The Pitt’s Supriya Ganesh: My Strange Dysphoria “Growing up in India, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel disconnected from my body.”
The Pitt’s Supriya Ganesh: My Strange Dysphoria “Growing up in India, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel disconnected from my body.”
so gorgeous. she seems like a wonderful person and the Pitt isn’t gonna feel the same without her on it.
squatonkumquat on
ily supriya
Forgetallthoseplaces on
She is so hot
throwaway285093 on
i don’t know this person or their story outside of this post, but i’m kinda confused as a nonbinary person. i also can’t really fully understand as a white person admittedly, but it feels like they’re talking about how there’s this prevalent idea in american culture/society where people masculinize BIPOC cis women/afabs, and that caused them to feel dysphoric and that she/they pronouns reflect the way they’re perceived instead of a more internal identity?
Pajamys on
The intersectionality between gender and colourism/racism is a deeply complicated web. Realizing just how Eurocentric a WOC is meant to compare to is a real growing pain. Having darker body hair, thicker eyebrows, anything-other-than-a-button nose or even just having textured hair is a whole ordeal.
All of this is to say, i sympathize with the dissonance between self-perception and having a meat suit that feels out of place
hellolovely1 on
That’s a really interesting and thoughtful take.
browsinbowser on
I didn’t know she grew up in India, I assumed she was American born desi.
CreativeGeniusPRBKR on
As an immigrant, who has written many an essay talking about the immigrant experience, I chuckled at the starting “growing up in India” thesis lmao.
Great essay otherwise
urfatassmama on
Hell yeah Supriya.
I heard of a Brazilian trend called Banho de Lua, which means ‘moon bath’ and its where they dont shave their body hair, but they bleach it and it looks shimmery in the sun. Thought it was cool as hell to see body hair being accessorized
StressWonderful4243 on
Literally such a relatable experience for myself and I’m sure other brown women! Especially when I was a teenager and I felt so disconnected from womanhood and not performing feminity “correctly”, it made me miserable to be a woman until I got over the hyperfeminine white woman ideal that’s considered the standard in North America. Brown women rock 🤙
missunderstood4eva on
I unfortunately relate to this very much as an Indian-American woman, growing up and feeling like an outside bc of my skin color.
Whats_That_Noise_ on
Just fell even more in love.
finn_derry on
ily supriya!!!!
Damage-Classic on
She very recently got written off the show 😢
DaileyFlosser39 on
They are so beautiful.
requiredelements on
Hoping that we as a society soon break free of the chains of western white women beauty standards
Just-Another-GameLol on
Good for them!
mygucciburned_ on
I’m a nonbinary butch Asian lesbian, and I have felt really similarly to Mx. Ganesh… Hell, tbh I kinda hesitate to call myself ‘nonbinary’ despite being gender-divergent because, lbr, it’s a Eurocentric term… The Western gender binary is based on colonialist and racialized oppression, and technically, all people of colour are ‘nonbinary’ in the sense that racialized subjects are not considered proper human beings and thus are not ‘gendered correctly.’ (For more on this topic, I highly recommend reading “The Coloniality of Gender” by Maria Lugones.) Gender implicates race and vice versa….
I would still be gender-divergent if I had grown up in my country of origin, but it would totally be different than my gender is now, I’m sure…
museinprogress on
I hate how brown and black women are masculinised. Anything other than eurocentric feautures are seen as undesirable and non feminine…I think its fucking dumb. I cant relate to her struggles because Im still in India but I love her for saying this.
DivineSpiralSwinger on
“If womanhood was the virtue as to why white women need to be protected, it followed that non-white women would be masculinized so that racism could be meted out upon us.”
As a black woman this shit hit hard
TypicalSwab on
Is there any way to avoid the paywall for the whole article?
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so gorgeous. she seems like a wonderful person and the Pitt isn’t gonna feel the same without her on it.
ily supriya
She is so hot
i don’t know this person or their story outside of this post, but i’m kinda confused as a nonbinary person. i also can’t really fully understand as a white person admittedly, but it feels like they’re talking about how there’s this prevalent idea in american culture/society where people masculinize BIPOC cis women/afabs, and that caused them to feel dysphoric and that she/they pronouns reflect the way they’re perceived instead of a more internal identity?
The intersectionality between gender and colourism/racism is a deeply complicated web. Realizing just how Eurocentric a WOC is meant to compare to is a real growing pain. Having darker body hair, thicker eyebrows, anything-other-than-a-button nose or even just having textured hair is a whole ordeal.
All of this is to say, i sympathize with the dissonance between self-perception and having a meat suit that feels out of place
That’s a really interesting and thoughtful take.
I didn’t know she grew up in India, I assumed she was American born desi.
As an immigrant, who has written many an essay talking about the immigrant experience, I chuckled at the starting “growing up in India” thesis lmao.
Great essay otherwise
Hell yeah Supriya.
I heard of a Brazilian trend called Banho de Lua, which means ‘moon bath’ and its where they dont shave their body hair, but they bleach it and it looks shimmery in the sun. Thought it was cool as hell to see body hair being accessorized
Literally such a relatable experience for myself and I’m sure other brown women! Especially when I was a teenager and I felt so disconnected from womanhood and not performing feminity “correctly”, it made me miserable to be a woman until I got over the hyperfeminine white woman ideal that’s considered the standard in North America. Brown women rock 🤙
I unfortunately relate to this very much as an Indian-American woman, growing up and feeling like an outside bc of my skin color.
Just fell even more in love.
ily supriya!!!!
She very recently got written off the show 😢
They are so beautiful.
Hoping that we as a society soon break free of the chains of western white women beauty standards
Good for them!
I’m a nonbinary butch Asian lesbian, and I have felt really similarly to Mx. Ganesh… Hell, tbh I kinda hesitate to call myself ‘nonbinary’ despite being gender-divergent because, lbr, it’s a Eurocentric term… The Western gender binary is based on colonialist and racialized oppression, and technically, all people of colour are ‘nonbinary’ in the sense that racialized subjects are not considered proper human beings and thus are not ‘gendered correctly.’ (For more on this topic, I highly recommend reading “The Coloniality of Gender” by Maria Lugones.) Gender implicates race and vice versa….
I would still be gender-divergent if I had grown up in my country of origin, but it would totally be different than my gender is now, I’m sure…
I hate how brown and black women are masculinised. Anything other than eurocentric feautures are seen as undesirable and non feminine…I think its fucking dumb. I cant relate to her struggles because Im still in India but I love her for saying this.
“If womanhood was the virtue as to why white women need to be protected, it followed that non-white women would be masculinized so that racism could be meted out upon us.”
As a black woman this shit hit hard
Is there any way to avoid the paywall for the whole article?