how does this shatter stereotypes? Because they’re all white?
you can’t not see them as stereotypes if they’re brown? they need to be whitewashed to deserve your empathy and respect??
Pretty sure at least two of those girls were very clearly not white (second to last and the girl wearing the hijab), which is kinda irrelevant anyway cause a lot of middle easterners are paler and potentially “white passing”
Also if you click the link the photographer, Rania Matar a Lebanese woman, said the point of the photos was to show that, if you didn’t see the captions, you’d think these girls could be from anywhere in the world, that they looked like typical American teenagers. She says the point she was striving for is that these girls are just like any other girls in the world, to break the stereotypes Western society pushes on them as burka clad helpless victims.
Middle eastern girls having to be visibly brown is a stereotype is it not
Just fyi the girls in the pictures that are in the united states are for the most part NOT “middle eastern” (which, excuse me, what the fuck? since when is middle eastern an identity?) she took pictures of American teenagers (mostly blonde white girls) and then took pictures of girls in lebanon and some pictures are from bethlehem and some are from palestinian refugee camps.
This article is disingenuous as fuck “you can’t tell if a picture is taken in america or not” if you go to her portfolio you can immediately tell when a picture was taken in a refugee camp. I want to point out a couple of things: 1) the majority of the girls in hijab from her two portfolios are Palestinian, 2) the majority of the darker-skinned arab girls are also Palestinian. Just because “a lot of middle easterners are paler and potentially white-passing” doesn’t mean it’s okay whitewash and pretend that we’re majority pale and majority white passing. Even in the Levant, I am pretty sure most people are dark-skinned, some Arabs are even black, pale people just get the most exposure in the media.
And what the fuck is wrong with you people that we can’t be seen as “normal” teenage girls unless we live in environments that look like they could be white suburban home in America. What the fuck is wrong with you people that you can’t see someone as normal unless they “look” just like you??? Are girls unworthy of being seen as human if they actually do wear a burqa? or a niqab? or hijab? or even if they don’t wear any of those things, but still can’t wear shorts or put up posters because their parents don’t let them? Do we have to give up our culture and identities and religion in favor of this globalized “unstereotyped” (read: American passing, I’m coining this term today) person we need to be so we can be seen as human?
Had the absolute privilege of presenting a brand spanking new 3D-printed bionic Iron Man arm to Alex, the most dapper 7-year-old I’ve ever met.
Special thanks to Albert Manero, OneNote, and #CollectiveProject for their work making artificial limbs like this more affordable for families with kids who want to show the playground how badass they are. Check out http://www.facebook.com/LimbitlessSolutions to learn more about this incredible project. #goodcause
THE STORY BEHIND THE “GOOD NIGHT WHITE PRIDE” IMAGE:
May 9, 1998: The KKK, decide to hold a rally in Ann Arbor, MIchigan despite having their asses handed to them their two years earlier. The Ann Arbor city council obliges them, spending $137,000 of taxpayer money to accommodate their hatefest in the middle of town.
Anti-Racist Action, the Revolutionary Workers’ League, and the National Women’s Rights Organizing Committee all mobilize to confront the KKKlowns.
This photo of an Ann Arbor anti-racist showing a racist scumbag some Michigan hospitality is legendary and is where the Good Night White Pride logo comes from.
The lessons of Ann Arbor on May 9, 1998 have repeated themselves in the years since: people standing together can take their streets back from racist scum; city officials and police are happy to spend tax dollars protecting racists and persecuting anti-racists; and most importantly, fighting hate is not a crime!
I shouldn’t be ashamed of the hair my father gave me. I’m tired of people telling me “your hair is so funny”. My hair isn’t supposed to make you laugh. My hair isn’t a joke. I though today was the right day to embrace my origins and be proud.
