#people of color

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This news surfaced yesterday and I just want to say this isn't new. This happened and has been reported more than once. There are also the Yemeni Jewish children who were kidnapped from their mothers by Ashkenazi "nurses", who claimed that the baby is dead, and diagnose the mother with hysteria/mental disorder after.

The lack of regard for people of color in Israel shouldn't come as a surprise at all. How many poc do you see in the government/ knesst despite the number of Ethiopian and Yemeni jews?

They're creating an all white country, this is colonizer behavior 101, the world just turned a blind eye.

[lpslover6669]

"We want to protect children!" okay. What about trans kids? What about palestinian kids? What about lgbtq+ kids? What about poc kids?

[h1biplvm]

Sit down, minority! This person who knows nothing about your community and is fueled with misinformation is gonna explain to you how your body works!

[thewoodbine]

PSA: There is no such thing as a "white Jew"

There are Jews who have European backgrounds and *some* of them have benefited from eurocentrism or being white passing, but in moments of crisis or need the social tides that create white privilege have never seen Jewish people as part of that group. Whiteness is a social category which has changed with time and attitudes and, at least for now, it has never and still doesn't include Jewish people.

Continuing to use the term "white Jews" is ignorant at best and harmful at worst. Even converts once converted are othered and can no longer rely on any previous white background to save them if they are identified as Jewish.

[ Non-jews please reblog]

[renlo]

I recently confessed to a friend that in the past, whenever I drew my sona with a gap, banjo music would start playing in my head. It doesn't help that I'm actually from the South either.

I've actually come to like having a gap, and I long lost the urge to correct it with braces. (My front teeth also used to be much more bucked - I resonated heavily with Timmy Turner, Spongebob, and Goofy as a kid.) That being said, it still took me some time to stop feeling like I was injecting my comics with hillbilly essence whenever I drew it.

(For anyone unfamiliar with the screaming cowboy.)

[mushroomyhouse]

Trans people exist in every culture and background across the world and throughout history ❤️

An illustrated print collaboration by @zandegoop and margot fink available at

❤️ mush.house/zandegoop ❤️

[crazycatsiren]

"I don't have a religion therefore you can't either" isn't any less colonialist than "my religion is valid and yours is not", by the way, people.

[sixteenseveredhands]

2,000-Year-Old Fayum Portraits from Roman Egypt: also known as "mummy portraits," these funerary paintings were often fastened to the coffins of the people they depicted

Above: Fayum portrait of a woman from Roman-occupied Egypt, c.100-110 CE

Fayum portraiture was a popular funerary practice among the upper-class families of Roman Egypt from about 50 CE to 250 CE. Given the high mortality rates for children during this period, many of these portraits depict children and youths, but adults were often featured, too.

Above: portrait of a youth wearing a golden wreath, c.130-150 CE; the wreath and the background of the portrait are both gilded

The population of the Faiyum Delta, where most of these portraits were found, largely contained individuals with both native Egyptian/North African and Greek heritage. The Greek lineages can be traced back to the Ptolemaic period, when the Greeks gained control of Egypt and began to establish settlements throughout the region, gradually leading to a cultural diffusion between the Greek and Egyptian populations. The Romans eventually took control of Egypt in 31 CE, absorbing it into the Roman Empire and colonizing much of North Africa, but the demographics of the Faiyum Delta remained largely unchanged.

Above: portrait of a man with a mole on his nose, c.130-150 CE

Many of these Fayum portraits reflect the same blend of ethnic and cultural roots, depicting individuals with both Greek and native Egyptian heritage (a claim that is supported by both archaeological and genetic evidence). Some portraits may also depict native Egyptians who did not have any European ancestry, but had been integrated into Greco-Roman society.

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.170-180 CE

These representations of native Egyptians provide us with unique insights into the actual demographics of Roman-occupied Egypt (and the ancient world at large). Non-European peoples are rarely included in depictions of the classical world; it's also interesting to see the blend of cultural elements that these portraits represent.

Above: portrait of a priest of Serapis, c.140-160 CE; the man in this portrait is shown wearing a fillet/crown that bears the seven-pointed star of the Greco-Egyptian god, Serapis

As this article explains:

In the 1800s and early 1900s, Western art historians didn’t know what to make of these portraits. Scholars of Roman history labeled them Egyptian. Scholars of Egyptian history labeled them Greco-Roman. These binary academic classifications failed to capture the true complexity of the ancient (or, indeed, modern) Mediterranean. In reality, Fayum portraits are a syncretic form, merging Egyptian and Greco-Roman art and funerary practices. They reflect the cosmopolitanism of both Roman and Egyptian history.

Above: portrait of a man, c.80-100 CE (left); portrait of a bearded officer, sometimes referred to as "Perseus," c.130-175 CE (right)

Above: portrait of a young woman in red, c.90-120 CE

Nearly 1,000 of these portraits are currently known to exist.

Above: portrait of a man wearing a gilded ivy wreath, c.100-150 CE

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.150-170 CE

Sources & More Info:

Curationist: Fayum Portraits

Harvard Art Museums: Giving the Dead their Due: an Exhibition Re-Examines Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt

Getty Museum: APPEAR Project

Getty Museum: Faces of Roman Egypt

National Geographic: Ancient Egypt's Stunning, Lifelike Mummy Portraits

The Athens Centre: The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Forbes: Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World

[kyllaaky]

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[nightqueens-world]

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This is why everyone needs to vote for Kamala Harris in November.

[hooffuloftootsierolls]

Hazbin Hotel’s representation

[eccentricphilosoph]

If you’re positing that something is fact, the burden of proof is on *you* and not the other person to “do their own research”.

In legal practice and in science, the burden of proof is always always on the person making their assertion they believe is the truth.

This is the most lazy form of “activism” I’ve seen. It isn’t even activism, but idiocy and cowardice where the person states a claim and then responds with “do your own research. It’s not my job!”

What this tells me is you’re not educated nor willing to actually give a good answer as to the proof of your claim which you say is “factual”. Seems as if you don’t have your own thoughts and don’t have any real idea as to what exactly is good evidence to what you’re saying!

It’s not helping your cause.

What I see when I see this is someone who has faith in a particular dogma but has absolutely no proof to back up why this faith is real.

As per my “faith” comparison: if a Christian tells you that Jesus was the Messiah, then is the burden of proof on you to find evidence that he was the Messiah? Of course not. Wouldn’t you hate them telling you to do your research for their claimed truth instead of telling you what they believe is fact and then presenting their evidence? It’s on the Christian making the claim. In fact, there’s an entire discipline dedicated to defending various religious doctrines: apologetics. Even religions dedicate ways to provide evidence for their beliefs, so why can’t you?

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim, not the person disagreeing with the claim.

This helps us to understand!

[redvellz]

This is genuinely one of the worst takes I seen in my fucking life

As a Hispanic this genuinely pissed me off so much like wdym “this was the best part of the game🤓”

you do realize that this game has its own characters and story that focus on people of color and how they struggle with the unfair justice system and America right😃

Honestly what they said felt like a “fuck you POC and idc about your issues and struggles” 

Racism is still very much a thing to this day heck I live in a area where it’s kinda normal to see that one flag that was used in the civil war in people homes or even in stores (I don’t think I can say the flag on here 😓)

So when you are saying this it genuinely makes me think that you genuinely don’t care how POC struggle and probably might me think that you are a racist

[whatwouldmariecurieactuallydo]

For my lovely followers - and all people in STEM

You can do it!!

[fyblackwomenart]

"Beauty Within" by renLo 

[renlo]

I made a children's book!

Happy to announce that I've published my third book (and second children's book)! 'I Can Do Anything!' is a brief 20+ page story that follows Jaden as he wonders what he wants to be when he grows up. The book ends with a few coloring pages as well!

I had fun writing this brief, silly little book. It's available on Amazon right now!