Voices
communities. In populations for
which identity politics is not
just the stuff of undergraduate thesis statements, these are
issues of life or death. For example, it’s a sign of privilege to
not be able to see the discord
between a pop star cashing in on
culturally specific clothing and
a woman of color who faces discrimination and/or violence for
authentically wearing that same
style of clothing. Discords like
that — between appropriations
of culture and the realities of life
on the ground for said cultures
— matter.
Even if we set aside, for a moment, the implications of last
year