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“If your dad is black, why don’t you have the hair? Or the nose?”
Apparently racial diversity is strictly the domain of white people.
“Your hair is so cute! What are you mixed with?”
I’m a black girl who happens to have long hair. I didn’t know those two things were mutually exclusive.
I have a speech impediment, and about all I can say is vowels. I work in the dining hall at my college. Today, someone in line saw me and said “Great, we have the retard AGAIN. Why do they even hire her? No one can understand retardese.”
My coworker is helping a woman in a hijab veil pick out makeup, and they are testing foundations to find her colour. I’m standing behind the counter with another coworker who laughs quietly to me and says “What’s the point?” As if I’m supposed to agree with her.
“Are you from India or Pakistan?”
A random customer at my job asked me, a dark skinned latina, who was borned and raised in Texas. I felt irritated with this man. Why are those the only possible countries you think I have any connection to?
I hate when people make comments about a girl having “huge tits” in front of me, as I have large breasts that I am really self-conscious of. It makes me think of people saying that about me as I walk by.
When people ask me what my heritage is, I tell them Mexican and Irish (my parents were both born in the US), and people always say, “That’s such a weird combination!” I know that they mean it in a cultural sense and not a racial one, but it’s still is a little confusing/upsetting.
In all of my Computer Science classes, and talks by industry professionals, the speakers only refer to hackers/programmers in theoretical scenarios as “he” or “him.” Made me feel upset, erased, irrelevant, useless.
My significant other and I are both trans* and both closeted. I’m a DFAB (designated female at birth) boy, she’s a DMAB (designated male at birth) girl. I walk her to class every day, and every day I hear “the boy is supposed to walk the girl to class”. I don’t know what makes me feel worse- the blatant sexism and heteronormativity, or the fact that she and I are actually buying into it. Made me feel dysphoric, embarrased, anxious.
Friend:: Yeah, you act like this sometimes.
She pulls on her eye lids to give me slanty eyes. I'm East Asian. She's white. For someone who I thought was my friend, she sure had no trouble expressing her feelings about my culture and me.
In 2009 I attended an event where people could test drive a car that had yet to debut on the market. I dressed up nicely (wore my favorite skirt!) and made sure I had flats on so it was easier to press the clutch because I wanted to test drive the manual version. When it came my turn to pick a car, I specifically asked for a manual transmission. “A stick?” the guy asked. “Yes,” I replied, and we signed the release and climbed in. “You’re sure?” he asked. I nodded my head. He asked one more time, “You sure you can drive a stick?” I’m a 27-year-old mixed-ethnicity (Asian/write) female and this was in a college town. I was sure it was more about my gender than my ethnicity. The guy eventually saw that I could indeed drive a stick. But it has bothered me ever since.
I am studying to become a teacher. I am black and I have natural hair. One of my colleagues found it necessary to pull me aside and inform me that “my current hair situation” just was not professional enough for me to go out to schools on teaching practice and she was surprised my lecturer hadn’t spoken to me about it. She reccommended that I “invest” in whatever the other black girls used because “I was smart enough to take steps to better myself and I’m too pretty for that anyway.” Made me confused, angry.
I had to cover my nose with a fan during cosplay so people will actually take pictures otherwise I’d look “too persian” Fuck you guys, I make a cute ass persian enma ai
My college level professor expressed her opinion that it is unprofessional and wrong for queer professors to discuss their sexuality in class. She said that queers should not be influencing young minds this way. She then proceeded to talk about her own husband and marriage later in the class.
