Tacos/Tattoos/Taxidermy

Food, Skin Art, and Creepy Shit I like

[ratak-monodosico]

[purplemonkeysexgod69]

I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.

Aditi (via versteur)

Usually 75% of it. 

(via emilyvgordon)

[dancingonthestars-deactivated20]

Good job Lush! I think it’s really fucking important that they spoke up about this. 

I’m glad the employees will not be facing any consequences for showing their solidarity with the protesters. 

[hamburgerboogie-deactivated2016]

I have so much more respect for Lush. Knowing full well it cost them budget gains especially during the holiday season when financial goals for companies are especially high, they completely empathize with the movement going on right now.

I assure you after working retail for as long as I have, not many retailers would be as understanding.

[micdotcom]

Iggy Azalea is finally being taken to task for cultural appropriation — and she completely deserves it 

When Forbes declared in May that “Hip-Hop Is Run by a White, Blonde, Australian Woman,” they quickly realized their mistake. Yet in the months since, that mistake has come to seem like a sick prophesy: Iggy Azalea has, in fact, run the rap game from a numerical perspective. She has made history by shattering records. She released a platinum single. She snagged fistfuls of Grammy nominations. 

And this weekend, she lit a fuse on the powder keg of race issues in hip-hop. The whole hip-hop community has finally taken Azalea to task for building her career by stealing black musical sounds and styles and using her whiteness to sell them to the masses. In the process, she has done little to actually give back to the hip-hop community except be flagrantly offensive. And black hip-hop artists aren’t standing for it any longer.

[micdotcom]

John Jolie-Pitt represents the reality of gender fluidity and trans youth 

At last week’s premiere of Unbroken in Los Angeles, one person stole the spotlight: Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Brad and Angelina’s daughter, who, donning a suit, announced herself to the world as John. 

In fact, she — or rather, he — has been going by that name since he was 3 years old, which is a credit to his supportive family. And while this recent red carpet outing sparked the media’s serious discussion of John’s gender, the anecdote is part of a broader and increasingly important conversation about how we continue wrestle with the complex relationship between gender and kids.

In a world where trans youth are at a greater risk for homelessness and harassment than any other community, it’s more important than ever to create safe spaces for all kids. 

[micromacrostudio-blog]

I generally find Brangelina intolerable, but this is wonderful.

[reagancharlescook]

It never occurred to me to browse through the credits of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, to find out who was underneath the monstrous black mask.

The man was Bolanji Badejo, a 7ft tall Nigerian design student picked up from a bar in West London to fill the title role.  He worked on the film for 4 months, spending every day wrapped in a suffocating custom fitted rubber suit, working to exude a presence of pure evil.

Despite his incredible contribution to the film’s success Badejo never received any publicity for his involvement. Ultimately, it would be his only film role.

[catstitsfeminism]

Bolanji Badejo

[thegirlwhocrieswolf]

New piece, hope you like it! xo Lang 

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My new book Lullabies is now available via Amazon, BN.com + The Book Depository and bookstores worldwide.

[dodobingbingbing]

"1. Learn about the racialized history of Ferguson and how it reflects the racialized history of America.

2. Reject the “he was a good kid” narrative and lift up the “black lives matter” narrative.

3. Use words that speak the truth about the disempowerment, oppression,...

[yunzi]

My dear friend is protesting in Mexico City and has told me to let people know of this. He relayed this message to me “We are coordinating the info with all the cities that are protesting today because there’s literally zero coverage in the news, if something happens, people will be left on their own.”

Please help spread the word.

[goldenheartedrose]

Autism Speaks Masterpost (new! Updated 6/20/14)

Trigger warnings for ableism, abuse, autistic “therapy”, discussion of a cure, discussion of murder, eugenics, the way Autism Speaks uses their research, etc.  All of this is under a cut.  Be forewarned. 

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[micromacrostudio-blog]

Well, guess I won't be donating to them anymore...

[tattoome]

Sadee Johnston

[fuckyeahtattoos]

Done by the artist David Raminhos, from Alto Astral Tattoo Studio

[kurts-weird-honey]

[tattoome]

Matt ️Tischler

[visualjunkee]

Dr Bhagavan Antle of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S), photographs 4 varieties of Bengal tigers

[semperubisubboobie-deactivated2]

There really aren’t enough people in the world who care about protecting beautiful creatures like these.

[tomwallsart]

If you are in Tumblr, and don’t live in Mexico, I need you to reblog this until it gets to many countries. The government of my country is taking people away. They are suffering of torture. Physical and psychological.  They are spreading terror. Tonight, the 8th of november, we took streets in Mexico City and after we walked peacefully, a strange and anarchist group with masked faces put the main entrance of “Palacio Nacional” on fire. They didn’t came with us. We were walking in peace. Yelling, yes. A lot. But in peace. We are fighting against violence, so it is really, really stupid to claim for peace, with actions like these. This is not new in Mexico. The government always use these payed groups of people to criminalise any social movement. But we are possibly heading to a new era in our country. We are tired of corruption. We are tired of cold assassination. We are tired of the criminals who can walk in peace, and we are tired that both police and military forces protect them. We are so alone right now. We are so unprotected right now. We are not scared. We are terrorised. We need you to focus your attention for the next few days, so they don’t dissappear and kill more of our young people. Government are killing people just because they can, and no one can stop them. We have no weapons, and we don’t want some. We want to make a change after 70 years of corrupcy. They have took everything. They took our faith, our hope, our jobs, our dreams. They are destroying us. My country is one of the most beautiful and interesting countries in the world, and now foreign people are even recommended not to visit this beautiful land because of insecurity.  We need you to reblog everything about Mexico these days. Don’t let us alone. Don’t let us get killed. Don’t let us get burned, like our missing 43 students. Don’t let us be forgotten. Please don’t let us.

[silversarcasm]

can we stop funding research to find what ‘causes’ autism and instead use that money to make life more accessible and more comfortable for autistic people