Thoughts on White Beauty
So I’d still like to talk to Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Americans about their relationship to gender and sexuality policing.
One aspect that’s been on my mind especially lately are conceptions of beauty and attractiveness and how they are forged by white heteronormativity. I’ve recently been bleaching my hair, and have stopped at a sort of medium golden blond color up top. It worries me sometimes that my hair seems too close to a caucasian color, as if somehow I’m trying to mimic or assimilate into whiteness. I keep telling myself that bleach belongs to no one, but is this true? I mean, I have no shame in admitting that my hair is bleached, that I take great steps to maintain it and make it do what I want it to do. Is that sort of transparency in my beautifying process really enough to undo the end result that my hair is now a very rare natural color that is upheld as the standard of beauty for many white women? Can I as a genderqueer person of color really own this color without somehow propping up racist and sexist beauty ideals?
Just a thought.
Thoughts on White Beauty
So I’d still like to talk to Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Americans about their relationship to gender and sexuality policing.
One aspect that’s been on my mind especially lately are conceptions of beauty and attractiveness and how they are forged by white heteronormativity. I’ve recently been bleaching my hair, and have stopped at a sort of medium golden blond color up top. It worries me sometimes that my hair seems too close to a caucasian color, as if somehow I’m trying to mimic or assimilate into whiteness. I keep telling myself that bleach belongs to no one, but is this true? I mean, I have no shame in admitting that my hair is bleached, that I take great steps to maintain it and make it do what I want it to do. Is that sort of transparency in my beautifying process really enough to undo the end result that my hair is now a very rare natural color that is upheld as the standard of beauty for many white women? Can I as a genderqueer person of color really own this color without somehow propping up racist and sexist beauty ideals?
Just a thought.
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