Cashaé

A Collection of my thoughts on Politics, Pop Culture, Love and the Cynical Moments in Life.

[naturalhairhow101]

Just some info

[fuckyeahmercury]

Freddie Mercury's cats

Unknown Cat

Miko

Tiffany

Oscar

Oscar & Tiffany

Dorothy

Goliath

Lily

Romeo

and his favourite cat who has a Queen song named after her…

Delilah

And here is Freddie wearing a waist coat with all of his cats painted on it

[tongueart]

GOOD FUCKING POST

[anerdyfeminist]

Very publicly and strongly loving numerous cats across your life time is bi culture

[rnbgifs]

And you have to embrace those things.

[musinvenusian]

Where do you get your clothes?

As a fat woman its hard for me to find cute stuff. Especially cute stuff that fit the many aesthetics I have. So i have to shop around and piece together cute clothing.

I’m making this post/list for those who have asked where I shop at. So y'all can feel cute and sexy too :)

Clothing

Modcloth (goes up to size 5x I believe)- Perfect for fat folx who are looking for vintage/cute/hipster type clothing. They sell everything from swimwear to dresses to shoes to tops to bottoms to even cute home decorative items. Their clothing is pricey but check out their clearance section!

Rebdolls (goes up to a size 5x)- Their clothing usually has some stretch to it but be sure to read the material its made out of. Their clothing is kinda basic but stylish at the same time. They do sell crop tops there also along with swimwear :) Their clothing can be affordable

Rainbow Shops (goes only up to a 3x I believe)- Their plus clothing is stylish and super cute. I dont shop here alot but I’m sure you might find something cute. They sell affordable clothing.

Redressnyc (goes up to a 5x I believe)- They can be pricey. I’ve only bought a top from them when it was on sale. But they use fat models and their clothing is super cute! If you can afford it I say go for it

WitchWorldwide (goes up to a 5x)- Uses fat models. Clothing is perf for the fat goth/alternative in need. Clothing can be pricey but again if you can afford it go for it. Also check their clearance section

Shoptunnelvision (goes up to a 5x)- Pricey. They have cute vintage old school stuff but they are again pricey which is why I never bought from them. They do use actual fat models so that’s a plus :)

Hottopic (1x-5x)- Yes hottopic has now revamped their plus sizes! There is a plus size section on their website and the clothing is cute and amazing! Although if you’re a 1x-3x you can most likely find the same outfit in the regular sizing at a cheaper price (cause you know clothing stores like to charge fat people 5 or more extra dollars for “fabric” 🙄🙄🙄) Clothing ranges from cheap to pricey depending on what you get

Teeturtle- I get some of my tees from here! Perfect for the nerdy fat person. If you are a fat person with breasts I find their women sizing to be cut a bit smaller so I usually wear the men’s or the unisex sizing. I’m a 2x/20 and a Men/Unisex Large fits me just fine. I think their shirts are a wee pricey but they always have deals or you can check out their clearance :)

Onceuponatee- Same as Teeturtle pretty much

Forever 21 (1x-3x)- I shop here alot. I tend to shop online because their stores are always picked over. They are affordable. I’m a 2x on their site but sometimes i have to size up to a 3x so be warned

Torrid (XL-5X)- intimates, shoes for wide calf fat folx, dresses, swimwear, bras, etc. Can be pricey. I think overpriced lmao. But they can have nice things in their clearance section

Amazon [CowCow Store] (1x-5x)- CUTE stretchy skater dresses! Very comfy and very cute. Affordable!

Boohoo- Goes up to a size US 20 but honestly I’ve heard from friends who are a 3x that they can fit into their clothing just fine because of the incredibly stretch they have. Very affordable. They have a 50-60% off off their clothing every day.

Burlington, Marshalls, Thrift Stores, Tj Maxx- These stores you will have to take the time to look around and find stuff honestly.

Wildblacksheep.com or Wildblacksheep on etsy- I get my crop tops and sweatshirts from here! They’re very affordable and very cute. Their sweatshirts are unisex. Crop tops I’m unsure about but as a 2x I can fit into their XL crop tops :).

FashiontoFigure- True to plus size. Idk what size they go up to. They do have some cute items but I’ve never shopped there before

Debshops- Again never shopped and I’m unsure what size they go up to. But I’ve heard good things!

Fashionnova (Junior 1x-3x)- I got a 3x in their jeans. I’ve only bought their jeans mostly do idk about their dresses. Their stuff is affordable and you can use lots of 30% off code

Gslovesme (Junior 1x-3x)- I’ve only gotten a cardigan and leggings here. But their stuff is very nice!

Charlotte Russe (Junior Plus)- I’ve never bought an outfit from them but they have lots of cute and affordable things on their website!

TWINTH on Amazon- I get my skater skirts from them. I think they go up only to an XXL but it has looots of stretch it can probs for someone who is maybe a 3x

Bras & Intimates

Torrid- Pricey but check out their clearance section!

Lane Bryant- Clearance section and look for deals. I only shop at lane Bryant once a year for bras lmao

AdoreMe- I love their bras and panties. They can be affordable if you sign up for their VIP program and you can leave it at anytime ^-^

Hips and Curves- Can be pricey I would check out their clearance section

Yandy- Hit or miss for me honestly but they have some cute stuff!

Plus Size Socks/Thigh Highs

Forever 21- Only up to 3x

Yandy- Can go up to a 4x

Welovecolors- I forgot what size they go up to but I have very big thighs and their items fit me perfect

Sockdreams- Thigh highs galore! I love their items.

Kixies on Amazon- I bought some thigh highs from them. Haven’t worn them yet but apparently they are very good at staying up on big thighs :)

Modcloth- Can be pricey but just look. They go up to a 5x I think

Wide Calf Boots

Torrid-pricey but I’ve heard good things about their boots

Boohoo- Affordable but I’ve never worn their boots before

Charlotte Russe- I got some boots from them for 20$ I dont think it stays up too well but for the price its good lol

Wigs

Wigtypes.com

Divatress.com

Glamourtress.com

Ebonyline.com

Elevatestyles.com

Sistawigs.com

Samsbeauty.com

Aliexpress- takes about a month but sooo worth it

WISH- Same as aliexpress but I’ve never ordered a wig from them I just know they sell wigs

As a fat woman i have to shop around for clothing. Like alooot. I shop in trial and error when shopping online because there is a chance things wont fit me. It sucks but you can always piece together cute things :)

If anyone has any more stores to add to the list, add them in the reblogs or replies of this post 💖💖💖

[boojeeprincess]

[boojeeprincess]

Solange Knowles- Cranes In The Sky 😌

[cashaejanea]

'Alarm'

A year ago I worked in tandem with three classmates to create a student film for our Serious Games course by Prof. Ethan Spigland Spring’17 at Pratt Institute. 

The project was to adapt a student written 5-page script and create at least 2 obstructions with which to recreate the film. This is the original.

Adaptation & Set Design By: Cashae Louden

Edited and Directed By: Lauren La Melle

Camera & Sound By: Mike Ruschak

Cast

Girl in Denim: Amanda Ocana

Dead Thing: Lauren La Melle

Music

“Opening” Komiku, Its Time For Adventure Vol.4

“Wake Up Heroic Figure”, Komiku, Its Time For Adventure Vol. 4

“Harbringer of Doom”, Purple Planet 

[krxs10]

Cleveland Police Filed Charges like “Aggravated Menacing” & “Inducing Panic” On Tamir Rice To Justify Shooting Him

If you’re a cop and you’ve just shot a 12-year old kid dead without giving him a chance to follow your orders, what do you do? You file a report making it look like he was a criminal, that’s what.

According to recently obtained documents from the Cleveland Police Department, 12-year old Tamir Rice was going to be charged with the outrageous crimes of “aggravated menacing” and “inducing panic.”

Dear police: We give those crimes back to you. All across the United States, you have induced panic and served as aggravating menaces and have gotten away with these crimes for far too long.

How dare you ever consider charging this young brother with these crimes. He was no menace, but a sixth-grade boy, and the only reason you or anyone else panicked was because of his brown skin. Here are eight white people who pointed real guns at real people and lived to tell the story.

Here is the bogus criminal report for Tamir.

Notice the following three points.

They list three victims of Tamir Rice:

The State of Ohio 

Officer Loehmann (who shot and killed Tamir) 

Officer Garmback (who drove the vehicle) 

This is essential. They are not claiming Tamir was a menace or induced panic to other people in the park, but to the officers. ABSURD. 

At the end of the report, notice that they say this complaint was “abated by death.“ 

Notice the officer who shot and killed Tamir claims to have had minor injuries.

#StayWoke

[expect-the-greatest-deactivated]

This makes me so sad “aggravated menacing”??? WTF he was a CHILD. How on God’s green earth is a child menacing to two grown ass men?

[be-blackstar]

YOU CAN’T HAVE YEARS OF TRAINING, TASERS, GUNS, AND THE SAFETY OF A MOVING CAR, BE THIS MUCH OF A COWARD AND WANT TO BE A COP…UNLESS YOUR SOLE PURPOSE IS TO TERRORIZE BLACK PEOPLE.

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

how you gon charge a dead person with something in the first place

[highonmelanin-deactivated201601]

The bolded.

[smitethestate]

Cops are intensely horrible.

[cashaejanea]

Bye Felicia: Appropriating Language Through Social Media

The result of a research project done for the course Race, Gender & Internet at Pratt Institute taught by Professor Minh-Ha Pham, by Aysen Gerlach and Cashaé Louden.

[fuckyeahshelbi]

I love this man 💕 #blackout

[lavenderempress]

Going though life right now like…

[spermspeed-deactivated20140911]

[buzzfeed]

The “Asian Character Hair Streak” Is Real And It’s A Huge Problem

[thesoulfunkybrother]

Portraits by Gabriela Mendez . 17′

[blackness-by-your-side]

We all know that police is a part of the problem.

[lagonegirl]

Don’t forget she heels doing this

The true definition of unapologetically black and I’m here for it

I love this!!! #SupportAndProtectBlackGirls #BlackGirlsMagic

[cashaejanea]

Biting The Bullet: An Emotional Revisiting of Election 2016

As we inch closer towards impeachment, resignation or a long four years under the Trump administration, I think it’s time we were all honest about the 2016 presidential elections. For starters, how did I end up in a poorly lit Brooklyn post office, having a borderline emotional breakdown over whether I should write in the name of my beloved Bernard Sanders or vote for “Her.”

For me, this emotional roller coaster took off back in the spring of 2015 when hopeful presidential candidates were testing the political climate to get a feel for the response they would receive upon announcing their bids for the Oval Office. I was sitting in my living eating lunch with one of my college roommates while watching a Hillary Clinton segment on MSNBC. I remember telling my roommate how excited I was to vote for Senator Clinton. “Girl, my first vote was for Barack Obama, and now I’m going to get to vote for the first female president of the United States.” My roommate, Zowie looks at me and says, “Well, what about Bernie Sanders, I think he could stand a chance at winning. He started a grassroots campaign a while back, and he’s has been calling out folks of social media.”  I jerked my neck back, looked at her and said, “Girl bye, I’m not voting for him, isn’t that the crooked governor from Louisiana.” Zowie replies, “That’s Bobby Jindal.” She then went on to show me a picture of Bernie Sanders. After seeing his photo, I said, “No, shade but I don’t plan on voting for an old white man for the rest of my life.” Zowie looks at me and says, “Whelp, that’s understandable.” Soon after my news feed on social media started to show Bernie Sanders as a viable candidate.

The following months were an emotional political train wreck for me. Luckily, I had courses that required me to research political candidates and analysis any shifts of the political climate. I went from being an active and hopeful member of Young Democrats that prized the hometown connection to the Clintons to a disgruntled millennial with an ax to grind. Like most Arkansans born in the 90’s I grew up with the image of the Clintons as royalty, think Kennedy dynasty 2.0. Bill was the beloved son that took chances and charmed his enemies, a JFK that didn’t take any shit, while Hillary was the ideal southern belle, sharp, witty, blonde and from Illinois. They were hometown heroes. Anything negative said about them was considered blasphemy and ignorant.

By the time the Democratic National Convention came around, I was heartbroken. WikiLeaks were dropping like a new Kendrick Lamar album and decimating the Democratic party. Irony had fully set in; I desperately wanted an old white man from Vermont to win.  I had finally got my family to see why I thought Sanders was the better candidate than Clinton and untouchable by agent orange. When WikiLeaks revealed that the DNC allegedly conspired against Sanders campaign, I was distraught and flabbergasted. I even shed a tear and felt compelled to post my discontent online for all my Facebook friends to see if anyone else felt betrayed by the DNC.

As Election Day approached my social media became flooded with pictures of women wearing white and quoting Clinton’s campaign slogan, “I’m with Her.” Wearing white was a nod to suffragettes who campaigned for women right to vote. Footage of women placing “I voted” stickers on the grave of Susan B. Anthony also surfaced. No one anticipated the negative response received from women of color who wanted to revisit and call out the racist remarks made by several celebrated suffragettes, like Ann Howard Shaw, “You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women. Never in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!” or Carrie Chapman Catt, “White Supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.” The celebration was considered another loss for the Clinton campaign and picked up by culture cities and black female media outlets like Kimberly Foster of For Harriet. Foster published a video on why she believes no one should wear white to vote, particularly black women due to the racist history and whitewashing of the suffrage movement. Black Suffragette, scholar and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell would side with Foster on not wearing white and so would I.

Terrell once stated, "A white woman has only one hardship to overcome, a great one, true, her sex; a colored woman faces two- her sex and her race."  Terrell would take inventory on the past elections and pull a Janet Jackson by asking, “What have you done for me lately,” in regards to the candidates running for office and focus heavily on Clinton to understand why the African Americans female vote is considered locked down. Terrell would possible support Clinton until the conflict of interest surrounding paid speeches started to pile up. I think Terrell would side with Bernie Sanders due to his political backing of the youth vote and his support from Ohio Senator Nina Turner.  Terrell would also question the action of the Democratic party and call for a party reform. Through it, all two of the biggest and problematic individuals were leading in the polls and managed to seal the republican and democratic spots for the primary election, Donald Trump with white supremacy and Hillary Clinton with white feminism. Both candidates were sailing through the election like neither had to deal with a scandal. Trump used rhetoric labeled anti-Mexican, racist, sexist and fascist that led to people getting assaulted and harassed at Trump rallies. Trump's campaign was so reminiscent of tactics employed by Adolf Hitler that Holocaust survivors felt compelled to speaking out against his use of hatred and fear to gain votes.

Clinton used victim tactics to propel her campaign. She attempted to relate her assumed audience by releasing campaign videos that focused on her experience as a daughter, mother, and grandmother. She spoke of being a teenager volunteering to look after children of migrant workers. The concept of the campaign videos was brilliant. Hilary is sitting by herself, telling her life story. A story built on goodwill and helped those less fortunate. However, Clinton could not get passed the endless email scandal, determined BlackLivesMatter protesters and statements like "super predators" and "deplorable.”

After the devastating victory by Trump, many took to scolding the press because of his win. The press received criticized because they used Trump as a rating booster. They focused on him as an easy target to critique and make fun of, but they were unaware of how they positively impacted his campaign. Trump base grew stronger based on misinformed voters who said he was the most covered candidate, paired with the image he created around his NBC television show The Apprentice people voted for him. It wasn't until Trump was calling media outlets "fake news" in his first press conference as president- elect that it sunk into media outlets like The New York Times and CNN, they had fight for their credibility.

In the words of journalists, suffragette and anti-lynching activists Ida B. Wells, "The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Wells would be somewhere giving a mean side-eye and deliver constructive criticism on how real journalism should be conducted. If Wells was alive to vote she'd call for a complete overhaul of candidates and perform a thorough investigation into every allegation that surfaced during the election and soon as Clinton refused to turn over emails or stalled she will be removed from the race. Wells would also question Clinton about her money ties and the Clinton Foundation funding methods. Wells would call her a corrupt and shady lady. Sanders would be placed on standby for not being a more radical candidate. His position in Vermont would be considered easy and not a viable choice to effect change. His youth activism and voting record might allow him to stay in the race. Trump would be automatically disqualified and barred from entry. Wells would cite his history of violating the fair housing act and his questionable business habits of not paying his contractors and fake university as a reason for his dismissal. Ida B. Wells once said: “Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.” Wells would desire for a youthful candidate that would listen to the voting public and act in the best interests of the American people, not use the African-Americans community and other minorities as a clutch to establish political dynasties or career Politian’s.  

Back to that poorly lit Brooklyn post office. I opted to send in an absentee voter’s ballot back home to Arkansas. I recall standing at counter hesitating on what I should do. Write in Sanders as a form of protest and potentially hand Trump the presidency or bit the bullet and vote for Clinton. I choose to vote for Clinton. In the last week, we have officially past Number 45’s first 100 days in office. These weeks were traumatic, devastating, confusing and full of alleged illegal mischief, like an old episode of Scooby Doo, but this time we kind of already know who is behind the mask. Instead of the Mystery Gang, we have Congresswoman Maxine Waters, also known as Auntie Maxine, “fake news” outlets and social media dragging’s keeping us afoot on the latest antics by the Trump administration.

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