meigui: fanart: mobile; Young Wizards; Diane Duane (<3)
a perpetual state of culture shock (周玫玫) ([personal profile] meigui) wrote in [personal profile] soc_puppet 2009-06-11 04:07 am (UTC)

:x ♥

I AM NOT NEARLY AS ARTICULATE AS THE OODLES OF ESSAYS I HAVE READ ON THIS TOPIC but that's the basic gist of the reason behind the angryragey kneejerk reaction that cultural appropriation usually gives me. There's a phrase I come across a lot--"erasing my body" or some variation thereupon: causing a to people disappear from their own narratives and then taking what's left as a sort of conceptual plunder after that's been done. There's a kind of visceral disgust that cultural appropriation gives me because of that. But this isn't it, by any measure! So yes. |D

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