#black artistry

[woobosco]

Afro Culture, My Culture @woobosco

[theindigoinsomniac]

Authenticity is the key to self-actualization. Learning to love and trust myself more and more every day.

[bittersweet-n-smilin]

They're going to kick ass and share a pack of gum. Because they love each other.

[notchainedtotrauma]

“There were moments I just stood there in silence,” Solange tells me a few months later. “When people entered the space, they didn’t notice that I was there. [When they did] they had to adjust to the uncomfortableness of me just existing, not entertaining or delivering or slaying.”

from Kaitlyn Greenidge's story about Solange for Harper's BAZAAR

[pascal-bernheim]

📷 COLINE

[nailsandinspo]

[nailsonblackwomen]

#TheEditorialNail

[rebornmystixx]

It’s, Melodeemusiq

[raplinesmoon]

whoever styled BTS at the Grammys in 2020 I hope your pillow is cold on both sides

[adamshallperish]

listen. i love bruce springsteen. i love ethel cain. american teenager is not the new born to run. it is not born to run if it was written by a bi trans woman instead of a cis man. they are two very different songs in terms of sound and tone, and even theme-wise they run parallel to each other rather than down the same road.

a lot of ethel's music draws from/can be compared to a lot of bruce's songs, especially on his nebraska album, but i'm not seeing where people are getting the born to run comparisons from. if anything, american teenager reminds me of born in the usa if it was sung by the narrator's next-door-neighbor, a secondhand account of the suffering springsteen explores in first person in born in the usa.

also like. both of these songs can stand on their own just fine. a thing can be good on it's own without being compared to another thing.

[pamelaaminou]

Monday's Photography Inspiration - Simon Chaput

French photographer Simon Chaput born in France in 1952. His journey into the world of photography began at a young age when he received his first camera, a Kodak Brownie as a gift on his 8th birthday. Intrigued by the ability to freeze moments in time, Chaput started honing his craft, experimenting with various subjects and techniques. His passion for photography only deepened as he grew older,…

[hotgirlkorra]

If you were disappointed in Cowboy Carter perhaps think about how it was not created for you.

[notchainedtotrauma]

Knowles has also carved out space for her lyrics to be experienced beyond their aural effect. In works like “Seventy States,” a digital homage to the trailblazing black feminist artist Betye Saar commissioned by the Tate Museum in London in 2017, and the lyric book she released (also titled A Seat at the Table), Knowles employs text and image to give her lyrics a sculptural quality. The book reworks lines from the album’s songs into black geometric shapes set in white space, a practice suggestive of Glenn Ligon’s use of repeated phrases in works like his seminal 1990 painting “Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background).” (The piece borrows the line from writer Zora Neale Hurston’s celebrated 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”) Knowles’s own lines appear poetically arranged on the page, printed repeatedly to amplify the weight of her words.

from Solange Is Not a Pop Star by Antwaun Sargent

[stlgatewayz]

☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾Amazing Tumblr 🫠🫠🫠

☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾Amazing Ladiee Huslaa 🤔🤔🤔🙄

[pascal-bernheim]

📷 JOYEUSES PÂQUES / HAPPY EASTER