Hey Quee!
Look,
look.I fixed her. I’m sure it was just an honest tonality mistake. They couldn’t have possibly been trying to wash her out.
Right?
fucking hell man!! the fucking difference! racists gonna whitewash
Woww I hadn’t seen the original pictures… These look so much more like her, that’s fucked up.
— The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
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I’m sorry but this is fucking stupid. If I had just waited a year and hoped to not be suicidal anymore, I would have been so sorely disappointed that I would have definitely killed myself. Wanting to kill yourself is not about whether or not you’ve done cool shit. I was suicidal for 8 years, doing cool shit did not make my depression go away.
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Julisa
23
Baton Rouge, La
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Photographed by: Kiana Pierce (kpphotogblog.tumblr.com)
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Following this dream hasn’t been easy. Along the way, Michaela has had to battle racism within the ballet world. “When I was eight, I was cast to play Marie in The Nutcracker, and I prepared hard for it. But right before the show, I was told that someone else would be dancing the part because ‘people aren’t ready for a black Marie,’ ” she recalls. She seriously considered quitting ballet until she got the chance to see black dancer Heidi Cruz perform with The Pennsylvania Ballet. “I was like, Wow, she’s amazing! She inspired me to keep dancing,” Michaela says.
Read Michaela’s heartbreaking and inspiring story
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Photos by Sophia Wallace
I am fascinated by the overwhelming dandyism in the queer women’s community in the bay. Particularly with folks of color who find ways of navigating non-normative gender through this style. I believe it is particularly appealing for its possible “androgyny” or genderqueerness and, well, because people look freaking hot. I’m not a huge fan of the bow tie, but I adore the play in style and the liberation of constricted gender norms and the possibility of redefining beauty aesthetics.
“The dandy—conventionally defined as a strikingly attractive man whose dress is immaculate and manor is dignified—has been around since the late 18th century. Often misunderstood as superficial, the dandy is rather a space of creative possibility where men and women can perform a persona in ways that reach far beyond the narrow binary constructs of masculine and feminine. Indeed artists like Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, H.H Monro and less recognized women such as the American painter Romaine Brookes and her cohorts found Dandyism to be a liberatory space not only for appearance but more importantly, for a life of independence that did not necessarily adhere to a deterministic heterosexual model of marriage and children. Examples of modern dandies include Andy Warhol, Quentin Crisp, Grace Jones. My many years focusing on gender, race and constructions of beauty led me to dandyism as a radical position for art making and social critique. Indeed, dandyism’s subversive aesthetic of beauty disrupts normative gender in fascinating ways. Beauty is defined in almost all contexts as the domain of femininity which is commonly understood as frivolous, weak and passive. The dandy is neither traditionally feminine or masculine. Rather, the dandy is an aestheticized androgyny available to men, women and transgender individuals. Herein lies it’s power and it’s danger.”
:) i’ve never read anything about this before! i just really like bowties.
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1 in every 106 white males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 36 hispanic males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 15 black males 18 or older are incarcerated
http://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0
Institutionalized and colorblind racism FTL.
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Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
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Feminist cat lady.
Loves cats, weed, women, and sex
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So I took a bunch of Lyrica because I hated myself and now I feel ok and I’ve decided I am actually really fuckin’ adorable today.
I’m a pirate.
Arrrr.
body. cast.
temporarily breaking my tumblr hiatus to tell you about my experience on the bart today:
i was...
You are a 17-year-old who thinks it is cool to have “Exhibits sociopathic behavior” in your sidebar and also reblogs shit like this and clearly...
what i wore todayyyyyy (happy mother’s day mommy)
Chillin like a villin at work! Love this blog
