January 2012
finding beauty in the wretched: So white People... →
stefanosings:
stfuandlistenwhitepeople:
I’m pretty sure that you’ve all heard of the popular Sexy Sweaters blog that rose to fame late fall of last year. Well, the two creators of the blog, Alec and Greta have created a new “network” for people with image blogs. Not that there’s anything…
Not to mention that they used the name “Allah” and a Hindi-inspired font instead of an Arabic one....
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beatyourwings replied to your post: i spent a lot of my childhood trying to figure out…
way to make me all teary-eyed. the idea that you EVER thought you weren’t beautiful makes my gut twist!
WELL you can cheer up because i have seen the error of everyone else’s ways
BITCH I’M FABULOUS DOT GIF
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i spent a lot of my childhood trying to figure out what i looked like. i didn’t see myself in the media much, and as one of only a handful of people of color in an otherwise predominantly white lower-middle class town, i didn’t have much to compare myself with. my features disqualified me from fitting into the spectrum of ugly to frumpy to cute to hot that was used to measure the...
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"The line between utilitarian convenience and... →
k sent me this article in an email, along with the text “now THIS is substantive journalism”
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“hi, i’m michelle and i’m very thirsty right now, but i don’t want to get off the couch to fetch a glass of water. i am 25 years old.”
“hi, i’m michelle and my nose was a little bit stuffy so i started sniffling and somehow that irritated the tissues in my sinus and they puffed up and so i sniffled more but the more i sniffled the worse it got and now i...
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i’m like, “hello, i am a korean american woman.” oh shut the fuck UP also i feel weird identifying as a woman INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY I WANT TO BE A BABY FOREVER DELETE DELETE DELETE
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i would like to “put more of myself” into this “blog,” but whenever i try to write a bio that’s more “real” i just want to “kick myself” in the “teeth”
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Anonymous asked: Are your parents racist? What’s...
yoisthisracist:
Yo, my parents are racist as hell, and more or less the only communication we have is when they talk at me about going to law school and I drink whiskey.
replace “drink whiskey” with “binge eat ice cream” and we have a gpoy
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skybarn:
The guy from the American Gothic painting is giving the Republican rebuttal.
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i’m watching a random epi of “er” for the first time and it’s making me slightly ill how much it actually reminds me of being in the er?
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sometimes i worry about the progression of my own personal character arc
#I think I would have stopped watching my show a long time ago
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I'm getting infernally SICK of the white whiners...
thegoddamazon:
Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.
The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided” exercise.
Now, these students were all required to sign waivers saying that they would undergo high emotional...
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A petition to address the issue of a blackface... →
stfuconfederates:
Please sign and reblog this one, guys, because blackface isn’t acceptable no matter where it’s happening.
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Anonymous asked: <p>Is it racist if when my friend talks about an assault crime by caucasian teens and the probability of them not receiving harsh judgment - I interject with a report of african american teens also assaulting? How can one assume that the teens of color will receive a harsher judgment than the caucasian teens, when none of the suspects in either case has been tried?</p>
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