#texturism

[the-bitter-ocean]

On the topic of my previous posts regarding fandoms at large having a trend of whitewashing the characters that are non white, there’s a common “rebuttal” that some people will have to justify / deflect the fact that erasure of representation is occurring :

“Oh but it’s my style! / oh that’s just the lighting!” And it drives me mad

“Lighting” doesn’t make characters suddenly lose any and all of their melanin. It doesn’t magically erase someone’s ethnic facial features (eye shape, eye color, nose shape, lips) or hair style/ hair texture.

If your art style can’t draw racial minorities and frequently erases their features and makes them indistinguishable from a white person then that’s a sign you gotta get out of your comfort zone and practice drawing more.

No one is saying that you need to be perfect or that you’re automatically a bad person for learning how to draw or being a beginner. But it’s 2026 and compared to before there is a vast amount of information, tutorials, videos, brushes and techniques to help with learning how to draw different people from all over the world. In real life there’s a vast amount of people who have different hair types, skintones, facial features, body types, cultural clothing and more that reflect the environment they live in. It’s doing a disservice to jut bury your head in the sand and continue to draw the same designs that center skinny, able bodied, pale and Eurocentric features as the focus. It’s limiting your growth as an artist.

There are plenty of stylized art/ pastel art/ art pieces that people have done with dramatic colors and lighting that can still clearly show a person of color. It costs zero dollars to learn and grow and not throw a shit fit whenever someone is trying to help you.

[black-fandom-culture-is]

Side-eyeing the White and non-Black POC artists that draw curly/kinky hair and braids on White/non-Black POC characters but somehow, someway, magically can't do the same for Black characters because "it's too hardddduhh" or "it doesn't fit my styleeee" and then slapping a straight wig on them.

Y'all be creating the most complex, gravity-defying, layers-on-layers anime-ass hairstyles, but somehow simplifying or detailing locs, braids, cornrows, and an afro is sooo hard for you.

Quite the... "stylistic" choice, huh?

[blackfilmmakers]

And this is why I don't really care for this push for laid edges, or doll companies' trying to paint them on all their Black dolls

I think we can acknowledge that laid baby hairs is a fun and creative option for Black hair, but pushing it on every Black girl is rooted in some texturism, respectability politics nonsense

[waxlyricalmoon]

you're about to get an impatient version of me but i'm not sorry at all because i've fucking HAD IT. i'm going to come back in a few days with a proper post but for now i'm just PISSED

OK TEAM

we understand that lightening fenris is gross and racist. alabaster isabella we understand is fucking cooked yeah.

but it's so clear to me that you only think this because you learned a list of things that are Racist And Bad and not because you're thinking in any meaningful depth about the form and function of racism and white supremacy

because there's no reason for me to repeatedly come across light skinned davrin and loose curls davrin and nightmare thin nose davrin posted and/or reblogged right into my fucking eyes. get your watery davrins out of my face and GET IT THE FUCK TOGETHER

[darkskinwomen]

A resurfaced clip from the 2005 Tyra Banks Show is going viral as conversations around Black women, natural hair, and wigs continue online.

In the episode, women openly spoke about hair texture, choices, and what they felt was “easier” to manage.

Now, nearly 20 years later, similar conversations are still happening. Just in different ways.

For some, this is a reminder that how we see our hair isn’t random. It’s shaped by what we grew up hearing, seeing, and experiencing.

For others, it’s about choice, autonomy, and doing what works for them.

[naturalhairhow101]

He popped because of her AFRO

[walker-walker-fashion-baby]

Let's talk about this