never been daunted

Oh ChrisChris Tree, Oh ChrisChris Tree, How lovely are your faces!

*with declining control and barely-suppressed laughter*

FUCK TO models

FUCK TO cheekbones

UGLY shall inherit the earth

JENNY HOLZER

1) reaffirming the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside

and 2) ignoring the ways in which racism categorises every aspect of the body (and the mind for that matter), not just skin colour–think of how scientific racism went on and on about how different races had different physical builds and skeletal structures and skull shapes and facial features and proclivities and personalities and mental strengths and weaknesses etc. etc. etc.

right so this goes back to what I said about “the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside.” there is not collection of traits, physical or otherwise, that make people into targets for racism, and to suggest that there are is to be in accordance with white supremacist ideas that race is an innate category. you can’t get out of this by adding more qualifiers to designate who “qualifies” for racialisation because this always and inevitably leads to the idea that racialisation can occur without the mediation of racism as a historically and materially bound concept, i.e. that people are just kind of naturally one race or another. the entire assumption and approach is wrong.