the name’s aisha

100% love songs & banh mi (She/her, Black/white, broke af)

[sad-plath]

me showing you my romantic side: I wanna go grocery shopping with you

[worldwidefashion]

Devitha for SICKY Magazine — September 2018.

Photographer/Stylist: Annabelle Foucher

Hair & Makeup: Capucine Foucher

sickymag.com

[aestheticfelicity]

[cafe-solo]

[2seeitall]

Taberna Byzantio, Nafplio - Greece

Nafplio | Yellow | Narrow streets 

[voulair]

[rosecrystal]

when margaret atwood said “the desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free”

[savethebeesbby]

bdsm stands for

Bees Do So Much for the environment

[sweetcheeksaremadeofthese]

the highest intelligence is empathy

[violaslayvis]

Bernie’s refusal to unapologetically condemn ICE & recent defense of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ “right to eat dinner” confirms the suspicions of many that as President, he would’ve fallen in line just like any other Democratic president

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Consuming media critically is fundamentally incompatible with a habit of valorizing any media as pure and unproblematic. Trying to sort out which media has literally no problems and is therefore ‘ethical’ to consume is literally the opposite of taking a critical approach to media consumption.

Consuming media critically means thinking about what you watch, read, listen to, etc., and identifying its strengths and weaknesses. It requires you to understand and accept that there’s no such thing as media without problems, and it also requires you to understand and accept that your personal bar for where the problems outweigh the good bits is relative and subjective – that just because you can look past certain flaws doesn’t mean anyone else is required to.

Critical consumption of media requires you to separate the content you love from your identity. If you over-identify with the media you consume, you lose your ability to be a critical observer, looking at it from outside and seeing its flaws and good qualities. Instead, you risk becoming defensive and uncritical, leaving you open to absorbing messages that make you a worse person along the way.

In a society structured to benefit some groups at the expense of others, there will be messaging in every single piece of media that intentionally or inadvertently endorses, justifies, or makes light of violence and exploitation. Being critical consumers of media means identifying those problems, acknowledging them and making a deliberate effort not to absorb them as we consume the media we enjoy.

You will never find perfect media. Someone saying that the thing you love has issues with misogyny or racism or ableism etc. is not a personal attack on you. It doesn’t even always mean they personally dislike that media or think it shouldn’t exist or that you shouldn’t consume it. It is possible, and necessary, to notice the problems in the things you love and to continue to enjoy things while recognizing where they fall down.

Learn to identify the specific good and the specific bad in the things you love, and learn when and how to make the call that the bad makes the good unsalvageable for you. It’s an important skill to develop, and it will serve you in every single area of your life – not just entertainment but relationships, work environments, and a whole host of other contexts.

Learn to examine the things you like and see what they really are. Be brave enough to risk feeling differently about something. I promise it doesn’t end in not enjoying anything ever again.

[lovebunnie]

cinema peaked at the lego batman movie why is anyone even pretending to like anything anymore

[rebalancem]

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via kvtes)

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

Israel today (May 14) massacred 55 Palestinians, many of them were youth, 43 out of 55 names were released and their names and ages were:

1. Ezz el-din Musa Mohamed Alsamaak, 14 years old

2. Wisaal Fadl Ezzat Alsheikh Khalil, 15 years old

3. Ahmed Adel Musa Alshaer, 16 years old

4. Saeed Mohamed Abu Alkheir, 16 years old

5. Ibrahim Ahmed Alzarqa, 18 years old

6. Eman Ali Sadiq Alsheikh, 19 years old

7. Zayid Mohamed Hasan Omar, 19 years old

8. Motassem Fawzy Abu Louley, 20 years old

9. Anas Hamdan Salim Qadeeh, 21 years old

10. Mohamed Abd Alsalam Harz, 21 years old

11. Yehia Ismail Rajab Aldaqoor, 22 years old

12. Mustafa Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Almasry, 22 years old

13. Ezz Eldeen Nahid Aloyutey, 23 years old

14. Mahmoud Mustafa Ahmed Assaf, 23 years old

15. Ahmed Fayez Harb Shahadah, 23 years old

16. Ahmed Awad Allah, 24 years old

17. Khalil Ismail Khalil Mansor, 25 years old

18. Mohamed Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26 years old

19. Bilal Ahmed Abu Diqah, 26 years old

20. Ahmed Majed Qaasim Ata Allah, 27 years old

21. Mahmoud Rabah Abu Maamar, 28 years old

22.Musab Yousef Abu Leilah, 28 years old

23. Ahmed Fawzy Altetr, 28 years old

24. Mohamed Abdelrahman Meqdad, 28 years old

25. Obaidah Salim Farhan, 30 years old

26. Jihad Mufid Al-Farra, 30 years old

27. Fadi Hassan Abu Salmi, 30 years old

28. Motaz Bassam Kamil Al-Nunu, 31 years old

29. Mohammed Riyad Abdulrahman Alamudi, 31 years old

30. Jihad Mohammed Othman Mousa, 31 years old

31. Shahir Mahmoud Mohammed Almadhoon, 32 years old

32. Mousa Jabr Abdulsalam Abu Hasnayn, 35 years old

33. Mohammed Mahmoud Abdulmoti Abdal'al, 39 years old

34. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Hamdan, 27 years old

35. Ismail Khalil Ramadhan Aldaahuk, 30 years old

36. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Alrantisi, 27 years old

37. Alaa Alnoor Ahmed Alkhatib, 28 years old

38. Mahmoud Yahya Abdawahab Hussain, 24 years old

39. Ahmed Abdullah Aladini, 30 years old

40. Saadi Said Fahmi Abu Salah, 16 years old

41. Ahmed Zahir Hamid Alshawa, 24 years old

42. Mohammed Hani Hosni Alnajjar, 33 years old

43. Fadl Mohamed Ata Habshy, 34 years old

[houseofenid]

HOUSE OF ENID / URBAN PARADISE EDITORIAL

[beetlebongos]

unpopular opinion: everything matters it’s real and it is that deep

[thomeyorker]

Wash and Dry by Alexa King