mimesere

I have very little to add here beyond noting that I love your posts on race because they are smart, and because they nicely balance toughness and generosity. You're making me think complicated thoughts about the odd social role of people who, like you, are clearly/probably nonwhite but the kind of nonwhite is unclear. And people who appear to be one kind of nonwhite but are actually another (i.e. my former neighbor who is Latino but looks black and gets treated as such). And the "reverse passing" of people like my dad who gets stopped in the airport because he looks like he might be Middle Eastern or Latino (or, you know, TV's Francis Capra). It's all complicated, and when fandom (or others) "whitewash" it's an annoying and rude and destructive but ultimately understandable impulse because complicated is scary.

And now I am going to sit back and daydream about my interracial inter-class genderqueer OTP and silently judge fandom.