desi damsels

kavz 💫|| she/her || just your local brown sugar 

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i dont think people realize how much strength it takes to pull yourself out of a dark place mentally. so if youve done that today or any day, im proud of you <3

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buying something & telling your parents it was cheaper than it actually was just so you can avoid a lecture on spending...

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nobody:

brown girls:

what do you want your girl name to be so i can save your number?

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did your parents make you practice going to bed early because school was starting soon, or are you normal?

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when you’re brown, you have two ways of pronouncing your name... the english way, and the desi way 

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people who grew up with strict parents are actually the best actors because we gotta control our facial expressions, heartbeat, blood pressure, etc..

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shoutout to brown girls with naturally think eyebrows who got made fun of for it before white people adopted them as a fashion statement. 

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desi parents care more about containers than their first born child smh 

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random brown people staring at you to figure out if you’re the same type of brown as them is one of my favorite things 

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whenever a teacher mentions india, everyone in the room just stares at me. like what do you want me to do? break out in bollywood dance and make it rain samosas? 

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me: i’m asian 

white people: iNdiA IsN’t iN aSiA

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i may be a 5′0 fat solid 2 in america but in india im a solid 10 and a walking green card 

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you ever look at your guy friends sometimes like if this were 100 years ago, we’d be married by now...

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when you think your parents are watching porn but they’re really just watching breathing exercises 

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wait so technically every indian movie is a musical  💀

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sending tiktoks to each other: a love language 

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seriously though south asia has a huge colorism problem. or rather, colonial hangover.