To be in the margin is to be a part of the whole but outside of the main
body. As black Americans living in a small Kentucky town, the railroad tracks were a daily reminder of our marginality. Across those tracks were paved streets, stores we could not eat in, and people we could not look directly in the face. Across those tracks was a world we could work in as maids, as janitors, as prostitutes, as long as it was a service capacity. we could enter that world but we could not live there.
We had always to return to the margin, to cross the tracks, to shacks and
abandoned houses on the edge of town. There are laws to ensure our return. To not return was to risk being punished.
Living as we did - on the edge- we developed a particular way of seeing
reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out.
We focused our attention on the center as well as on the margin. We
understood both. This mode of seeing reminded us of the existence of a
whole universe, a main body made up of both margin and centre. Our survival depended on an ongoing public awareness of the separation between margin and center and an ongoing private acknowledgement that we were a necessary, vital part of that whole.
This sense of wholeness,impressed upon our consciousness by the
structure of our daily lives, provided us an oppositional world view - a mode of seeing unknown to most of our oppressors that sustained us, aided us in our struggle to transcend poverty and despair, strengthened our sense of self and our solidarity.
_bell hooks

Feminist Theory:From Margin to Center

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"But what men don't realize is that women in our society are on the receiving end of unwanting sexual attention at some point in their lives, and most of them get it a lot. Women are catcalled on the street. They're harassed in bars, groped in clubs, and whistled at in the grocery store. They're told that they need to be sexy to be valued and then they're attacked as sluts. Simply put, women put up with sexual intrusion for most of their lives, in big ways and small. It happens everywhere and most men have no idea how much of an impact it has. I've heard quite a few men say that women should just take it as a compliment. Ironically, these are often the same guys who lose it if a man cruises them, winks at them, or simply appears to be sexually interested in them. Seems like a double standard to me."

The Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With WOmen Need to Know/ Charles Glickman via techbicolourx (via tobia)

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In my research of Bad Babi, I am actually seeing my characters all over Trinidad. I think that I may have posted that before? I am not sure. But my Bad Babi girl is actually a very sweet girl just fending for herself in a hostile environment.
She is making up her own rules, as she may not have been given enough attention or affection growing up.
She may be loud and crass, but she is also beautiful, street smart yet vulnerable.
She is a doll, an overly sexualised girl/woman.
Bad Babi