typical day, same b.s.

830am
mom calls
mom: how do you say green, like remember how you were telling me what to say about going green for the environment, (as a sales promotion for the tourism industry, not b/c im a hippie) is it right to say, 'i think we should be surrounded by greens...'?"
desertDIVA: no mom, just green without the s, green, not greens.
mom: oh, hahahaha, ok. i want to tell this guy im emailing that i like earthling colors, should i say that?
desertDIVA: earthy colors? like as in the earth?
mom: no like, earthling, like that one movie with geena davis and jeff goldblum...
desertDIVA: earthgirls are easy???
mom: (lol-ing) yeah that one, is that ok to say?
desertDIVA: just say earthy colors, not earthling...and earthling is a human.
mom: oh...what else should i say to this guy?
desertDIVA: mom...im writing a paper...its due in 2 hours.
mom: (exasperation) oooooh ok fine, bye.

835am
mom calls
mom: did you fix the light at your apartment yet?
desertDIVA: no...
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mom: ok bye.

1pm
heading to class, mentally preparing to discuss a book about whiteness that i'm not so fond of. most of the class is white...and study people / communities of color...cuz they are "progressive," or something. i don't get it.
desertDIVA: i thought there were a couple of problematic things in this book, some of which i will list as follows...
1. this book got all kinds of accolades from which whiteness studies emerged and was received with open arms and acceptance while the ethnic studies still have to validate and justify their existence in the academy.
2. cultural appropriation does not open the doors to antiracism for white people. i don't care how much smokey robinson you listen to or how many Che/Bob Marley shirts you have. That doesn't make you radical, that makes you a tool.
3. I don't feel sorry for white "repression." as peggy mcintosh said, this repression gives them an "invisible knapsack" full of useful tools that they get to use to get ahead in the world. getting rid of whiteness wont change this. it'll probably just make the knapsack more invisible.
4. The focus on whiteness creates a tone different from the other books we have read. this book, in dealing with whiteness, felt more tragic, melancholic and sympathetic, whereas many of our other books feel more angry and violent..and i am suspicious of anything that seems like it's trying to make the hegemonic group the victims.
rest of class: but what are you talking about, this book was totally violent...there were labor riots! and racial slurs!
desertDIVA: ummm....wat....

230pm
desertDIVA: WAAAT WAAAT WAT??! are those people in my class effing serious!?! eff that shit!
libralady: i know honey, i know.

400pm
choco taco and shit talking / emotional support

700pm
going to theothergrlnxtdoor 's potluck
desertDIVA: (after first plate) i'm gonna get more food. (looks at 2 containers of yogurt, looks at host) are these two the same kind of yogurt?
random white dude who isn't host: (displays cultural capital / cultural appropriation skillz) oh thats raita, its indian yogurt and cucumber, you eat it with the spicy chicken.
desertDIVA: (looks at dude, spoons yogurt into bowl) ... (walks away with a samosa in mouth).
desertDIVA: (to libralady) ummm
libralady: yeah...

945pm
at a bar with othergrlnxtdoor, libralady, and XXunbound, shit talking / emotional support /defeated trolling
desertDIVA: (grabs arm of XXunbound, motions for her to look at hot Asian men at the bar who could possibly be undergraduates) where did they come from?!?!
XXunbound: i don't know!!!
All : (stare in awe and wonderment at hot Asians until they leave bar. we are chicken and don't talk to them)

100am
eat pie. talk shit / emotional support. go to bed.