the madness is perfect for us.

jasleen | '93 | canada

[dozydawn]

Yasmeen Ghauri for Yves Saint Laurent RTW SS 1990

[a-state-of-bliss]

Yasmeen Ghauri backstage @ Versace Atelier Fall/Wint 1995

[loveufor10000yrs]

एली री एली क्या है ये पहेली, ऐसा वैसा कुछ क्यूं होता है सहेली // dear sister, dear friend, what is this riddle of life, why do I feel like this, why do such things happen?

[flawlessxladies-deactivated2021]

RIHANNA outside Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Santa Monica. 08/20/21

[lourensz]

[shadesofblackness]

Rihanna for Vogue Italia

[entgifs]

yyh’s top 3 films [1/3]

10 things i hate about you (1999) dir. gil junger — i hate the way you’re always right. i hate it when you lie. i hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. i hate it when you’re not around and the fact that you didn’t call. but mostly, i hate the way i dont hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

[asapwalky]

[racialized]

Link to donate to KhalsaAid

https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

KhalsaAid

KhalsaAid

[angelofdarknessmp3]

ive seen a few other posts about this that didnt get a lot of notes because i know it makes nonblacks uncomfortable (😐) but you people need to start examining why so many of your reaction pics and gifs and memes are of black people being expressive or literally just existing because its not a coincidence. it directly correlates to how black people are seen as overemotional and overreactive, the sassy black woman and the angry black man stereotypes and so on. like you really need to ask yourselves why such a large portion of the most used reaction memes this year are images of black celebrities like wendy williams and oprah and why non sequitur memes including dababys face seem to be so inherently funny to everyone, and if you are contributing to this problem.

this video explains it well:

"White people and nonblack folks using black memes and GIFs to express their emotional labor on black bodies contributes to what American literary critic Sienne Ngai calls 'the animatedness of black folks', A.K.A. seeing black people as hyperbolically emotional and expressive, particularly black women and [q word] black men."

in the video khadija also talks about how this relates to blackface and minstrelsy and about the appropriation (and butchering) of aave in online spaces, and cites these articles on the subject of digital blackface that i also recommend:

We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in GIFs

Are you part of the problem?

Digital Blackface: How 21st Century Internet Language Reinforces Racism

Author(s): Erinn, Wong | Advisor(s): Acevedo Butcher, Carmen

[nubbsgalore]

photos by (click pic): 1,. joe penney, mali;  2. stephanie sinclair, ethiopia; 3. yury pustovoy, vietnam; 4. niranjan shrestha, katmandu; 5. niranjan shrestha, nepal; 6. anupam nath in gauhati, india 7. dan kitwood, benin; 8. tsering topgyal, kashmir; 9. jessica dimmock, burkina faso; 10. eric valli, nepalese himalayas

[islamicquotesandreminders]

#SaveShiekhJarrah

[arjuna-vallabha]

Kalamkari textile paintings

[tylerposey]

MICHAEL B. JORDAN Men’s Health — Leonardo Volcy (2021)

[movie-gifs]

10 Things I Hate About You, 1999 dir. Gil Junger

[vogue]

Naomi Osaka is the second of our four January cover stars! Read the full profile: http://vogue.cm/0ItOLJz

[femalepopculture]

Beyoncé BRITISH VOGUE// 2020 photographed by Kennedi Carter