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Stacey-Ann Q
Stacey-Ann Q
Oct 17, 2015 · 1 min read

The Mystical Black Body

We live in world where non-white bodies are given mystical (and artificial) qualities, which serves to justify prejudices and discrimination. We have seen that this fixation on the mysticism of others has been used to justify everything from aggressive religious conversions to colonialisation, to…

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Stacey-Ann Q
Stacey-Ann Q
Oct 17, 2015 · 1 min read

Who owns the icon?

When you’re a “public” figure, an activist, an “icon,” does your (life) story belong to you?

The danger of fetishising and iconising other people’s struggles is that it can have the effect of displacing the “icon” from their own story. How can you claim to respect…