[virtual] SOAPBOX

like a real soapbox, only digital. and no megaphone.

[witch-beach]

[kushandwizdom]

[ruinedchildhood]

The Greatest Curve of All Time?

[kushandwizdom]

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. - Bernard L.B. De Fontenelle

via KushandWizdom (via kushandwizdom)

Good Vibes HERE

(via thelovenotebook)

[anonymous-vision]

West Side Story 1961 - “I feel pretty”

[derica]

TEMI DOLLFACE in the video for PATA PATA

I wrote about why I’m obsessed with Temi DollFace’s video for her track Pata Pata. It’s visually delicious (retro fonts, playful + creative graphics, pastel palette) and conceptually seamless (structured around 50’s-style television advertising to housewives), but I love its substance too.

Temi combines a performance of tough/mean hyperfemininity with wide-eyed goofiness, with a range that reminds me a little of Beyoncé’s B.B. Homemaker. It also takes me back to that Jamaica Kincaid quote about her desire to be a woman that looks “proper, but not docile"…

There’s more detail in the post, but it’s great to see a black woman artist feeling license with the retro look. Mainstream treatments of the early-to-mid-1900s give the impression that only white women existed in glamorous spaces or pin-up culture (with white American nostalgia fed by shows like Man Men). Although spaces on tumblr like Black Vintage or Nigeria Nostalgia Project do great work contesting that erasure, I love how this video brings the glamorous women pictured on those blogs to life for a contemporary audience.

[pelipper]

[realitytvgifs]

when someone you don’t like says hi to you at a party

[neogohann]

[bbunit]

[a-tribe-called-tress]

[benedictsmith]

Do you guys ever say the wrong thing in a conversation and then have it haunt you for months or years afterwards like a social anxiety poltergeist?

[ajd1219]

a social anxiety poltergeist

[aszb]

[lynduhlisten]

[naomihitme]

Devon doesn’t think she’s a black model cause she’s “fair skinned” and has an “international look” 

[blackfoxx-deactivated20211115]

Naomi is my second mother….

[bad-dominicana-deactivated20260]

YOU LOOK BLACK TO ME. 

#delusion

[ai-yo]

I love Naomi. She said DISGRACE 

“I’m light skinneded and I appeal to everyone because I’m light skint” dark skinned Naomi who is a legend is right ther. The fuck was she thinking?

[blueklectic]

I just watched this…oh but then she tried to back peddle like a mug in the car ride home

[husssel]

OMG Naomi couldn’t take. I would’ve just gave her a cellphone. Like here girl just do it.

[sistermaryfake]

I really like Devyn though :(

[crissle]

YESSSS NAOMI! GET HER!

[iloveb-com-blog]

Inhale|Exhale

Even with all the craziness going on in my world. I’m still finding new ways to be happy. I can’t allow negative happenings, to destroy my happiness.

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