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Shower thought: I’ve spent so much of my twenties being the emotional support stand-in girl friend/best friend to guys who will ditch me as soon as they get a partner. How fun.

It’s not a real emo night until you’re crying in your bathroom at midnight, drunk because your crush has a crush and you’re stuck

mycorruptedmindd

if i ever opened up to you i was joking

lilmamabeyellin

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MIDSOMMAR (2019) dir. Ari Aster

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Riley Montana posted on IG by @stilacosmetics

feministism

thatidomagirl

*Linda Bellos is transphobic and Justin Fashanu had sex with a minor

flyandfamousblackgirls

32 year old Jazell Barbie won Miss International Queen 2019. She represented Black women (the only one), dark skinned women, trans women and the USA!

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& she is the FIRST Black woman to EVER win that pagaent!!!!!!!!

popularcultures

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‘Every Black Person Deserves To See Themselves This Way’

Using fluorescent body paint and ultraviolet light, photographer Mikael Owunna’s latest work aims to transform the black body into “the cosmos and eternal.” The images evoke celestial beings, magical and otherworldly.

But the concept for the project, Infinite Essence, was sparked by frustration and exhaustion.

The 28-year-old Nigerian-Swedish photographer, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is based there now, says he grew weary of the barrage of violent, dehumanizing imagery of black people he saw in the media.

“Black people dead and dying. Being gunned down by police officers, drowning and washing up on the shores of the Mediterranean, starving and suffering in award-winning photography. The trope of the black body as a site of death is everywhere,” he says in his artist statement.

“If the majority of images that you see of yourself are negative,” Owunna says, “if people who look like you are dead or dying or captured in a negative light, how do those images enter your body?”

Owunna wanted to counteract the pain of those photos, to create imagery that showed the black body not as a site of death but as a site of magic.

neuters

i need both of these now

lesbianmichelmishina

the reason these exist (iirc) is because peppa pig is banned in china for “promoting gangster attitudes”: peppa was popular (for whatever reason) with “shehuiren” (anti-establishment internet users), who made a lot of memes involving peppa and even got tattoos of her because it’s funny. the result of banning peppa is that shehuiren-types liked peppa even more afterwards, and now she’s a bit of a counterculture symbol in china. hence these shirts.