I think I've got a feeling I've lost inside

Abbey. 24. Nashville. Middle school choir/orchestra teacher. She/her. Britpop and coffee. 2% girl, 98% sunshine.

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me

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 The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller

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scenery from spirited away (2001)

[adamjk]

(HOW TO) GET OVER COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHER CREATIVES

wrote a helpful guide for the design*sponge blog today! leave a comment there if you like it so they will have me back again in the future :) :) :)

[cwote]

Stop talking yourself out of opportunities because you don’t feel like you’re “ready” yet. It’s time. You’re ready now.

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commission for eva~ 

[maryjblige]

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Kiki’s Delivery Service backgrounds

[beachdeath]

luke and leia knowles-carter will save us all

[theymerb]

66% of white women voted for Trump.

Their whiteness is more important than their womanhood to them.

White women want the power of white men.

White women cannot be trusted.

[dramady]

Not all white women. Not this white woman. To put us all into this category won’t help. I will continue to fight for all my friends.

[hippity-hoppity-brigade]

actually, i think otherwise! to put us all into this category highlights our position of power over people whose voices were not heard at the polls yesterday. 

it’s like… 

rapists can’t be trusted, right? rapists are the absolute scum of the earth. and what’s worse is not knowing who is a rapist. someone in your circle of friends? someone you pass on the street? the person ahead of you in line at starbucks? so you close yourself off from someone who has that power over you. maybe just a little bit, but you’re aware of how you could be hurt. you make plans in your head about how you’d escape if you were attacked; you’re aware of the person behind you at the atm; you go quiet when they start talking about how they treated their dates. 

and if a guy said “not all men are rapists!” you’d say, “yeah, but all men can be rapists.” 

white women, honestly, cannot be trusted. we have endorsed and enabled slavery. we have joined the kkk and we have thrown rotten fruit at children who are walking to school. we have spit on black women who tried to fight for suffragette rights alongside us. we have formed and worked in organizations that sterilize black women without their knowledge. we turn into teachers who demonize little black boys for being too “loud” and “masculine” when they’re only being kids. we do little shitty things like try to touch black women like they’re exotic animals, and say that hispanic neighborhoods look “shady,” and tell women of color that there aren’t enough white heroines yet and that black women need to wait their turn to be important. 

it makes sense that people of color would put up their barriers and make escape plans from us. with that history, when have we really been allies? when have we been anything but fair-weather friends who love beyonce but think “ghetto” black girls are trashy? how can they know which one of us is one of the nearly 70% of white women in america who voted for trump? which one of us in starbucks or passing by on the street would betray them - has already betrayed them? 

there’s a lot that we white women have to do into order to prove ourselves to black women and black communities. it’s really hard to stand up against the status quo, especially when we’re very aware of what we could lost if we speak up. (there goes your job, your friends, your opportunities….) but if black women are living without those opportunities every day, then we have a responsibility to work until they have them and no one can take them away. it’s not up to people of color to give us leeway; it’s up to us to work with our fellow white women to help them understand change. 

[tarnished-silver-muse]

I cringed when I saw “not all white women”.  Fucking seriously?  Honey, that shit didn’t work when men tried it on us, don’t try it to our sisters of color.

I accept that women of color will be afraid/wary of me at first sight.  I don’t blame them for that.  Instead of being angry that they would class me with other white women, I’m just going to be that much more aware of times and places where I can use the privilege of my skin color to try and make them safer.  Even if the next one that sees me is still afraid.

Why?  Because, in that situation, MY FEELINGS AREN‘T IMPORTANT.   It’s not about ME.  It’s not about YOU, fellow white woman who was so insulted to be grouped with those white women.  No, I didn’t vote for Trump.  But even if I walked around wearing a shirt that claimed otherwise all the time, women of color cannot look at me and know for sure that I’m not one of those white women.

[phoenyxoftheashes]

If women of color are fearful of me as a white person (who passes as female), then I understand that. The fear born of something real that they experienced or have witnessed other’s experiencing. Who am I to invalidate their feelings?

Sure, I’ll let them know I’ll try my hardest to be an ally. But at the same time I’m not going to try to convince them of this because I want to make myself feel better or convince myself I’m not part of the problem. As a white person, I benefit from that privilege and I’m prone to doing racist shit. I accept that, and I try my hardest to fix it. But I can’t escape it entirely and it’s asinine that white people think they can escape it.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

We can and must do better. We must. Our sisters of color are in even more danger than us, and we have to stand WITH them, not next to them decrying the idea that WE’RE the good ones. I refuse to allow “not all men” to be a conversation in my hearing, and I refuse also, “not all white women.” No. Stop it. White women have harmed women of color. That is the point. We white women who don’t want to be lumped in with those white women need to amplify the voices of our sisters, not justify that we’re the good ones.

[jusooobs]

Woah, I’ve nearly to never seen a post like this

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Keep it coming ladies.

[vantablackhearts]

Wow

[aprettyboykiller]

‘Sun to Sun’ by Partel Oliva

[no1partyabbey-blog]

I’m genuinely baffled by “nice people” who have only hateful things to say about the women’s march but also other (peaceful) protests/marches going on??? Like, I’m glad y'all feel comfortable enough with the rights/privileges you already have and that’s fine and dandy, but it is not your place to tell other people (marginalized groups specifically) to stop being upset/making their voices heard when—plain and simple—they’re not being afforded the same rights/privileges as you. If the thought of women and/or marginalized groups voicing their concerns, demanding respect, and protesting and organizing against racism/misogyny/transphobia/ableism/homophobia/bigotry/etc. in general makes you feel uncomfortable, angry, offended, or scared, I highly suggest you take a long, hard look at why that is and why it is so difficult for you to listen to and understand the experiences of people who are different from you and are experiencing those things

[victor-v]

i am honestly so proud of girls around the world i love girls so much you can do anything

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Janelle Monáe brought out the Mothers of the Movement at the Women’s March on Washington

Janelle Monáe did not come out alone to speak to those in attendance at the Women’s March on Washington. 

Monáe brought two mothers of those who were killed by police or gun violence  — the Mothers of the Movement — on stage with her. 

On stage, Monáe approached each of the mothers — who also appeared on stage during the Democratic National Convention in July — and asked them to say the name of the child she lost and then asked the crowd to repeat those names. 

Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis, and Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, led the chant alongside Monáe.

“We’re going to say ‘Jordan Davis!’ so he can feel us, and we’re doing this for his mother!” Monáe said to the crowd after Davis’ mother said his name. Read more

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[emma-watson]

January 21, 2017: Women’s March around the world

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“Different endings. Depending on if you’re in one or two player.”