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Gen Zs are so funny making fun of the Sephora kids and doing the whole, "when I was a kid, we didn't do xyz" schtick. Like bestie, when we were 10 years old, Tiktok wasn't a fucking bleep on the radar and youtube was in its infancy stage, we didn't have influencers to watch and worry about emulating??? Gen Alphas also don't have free Internet games to play like Moshi Monsters or Neopets or Petpetpark or Pet Society or [insert gen 1 Facebook game here] or Club Penguin or Toon Park like we did?? They are literally surrounded by online ads and consumerist culture.

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I refuse to engage with any of this “Sephora kids” discourse beyond asking WHY ARE YOU FILMING CHILDREN YOU DONT KNOW AND POSTING IT TO THE INTERNET??

That is weirdo behavior!!! Not to mention putting these kids privacy at risk!!

Get a fucking journal, call your friend to complain about it.

Btw, the Venn diagram of people filming the Sephora kids and the people who constantly complain about “gen z filming strangers” is a circle

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“What happened to the good old days? When a man actually flirted with ya and asked you out for a real date you know? Where they hiding?”

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

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Guess there's a new power couple after Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang on the horizon, but I'm going to be a presumptuous ass making assumptions on a movie that I've only watched the trailer for. I bet Barry Jenkins can do Challengers but can Justin Kuritzkes do Moonlight and If Beale Street can Talk?

Hang on, hang on, the dude who wrote Challengers is Oscar nominated director-screenwriter Celine Song's husband???

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Hang on, hang on, the dude who wrote Challengers is Oscar nominated director-screenwriter Celine Song's husband???

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and the kicker of it all is james baldwin is a queer man and if i told these type of ppl that first they’d be interested and value him more, but i don’t want to do that, u arent deserving of some kind of treat to make u value his work, u should be able to read things written by people you cannot relate to at all, his work is majority defined by his blackness, i dont want to erase or water that fact down just so white queers on this website wont treat him and his work like a joke, someone shouldn’t have to be white or queer for you to care, this white centric homo nationalism behavior has got to go

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(article from sept '22)

[Jasbir K. Puar] further distinguishes between disability and debility: disability might be a political-relational identity, while debility is a process. One is debilitated by repeated exposure to harm and violence – a wearing-down of the body and mind throughout one’s life. This could look like the mercury accumulating in the bodies of Indigenous peoples whose water source has been polluted, or panic attacks due to daily encounters with racism in education, health care, and justice systems. What this tells us, Puar says, is that “it can be productive for the settler colonial state to keep some populations alive but in a space of continual, perpetual injury.” And the scale of debility is enormous: in 2016, the World Health Organization estimated that as part of the Syrian war, 30,000 Syrians were being injured each month.

“Disability,” Puar continues, “becomes the [way] institutions exceptionalize injury or the non-capacitation of a body.” This means that institutions view disability as something out of the ordinary instead of the inevitable outcome of living under oppressive conditions, and they place onus on the individual for being disabled, rather than on these oppressive systems for disabling the individual.

Though a minority of disabled people live in the Global North – the wealthy, imperialist countries like the United States, Canada, and those in Western Europe – Puar notes that Global North disability rights advocacy tends to focus on disabled people attaining equality more than halting and holding accountable the systems that produce disability throughout the rest of the world. She writes that disability rights advocacy asserts “that disability should be reclaimed as a valuable difference […] through rights, visibility, and empowerment discourses […] rather than addressing how much debilitation is caused by global injustices and the war machines of colonialism, occupation, and U.S. imperialism.”

In other words, Global North disability rights appeal to the state to protect mostly white and wealthy disabled people. But Puar reminds us that disability and disablement can be a purposeful goal of the state. In contrast, a disability justice framework helps us understand that the safety of some disabled people in the Global North must not come at the expense or production of disabled people in the Global South. Disability justice, a movement founded by racialized people, explicitly denounces imperialism and recognizes that, in the words of disability justice collective Sins Invalid, “Disabled people of the global majority – Black and brown people – share common ground confronting and subverting colonial powers in our struggle for life and justice.”

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haven't read CC but oh my fucking god?

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this is the worst book description I’ve ever read like I’m actually having a stroke

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booktok videos should be categorized as some sort of threat to public health

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A long time ago, but not long enough ago that it’s not still very relevant. Everyone in Britain got in a big, old boat and we set sail and we robbed ––– and this will sound far fetched ––– everyone in the world! Do you remember that? What a spree that was! Do you remember the great heist? What a spree. And we got all the swag, didn’t we? And we took it back to Old Blighty, and we hid it, this is the clever part, we hid it in a museum. Last place anyone looks. Now it’s the modern day and all the countries we stole stuff from are asking for their stuff back. But don’t look worried. We’re totally saying a blanket ‘no’. Now, a few of you are sitting there, I can see your angry faces like, “So, what? Finders keepers, shut up!” And, listen, in your defense, “finders keepers, shut up” has worked very well for us so far…

James Acaster On The Absurdity Of The British Empire

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(From Episode 3 of “James Acaster: Repertoire”)

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Imagine being Matthew McConaughey and having a Latino wife and non-passing Latino children and going onto Russell Brand's podcast to piss on leftists and advocate for centrism 😑 Interracial marriage and having Brown children will not stop White pple from being racist.

Anyways, here's Kareem Abdul Jabbar's great response to this bullshit:

McConaughey claims the solution to political divisiveness is being “aggressively centric,” to meet in the middle. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was one such “meeting in the middle” in which Congress decided to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. That was peachy for Maine, but the slaves in Missouri couldn’t appreciate being so “aggressively centric.” Compromise is what allowed slavery to continue in the United States long after it was abolished in most other countries. Meeting in the middle is fine when you’re the one giving up a little, but when you’re the one sacrificing your health, your life, your freedom and your vote, that middle is simply like slightly loosening one’s handcuffs, but leaving them on.

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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

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lmao wat