush. It's fun! Fantasies are awesome! I'm perpetually having a crush on someone, 99% of the time unattainable for various reasons, but I enjoy the rush that comes with it. It makes me smile,... [
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Dude. I totally feel for you. My parents are similar - my mum can be control-freaky on clothes, but they're usually control-freaky over my future - school, work, which country I'll be in, etc. What complicates things for me is that I'm still... [
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Makeup and mutinies
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Tons of behind-the-scenes photos of AromaLeigh's makeup. Whee, sparkly. [
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From Awful to Awesome
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Real prejudice in the workplace, for example, against minorities seems rare, is there any evidence of large scale ongoing oppression against ethnic groups in Australia? Where is it?
Young Sudanese Men Experience Racism in Australia (pdf)
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I used to have a PDA, which I used religiously for a while, but eventually it just got really annoying and useless. I now use a combo of paper+Google Apps (I LOVE Google, what can I say)+Memory.
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"I don't recognize your accent, I love the sound of it! Where are you originally from?"
Please don't ask that question to someone you don't really know.
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Morning. It's a quarter past 9 now; I just got up.
The person who said this was similar to the discussions on sexism in Mefi (and also The Light Fantastic and whoever brought up the sociology comparison) have the right idea. I don't literally... [
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they wore tan makeup to look - they hoped - as though they were Australian Aborigines.
Then why not just hire Australian aboriginal actors? Because at the time they weren't even considered as people. Because of racism.
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What's your ancestry?
Africa, like you.
I was wondering, whereabouts do you hail from? My tin ear isn't very accurate with that yet."
Does it matter?
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My Aboriginal acquaintances on Facebook are livid and there's some great discussion on how Blackface also affects Indigenous/Aboriginal communities. However the only media coverage of that seems to be a spat between drag queens.
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uncanny hengeman: Are you seriously suggesting that Aboriginal people are not currently denied opportunities, jobs, and fair representation because of their race and ethnicity? That they're all getting uppity over nothing?... [
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koeselitz: THANK YOU. Your comment summed up the issue *perfectly* about why doing any sort of (ethnic)face act is problematic. A few months ago I had a conflict with my burlesque teacher - who should really know better given her academic background... [
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DU: ha, seriously.
I refer to the comments by uncanny hengeman and Joe in Australia, amongst others. It has been a couple of hours since I last saw the thread though. And just because they're in the minority doesn't make it any less disturbing.... [
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uncanny hengemen: What the fuck are you talking about? Citation needed.
I'd direct you to a discussion about this on a friend's Facebook page but it's private. I'll ask if there's any more discussion (aside from a pithy article on drag queens). I... [
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