[theallart]

Andy Warhol, “Hammer and Sickle with Vibrator”, 1975

[ginger-ale-official]

C

[ginger-ale-official]

Cummunism

[cargopantsman]

Seize the means of reproduction.

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[paganinpurple]

Okay, this never happens. I just sat down for a solid 3 and a half hours and wrote a fic from start to end in a draft format that closely resembles mid-draft as opposed to first draft. My concentration never wavered.

I’m afraid

[pyromania2014-deactivated201812]

Reblog for the concentration wizard to visit you and let you get super far in your WIP

[paganinpurple]

Best response to anything I’ve ever posted

[foreverrhapsody]

I have the Tumblr equivalent of cleaning supplies...

a mass tag replacer

a way to find ALL of the tags you’ve ever used (mostly?)

and a way to find untagged posts

There will be some seriously intense organizing here soon.

[newsfromstolenland]

just wanna clarify that when I say "abolish the police" and "defund the police" I do, in fact, mean that we should rid ourselves entirely of cops

because I've seen a lot of white people using these phrases and then walking it back like "give them less responsibilities and less funding!"

but the truth is that our policing system is intrinsically linked to racism, colonialism, and xenophobia. that won't go away if we give them less money or less things to enforce

so yes, I mean it when I say we should abolish the police

[deathology]

reblog if you want anonymous opinions of you

[kingjaffejoffer]

Killer Whale using fish as bait to catch birds

[tontonmichel-deactivated2022021]

They do this?

[milkdaaaaaddy-blog]

That nigga fishing for birds

[lichface]

@bengeskozhukel

[bengesko]

This is why orcas don’t belong in tanks. They are THE apex predator of the ocean. And they’re socially, mentally and emotionally intelligent. They’re not mindless killing machines. They love and nurture their own, take care of the young, disabled and elderly, and stay with their mothers their whole lives. They have matriarchal pods and they have connections humans can’t understand. They’re more humane than humans, and they don’t belong in concrete tubs.

[haunted-hideaway]

I LOVE YOU, MURDER-FISH. 

[funkdawg99]

They are called “Killer” Whales

[pettydavis]

straight ppl dont get to call us pillow biters and rug munchers and ass bandits and sodomites and faggot and d*** and every other disgusting name you can think of for a lesbian or gay person—for literal decades—and then try to call themselves tops and bottoms just cuz they like pegging like. im not doing it. im not allowing it

[lakevida]

a lighter company trying to start a marketing campaign like how have YOU used your zippo lighter? #zippo and it backfires when everyone uses the hashtag to confess to unsolved arson cases and it turns out all of them are true and then lighters get cancelled and everyone gets back into using like a stick and a piece of flint to make fire because it’s more eco friendly because it’s harder to do arson with. i’m sincerely the highest i’ve ever been and this took a monumental effort to type. i love the art of short stories

[time-for-maps]

this changes everything oh my god

[rosswoodpark]

do you understand why it trips me out that people can drive 45 minutes and be in aNOTHER COUNTRY? I drive for 45 minutes and im like

a city over 

[isaia]

I live in “Italy” and took a day trip to go to “Austria” and “Germany”

[filth-and-abscess-deactivated20]

 #it is literally impossible to leave texas #you will be in texas #FOREVER

[whitepajamas]

Chums, that’s sweet, and all, but Australia just ate Texas for breakfast. 

[quietcarriage]

If you drive for 45 minutes in Australia you aren’t a city over, you’re just 45 minutes away from the city.

[buginateacup]

If you drive for 45 minutes in Australia you may not even leave the cattle station.

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

If you drive for 45 minutes in Canada you may not even leave your driveway.

[no1hotmullyfan]

If I drive 45 minutes in the us I’m just at another mcdonalds

[slowspinningredemption]

If I drive for 45 minutes in Northern Ireland I’m 10 minutes into the sea.

[mattg124]

I can’t drive. 

[clotpolesonly]

[petalya]

Has anyone noticed that Megan thee Stallion is one of the biggest musicians out and there was very little news or social media coverage on her being shot and shot at multiple times...not even a single lil “thoughts and prayers” from any of the tiktokers that use her music daily or the brands still preaching of a Hot Girl Summer..across cultures, everyone let Megan’s identity and likeness impact them and across cultures, no one gave a single fuck about that woman. It’s so saddening. like I hope you all understand that at best, black women’s fame = them being a commodity, not genuine care. Like god imagine if someone like Ariana was shot by an ex/friend/anyone?? We’d hear about it for weeks and yet Megan barely got a drip of attention. And the attention she did get? Jokes. Thousands and thousands of jokes. It’s easier to find tweets joking about the situation or being a doctor checking out her ass as opposed to tweets of any concern, and there’s many tweets dismissing that little roach that shot her. It’s extremely disturbing and exactly what we mean when we say black women are seen as bottom of the barrel on this planet, not given a single fuck about (but taken from until they have nothing left ofc)

[outofcontextdiscord]

[rainbowvelour-deactivated202104]

@peachxblood​ u gotta see this

[peachxblood]

midwest gays at it again

[catchymemes]

[decembernovemberoctober]

[fallinloveagainandagain]

scream

[sotheangst]

Same fucking energy

[stark-tony]

au where jet doesn’t find out that zuko and iroh are fire nation and when he runs into the gaang he goes ‘oh by the way this is my new friend lee. we met on the ferry ride over here!’ and the gaang and zuko just like awkwardly stare at each other for a really long time

[appendingfic]

“This is Aang. The Avatar,” Katara says slowly.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Zuko replies carefully.

“Don’t you mean it’s an honor?” Sokka retorts.

Zuko strongly considers breaking his cover just to murder Sokka right there.

[emperorsfoot]

Sokka decides that Zuko has suffered a head injury since they last saw him and has amnesia. He honestly believes that Zuko believes he is Lee, and tries to act all soft and supportive towards him as if he were a trauma victim. 

Zuko takes advantage of this to actually process the trauma of his father burning him and banishing him, but he has to do it without letting Sock or Jet know that he remembers being Zuko, never had amnesia, and is Fire Nation. 

[stark-tony]

au where jet doesn’t find out that zuko and iroh are fire nation and when he runs into the gaang he goes ‘oh by the way this is my new friend lee. we met on the ferry ride over here!’ and the gaang and zuko just like awkwardly stare at each other for a really long time

[appendingfic]

“This is Aang. The Avatar,” Katara says slowly.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Zuko replies carefully.

“Don’t you mean it’s an honor?” Sokka retorts.

Zuko strongly considers breaking his cover just to murder Sokka right there.