Two Brown Girls

A pop culture podcast by Fariha Roisin and Zeba Blay

[mahpiyatowin]

Indigenous water protectors gather and jingle dance at an Enbridge shareholder meeting in Calgary, Alberta last May to protest the Line 3 pipeline project that is proposed to cross the most pristine lakes, rivers, and sacred anishinaabeg territories across Canada, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This pipeline threatens the well being of the earth, and its peoples. It is important that we fight back for the next 7 generations.

Visit stopline3.org for more information on the fight against line 3.

[2brwngrls]

SIGNAL BOOST

[fariharoisin]

EI: You were waxing poetic on representation, whiteness, and tokenism during the How We Write Now: Cultural Criticism in an Era of Deconstructed Whiteness event. What does representation look like to you in this political climate?

FR: Solidarity. Solidarity. Solidarity. Amongst everyone. But also, less performativity. I’m tired of people espousing something on Twitter and not self actualizing those politics in their actual lives. I’m tired of women of color talking about protecting women of color online, and not doing that IRL. I know I’m going to sound like an old grump, but it’s infuriating to see people who’ve fucked you over criticizing the very things they’ve done to you. It’s so easy now to have the right vocabulary, but what are people doing with their hearts? Where’s the integrity? We need to actually be the change we tell other people to be. 

If you want to read the rest of the interview, here it is. 

[2000-lightyearsfromhome]

A Tibetan aristocratic woman in array, Xiahe, Gansu, 1936, by Zhuang Xueben

[amberjliu-deactivated20180517]

after the storm (2018)

[3rdeyechakra]

Same sis

[yupyaki4life]

I want to know what gel they use on her hair.

[jonzykid]

Y A R A .✨

[kajra-re]

Deepika Padukone, Chennai Express, 2013.

[ygsolis]

Seu Jorge speaking on the condition of black people in Brazil from the 60′s till now in the documentary City of God: 10 Years Later.

[fariharoisin]

fun shoot with Milk Studios, who voted me “Most Likely To End Islamophobia!” which is exactly a thing that i’m fighting for. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdso9SAgU4O/?taken-by=fariha_roisin

[mysharona1987]

[vintageindianclothing]

A MOCK WEDDING is enacted by Pakistani girls. The “bride”, Raiza Khanum (who appears on LIFE’s cover) wears a gay head scarf used for festive events. To exchange rings is a local custom, not practiced through Islam. Photo caption, LIFE, 9 May 1955.

Bit of a dress up wedding with a chain and pendant filling in for a mang tikka.

The woman on the right of the “bride” wears the collared kameez popular in the 50s. And of course hair ribbons.

[nicealbumcovers]

HEAVN by Jamila Woods

[mysharona1987]

[2brwngrls]

go off chris

[voidwillbyers]

excuse me but why is no one talking about this (strange?) but beautiful photo shoot?

[deficiencyincourtship-deactivat]

[damnthosewords]

Fresh Off The Boat - “A League Of Her Own” - Nicole comes out to Honey in a lesbian bar

[jjbrozier]

Fucking mELISSA ETHERIDGE

[anchoredinthe0cean]

WHY AREN’T ALL COMING OUTS LIKE THIS?!?!?!?!

[ohdangitsang]

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL

[argyle-s]

I love this. I love how the Bartender is immediately ride or die for the baby gay, and how all the other lesbians in the bar are waiting on the edge of their seat to see if they get to be happy for the girl or if they have to comfort her. There is literally nothing wrong with this scene, and it makes me happy.

[fariharoisin]

last days in Montréal taken by Michael Brock (Mind Bath)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba_7TchA_mq/?taken-by=fariha_roisin

[2brwngrls]

Today I saw two remarkable films (#Mudbound, #thedeathandlifeofmarshapjohnson), wallowed in stress, bandaged my arm, recorded audio for an upcoming podcast, overcame social anxiety (briefly), felt lonely, loved on my bae, wrote for myself, drank wine, wore all white, felt ethereal. How was your day? (at HuffPost)