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Current Event: “smashed or passed”
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 In this TikTok, a young black woman discusses noticing a trend of “white girls [her] age getting engaged and [her] age group still standing in lines getting ‘smashed or passed’.” Another black woman stitches this discussing how a lot of black girls and women never have a ‘classic’ dating experience, i.e. a date planned for them, or a bouquet of roses given to them. She alludes that this is largely due to how society stereotypes black women. Additionally, she discussed how people use the stereotypical excuse “black women are hypersexual;” but if society shows black women that “selling sex is the only way…
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Final Project – Zine
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Reflective Essay Before starting this project, I knew that Black women face hate and unfair treatment online, but I didn’t fully understand how deep rooted this hatred is. Over the semester and while working on the final project, I learned that misogynoir is more common than I had thought. I was shocked at by the long history of it. Misogynoir describes the unique kind of racism and sexism that Black women face, especially on the internet. What stood out to me most was how everyday things online can be harmful, even if people don’t mean them to be. For example, when non-Black people…
