Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves
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What Does It Mean to Not Exist in That Third Space?
The twins are inseparable as girls, and then one of them decides to pass as white. Her twin desere, is left behind and lives her life as a black woman. So i think when we talk about race being a social construct, you have the idea that these twins are identical,. One essentially becomes white because she declares herself to be white, and one is black because she does not do that. There is an aspect of that that reveals how flimsy those categories are if you can transgress them through performance.
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