Thursday, August 25, 2011

If I were teaching a course on intersectionality...

originally posted on LJ 11-29-08

...I would assign this article for my students to deconstruct.

One gets the impression that the SF Weekly felt that transgender women, sex work and “illegal immigration” are not “sexy” enough subjects on their own to spark public outrage. So instead, they decided to sensationalize all three simultaneously. What "edgy" journalism...

I'd post some of the pics that accompany the piece, or quote some of the more racist, transmisogynistic and sexualizing passages therein, but it would just make me mad... -j.

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