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dating · race/racism

Racism and Dating

Aliza Hausman9 Comments

My response in “Everyone’s a little bit racist” to a white Jewish friend telling me she wouldn’t marry a black guy, not even a Jewish black guy, was purely emotional. At the time, I felt as if my still beating heart had been ripped out of my body and skewered and barbecued as I watched… Continue reading Racism and Dating

dating · hair · high school

Hair Memory

Aliza Hausman1 Comment

That’s me at the bottom with my two or three feet of hair. In high school, a guy came up to me in the lunch room to ask me out. And then right in the middle of doing so, he stopped and stared at my hair. “Your hair kinda reminds me of pubes,” he said.… Continue reading Hair Memory