You know they mean well, and "flesh colored" band-aids prove white privilege is hard to spot sometimes.
Band-Aids, says the author, hinting at the ambiguities and racial dilemmas inherent in the term "flesh-colored". Band-Aids, pogo sticks, whatever--if it's by Colson Whitehead, expect the unexpected.
These range from being able to buy "flesh-colored" Band-Aids that will match her skin tone, to knowing that she can be rude without provoking negative judgments of her racial group, to being able to buy a house in a middle-class community without risking neighbors' disapproval (1993).
Saw them live in 1991, but they were very loud and probably not good for tinnitus in the flesh!" On the band's own forum, one member – a self-proclaimed fan of the group for 19 years – who has suffered ever since attending last year's Roundhouse show, went as far as to say he'd be "too bitter to listen to them again".
He used it as a live tool first, to play some of his production work in tandem with his D.J. duties — "I didn't realize it was for making beats until later," he said — but ultimately took to it to flesh out his band's live sound.
He barely mentioned the bandmates who fleshed out his band's sound.
Show Your Bones fleshes out the band's sketchy squall, just as Karen's appearance has taken a sleeker turn, with a shiny, Mary Quant-style bob.
His appearances in town over the past few years have usually been solo affairs, but this tour features a full band, fleshing out Snider's rockier side.
She was the one waitress at Borislav's and so her red jacket was cut for the female figure and between it and the short black skirt a flat band of flesh was visible, the teardrops dangling from her navel and sometimes catching the light as she walked with the tray held high and balanced on her palm.
No, this was a gently executed upward swipe of the last quarter-inch of tongue on the tiny band of flesh between the nostrils: the forbidden promised land of dog affection".
In those days, Annesley was allergic to punctuation, with page long sentences about panic attacks provoked by speed binges, which somehow managed to explain what made the Flesh Eaters a great band.
