Red Light Politics
Welcome to my short form Tumblr blog. My name is Flavia Tamara Dzodan, I am a business developer, writer, public speaker, ideas instigator, content creator, media facilitator and trend watcher living in Amsterdam.
This Tumblr is about the spaces and intersections between politics, culture, race and gender matters with some humor and pop culture thrown in the mix.
My long reads blog is Red Light Politics.
I also blog at Tiger Beatdown.
Read my posts at Persephone Magazine.
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I'm giving up tumblr for Lent.
…is an example of something I would say if I had willpower or moral courage.
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Why I said yes to Professor Self
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That awkward moment when you're about to hit like on something, and then realize it was originally from the Daily What and can't. On principle.
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Anonymous asked: MIA's baby's father comes from an extremely wealthy family. His father married a Black woman, an actress, and had two children. They are now divorced, and have been divorced for quite a while I think. I don't think that this woman, the mother-in-law, who became a wealthy society woman after her marriage, is sitting at home being the "mammy". Who was that anon? Maybe MIA doesn't want to be a mom. Don't lots of men don't want to be dads either? It goes both ways.
yeah i have no fuckin clue what her or their arrangements are like.
i do know her baby daddy is supposed to be loaded. so im not sure how this adds...
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i’m on the verge of tears
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Anonymous asked: MIA lets her black mother-in-law raise her son while she lives in London (not just when she's touring). You think she thinks black women=mammy?
i dont know about MIA’s personal arrangements and why she does or doesnt have her MIL raise her kid. diff shit works for diff families.
i know alot...
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“I don’t see anything bad about being stereotyped as a Latin woman. We are yellers, we’re pretty, we’re sexy, and we’re scandalous. I am not scared of the stereotypes.”
Sofia Vergara, of Modern Family, who maybe yells a little too much. (via newsweek)
Oh look, it’s a good thing I am typing this instead of, you know, actually YELLING at Newsweak.
Here is the thing: I can understand Sofia Vergara’s words, where she is coming from. Have I “used” the Latina stereotype to my advantage ever in social situations? Yes, probably. I mean, nobody is free from the social context where interactions take place. However, no amount of “making fun of our stereotypes” is ever going to fix stuff like this (from the article):
It’s a quality that DeGeneres poked fun of recently in a behind-the-scenes video for their first Cover Girl shoot, calling Vergara’s accent “phony” and claiming “to be sick of” Vergara’s struggles with the English language.
I’ve lost track of the amount of times I’ve had to smile politely while people made fun of my accent. We will only be truly free to embrace these stereotypes when we don’t have to deal with reactions like that. Meanwhile, no, I resent the fact that Newsweak implies we should all “exploit” it to our advantage.
