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Old 05-03-2012, 06:45 PM   #170
Saya
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by AshleyO View Post
Here's the fucked up part.

I was literally POINTING AT HER. I don't know how to make it discreet without making a huge issue out of it.
I meant like talking to the teacher in private, but I get what you mean.

At Rebelles last year I felt terrible after a debate on prostitution literally boiled down to women of colour vs white women, and the white women were accusing the women of colour of oppressing them, the white academics felt oppressed by the First Nations woman. SERIOUSLY. We had to line up to add our input or ask the panel a question, and a lot of white women got ahead first and those in the back didn't have time to get input in, and I feel like in that instance we really should abandon our value of the line up in favour of not hearing the same thing over and over. And honestly, I felt so bad about it but its taken me a year to articulate why, and I still feel bad I never said anything.
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