MY OWN SYNTAX

Anything black, queer, funk, foul, bright, woman, not-woman, not-not brown, yellow, white, fake, false, cruel, straight, permed, natural, skinny, sexy, sleazy, dead. Any body without invasion. Any voice without erasure.

24th May 2010

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SIGHTING: BLACK FACE

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On racism in the fashion industry click the quote:

The girls that are really just being featured in everything, they really have unique features for African Americans. You know the very skinny nose the very elegant face. They really look like White girls that were painted Black. That’s beauty you know to the industry’s perspective, to agent’s perspective. When they see that, when they see a girl that can look different by skin pigment and still have great features like that, it is sellable.

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Born and raised in New Orleans, Rickey Laurentiis is a poet and studies in New York. MY OWN SYNTAX is his blog of poetics and politics, and is dedicated to James Baldwin and Alvin Ailey. Ask him your question here or visit his literary project, CAYENNE, here.

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