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The son of demon and the son of god.

twi | ins

[symphonyinblue1978]

houseplants b like due to personal reasons i will be passing away...

[nerd4music]

[struggletoast]

[sushinfood]

you found him and he is proud of you

[coconabe]

Unmute please!

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[goawfma]

how is this shit even legal ?!!

[dr-archeville]

[text: “Someone years ago said that cop cars in the UK are very visible and clearly marked so citizens can identify them when they need help. US cops do whatever they can to hide the fact that they’re a cop car because their purpose is to write tickets and generate revenue.”]

[thecrystalfems]

It’s crazy how the police force constantly does things like this designed to hide themselves and rule citizens with fear and then they cry about how everyone hates cops

[stream]

Game of Thrones | 8x06 “The Iron Throne”

[guooey]

[mohtz]

Incision

twitter. ig. merch

[pikachu-cc-deactivated20210716]

[niconiconiko]

never stop being a good person because of bad people

[mindflamer]

just little genderfluid things:

looking in the mirror and you don’t hate it but you do feel kinda like an alien sometimes

having a twice as many clothes because you need stuff for masculine days and stuff for feminine days but most of the time neither one is comfortable and everything looks Bad

if you do find an outfit you like that day, 8 hours later you may feel weird about it, it’s a surprise

constant debate on long vs. short hair

internal screaming about the statistical (im)probability of finding a partner who is into your gender(s)

Do I Dislike My Hips Bc I’m Trans Or Bc They’re A Weird Shape

can i even call myself trans or am i faking it

sometimes dysphoria sometimes apathy & sometimes u feel like, really hot with what u got and it’s a guessing game

not wanting to come out cause it’s hard to explain and they won’t get it, plus half the time you don’t care anyways

gender: [ ] M [ ] F

*looks into the camera like the office*

trying to plan an outfit for an important future event is a nightmare game of russian roulette

[astrodidact]

[poisonforourthoughts]

Because the statement was so vague and could be twisted to mean anything, I researched it to find a more transparent statistic… this is from 2 different sources from 2017 and 2018. In short- it’s worse

[vintagewoc]

Mel B (1990′s)

[debbie-sketch]

Offerings

[glanced]

ig: deartohyun

[indigobookofshadows]

Moon: *exists*

Me: