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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
black people have often been figured as essentially feeling bodies and bodies that in turn hail more feelings to life:
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology

The fact is, “exceptional Negroes” have always been a staple of an apartheid-like educational system that separates the “gifted” from the “normal,” and both from the “naughty” or “underachieving.” Sticks and stones will only break my bones, but words can lift or crush me.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
“Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism,”