[weavemama]

why are people so oblivious to the fact that the citizenship process is not that easy?????? It can take up to a DECADE to become a legal citizen, people have to hire lawyers, people have to spends thousands of dollars, people have to go years without seeing their family in the country they came from and people have to memorize information about America I probably wouldn’t even memorize if I tried….like idk why dumbasses think it takes 5 minutes,, the system makes it hard for a reason

[dulect]

“Sorry I’m so bad at replying! I’ve just had such a busy day!”

[weavemama]

I’ve been seeing headass headlines this for the past few days, and I simply ignored it bc the media does shit like this for money and clickbait. But I realized this is more than the media tryna get their coins, this is a blatant attack on black women and other woc. So @ white women? I think it’s time we have a little chat. 

1. Beyonce has gone through a miscarriage, and thousands of other women have been through it as well. It is a terrible experience that no one deserves to go through. But Beyonce is a FAMOUS PERSON, and she has one of the largest fanbases in the world. So when she delivers news such as being pregnant with TWINS, of course the beyhive is gonna to go above and beyond when it comes to the reaction.  Ya’ll dragged her through the mud w/ her first pregnancy trying to say it was faked. Now that she’s pregnant for a second time, she’s doing all these photo shoots to further prove the accuracy of it. And now ya’ll are criticizing her for it????? Tryna cover your asses for how you treated her 5 years ago??????? Get the fuck over it, because ya’ll didn’t say shit when these women did THIS w/ their pregnancy announcements: 

2. Serena Williams has been demonized and ridiculed for her body type since FOREVER. People say that her body is “too masculine” and how she’s “built like a man”. It’s fucking gross because Serena is one of the most hard working athletes in the WORLD, and her body type shouldn’t be affiliated with the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into her career. White women, you can’t say that you’re an advocate for equality when you criticize a black woman’s photo shoot, deeming it “soft porn”, and yet you praise THESE photoshoots: 

When a white woman, or hell even a non-black woman does shit like this, ya’ll are so quick to write article about how “empowering” they’re being. But when a black woman does it ya’ll all of the sudden wanna further sexualize and make it about “soft porn”??? Get over yourselves and let a black women love herself after receiving massive amounts of slander for her body type. 

3. The role in Ghost in the Shell is definitely about race. If her character’s mom is Asian, then why tf couldn’t they just get an Asian person to play the character in the damn first place???? 

She should’ve just said “a woc deserves the role more than me, but unfortunately I can’t control who they cast” and then moved on. But nope, she had to make it about herself and disregard the fact woc are hardly ever represented in movies, especially Asian women.   

4.  You can’t criticize a movie you don’t even relate to on a cultural level. Moonlight takes the components of black struggles, black culture, black life, and puts it into a true cinematic experience. You don’t have to like the movie, but the movie itself is more about whether you “like it” or not. It’s whether you relate to it, whether you feel with it, and whether your experiences correlate with the character’s experiences. A “better plot” wouldn’t do shit Becky, you either get it or not. Not to mention Camilla Long was kissing La La Land’s ass: 

So the point of this post isn’t to slander all white women and shame them. The point of this post to to show how frustrated black women are with white feminism. White women can be just as racist as white men, and they sure as hell benefit off that privilege. This is why a lot of black women these days kinda go side eyed when a white women says she’s a feminist. Are you a feminist for all women? Or are you a feminist for WHITE women. Please don’t call yourself a “advocate” for women if you’re gonna spend all this time bashing black women and other woc. Just say you hate black women and go. 

[pyjamathyst]

WELL SAID 👏👏👏👏👏

[twasjane]

I mean, Natalie Portman did a near-nude photo shoot in Vanity Fair last month, but I didn’t see a bunch of white women getting up in arms about it.

WEIRD RIGHT?

[continentcreative]

Mahany Pery for Maybelline Brasil by Lucas Menezes, makeup by Everson Rocha

[localstarboy]

[chrisdornerfanclub]

Not Your Social Justice 101 Reading List

The Point is Not to Interpret Whiteness but to Abolish It Accomplices, Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex Give Up Activism The Problem with Privilege INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence’s brief critique of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

[khanos-deactivated20170219]

Social media structure creative effort ideologically as “self-creating,” but they often end up as anxiety-inducing, exposing the self’s ad hoc incompleteness while structuring the demand for a fawning audience to complete us, validate every effort, as a natural expectation. Validation is nice, but as a goal for creative effort, it is somewhat limited. The quest for validation must inevitably restrict itself to the tools of attracting attention: the blunt instruments of novelty and prurience. The self one tries to express tends to be new, exciting, confessional, sexy, etc., because it plays as an advertisement. Identity is a series of ads for a product that doesn’t exist.

Social Media Is Not Self-Expression, Rob Horning (via khanos)

[mixedangel]

[pure]

rookiemag: you can be friends with someone who functionally wants you to perish a slow and painful demise due to a lack of state-sanctioned resources

[kissedbythevoid]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEac20nvN_k/

[n-thot]

Duckie Photographed by Shane Suban beauty by Tatiana Donaldson

[tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated]

Tracey Emin

[malamente1992]

[thetolerantleft-deactivated2017]

It would just be cool if everyone actually read crenshaw: mapping the margins, demarginalizing the intersection 

read these, actually fucking read them

[thetolerantleft-deactivated2017]

like seriously Kimberlé Crenshaw is such a fantastic and thorough scholar, and these texts address many contemporary debates about essentialism, coalition, difference, and identity politics. I guarantee you if you learned about intersectionality from thise site, you almost certainly don’t understand the complexity and nuance of the concept and how profound its implications are. These texts (the texts where intersectionality emerges from) will give you that understanding. 

[gothhabiba]

I’ve finally started reading Why Does He Do That and honestly I’d recommend it to anyone who is or has been in a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with an abusive or controlling person, even if you’re already out of that situation, because it’s been validating and enlightening to me to see my experiences corroborated

here’s a pdf I uploaded to my google drive

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.

Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.

Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!

[waxthevan]

Jies Cleodore