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Rumpus Book ClubHair Color Prejudice: Gingerism
Being a red-head can be tough, at least in the UK where ginger gene carriers are relentlessly heckled with such epithets as ‘ginger nuts’ ‘carrot top’, ‘ginge minge’, even ‘ginger bollocks’ to name just a few. Newspapers reported last year of a Newcastle family so tortured that they had to flee their homes, the last resort after even their council suggested they dye their hair. Such apparent lenience with this particular brand of discrimination has prompted journalists to ask “is gingerism as bad as racism?” In response, British artist Jenny Wicks has photographed and filmed victims and produced an exhibition dedicated to red hair, its genetic and geographical aspects, and the social attitudes it inspires. More after the jump.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
We’ve got an interview lined up with Jenny Wicks – please let us know any questions you’d like us to ask her by posting them here:
http://gingerism.com/2009/01/questions-for-ginger-roots-exhibition.html
May 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Gingers have no soul.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Too bad you all don’t have souls…
March 16th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
OK. I was wondering what the term was. OK. So I consider the term, blond moment, “gingerist,” and refuse to use it. Instead, I call times when somebody’s being ditzy a “Gemma moment,” after Alexis Dziena’s nitwit of a character from “Fool’s Gold.”
June 26th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Ginger power!