Hello!

Name: Cryptid (not my real name) Pronouns: They/it/neo-pronouns This is probably gonna be me posting my art :) Zionists DNI Transmisogynists/Transandrophobes/Exorsexists/Intersexists/ people who don't acknowledge different forms of oppression DNI Racists/Islamaphobes/Anti-semites/ people who try to "debate" people when they're talking about the discrimination they face DNI

[sanyu-thewitch05]

It’s about time yall nonblacks started getting called out for consistently using AAVE and saying it’s queer vocab

[the-bitter-ocean]

The amount of nonblack tadc fans I’ve seen on Twitter jumping to defend the tadc cast members who joked and giggled about saying the n slur on accident when they were fully grown by saying “it was years ago and they were both only 231!1!1!1! Stupid n- I mean *AMERICANS* this is just drama and you’re cancelling an innocent artist 🥺 we forgive you” is the craziest thing in the world to me. Like buddy this is not your apology to forgive. Please be quiet. Nobody cares if this is your favorite cartoon in the world or if you’re a mega die hard stan for the characters. You’re not black so stay out of black issues. Hello. This show cannot be this good for y’all to be acting like you don’t have a lick of common sense or decency.

[the-bitter-ocean]

Like I’m sorry but if you’re repeatedly doing this over and over, friends with people who enjoy doing this and are still willing to employ them and keep them in your inner circle and defend them that’s.. weird. Full stop. It’s hard to believe it as a “sincere mistake” if you keep over the course of your life making the jokes and downplay your black fans genuine concerns or disappointment. It costs zero dollars to not be racist or enable/being pals and actively collaborating willingly on creative projects with people who claim that having a racist phase is normal. Please do background checks. Holy shit.

[creaturefeaturecommando]

"Canceling" was also an AAVE term that originally meant "We ain't fucking with this person anymore because they're weird with weird and questionable beliefs" and white people took it and tainted it to mean "You're trying to ruin someone's life, how dare you make someone take accountability for their actions !" like they really thought that saying "Hey this person is racist, maybe you want to think twice before giving them money and support" is a bad thing and that says a lot more about them than it does about us

[this-is-anti-islam]

Every time I see someone say that a poc making a character have darker skin is "blackwashing" I sigh

Blackwashing and Whitewashing.. aren't the same thing. The latter is racism and has so much history with the oppression of people of color.

The other is a zionist theory that has nothing to do with fandom. It was originally coined as a way to say that black people supporting Palestine and it's people is bad. It got co-opted during the past few years.

[gingik]

[naga-noia]

THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLORRRRRRRRRR

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

books on, about, and made by palestinians. non-fiction books about palestine, palestinian poetry, history books, fiction books by palestinian authors, links to free e-books and poems. i apologize in advance for not breaking this down by genre / type.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Free Palestine! A Reading List

Books for a Free Palestine

Google Drive of Palestinian Poetry made by @firstfullmoon

Palestinian poems series by @fiercynn

40 books to understand Palestine

FICTION:

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

The Things We See in the Light by Amal Awad

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Secrets Under the Olive Tree by Nevien Shaabneh

Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat

The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

Mother Country by Etaf Rum

The Sea Cloak and other stories by Nayrouz Qarmout

The Parisian by Isabella Hammad

My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh

Velvet by Huzama Habayeb

Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis

NON - FICTION:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)

Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction [edited] by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

From the River to the Sea [edited] by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

Palestine Speaks [edited] by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek

The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy

The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi

Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq

The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish

[the-missann]

While I'm just desperately trying to get a shiny Gourgiest, I decided to make this post.

As a resident black person, people seem unable to describe our features without being dated, intentionally/unintentionally disrespectful, or just comparing us to food lol

So, here's a list of things if you wanna describe black features without diving into food or outdated terms.

Some of these are just what I use, so if you don't like them that's okay! These are just some that make me happy when I hear them.

For hair like this

I usually describe it as fluffy, cloud-like, and puffy.

Personally, big or poofy never made me feel the best, but I guess it depends on the context. You tell me.

To describe it's shape or form, I say framed or surrounded his/her/their face. I think of it like a flower almost.

For skin, I'm light skinned (fair or whatever you wanna call it) and I usually just say tan because I don't think my skin tone is much different than a white person.

But for darker skin tones, I love describing darker skin tones with the sunset because look at this

It's gorgeous and I love seeing how the sunset outlines darker skintones 😄

Usually I describe it by saying their skin absorbed the light/sunset

Skin with an orange glow

Skin soft like the night

Shimmering skin (I know, I know, get your Twilight jokes out already)

Another thing that doesn't have to do with writing per say, but has to do with something I'm seeing a lot on the internet and that's a lack of diversity with black hairstyles, skin tones, and designs.

I'm a learning artist, so I can't do exactly what I want to, but here's my attempts at drawing something I think is realistic to afrostyles ^-^

There was probably more I wanted to say, but my brain is melting as always. Hopefully, this helped you a bit though. Feel free to share any ways you all describe black characters. I'm always wanting to learn more ways since I don't like using the same things over and over.

But thank you for reading~🍂

[stupidlittledoodles]

He’s not very good but I like himb

[soymoss]

starling

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[dominiqueramseyart]

Fate is in your hands 2023

[redisrobinhearts]

Dick Grayson is drawn fine the way he is and claiming he isn’t is colourist. I’ll tell you why

First and foremost I would like to specify there will be mistakes in this rant as English is my third language and I am also Romani so obviously this gives me grounds to speak on this matter

Onto the rant I will start this by saying no matter how the Romani person appears - Roma are not white no matter how white passing a Romani person may look. Romani is also not specifically a race it is an ethnic group which depending on the subgroup can vary but most Roma simply consider ourself brown or will forego that and just state that they’re Romani

In this fandom there are a lot of misguided beliefs that dick Grayson is drawn “wrong” or that he is “white washed” in comics or fan arts which has resulted in harassment to people who haven’t done anything wrong

Roma don’t have a “look” there are millions of Roma world wide who look vastly different - there will never be a specific wrong way to draw dick Grayson because there is no right way to look Romani.

There are blond haired blue eyes entirely Roma just as there are dark skinned textured hair Roma

This leads me to: why do Romani people have such varying looks?

Romani people come from India and left India roughly 1,000 years ago and then settled all over the world but most of which went to Europe - where you will find the most variant subgroups of Roma.

European Roma faced slavery and attempts of ethnic cleansing for almost 5 centuries in which women were raped and Roma were killed - then almost 100 years later the holocaust happened which was the largest on scale genocide and ethnic cleansing of Roma there was.

This caused overtime majority of Western and northern European Roma to become paler and more white passing while today Roma from Far Eastern and southern Europe usually tend to be darker skinned

During American slavery it wasn’t just Africans who were taken forcefully to America but also Roma who had settled in Africa - along with Europe sending European settled Roma to America for the same purpose.

In the modern day Romani descendants of that are darker skinned as opposed to European Roma being lighter skinned

Of course - tragedies don’t dictate how Roma will look in the modern day, you can imagine when your ethnic group and your community has stayed in one place for hundreds of years you will at least start to look a little of like the people of the place you are.

Roma don’t throw people out of their community for not looking “Romani enough” white passing Roma are considered light skinned Roma and darker skinned Roma are considered dark skinned Roma - we are all Romani and we all belong to our Romani communities.

Claiming a Romani character or person doesn’t look right or is white blatantly ignores the tragedies Roma faced which caused communities of Roma to look the way they do - there is no such thing as not looking right as Roma and the level of how Romani you are is not dictated by the colour of your skin.

And while we never know what subgroup of Roma dick Grayson it is safe to assume he is romanichal (subgroup of Roma from the uk and other English speaking countries) of course until dc ever specifies otherwise.

His subgroup isn’t important but it could shed light on the struggles his community faced in the current and in the past.

Dick Grayson’s Romani identity isn’t decided by his skin it is decided by who he is and who he is is Rrom.

I could go into more intricate detail of Romani culture which is seemingly always butchered in fandom (especially in relation to language) but I will save that for another post

[blackfandom]

I am going to make rant art about something I noticed and I need you all to engage with it in good faith or so fucking help me.

[blackfandom]

I can’t be… the only one that notices this right.

[blackfandom]

Image repost because I was just now informed that the image had no background.

[blackfandom]

Did not realize that the background saved transparent. My bad for those who couldn’t see it.

[catboydivorce-deactivated202406]

I'd like to remind everyone that when talking about a person (or character), it's "person with albinism," not "albino."

I've mentioned before how deeply traumatic that word is for many of us. It carries a stigma that exists just as strongly as it did when we were featured in circus freakshows (which I've seen billboards for in my lifetime), because that's where people know us from and there hasn't been a movement to change that. We're still portrayed in media as freaks and villains, using our appearance to shock you. You're supposed to see us as evil, abusive, manipulative, and never worthy of redemption, because they don't expect for you to see those characters as human. If you can't think of any examples, check out the TV tropes article for Albinos are freaks.

I've experienced endless bullying and harassment, adults calling me disgusting and a freak, physical violence, and had my sunglasses and hat taken on multiple occasions (both are necessary for me to be able to see outside, essentially blinding me and leaving me downtown somewhere). I've been discriminated against so many times I can no longer remember each detail. This is what albino means to me: being subhuman.

I will never see albino as a positive word, even when people mean well. Getting people to care about us is like pulling teeth; I'm not saying this is a slur and you're a bad person if you ever say it. I'm asking for some common respect, and for you to learn about us before you talk about us and make your OCs based on more than just looks.

There's a lot more I could cover but ultimately I'd really like the word albino to fade out of our lexicon. I don't really care what you call animals, although albinistic is the scientific term.

Of course i don't speak for everyone with albinism. For more on that, here's a very short article about our various feelings on the word.

[justwant2bsound]

Reminding everyone that OCs with albinism are automatically DSABLED. There is no chance that a person with albinism is not visually impaired/legally blind because of the lack of pigmentation in the eyes. Do not refer to an OC with white hair, pale skin and blue eyes as a pwa. Our existence has been so aestheticised to the point where our disability has become invisible while in reality it couldn't be more apparent. Please do not contribute to this and don't use that label if you are not willing to include visual impairment to your "albino" character in addition to the social stigma that is described above. Sincerely, another person with albinism.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[carrionthird]

"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."

[dovewithscales]

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

[sarcasmprodigy]

Making women up like it's a job