#deliciouslydemure

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[jazminesullivan]

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE & HARRY BELAFONTE Carmen Jones (1954)

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deliciouslydemure replied to your post “Okay so only roughly related to the other nonsense. I bought shampoo...”

north africans introduced bathing to white ppl in europe anon therefore washing your arse is definitely cultural appropriation just thought you should know��

maghrebutch replied to your post “Okay so only roughly related to the other nonsense. I bought shampoo...”

if u wash ur hair its cultural appropriation

tea

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deliciouslydemure respondeu seu post “can’t the iris west haters just  S T O P ?!?!?!?!?!? honestly wtf...”

it's honestly cos she's black and racist people just can't accept how important she is to the show! if they had cast a white woman to play the role, i can bet my money that she wouldn't be getting this much vitriol��

100% agree with u. i’ve been thinking about this. also, you know, wally, james olsen on supergirl (which i totally shipped with kara), curtis on arrow... it can’t be a coincidence. the only white character that i see getting this much hate is felicity, and let’s be honest, a blonde pretty woman being a BAMF hacker? i sense butthurt.

[jazminesullivan]

Ajak Deng, Achok Majak, Alicia Burke - SANTERÍA

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Hidden Figures (2017) dir. Theodore Melfi

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deliciouslydemure replied to your post “I kno a lot of people equate vanilla with blandness and thence with...”

so true! i read a really interesting article about this same topic a few months ago:http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/23/291525991/when-vanilla-was-brown-and-how-we-came-to-see-it-as-white

“Given its tumultuous history, that vanilla is now an analog for dull and white is pretty odd. Because, you see, vanilla comes from the Totonac Indians in what's now Mexico. They first cultivated the beans and used them for medicinal purposes — not for flavoring. The Totonacs had to pay tribute to the Aztecs in the form of thousands and thousands of vanilla beans. And it was the Aztecs who used vanilla beans for flavoring. They mixed them with other things — like cacao. (Because, chocolate drank. Aka choclatl, aka xocolatl.)

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The year was 1841. Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old French-owned black slave from the Bourbon Islands, figured out what other botanists had tried to do for centuries. Albius discovered that the vanilla plant could be pollinated by hand using a blade of grass or a swipe of a thumb. It was effective and labor-intensive, but once folks figured out how to pollinate the plants, vanilla as a flavor became more accessible.”

!! I’m never wrong

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deliciouslydemure replied to your post “quick question: do I have like a distinctive style when it comes to my...”

yes! esp when you do gifsets pastel backgrounds...i like how you don't whitewash them :)

aaaaa im so glad!! <3333