No title available
KIROKAZE
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
#extradirty
shark vs the universe
PR's Tumblrdome
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
tumblr dot com
Sade Olutola
blake kathryn
No title available
@theartofmadeline
if i look back, i am lost
🪼
macklin celebrini has autism
Peter Solarz
we're not kids anymore.
No title available
$LAYYYTER
Xuebing Du
seen from United States
seen from Belarus
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Bolivia
seen from United States
seen from Uzbekistan
seen from Jamaica
seen from Türkiye
seen from Australia
seen from Brazil
seen from Belgium
seen from United States
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
@shadowfudo
so how did it go? did crab day save tumblr or do we need to do a bake sale or something
clearly the only thing left we can do is to have the best talent show the world has ever seen, right here on tumblr live
*with my 2012 john green ventriloquist doll* dear judges, i will now perform a monologue
https://twitter.com/has_kuma
maybe one day i’ll have an idea AND act on it within the same year
Throwing an 🧿 just in case
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.
🍓 strawberry frog 🍓
We owe fat LGBT people everything
Being fat and "attractive" always comes with an addendum of gender hyper performance- literally think about how many fat guys you've found attractive unless they were big bearded lumberjack flannel wearing daddies and think many fat chicks you've found attractive unless they were pompadour having poodle skirt wearing 50s pinup dolls.
Big unabashedly fat GNC homos are the lifeblood of our community I love big fat obtrusive butch bulldykes who sit with their legs spread and take up space and I love effeminate fruity limp wristed fat bears that wear short shorts and feather boas. Stupendous magnificent showstopping
I simultaneously claim ugly girl culture and pretty girl culture. I am complex I contain multitudes
the only reason #cottagecore is considered a gen z thing is bc its a hashtag. it used to be called transcendentalism when offline men did it
Henry David Thoreau having all of his meals sent to him and laundry done while patting himself on the back for being such a back-to-the-land individualist: #simpleliving #aesthetic #waldenpond #cottagecore
How Far We’ve Come 💛✨
fucking forehead to forehead is so intimate like pls... be careful........ our souls are gonna get intertwined........
oh me? i was just daydreaming about kissing you
jojo siwa is like. her style is not my taste at all but as soon as other people call it annoying im like actually you’re wrong she’s an icon and a legend
she looks like the concentrated essence of a claires store and i do not mean this negatively
it’s the “fuck you” to the current trend of encouraging teenagers to look 24 and embracing girly things that cis men hate
American Kawaii
she looks like someone turned a Skittles commercial into a person and i love it
If you don’t mind me putting my two cents:
I feel like Jojo Siwa’s style is reminiscent of the colorful teen girl fashion of the late 2000s and early 10s. Back then it was considered fashionable to use lots of colors, accessories, etc. Take a look at Jojo Siwa:
Very colorful, generous with sparkles and accessories. It’s meant to be fun!
If you were a kid in 2007-2012 you saw something similar in the clothing the teens in your sitcoms wore, although not as exaggerated. The fashion in Shake It Up(which came out in 2010) is a really good example of this:
(You may laugh, but this was the height of fashion to 13 year old me.)
The point is, Jojo’s aesthetic is similar to being a young pre teen girl walking into Limited Too for the first time.
And the reason cishet men hate it is because they don’t find it attractive. That’s why she’s often made fun of and used as a joke so much. Because that style doesn’t cater to the male gaze. It’s not for them, so it must be bad.
Might also be worth noting that she identifies as pansexual/queer/no-label and her style is very much a conversation between deliberately-not-adult and over-the-top-flamboyantly-queer.
Of course straight men hate it. it’s not about them.
That gingerbread look tho.
Jojo Siwa 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰✨✨✨✨✨
white trans people stop identifying with Orientalist depictions challenge
Okay so I am going to make this as… short and clear as I possibly can but essentially, Orientalism is the way the colonial West depicts the East.
Orientalism was first coined by Edward Said in 1978 with his book, “Orientalism.” Essentially it’s a critique of how the white West portrays the East (the Orient) as this exotic yet dangerous place while simultaneously fetishizing its people. It’s the way Western white scholars or artists depict the people in the “Orient” and how this single monolithical depiction of the East can build up harmful stereotypes as there is nobody to counter-claim them because of their “credibility.” The book goes into a lot more detail, it explains why the East is portrayed as it is by the colonial West, how a lot of white people view the East as something they can fix and unfortunately it’s still very prevalent today.
It’s why Hollywood tends to put that piss yellow filter on geologically Eastern countries, or why Asian or African countries are often depicted as a monolith or why Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres are the way that they are. There is this fear of the East but also this perverted interest in their culture through a colonial lens.
So why am I bringing this up? Have you heard of the Orientalist art movement?
It was an art and academic movement where the West scholars and artists would travel to the East (mostly Southwest Asia) and depict these regions and their people through their white Western lens. Often hyper-sexualizing their people in grotesque ways, writing cheap penny novels depicting Southwest Asian men as sexual predators, fantasizing about Harams, drawing women in skimpy innacurate outfits often tailored to the Western gaze and boil down to “pale woman in skimpy thinly veiled outfit does sexy belly dance.”
What I’m trying to get at is that these Western “credible” people would go out of their way to dehumanize and portray Eastern people and cultures as their “costumes” or “leisure.” The East became the colonial West’s carrier as they profited off of them.
These depictions are of course… innacurate, but they still live on. A lot of media nowadays, especially Fantasy and Sci-Fi media, portray these rich and diverse cultures as "very sexually charged people,” and “dangerous, but for us to conquer and fix”
So where does gerudo link come into this? And why did I make this statement?
There’s this… weird phenomenon especially on the internet where people tend to over-sexualize or effeminate men by putting them in these Orientalistic outfits. If you’re active in Fantasy spaces, then chances are you’ve seen characters in thinly veiled clothes, this weird sensual bikini or gold ornaments to “sexualize” them (this is especially common with Southwest Asian or North African coded characters).
Why is it bad when white trans people identify exclusively with these depictions?
Because you’re not identifying with the character’s gender as you think you are, you’re identifying with years and years worth of racist and dehumanizing depictions of our cultures. Drawing men in gold ornaments or “sexy ‘middle eastern’ bikini” outfits isn’t as progressive as you think it is.
If anyone’s interested, I didn’t know where to put this but here’s an article from 2012 by Serkan Gorkemli called “’Coming Out of the Internet’: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a ‘Digital Closet’ in Turkey” where they state that LGBT+ acceptance was hindered in the late Ottoman Empire because of Orientalism.
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.63?seq=1
Here’s Dror Ze’evi detailing that point further in “HIDING SEXUALITY The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East” where he discusses the slow gradual disappearance of sexual discourse and identity throughout the history of the Ottoman Empire.
Link: https://www.academia.edu/9535498/Hiding_Sexuality_Disappearance_of_Sexual_Discourse_in_the_Late_Ottoman_Middle_East
Finally if you’re curious, here’s the link to Edward Said’s Orientalism
https://www.eaford.org/site/assets/files/1631/said_edward1977_orientalism.pdf
Since this post blew up overnight for some reason I want to make things clear.
I made this post SPECIFICALLY because a white person tweeted that Gerudo Link was very “gender” and a bunch of other white people flocked to agree and it was my last straw lmao. I’ve seen this happen with other characters, this notion that if they show some sort of skin (especially with male characters) they’re very “gender” which you know, you do you, but I’ve seen this applied to Orientalist depictions which is where my problem relies. If you’ve never seen it happen, great for you! Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen though :)
Why did I say white trans people specifically and not white people in general, and you know what you’re right! Orientalism is something every white person should be aware of. However in this case, like I said, I made this post for this specific topic, that I have personally seen happen. I want LGBT+ white people to know that they are not exempt from racism. I want you all to know that just because you’re trans that does not mean you cannot be racist nor can you understand what being BIPOC and trans is like when a big reason why LGBT+ is now seen as “taboo” in many countries is because of colonialism and Westernization.
“Am I not allowed to enjoy ____ anymore?” Nobody is saying that you cannot enjoy whatever piece of media you enjoy or that we want to “cancel” them, what I am trying to get at is that as a Southwestern Asian it’s literally impossible for me to go through a fantasy or sci-fi series without seeing any sort of Orientalist depiction (this doesn’t have to be just the hypersexualization or belly dancing aspect of the theory btw, Orientalism is bigger than that, that’s why I provided the PDF). I just want you to be critical of what you consume and identify with, and to question why you identify with racist depictions if you do.
Lastly, if you want “coherency” or “professionalism” then go check the sources or do your research. This is just a bite sized tumblr post and I owe nobody an Academic level essay on this topic. I started the research for you, go and read the sources I provided as a start if I’m too “unfollowable”.
thanks a lot for this post. i think the white people questioning if this “really” is a pattern need to fully absorb the truth of - no, the reason you as a white person has never seen this happen before and therefore don’t believe this to be an issue is NOT because you happen to surround yourself with magically good white people, but because you’ve seen it, not thought wrong of this behavious, and ignored it. perhaps even partaken in this behaviour yourself without contextualising it as harmful
i never saw the tweet you did, but i’ve seen so so many other white trans and/or GNC people fetishize orientalist depiction of particularly women as their “ideal gender” for years and years, and its not like i seek out these behaviours intentionally
