hi.

[danasaurus_rex]

[name] dana.
[where you live] new jersey
[siblings] older sister. younger brother.
[age] 22
[what's it like being mulatto in your eyes] an on going battle against frizz.
[when and where did you first hear the word mulatto?] in elementary school. on the playground.
[for what it's worth, do you ever really feel like you belong in a certain crowd?] i grow

Comments

[evendeeper]

about the "crowd" comment, i feel the same way...i just want to hang out. enjoy myself. i think as you get older, and surround yourself with people who won't push race into everything, who realize you don't want to discuss every time a black person does something great or bad, just want to do what you do. you can be proud without being a zealot... but i'm all over the boondocks, so i have to disagree with you a bit there haha...and i don't like s.s. nor p.w.

oh and "hi how are you?"

[danasaurus_rex]

is that handle a nails reference or something else entirely?
i mean the show of course, not the comic strip.
i feel like he strayed away from the point.
the strip was much more politically charged and cynical.
i feel like the show has been dumbed down for a broader audience which insults me... also jazmine was really watered down, not only in complexion, but she's made a lot more naive.
i dunno. i just don't like change.
but, anyway.
i'm well. and yourself?
:)

[solaris102]

I really agree with you about your point about chemically straightening hair. In fact, it's something I feel really strongly about as funny as that may sound. I found out that the only time that there was really any record of lye in Africa used on people's hair was when the west made contact. Why should we hold ourselves to an unrealistic standard of beauty? To me, it's no different as the binding of feet in China or anything of that sort. It's damaging. we're not made for that.

[gsan264]

Man, I feel you 100% (well, except on the Boondocks cartoon, which isn't half as good as the comic but I enjoy for what it's worth). The self-perpetuation of black stereotypes is one of, to me, the most depressing issues in our society, and whenever I see that kind of crap, on tv, on the street, whatever, I feel like I die a little inside. The fact that we still even need to use race, a completely social construct, to distinguish ourselves is sad--the fact that we feel we need to act a certain way to be able to do so is even sadder. On everything you said, I can't agree more.

And yeah, frizz dominates my appearance too, so I feel your pain on that. I wear hats all the time, but I know that only makes it worse. Tried chemically straightening, got accused of trying to deny my "blackness." Just can't win.

[neverguessed]

Uh.
I have just started to deal with my frizz, and i will not in the forsable future us straigtening chemicals on my hair. I guess b.c. i am just a weirdo I don't mind the frizz so much. The only thing is that one day i realized that often i thought my hair wasn't sticking up, and it was!

I live in Finland now, I have to changem my profile to state that... but in anycase, the racial construct in different here b.c. there is a really really huge array of ethnic blends here. Eventhough it is mostly white scandanavians with blue eyes and blonde hair there are also romani, africans from every part of africa, but i think alot from somalia, russians, people from all over asia and all kinds of brown skinned multi origin folks, and its funny to see how things work here on this society.

But i understand what you mean about all of this betrayl stuff. B,c, i think thats what all of it is. Feeling betrayed from everywhere, b.c. as a mullato personally i feel like i am always being accused of something. But thats okay.