Back On Pointe

An #OwnVoices Inspiration Board // A story of two Black kids who love themselves, love each other, and love fighting for their freedom.

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ballerina 🩰

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helga yarí paris-morales photographed by peter foiles of petersphotoworks

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Ten Toes Down: The Black Ballerina (2021)

A Sunday School Production.

Photography by Kreshonna Keane

This story weaves fashion, nostalgia, movement, and history to highlight just how important representation is.

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hashtag animashun

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lol turn on the sound

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IVE FOUND IT AGAIN, MY FAVORITE FUCKING VIDEO

[fitnessjourneymotivation]

Reblogging again because it makes me so happy

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[iheartallura]

just a reminder:

a black girl character growing her hair out long breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having short hair

a black girl character getting to be soft and fragile breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being strong all the time

a black girl character being protected and comforted by others breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character having no one to look out for her but herself

a black girl character being considered pretty or cute by other characters breaks more stereotypes than a black girl character being considered unattractive

not everything that is empowering for white girls is empowering for black girls

the sexism we face overlaps, but it is not the same

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not everything that is empowering for white girls is empowering for black girls

the sexism we face overlaps, but it is not the same

[beautyintheblackness]

Ballerina Nardia Boodoo - The Washington Ballet - Photo by Rachard Wolf Photography

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🌻 🌻 🌻

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‘Rehearsal’ by Sue Foell

[deanpinterester]

hashtag animashun

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This is so cute!

[candiikismet]

Soooo adorable

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[cameoecho]

How we slay in our new studios!!

[kiyspicedtea]

The serious gasp I just had…that was so beautiful…

[vickvangoth]

I’m the soft collective “yaaas”

[iamhannalashay]

Why kind of magicccc

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BLACK MAGIC GUYS….TOTALLY BKACK

[funandcake]

That’s how U do that…

[purpleandpinkhouses]

Amazing!

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The “7 &”

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Okay Montclair 💕

[rodarte]

Misty Copeland wearing her Rodarte costume for the end credit ballet sequence of The Nutcracker and and the Four Realms directed by Tabitha Denholm (ph: Rebecca Miller).