ONE OF MY RAISONS D'ÊTRE....

I should like to laugh,and be happy and be full of joy and have those to love and have beauty in all it's forms and never hurt a soul. I like brown skin, free reading material and big hair. I'm trying to be better.

[fymodernfamily]

[yagazieemezi-deactivated2022030]

Summer/Rainy Season Look

For Nigeria 2014 - Yagazie Emezi

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Dedicated to the Cultural Preservation of the African Aesthetic

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LOOK AT MY BABY 

[missconceptions]

[queerpaccino-deactivated2016080]

“Such a strange display of male arrogance.”

[freemenofcolor]

I hate this joke.

It’s actually a display of vulnerability.

-D

[unimpressed2chainz]

this trash blog again 

[irresistible-revolution]

OMFG

[theroguefeminist]

it’s a fucking violation - it’s exhibitionism - exposing yourself to someone else withOUT their consent is a sex crime

[guy]

7am waking up in the morning gotta be fresh gotta throw myself down some stairs

[hebennigatu]

Teyonah Parris Has The Flyest Hair On The Red Carpet

[needscandalinmylife]

Hair porn!

[bloomingjazmine]

Hair DREAMS

[l20music-deactivated20151007]

Shes gorgeous!

[yagazieemezi-deactivated2022030]

Women Friendships

I don’t want to hear ANYTHING about my editing skills lol. Of course this video isn’t to discredit or cast negativity towards women who do have meaningful, platonic friendships with men! (Those married to their best friends, you know this video isn’t about you lol) 

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[balkanwhore]

Female friendships are golden. 

[malikixv]

lol her Nigerian-ness gladdens my heart, I partly listen to her just to hear that brash accent when I’m missing home.

[ummiguesss]

Love this.

My relationships with the women in my life have been so important to me and all of our personal growth. We learn from each other’s mistakes, support each other no matter what in a way that is rooted in understanding of the similar obstacles we all face.

That’s a large part of my artwork and why I only really paint my friends/women who inspire me. It is also my way of showing my support of them and immortalizing the things I find beautiful and impressive about them.

Don’t ever sleep on those relationships. They are extremely valuable and important.

[iluvsouthernafrica-deactivated2]

Namibia:

Beautiful images of Namibian men and women with their children and grandchildren.  These images were taken in shanty towns in and around the capital, Windhoek.  I found them by divine chance soon after I found out about the insanity of Emoya Shanty Towns.

The photographer, Jacob Holdt has collected some very interesting images of Namibians in his travels there which I recommend.  I chose these because (for me) they show the joy of life held up by us despite our circumstances.

[everydaypeoplestories]

[solisseblog]

[dynastylnoire]

WORK!

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[lascasartoris]

To all the lovers out there

Happy Valentine’s Day 

xL 

[meanwhilepress]

Jack Elliott Cardno 

Selling weed from the sewers in Adum, Kumasi, Ghana

[blackgirlsreverything]

SPOTLIGHT:

http://kaycritiques.tumblr.com/

[frijoliz-deactivated20150410]

Stereotyped as “hyper-breeders,” Latinas have been targets of involuntary sterilization campaigns from Puerto Rico to California. Since 1994, with California’s Proposition 187 which sought to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing public services, we’ve seen bill after bill designed to deny immigrant women the reproductive health care they need to make healthy and safe decisions about pregnancy. Within the past decade, under administrations that have some of the worst track records on deportation, immigrant parents have been further characterized as “unfit” to care for their children. The Race Forward report, “Shattered Families” documents how common it is for detained parents to lose custody of their children to the foster care system, all due to poorly designed justice systems, and assumptions about how one should parent. The reproductive and parenting choices of Latinas, and particularly indigenous Latinas, are often attacked as greedy, backwards, or uneducated, their lifestyles considered unhealthy. Here’s what is wrong and unhealthy: the reproduction of nativist, racist beliefs, and stereotypes about the choices that indigenous women and Latinas make about their bodies, pregnancies, and parenting.

@Julianabritto from Mexican indigenous woman who was separated from baby allowed to pursue lawsuit against Mississippi welfare agency. Read the article; it’s about Cirila Balthazar Cruz and how her daughter was taken from her right after giving birth simply because of hospital’s stupidity. (via frijoliz)

[thatadult]

me obsessively stretching my arms out in pics over the year

[missingspoons]

What pisses me off the most about the term “special needs” isn’t that it’s cutesy or euphemistic, but the presumption that my needs are special when abled people’s needs are just how they are. If I need transcripts for audio homework assignments, suddenly that’s special, but if an abled student requests transcripts for audio materials, that’s just another student request. Why are my needs special and not yours? “special needs” is part of ablenormativity.

Lydia Brown (via hellomynameismaddy)

Special Needs is so patronizing anyway…

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[fashizblackdiary]

Celebration of natural hair.

Photos by Aurélie Flamand and Hairstyle by Sephora Joannes.