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[amyjdewinehouse]

Amy Winehouse, 2004

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

When I ask [director Allison] Anders what her intentions were with [Mi Vida Loca], she takes a moment. “To make a love story about the romance that the girls felt for each other, that they felt for Ernesto, and for the neighbourhood. Echo Park is so beautiful. You know, the hills really do echo.”

Nellie Eden

[nodeathking]

Mi vida loca (1993) Dir. Allison Anders Young Latino women view their lives as gang members in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

[xxxophelia]

While the (white) Sad Girl debuted around 2012, Sad Girls have long existed in Latina/x and immigrant communities on the West Coast.

The 1993 film Mi Vida Loca depicts young Latina/x’s living in a Los Angeles neighborhood controlled by gang violence. One of the main characters (Angel Aviles) is named Sad Girl, with the name tattooed across her knuckles. Explicitly from the film, Sad Girl was picked up by Tijuana- based feminist art collective Sad Girls Y Qué (Calderón-Douglass 2014). Offering an “alternative” to white feminism, they “retaliate against the culture of machismo prevalent in Mexico and the world at large while reappropriating a girly ‘feminine’ aesthetic. Since their [2013] inception, they have garnered fangirls … who identify with their chola chic propaganda and messages of feminine solidarity.” Sad Girls Y Qué reclaim “feminized things and anything pink … [things] usually devalued, made less important” (Calderón-Douglass 2014). The collective/symbolic sentiment hails Muñoz’s “brown feeling,” or a raced, gendered, affective “receptor” that transcends time space, a tool of resistance against violence specific to lived experience (Mooney).

[userinherownwrld]

Mi Vida Loca, 1993

[regardintemporel]

Ladislav Novak - L'ombre en Elle, 1971

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

hate that I was understanding when I should’ve just been a cunt

[probuccalfat]

the baddest bitch i fumbled? myself

[marianismas]

is my twenties supposed to feel meaningless

[dreamstars]

[strangledplanet]

[meowmorials]

2012

[lastgirlonearth999]

ROB ZOMBIE'S LIVING DEAD GIRL ☆ RECORDED IN 1998, SINGLE RELEASED IN 1999.

[abelgloss]

[demiiwhiffin]

trying to work out what to do with my life ??? taking suggestions

[7pleiades7]

Echo and Narcissus, (detail), (1903), by John William Waterhouse RA (English, 1849–1917), oil on canvas, 109.2 × 189.2 cm, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

[folkfashion]

Nauruan dancer's dress, Rosita Rokobuli, Nauru, by Chewy Lin & Timex Dabwido