the innocent paradise of timid joys

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

[marvelousmission-blog]

[no-man-s-land]

Damn

[ithinkshetookmysoul]

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

[mvlditobastardo-deactivated2018]

Salvador Dalí, Two Figures. 1936

[half-moonbae-deactivated2017081]

[katrinapavela]

I think that black people have been conditioned for so long because we so rarely see ourselves in media to only look at the level of representation - are we visible? That there was an inordinate pressure that that visibility was positive. I hope that we’re getting closer to black people being able to engage their image of themselves as art, which means complication, which means you do some good stuff and you do some bad stuff because that is what it is to be human… We exist in the middle. We’re not demons or angels; we’re human beings. And so that is what needs to be reflected in the art of our nation.

Attica Locke, in an NPR interview about her new book, Pleasantville, and writing for Empire. 

I feel like doing a praise dance. 

(via katrinapavela)

THIS

(via olitzterry)

[2pacalypse-deactivated20151030]

your fave rappers favorite rapper.

“My goal is not to be what the mainstream calls a legend. I just wanna do what I do, legend’s a big big title. There’s enough legends out there, I’m just living.” - Nas

[quietlyiwillnot]

You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery.

11:17pm, 1/14/15 (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)

[keybladesoras]

The Golden Age of Children’s TV, the 90’s.

[goodluckrob-deactivated20221110]

The feels. The muthafuckin’ feels.

[goddesscru]

Cartoons and rap music ruled my childhood. Sometimes I just wanna go back.

[dailyempire]

[ourblackproject]

[brazilwonders]

Pelourinho - Salvador, Bahia (by Eduardo Huelin)

[nevver]

The Naked City, John Salminen

[nevver]

Peanuts

[thursday]

[kemetic-dreams]

"The Dodonaeans called the women doves because they were foreigners, and seemed to them to make a noise like birds. After a while the dove spoke with a human voice, because the woman, whose foreign talk had previously sounded to them like the chattering of a bird, acquired the power of speaking what they could understand. For how can it be conceived possible that a dove should really speak with the voice of a man? Lastly, by calling the dove black(dark) the Dodonaeans indicated that the woman was an Egyptian. And certainly the character of the oracles at Thebes and Dodona is very similar. Besides this form of divination, the Greeks learnt also divination by means of victims from the Egyptians." (Herodotus: The Histories, c 430 BCE, Book 2, 57)

[genericlatino-blog]

[cross-leggeddefiance]

Latin@s with light-colored eyes are trouble.

[diasporadash]

Accurate but you have to put the insults in whispers for the first baby and family members attributing any evidence of African ancestry on the other parent.

[warensupremo]

And also you should add that many latin american countries let their children play games in which having black babies is a punishment (‘el que llega último va a tener cien guaguas negras’ the one who arrives last will have 100 black babies). Or the relief that people express when a light skinned baby is born, my grandma always said to my mom “ay que bueno que la mijita salio blanquita” (its good that the kid was born white -roughly translated). Many fellow latinos are proud because we ‘dont have racism because we’re all mixed’ but that is not true, we are very racist towards black people and brown people, most of this racism is due to europe and the us’ influence, they put onto us the mindset that the whiter the better but we are also at fault because we should have snapped out of it by now.

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

There’s also the whole concept of “mejorar la raza” (literally, “better the race”), which basically means that if you’re dark skinned or brown your family expects you to marry a lighter skinned partner so you can have “better children” (i.e. whiter children). There is an inherently disgusting and powerful amount of racism in Latin@ culture that we need to talk about and discuss. The media in a lot of Latin@ countries also generally display a “public face” (with light skinned telenovela actors, light news anchors, etc.) and then reject the actual racial mix of Latin@s. It’s awful.