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blackandkillingit: lovelyandbrown: why you blockin us?...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:18:09 -0400

blackandkillingit:

lovelyandbrown:

why you blockin us? colorblockin us.

Black Girls Killing It Shop BGKI NOW

motherfuck

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:55:10 -0400

motherfuck

Nearly every time I use my phone for directions

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:00 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:50:23 -0400

tageborkoff: My Hero Live fast, die young, bad girls do it...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:42:18 -0400

tageborkoff:

My Hero

Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well

"i am a woman and a poem."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:28 -0400

“i am a woman
and
a poem.”

- visceral, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

lovebeyondmeasure: Quick, messy graphic to explain a concept...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:16 -0400

lovebeyondmeasure:

Quick, messy graphic to explain a concept that seems obvious to me:

We shouldn’t be helping women because they’re related to someone else. We shouldn’t be helping women because someone else cares about them. We should be helping women because they are people.

We should be helping women for their own sake.

Why is that a hard concept for people to grasp?

megumiovvo: chuck-charles: i made a makeup tutorial for all my...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:56:04 -0400

megumiovvo:

chuck-charles:

i made a makeup tutorial for all my fellow feminists out there bye

jfc

watch it

ponyboy-draws: ive come to dismantle the patriarchy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:11 -0400

ponyboy-draws:

ive come to dismantle the patriarchy

morbidfashion: xenopheles: buttlid: dutchbag: babyslime: cyp...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:49:53 -0400

morbidfashion:

xenopheles:

buttlid:

dutchbag:

babyslime:

cyprith:

basedgaben:

garconniere:

tothecabaret:

1930’s Teen Delinquents

i.e. life role models

I’m just gonna reblog this again because it’s one of my favorite pictures ever.

That girl in the chair seems like such a badass I bet she was the leader of the crew.

I want to write about these girls.

When I was a teenager my mother found my grandmother’s (her mother) school scrapbook. It included things like photos, notes, and a two page spread of every demerit she ever received over the course of her formal education. Each of them set aside with little tags like she was so fucking proud of them. They were all for things like, “Unladylike behavior” or, “Skirt too short” or, “refuses to listen to authority”. I loved that spread so much.

I always have to reblog this.

i would’ve dated the shit outta the babe in the chair
u beautiful ppl

I wistfully sigh and WISH my family members had been delinquents. Sadly they were all Good Little Girls…. Oh, to have an old flapper for a grandmother!!

Reblogging for the commentary and because their dresses are wonderful.

theartofamour: No, I’m not going to the world cup. (by Carla...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:54 -0400

theartofamour:

No, I’m not going to the world cup. (by Carla Dauden)

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feministdisney: 1009feminism: feministdisney: thisiswhitepri...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:12:42 -0400

feministdisney:

1009feminism:

feministdisney:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

bougieblack:

think-progress:

Susan B. Anthony, badass.

Lest we forget Susan B. Anthony sought voting rights for women because she was offended that black men were allowed to vote and she wasn’t, even though, as she said, their brains weren’t capable of understanding politics. Susan B. Anthony, racist.

White privilege is Susan B. Anthony being an American hero. White privilege not understand why black folks should be skeptical of mainstream feminism when this white supremacist is one of the most seminal figures in the feminist movements.

good note about how we frame history as often being from a white lens, not just a male lens.

It’s also important to note that in 1873 most white people were racist. Heck if we brought back some of our favorite historical heros they’d be racist and sexist by today’s standards. Where as for their time, they may have been considered radical, open minded, etc. Susan B. Anthony, racist by todays standards, maybe not so much by 1873’s standards.

-Ronny

But that more or less ignores that there were white people, even back then, who were pro civil rights and supported black people in their endeavors. Acting like no one is above or can be blamed for going with the tide gives endless excuses for bad behavior. Many people, especially people debating about the very rights they want granted to them, knew there were options, choices other than what they chose. We’re living, right now, at the intersections of multiple civil issues. Would you say that the people voting against gay rights or affirmative action have no idea what they’re doing? That their actions are just an unfortunate aspect of living in this current time, right now?

In a way, yes, they are influenced by that, but we’re ignoring that Anthony, like many others, made a decision that black people were of less value. People are receiving information and making decisions about who to promote in society, and who to hold back.

And that isn’t to say that anyone expects leaders to be perfect or spotless at any point in time. But it should give us pause as to who we celebrate and how that celebration basically says “our gains were more important than your suffering.” It’s completely possible that if white feminists had universally supported the rights of black people, the civil rights movement could have occurred earlier in time. Instead, they used their political power to only raise themselves. Something to think about in the history of a movement that is supposed to encourage unity and betterment for all mankind, not just the chosen few who fit the bill of “good enough to vote.”

^ reblogging for commentary

me in other people's showers: what the fuck is going on

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:49:38 -0400

me in other people's showers: what the fuck is going on

feministdisney: thisiswhiteprivilege: bougieblack: think-progr...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:43:39 -0400

feministdisney:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

bougieblack:

think-progress:

Susan B. Anthony, badass.

Lest we forget Susan B. Anthony sought voting rights for women because she was offended that black men were allowed to vote and she wasn’t, even though, as she said, their brains weren’t capable of understanding politics. Susan B. Anthony, racist.

White privilege is Susan B. Anthony being an American hero. White privilege not understand why black folks should be skeptical of mainstream feminism when this white supremacist is one of the most seminal figures in the feminist movements.

good note about how we frame history as often being from a white lens, not just a male lens.

This is why I don’t see the point of vehemently applauding white feminists of yesteryear - because many of them were racist as fuck. If we’re going to celebrate feminism, we should be celebrating intersectional feminists, especially WoC.

medievalpoc: Unknown (formerly att. Johann Zoffany) Dido...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:19:43 -0400

medievalpoc:

Unknown (formerly att. Johann Zoffany)

Dido Elizabeth Belle

Scotland (1779)

oil on canvas

Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)

Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.

This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.

The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.

Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.

Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.

Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.

Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.

My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:30:04 -0400

style rookie: purple hair and jaguars and retirees

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:28:17 -0400

style rookie: purple hair and jaguars and retirees

teengrrrlsquad: why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride parade?? why isn’t there WHITE history month? why...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:06:53 -0400

teengrrrlsquad:

why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride parade?? why isn’t there WHITE history month? why isn’t there an international MEN’S day!? why isn’t there a hospital for WELL people?? why isn’t there a soup kitchen for RICH people??!?