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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

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The Problem With Intersex People

The word kuli in Chinese means bitter work, right? Bitter work. But if we spelled it C-O-O-L-I-E in America, that's a racial slur for Chinese people. In China, guess what they actually call the people who occupy the level of bitter work,. Ta-da kuli, which I said in Chinese. So it's not a racial slur. Here's another one. You're not even really allowed to say this. And if I could do the Tonals, you would believe me. This is proof in queer theory that there's this word that's not racist in America, but it's racist in Zambia.

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