Sex/uality Artifacts

Hello everyone, my name is Catherine Weaver. Today I presented an artifact in class about interracial relationships based off our article we had to read called Interracial Intimacy. Interracial relationships have always been something that is weird or made a skeptical of to the public and in the eyes of the media that is all around us. If heterosexual interracial couples are being made a skeptical of in the public, then homosexual interracial couples definitely are as well. In the reading, Interracial Intimacy, it explains how interracial couples have moments of invisibility and also moment of visibility to the public. Sometimes they feel like they don’t matter and aren’t given the time of day so they feel invisible. But other times, they have moments of visibility but not the good kind of visibility. It is the type of visibility that the interracial couples get prolonged stared and hearing the whispers of bad and rude comments. People’s reactions to interracial couples just goes to show how we view interracial relationships and what stereotype of relationships we see in our head. For example, if we think of white woman in a relationship in our head… we automatically pair her with a white man right along side of her. Or if we think of a black man, we automatically pair him up with a black woman in our head. Which in my opinion, is crazy. Love is love and it should not be discriminated in any way shape or form. Who are we to judge or decide who should love who.

The video that I found as my artifact that relates to the reading, Interracial Intimacy, is called Interracial Relationship Confessions. This short video was made by BuzzFeed and I thought it was a great example of how interracial couples actually feel about how people view their own personal intimate relationship. One of the lines from the short video that stood out to me the most was: “Yeah, people do stare. Sad, but true.” To interracial couples, it doesn’t matter what race their partner is or what culture he or she is from. And, if it doesn’t matter to them, then why should it matter to us?

Here is the link for the video I found: