Jama from Somalia, San Antonio (2011) by Alec Soth

No title available
tumblr dot com

JBB: An Artblog!

oozey mess

JVL
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

No title available
Claire Keane
No title available
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
No title available
No title available

Janaina Medeiros
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

#extradirty
we're not kids anymore.

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Today's Document
🪼
Xuebing Du

seen from United States
seen from Jordan
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Netherlands

seen from Kazakhstan
seen from United States

seen from Singapore
seen from Russia

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Vietnam
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom
seen from Russia
@devilwearskenzo
Jama from Somalia, San Antonio (2011) by Alec Soth
Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World
A wedding in a refugee camp near Khartoum. (Sudan, 1995) - Pascal Maitre
To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.
Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy
Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians
The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“
The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…
Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.
Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.
Parts Unknown: Newfoundland
Diana Ross in Bob Mackie by George Hurrell, 1985
Understand that the call to abolish police is also a call to allocate adequate funds and resources to mental health services, livable wages, food security and all other societal factors which facilitate the ‘crimes’ you believe we need police protection from.
Some of y’all obsession with celebrities is quite frankly disturbing
A black man gets killed and you’re obsessed with which celebrity said what and who didn’t click like on a tweet? Because all you know and want to do is blacklist a celeb and give another a gold star and paint them as morally superior?? Because that way stanning them will be an act of morality and serve your status or whatever. This isn’t about celebrities shut the fuck up!!!!! God stan culture needs to die I’m so sick of y’all really
the lea michele situation is actually a prime example of why we should be wary of performative activism right now. if you are supporting the cause by protesting, donating, posting your support, etc. that’s great! but this problem goes so much deeper than just police brutality.
every single non-black person who has posted #blacklivesmatter this week needs to take a step back and analyze whether or not their actions (not just their words) have shown that they truly believe that statement. it’s a clear and obvious choice to speak out against the brutal murder of an innocent man. however, if you are not making the obvious choice every day to speak up for us when your friends/relatives make racist jokes, if you are not listening to and respecting the black people you know in real life, if you have not sat down to analyze the ways you actively benefit from this system, if you have not worked to start unlearning the biases you were raised with, or if you thought “black lives matter” was a controversial statement until this week, do not pretend to care just because everyone is talking about it right now.
when these protests are over, there will still be many battles to fight. this is not a game, and this is not something you post about just for likes and clicks. if you are resting easy right now thinking that you’re “one of the good ones” for showing public outrage over a situation that should anger any reasonable person, you need to do more. racism is not something you can pick and choose when to be against. we don’t get to pick and choose when we experience racism. so if you’re going to get involved with this situation right here, right now, then you need to be ready to hold yourself and others accountable for anti-blackness in all other areas of your life.
Vogue US August 1997 Alek Wek photographed by Arthur Elgort
to all everyone in the royal fandom sharing black lives matter content, please remember meghan markle’s life is included in this, remember that her life matters.
take a moment to contemplate, as an individual and as a collective, on the way you have treated her in the last three years. the way you have talked about her: the way she talks, walks, waves, smiles. the way you discuss her hair, her baby, her mother, her choices, her relationship with her family, her marriage.
go back to the articles written about her and the tv show segments. study them, analyse the language: why words like uppity, manipulative, interloper, opportunist, selfish, narcissistic are used time and time again. how her white sister in law is portrayed as the tearful, can do no wrong damsel in distress and she, the big bad black wolf out to destroy everything and everyone. the body language ‘experts’, the psychologists, who are invited on television to tell people they should be wary of her. her white father being trotted out like the leading act in a circus to emotionally abuse his child in front of the whole world, using historically racist language against her and her mother. even in her vulnerable state as a first time pregnant woman, the refusal to recognise her humanity intensified.
really think about how the rest of the british royal family, made up of white people, greatly benefit from this public persecution of their biracial family member. research the term white privilege, think about just how it operates.
take a moment to step out of your life and try to look at the world through meghan’s eyes. her white husband prince harry has. remember what he said in october?
“I have been a silent witness to her private suffering for too long”
lol he has been with her for 4 years, meghan has been alive for 39. 4 years and he couldn’t stand it.
it is time for everyone to come to terms with the uncomfortable truth: that most positions in this society are not made for people like her - in fact because the ever-present, centuries old, immoral structure called racism, it is strategically built to keep her out. remember what rebecca english, the daily mail royal reporter called her - an interloper - a person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong.
if you cannot self reflect and take the time to be a better human being, then for the sake of your dignity stop this performative activism, because it is crystal clear you are part of a cruel system of injustice and black lives do not matter to you.
lindsay brice, the l.a. riots. los angeles, california. april 30, 1992