Just Because – A Big Eyed Fish

College-age Cultural Appropriation Tattoo

Nov 26, 2017

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I now have three tattoos. I refer to my tattoo #1 as my “college-age cultural appropriation tattoo.” Yes, I’m one of the hordes of Americans to get foreign-language characters permanently inked on their bodies. In my case, Chinese. I am not Chinese nor is anyone in my immediately family. I didn’t study Chinese, and I…

I know you know but because it’s Groundhog Day, let’s reexamine definitions of “privilege”

Feb 2, 2016

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Rachel Grossman

in Artivism, Just Because, Opinion

A privilege is an advantage, or right, or opportunity, or pleasure, or immunity granted to a particular person or group of people. “Privilege” is the holding of a set of advantages, rights, opportunities, pleasures, and/or immunities as a person or group of people. By definition it means there are others who do are disadvantaged, left…