never been daunted

secret of my success. never been daunted. never been daunted in public. vicky/they/she/scientist/not the worst

[from-victory]

I havent been on tumblr in like a year

does it even still exist

anyways here’s a real cute pic of me where I happen to not have a shirt on. that’d be $5 thanks 

[itsdansotherblog]

Mad Men 7x08, 1x03, 1x05, 1x10, 7x10, 2x05, 1x13, 6x01, 1x01, 1x08

[johnpeelsession-deactivated2021]

i made this for my group chat but they wanted me to post it here

[allthingsgrow]

antoni says his favorite cheese is cabot vermont cheddar which 100% seals the deal on antoni being a good, trustworthy boy 

[allthingsgrow]

craAaAaAzy night reading a 35 pg paper on the genetic variations in fruit flies that cause sleep extreme duration requirements having a g o o d t i m e 

[allthingsgrow]

male fruit flies like to take a lil siesta in the afternoon where female fruit flies don’t :-) 

[algernonmoncrieff]

friendship ended with the creative process, now gay sex is my best friend

[iameverysparklywoman]

I feel like there’s a whole genre of poems about womanhood that are just like “my hair was a snake and I was living in a house that was on fire” but like. they’re literally right

[from-victory]

this Very Big Scarf + Beanie combo makes me feel like im Dev Shah’s hot italian love interest in s2 of master of none 

[from-victory]

the god damn worst thing that ever happened to me on this godforsaken website is in 12th grade when i added “eames” to my followed tags and now i periodically get fucking INCEPTION fan posts in my tl?? jesus. just show me some well-designed mid century chairs 

[my-lucky-charm]

If I was crying In the van, with my friend It was for freedom From myself and from the land

[from-victory]

@allthingsgrow this is a really good picture of you 

[companionwitch]

Merry Crisis

[naamahdarling]

*voices in unison to the tune of O Christmas Tree/O Tannenbaum*

Oh ChrisChris Tree, Oh ChrisChris Tree, How lovely are your faces!

*with declining control and barely-suppressed laughter*

Covered in celebrities, Mostly actors and one former governor of New Jersey!

[sbubbyeatfreef]

[114802]

did you know there are bisexual flowers and they’re perfect

[boganjunkrat-deactivated2017011]

it says so right there in my bio textbook i would never lie to you 

[thefaginogion]

perfect (bisexual)

[negrocops]

reblog if you are a perfect bisexual, support perfect bisexuals, or just really love flowers

[istillfuckwithdemilovato-deacti]

natural beauty is   SCAM

FUCK TO models

FUCK TO cheekbones

UGLY shall inherit the earth

FUCK NEW YOURK FASHIONS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!

[quik]

JENNY HOLZER

BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGERENAMEL ON METAL, HAND-PAINTED SIGN: RED ON WHITE53,3 X 58,4 CM

[gothhabiba]

anyways the reason that it’s nasty to act like race = skin colour goes way beyond “some nonwhite people are pale” and more into, race is an oppressive institution built on categories that are projected onto the body, including basically every part and aspect of the body, so a white person reducing race to ‘skin colour’ is

1) reaffirming the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside

and 2) ignoring the ways in which racism categorises every aspect of the body (and the mind for that matter), not just skin colour–think of how scientific racism went on and on about how different races had different physical builds and skeletal structures and skull shapes and facial features and proclivities and personalities and mental strengths and weaknesses etc. etc. etc.

so when white people (including white ‘allies’) call race “skin colour” or call racism “hatred based on skin colour” in order to make racism seem pointless or irrational it seems extremely disingenuous to me because it’s ignoring all of this theory and history that I really doubt they’re aware of. and it trivialises racism in a way that I’m not fond of

[solacekames]

It’s also extremely vicious against PoC with albinism.

[gothhabiba]

i was thinking about this when i had to write a post expressing what racism was based on, and ‘skin color’ didnt seem like enough, i think i wrote something like ‘heritage features and/or skin color’, idk if that covers it.. probably not, but anyway this is a nice and informative post (via @champignons)

right so this goes back to what I said about “the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside.” there is not collection of traits, physical or otherwise, that make people into targets for racism, and to suggest that there are is to be in accordance with white supremacist ideas that race is an innate category. you can’t get out of this by adding more qualifiers to designate who “qualifies” for racialisation because this always and inevitably leads to the idea that racialisation can occur without the mediation of racism as a historically and materially bound concept, i.e. that people are just kind of naturally one race or another. the entire assumption and approach is wrong.

the one way to define “racism” and the only way to make sense of who is marked out for violence on the basis of racialisation is to understand race as a historical and economic phenomenon that arose during a specific time period for specific material and ideological reasons (link, see especially the Barbara J Fields essay)