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Alex’s Guide to Solving Problems: “What are you?”

Whenever a white person asks me a dumb question about my race like it’s any of their business, I’m going to give them a relevant answer that is so obviously not what they’re looking for.

White Person: “What are you?”
Me: “I’m an English major!”

White Person: “Omg, you’re [ethnicity]? I LOVE [something related to your ethnicity.]”
Me: “No kidding! And you’re white? I absolutely adore. You know. Um. Making dog sweaters.”

White Person: “Where are you from?”
Me: ” [insert state here]”
White Person: “No, really. Where are you from?”
Me: “Well, I didn’t want to go here, but you know my dad, right? Well, he has this thing called a penis. And my mom has this thing called a vagina. And one day, they decided, “Hey. Our genitalia should get to know each other. What say they mingle for a bit?” And so they let this happen. And lo, I was born seven months later, ambiguous looking and fabulous in all of my glory.”

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Pressed. I promise you. Money back guarantee and EVERYTHING on that shit.

* I lied. Dog sweaters are hideous.

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    This is a brilliant technique.
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    This post has given me life!
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    This shit is perfect. Especially the dog sweaters.
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    I think I’ll do this from now on…
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    White Person: “What are you?” Me: “I’m an English major!” …”I LOVE DOCTOR WHO AND SCONES!”
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I'm Alex. Female. Multiracial. Monoracial in appearance. LGBT. These are my thoughts on racism and homophobia. I'll mostly talk about racism, though, because of my racial identity and my sexual identity, my racial identity is the one that gets targeted the most.

These are the things that I no longer have the energy to try to explain to those of my friends who are white or straight. These are the things my white friends will never know. And by publishing them, I hope to help other POC realize that they are not alone, or to somehow find support, or a point of relation in this blog.

This blog is body positive, sex positive, and, obviously, anti-racist. And for everyone's convenience: racism is not just one person hating another person because of their skin color. Racism is the systematic and institutionalized oppression of racial minorities to the benefit of the racial majority. Racism is prejudice plus power. This is the definition used in sociological works and anti-racist circles, and this is the definition that will be used here.

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