usually I do not cry at funerals this is why I was not prepared re. the eyevliner-cleavage situation

I am very drunk and should go to bed

my head hurts

everything

feelings 

happened so much

help

send help

I thought I had no feelings about granny-death turns out I was just in advanced-level denial 

and should not have worn eyeliner to the funeral

it has been washed into my cleavage

casual-isms:

chekov-chan:

nominee84:

yanagoya:

meandmylittlevoices:

alloutorg:

URGENT: today in Russia, a terrible bill passed in the Russian parliament’s lower house that censors all things considered “gay”. It’s our local partners’ worst nightmare and we need your help. 

This vote comes off the back of two brutal anti-gay murders in Russia, and the trial of a major LGBT rights organisation today.

Tell world leaders to STOP the crackdown, add your name:
www.allout.org/russia-attacks

REALLY IMPORTANT

This really is happening, and it’s scary as hell.

“Update June 12: the situation is worsening. Russia has just passed a new anti-gay law makes it illegal even to say the word “gay”.  People in Russia standing up against the crackdown are urging All Out members to keep growing the petition to help draw the attention of world leaders and the media.”

spread this like the plague 

i am speechless. i can’t believe i’m just hearing about this now. Not only are they making it a crime to talk about queerness but they’re also trying to legally define queer people as pedophiles—i.e. queer people would be charged with pedophilia. Russia just took a huge step backwards jesus christ.

(via curly-bob)

laughingnancy:

IS IT A FRIEND CRUSH 

OR IS IT A REAL CRUSH

(via suicide-in-the-trenches)

getsby:

koolkidseatgreens:

Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because you’re an auto tuned peice of shit who shouldn’t be famous, you have no Buisness being in the music industry, it’s not even your music you fuck, someone else wrote it for you to record and them to auto tune yourself. And it’s not at all good . It’s not positive either. So complain some more.

I don’t know if you know this, tumblr user koolkidseatgreens, but Ke$ha is a certified genius. She has an IQ over 140 and an SAT score of 1500. When she was younger she would go to the library and do research for fun. Ke$ha is a both feminist and an advocate for equal marriage/rights for people of any sexuality, being a queer woman herself.

Ke$ha is a smart, professional woman, and just because she sings songs about wanting to let loose and have fun every once in a while doesn’t make her a piece of shit.

Ke$ha’s songs are meant to point out the sexism in our media. She treats men the same way many men in the music industry treat women, and she is hated on for it. Relentlessly. She sings on multiple occasions about taking charge in a sexual relationship, of how she only uses men for their body parts. She sexualizes men to make them uncomfortable. She sexualizes men for a reaction, so that people can both see why women are so uncomfortable with their sexualization and also to point out the inequality between the sexes both in the media and in the world at large.

She is judged so harshly for singing about things that make many men famous.

If you listen to Ke$ha’s deconstructed album you will see that she actually has some talent, which may be hard to hear because she does in fact use a fair amount of autotune. This is because of her genre and because of the kind of music she chooses to create as an artist. Ke$ha may not write her songs, but this doesn’t meant she isn’t a good artist or a good person. This doesn’t mean she deserves your harsh words. Some singers are good at writing, but that’s hardly a requirement. Last time I checked whether or not you can sing has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a poet.

You should not be calling anyone a piece of shit, my friend, especially someone you’ve never sat down and had a conversation (or even taken the time to wonder about her feelings!), but if anyone deserves that kind of language it’s not Ke$ha.

You may think that by shaming women for expressing their sexuality and having fun every once in a while, that you are somehow abolishing sexism. That in weeding out the less ‘deserving’ women you are gaining our sex more respect. This is not the case, and the fact that you and many others feel such a strong need to shame this woman who has done nothing wrong, especially not to you, shows that we still have a very far away to go.

(via suicide-in-the-trenches)

mochafleur:

There comes a time in a young Black person’s life where they look in the mirror and feel inadequate because they are not white. This message is thrown at Black and brown bodies everyday untill they pass away from this earth. We can pretend and try to use the colorblind theory [Here] and say we don’t see color. That would be a blatant lie, seeing color is what makes POC beautiful. There is nothing wrong with seeing the deepest shades of brown to the golden tones of coral across our skin. Color is beautiful and to deny the beauty in color is to deny someone’s cultural ties and heitage to it.

The amass amount of evidence that young Black people are being fed this standard can be show in several tests.  The doll test you can watch how heart wrenching it really is right in one of our favorite places youtube [Here] . The issue of you colorism/shadeism. Yes this is very much everywhere, you can go into any beauty supply and find bountiful amounts of skin bleaching creams. Colorism stems from racism and internalized racism. The need for lighterskin  and how it feels to be more accepted colors to white standards of beauty. Colorism/shadeism isn’t only in the Black community but trancesends almost into any other POC community. Here is a docmentary talking about this you can find SEVERAL on youtube.  [Here is the start of part 1]

These views are reaffirmed through the use of media outlets, the “prefrences” in a white supermacist society, and through cultural heitage. This sort of beauty or need for beauty is standard in the professional world of America, and white academia world. In instances it’s in subcultures such as “alternative” ( which took it’s routes as body mods from Indiegnous cultures), rock/metal culture ( Black people started this………….), and even in HipHop. ( The ever booming of desire to date/objectify/show off light skin women and white women once they reach a certain point of stardom.)

I feel like i’m geting off track but being a beauty blog specifically for Afro lovelies this is something that is discussed a lot. When the production of foundations, concealers, lipsticks, blushes, and eyeshadows are made. We are not thought of as the demographic. It is almost IMPOSSIBLE to find shades that are darker than my skin tone on the shelves of your local CVS or riteaid. The only way you will find this is in area near POC communities. AND even in POC communties it’s STILL hard to find shades for darker skin. This means the need to represent us, the need to say to white communities ’ HEY POC ARE HERE WE LIKE MAKE UP HELLO’ is 0 to none. POC skin tones and make up become a marketing ploy and demographics. This reaffirms that Eurocentric Beauty standards aka white beauty is NORMAL ok.

You heard me being white is normal.

Now i know people are going to be like WELL STOP COMPLAINING AND MAKE YOUR OWN. And we have our own :

Imancosmetics
Blackopal 
Black radiance
Black up
Covergirl Queencollection
Fashionfair

But having our own IS NOT ENOUGH.

These lines were made because THERE IS STILL A BIG NEED FOR OUR REPRESENTATION in “NORMAL” aka “WHITE” make up lines. The eurocentric beauty standard crosses over towards the shunning of Black models in the fashion industry and many times once a Black model crosses lines they STILL contintue to be depicked as some haute coutrure savage in the wild in animal print. They STILL encounter racism and I dont care i’m saying it. IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE POC MODEL IN YOUR SHOW YOU ARE UPHOLDING RACISM. 

This is the same thing with white washing characters in movies and when people reading books even AFTER showing that the character is clearly a POC still reading them white. It’s like a default attitude in the mind of many that POC or rather Blackness can only be shown if they are in a Blackface steretype.

The anti- Blackness in POC including the Black community also plays on the Eurocentric standard of beauty and colorism. Blackness many times is the worst thing you can be so why not hate on it. To avoid embracing and understand Blackness and it’s many different forms lets be violent towards it.

Eurocentric Beauty standard is harmful and violent. Racism is inherently violent it denies humanity to humans. This subject that isn’t addressed messes with the self esteem of young POC. It creates barriers before we even fully understand racism and how it’s ingrained in our lives as Black people. It’s drilled into your head you are not worthy of humanity unless you are white. 

There is a NEED for discussion in white academia, there is a NEED to have permanent ebony foundation in Almay/Maybelline/Lo’real lines. There needs to be so we won’t have to make our own. Making our own is a sign of what needs to be changed

The need for our self presevation is serious. This post is to shed light on this serious issue.

Having Black/Brown skin gets people killed. It harms how much money they own in their lifetime, it projects how successful they can be in life and even after finding sucess you still struggle with racism. It doesn’t goes away, IT DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. It is prevalent all your life.

Eurocentric beauty standards are RACIST. So please think again when you say

“She is pretty for a Black girl”

“I wish she was a little bit lighter”

“I perfer lightskint bitches”

“white women with big asses are the best”

“I don’t date (insert POC here because xyz)”

These generalizations uphold oppressive violent racism.

There is a plethora of things i can address and maybe i will in the future but i need for you to think about your actions and your words.

These lines, these faux theroies about our society being post racial, is lies.

It’s still around racism still breathes.

And it harms.

(via reverseracism)

Yay! Ross Campbell got back to me! He’s going to answer my questions for my dissertation! He is a Friendly Human as well as a fabulous artist! Life is good!

Now I need to find tactful ways to approach J Scott Campbell and Greg Land, if possible. JSC’s only point of contact seems to be his deviantART, is there anything Incriminatingly Feminist there? I CAN’T TELL! I NEED TO GO INCOGNITO AS A NON-FEMINIST TO MAKE THIS WORK!

shhhhh i’m in deep cover

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sekrit

Just realised today was father’s day. Oh well. a) we don’t really do father’s day and b) it’s the day before his mother’s funeral, so father’s day things would probably not have been madly appreciated.