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• That's why I started a sex talk radio show on my conservative college campus (Southern Methodist University in Dallas). I get calls all the time about the most simple, common sense sexual information. Being in Texas, I understand that not
  (posted to Why Stay A Virgin?)
• Rebecca Walker, our freaking current president, and myself turned out just fine. Oh yeah, and all of these people: http://www.mixedfolks.com I know that only pointing out famous/successful people kinda of skews the conversation, but I feel that it's necessary to
  (posted to Interracial couple denied marriage license by justice of peace, who is "not a racist." Why? He lets his black friends use his bathroom.)
• That's my costume idea! Swine Flu Incarnate. I'm wearing a spooky long black dress, a pig snout, and a pig's tail. I also want to construct a large syringe prop so that I can carry it around and poke people
  (posted to Some Non-Racist, Non-Sexist Halloween Costume Ideas)
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  (posted to Some Non-Racist, Non-Sexist Halloween Costume Ideas)
• I just want to say that I'm happy to see this discussion on Feministing (or anywhere outside my head, for that matter). As a multiracial kid, my hair was always off limits to my own hands until high school, and
  (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)

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• FWIW, The Autobiography of Malcolm X has some pretty harrowing descriptions of how "processing" worked back when he was a young man. (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)
• Now that you mention it, I'm remembering the scene from the movie Malcolm X, when Denzel Washington (as Malcolm X) is conking (?) his hair. It starts to burn and b/c the police have shut off his water he has (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)
• "Also, I'm a white female, so I worry about whether my presence will be good or bad in a theater." "I saw the movie in the theater and worried a bit that I was almost eavesdropping on something that was (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)
• I was concerned about my own presence, not about anyone else's reaction to my presence. And, as stated, I saw the movie. Thanks. (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)
• Chill. I wasn't attacking you personally. All I was saying was that it is our business, as humans, to be critical and aware of the beauty standards in our society. It is about race - but it also goes way (posted to Reactions to Good Hair)

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