January 2012
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The 99%: Why the Real Housewives of Atlanta Aren’t... →
Melissa Harris Perry also discusses this concept in Sister Citizen, regarding fictive kinship, defined as the reciprocal social and economic relationships within communities of color: “If one’s sense of self is connected to the positive accomplishments of other African Americans,” she says, “then it is also linked to stereotypes and other negative portrayals of that race.” In other words,...
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White lesbians are the only lesbians, don't cha...
sapphrikah: Why are there only white womyn (besides maybe, Carmen de la Pica Morales) on this site, for the most part? I sincerely want to know.
sapphoria: Dunno. I post what I find. When I find images of cute women of color together, I post them. Maybe there aren’t that many out there. Why do you have mostly blacks on yours?
sapphrikah: Lol, "blacks." Because there are a MYRIAD of messages in the media constantly promoting a eurocentric standard of beauty. Light skin, slim facial features, straight hair, light hair, light eyes, etc. It is little known to the white population but the amount of damage done to the self-esteem of blacks alone is astounding. We live in a white world, where you are guaranteed to be able to find yourself as a white person represented on television, in novels, you name it. It has done so much damage in fact that among us there is a stigma against darker people, who are often said to be more ugly by our very own peers. Our hair as it would grow naturally, kinky and nappy, has become taboo. “Nappy” is very much a bad word in our communities. Over 90% of black womyn in America get a perm or a weave to have more Eurocentric assimilating hair before they’re even old enough to say now. We are brought up hating what sets us apart from that standard of beauty, in a self-loathing, internalized-racist mentality. It is important, once this is noticed, for many of us, including myself, to reinforce the fact that we too are and can be beautiful. I don’t go out of the way to fill my blog with white people because we have enough white-worship going on, we have been told enough that white people are beautiful. I find beauty in black bodies and make it known, so that others can realize we have it just as much as any other race does. And quite frankly, we clearly have enough mediums chock full of white people, my blog doesn’t need to be another one. Nice try, though.
SCHOOLED.
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pica
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [abbr. picayune] the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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“Fuck off. I fuck the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt with a dildo all day long while...”
– Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
I am almost done with this wonderfully strange set of short stories and I thought I’d share one of my favorite lines…
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My friends and I are now talking about doing a...
mytongueisforked:
suzy-x:
Forget the rev, this remake is going to be my #1 priority. Who’s in?
OMG. Best idea ever.
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With Age, Men May Lose Thinking Ability Faster... →
tballardbrown:
I post this with no comment.
Yet another reason why old white men shouldn’t be running the world.
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I CAN'T
stop looking at pictures of pasta dishes on flickr. I just went to Trader Joe’s too, and the frozen Bolognese is back! HELL YEEEUH. OMG and I got some pesto and roasted garlic hummus and white balsamic vinaigrette and MORE PASTA and onions and peppers and celery for the sauce and broccoli and cauliflower and cubed organic beef and pineapples and mangos, too.
O & 2buck chuck. Obvs.
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