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HERE ON THIS BLOG WE GIVE A FUCK!! APATHY FEEDS THE MACHINE! WE ARE ALL ABOUT LOVING AND CARING DEEPLY FOR HUMANITY HERE!

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The Trans community deserves better. They need to be cast in these roles because it’s their stories.

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Hey who wants to see new posts on this blog?

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totally 👏🏾 here 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 this

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hey!

a couple of my amazing tumblr-less friends have written a serialized novel about three black girls who find out they’re witches on their 22nd bday and i’d love some help getting the word out!

they release new chapters on their website every friday (and dope illustrations on their instagram and twitter, examples in this post). i’m trying to help them get the word out! you can read the chapters at thetypicwitches.com 

the novel follows abbie, a third grade teacher w a corny white bf who’s teaching english in kenya, vic [my personal fave], an ex-sorority girl and pr assistant at calvin klein clarke stein, and delali, a former child star of “georgia on my mind” (think that’s so raven + smart guy + moesha)/current college student. basically the story’s about them learning how to use their powers and consistently messing up in their personal lives  

please check it out, share, and follow!!

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People who defend whitewashing have hundreds of tired excuses for why roles should be white, but never Asian-American. These excuses always boil down to a white supremacist ideology that believes “American” is synonymous with “white,” and Asian-Americans have no place in this country.

So it’s no surprise that Hollywood always tells Asians that the best we can get is crumbs—even when we’re the ones who made the cake. But rather than agree that there’s a problem, defenders of whitewashing will instead try to redirect our attention to something like L’s supposed “blackwashing”—which doesn’t exist, and is instead a concept designed to put a wedge between two communities of color who are both constantly told to be happy with their crumbs.

From my own personal experiences with Hollywood, Asian-Americans don’t get anywhere by asking nicely like a model minority. Instead of staying silent or being misdirected, we need to be loud. Luckily, we don’t need a magical notebook to do so in this instance—we can boycott Death Note to make it flop, and remind Hollywood that if we don’t get any cake, they don’t either.

(Hate-watching still counts as watching. Don’t watch it at all)

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A lot of people think representation in media/Hollywood is a trivial matter and not one of the “real issues.” But when Asian-Americans are dehumanized by their portrayals (or lack thereof), the impact can go far beyond mere social perception, resulting in hate crimes and institutional harm like discriminatory legislation. For Asian-Americans to be treated as people, we must be depicted as people. Representation matters.

(Just a reminder: Do not alter or repost my work. However, sharing directly from my pages is always encouraged and appreciated)

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pacify / a self portrait series dedicated to promoting south asian lgbtq+ representation and visibility, instagram: harshhy

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Each one of these women has an amazing story to tell, but we know nothing about them. This history is hidden from us, because they are women of color. 

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It is so confusing having these white ideals of what beauty looks like and realizing that most of the women in my family are around 5 feet 2 inches and then trying to live up to those expectations. And on the flipside the standards of beauty in my Korean church and in my Korean family are heavily influenced by Western ideals but are unattainable by Asian Americans. I saw a lot of eyelid surgery in my church, not that I want to perpetuate that all Asian Americans get that surgery. But I also saw a lot of pressure to dye my hair lighter, wear color contacts, to wear Abercrombie jeans, to wear Ugg boots and Northface and it was all these symbols to make me look more white but could never make me white enough, which was really frustrating, so of course I took that out on my body. As an Asian American woman you’re told that you have to be smart and pretty to be heard. And you have to be exceptional, and of course people want us to be exceptional, so it was hard for me because I did struggle with math and science and I couldn’t live up to the ideals of what my sister could. So then I internalized that I had to be the pretty one and that I had to be the thin one and that became extra hard for me as I hit puberty and I wanted to hold onto it. I had an eating disorder for eight or nine years and the problem with that is that it really takes away a lot of potential. I was so distracted with controlling the way my body looked that I didn’t even get into political organizing, I didn’t ever have a voice because I was so consumed with controlling myself, so how could I empower other women? I also think there’s also a lot of silence around mental health issues and eating disorders in Asian American families whether it be because of a cultural barrier or a communication barrier. There’s a lot of pressure to not struggle. It was hard for me to tell my parents about my eating disorder because I didn’t want them to know I was struggling because I knew they had sacrificed so much to give me this good life and so-called American dream. For them to know that I had an eating disorder was hard for me to walk through with them.

Suey Park, from Asian American women are #NotYourAsianSidekick Very relatable. (via alienboyfriends)

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Muslims in Cape Town contributed to the wealth of South Africa and were instrumental in creating Afrikaans. Find out more from artist Thania Petersen, & follow the show: https://heywhereartthou.tumblr.com/

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Black is beautiful | Soweto life | South Africa | Graphic Novel w photos | 

Art + Travel = D O P E 

@allhailthehoney and @heywhereartthou on tumblr.

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New Web Series || Losing Patience

A comedic series set in Kingston, Jamaica that follows the various adult-ing misadventures of its beleaguered protagonist, Renee Patience.

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Watch Season 1

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I don’t believe anyone really is against vaginal art, or art about menstruation, or art depicting ovaries I think the issue is when those things are suppose to equal “womanhood” and it’s suppose to equal womanhood for every woman

Even in terms of just cis women, not all cis women have functioning ovaries, not all cis women have their periods, not all cis women can have children, or breastfeed, or have functioning breasts.

And cis women who fall outside the idea of what it means to be a woman feel broken and “not fully female” because of these pressures, because people keep equating being a woman with parts of them that don’t function the way they are suppose too, with parts of them that make feel like are outside womanhood because people are defining womanhood by parts.

And of course all of this also relates to trans women.

Because if you think president trump wouldn’t try and “pussy grab” a trans woman that looks his type, and then murder her because she’s trans, you’re a fool. I get the whole “This pussy grabs back” but don’t think for a second that trans women don’t belong in that space, they face even more hatred and violence for being trans, especially trans women of color, especially black trans women.

Women are women regardless of parts.

Women are free to celebrate their bodies, but not everyone has the same parts, or feels the same about them, one expression of womanhood doesn’t speak for every woman.