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why the Dismaland backlash is annoying me

listen i get it. i get why everyone is annoyed with Banksy and is sort of disowning him. i understand why people are over him. I GET IT.

but come ON.

it’s not just Banksy that’s involved with Dismaland. i’m thinking it was essentially his idea, but he’s using it to host OTHER ARTISTS. from AROUND THE WORLD. he only has about three or four pieces throughout the show.

there are Palestinian, Saudi Arabian, and TALENTED FEMALE artists showing their pieces in the Dismaland gallery and throughout the park that you’re tearing down because ‘Banksy is SO pretentious’ or whatever trendy thing you think you’re submitting to. Banksy himself said that he’s trying to do something different BECAUSE he realizes that his artwork is the view point of a middle class white dude.

please give Dismaland a chance. please realize it’s not a soapbox for Banksy. it’s an art festival(that is actually reasonably priced seeing as how Damien Hirst is showing there) for artists who are making strong statements.

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One of the art pieces there is a woman’s first art piece based on her domestic abuse. Banksy encouraged her to use art to express this. Don’t forget that.

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if anyone is curious about what you’re missing out on… here’s a list of the artists that are exhibiting at Dismaland.

http://www.dismaland.co.uk/artists/

if you don’t want to support the show, then at least look up these artists and notice their hard work.

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So what you’re saying is, contrary to what tumblr would have you believe, Dismaland is the collaborative effort of several different artists from around the world and not some lone “pretentious” white dude?

Tumblr didn’t bother to research before throwing shade again? Welp.

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This post was at the top of my dash and I wasn’t going to reblog it because I thought I didn’t care but then I saw like nine dumb humor posts about it and yeah

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mindiepops

mood

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mindiepops

Wait. Does this mean I can stop crying now? THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AGAIN? EVERYTHING IS OKAY????

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Mr. Pickles

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This is it. This is officially the only photo set I care about.

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Pretend ur invasive self hating thoughts r being said to u by a 13 y/o boy on xbox live trying to get a rise out of you like “Your girlfriend dumped you because you’re ugly” that’s nice tim isn’t it past ur bedtime

kirinandvlindertje

“transition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.“

This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: “from what age do you gain bodily autonomy?” Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment you’re fucking born.

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For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (via wordsnquotes)

#boop there it is