[b0omhauer]

[thundergrace]

Imagine someone shoots you, very likely tried to kill you and after that trauma you expect sympathy and maybe an outpouring of support but instead your trauma becomes a meme and everyone is laughing at your pain.

And this is truly the burden of black women. The world tears us down to nothing so we build up these hard exteriors to protect ourselves (which usually manifests as what appears to be unwavering confidence) and are praised for our "strength" but really for how much abuse we can take. And the result of that is people feeling free to treat us any kind of way without remorse because we're expected to handle everything better than other women. We're rarely seen as victims, sympathetic characters, vulnerable, and deserving of affection.

[perennialgarden]

[everythingstarstuff]

[theophile-steinlen]

Two Sleeping Cats, 1914, Theophile Steinlen

[arsarteetlabore]

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson ‘Bursting Shell’, 1915 © Tate

[janeforest]

[loserscircus]

Wolves Sitting in a Tree

Sergei Pankejeff (1886–1979)

Freud Museum London

[supppe]

[tangerinequartz]

I’m $100 short for rent this month. This is the third month in a row I’ve had no idea how I’m gonna pay rent. I already pulled out the max i could in a cash advance in my credit card. last month I had to pull from my fucking retirement (which I can only do once per year) and the month before that I borrowed from my grandma. It’s so fucking embarrassing. I was all set up to be able to afford it this month but I miscalculated when I’d get paid, which is next Friday not this one. I feel so goddamn stupid, I can’t fucking catch up. If I had just calculated the goddamn timing right i wouldn’t have bought new shoes or paid money towards my credit card. Now I’m gonna get fucked by the cash advance interest and I’m gonna have to not pay my phone bill due today. Luckily I’ll be able to pay my phone bill next Friday, but I can’t be late on rent again. I can’t even use any of the charities who help with rent because they only write checks to landlords, and my complex only accepts single lump sum payments, not multiple checks or payments. I feel so sick

[aoloshove]

New Spring 2014

Angel Oloshove

[glowdetails]

bag details @ gcds ss2020

[xanny]

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[resortstyleliving]

Karl Gerstner, Polychrome of Pure Colors, 1956-58

[saintjoan]

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

[artist-miro]

Burnt Canvas I, 1973, Joan Miro

[frank-stella]

Swan Engraving Circle II, State III, 1983, Frank Stella

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frank-stella/swan-engraving-circle-ii-state-iii-1983