Artist/Dancer Blog

Welcome 🌸 I'm a British West Indian girl, dancer, artist, vegan & peace lover 💞

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Figure illustrations vol.1

Samji illustrator

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Mike Machira

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“Another way” by Cyra Mordi on INPRNT

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You are more than good enough.💗

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painting of cristina 🌱(@ripcris on insta)

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Johanna Braun

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Greg Breda  –    Breadth…Width…Depth…

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Art work by Marcia Annor, more HERE!

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“Even the vulture is disgusted by what it sees”

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literally my fave vid ever

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[Video Description: tiktok by open_future_learning, starting with a blank screen with the words “The following contains inappropriate language.” The is followed by a white screen with the words “What do you say to parents who just had a baby with Down syndrome?”

This is followed by multiple people, all presumably with Down syndrome, sitting in front of the camera and giving their audio, all of it with closed captions.

At the end, the screen goes white again and says “This year, 9,363 babies were born with Down syndrome on North America.” Followed by the scrolling words “Send each of them a warm welcome at AnythingButSorry . com” (spaces added so the caption shows up on reblogs). End ID]

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Her hair is like mine ☺️

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I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers

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As you all may know, I am an Asian American, and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US is tragic and terrifying. A few years ago, my mother and I had unprovoked, racist threats spat at us while we were simply grocery shopping. They didn’t care who we were as people- they just reduced us to our race. I want this space to be positive and encouraging for everyone, and that’s not possible unless I make this space clearly anti-racist. I hope this comic is a hopeful reminder that we’re all able to make the world a better place together! I can’t stop anything alone, but together, we can make a more caring society that welcomes and protects people of all races. 

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Progress by MelanoidInk aka  King Leo

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In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

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The point of getting rid of the death penalty isn’t that there are some innocent people on it. The point of prison abolition isn’t that there are some innocent people in prison.

The point is that the state shouldn’t have the power to kill people. The point is that the prison system commits systemic abuses of human rights, doesn’t reduce crime, is deeply racist, and doesn’t take the desires of the victims into account. To argue about whether one individual on death row or with a life sentence is innocent or guilty is just a distraction from the central issues, which is that these institutions are unjust and should not exist