March 2012
2 posts
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker (via thechicgenius)
February 2012
101 posts
“When people write THEMSELVES out of your life, let them put the period & YOU...”
– Ebonee Monique
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
– Maya Angelou
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
– Oscar Wilde (via paralysing)
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via lucifelle)
Margaret Cho fires back at Karl Lagerfield! →
tessmunster:
“When you say we are fat, you murder our grace, and we’ve already lost so much to begin with. We’ve already lost everything, except weight. That we gain steadily, along with self hatred, and all you are doing is adding to our burden, pressing down on the scale with the long toe of your fine, elegantly tassled loafer. We don’t have millions of dollars to perforate our fat with...
super-eklectic1:
ethiopienne:
STOP POSTING PICTURES OF RIHANNA’S BRUISED FACE, YOU ASSHOLES. SHE HAS SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT IT IS HUMILIATING. RESPECT THE FUCKING SURVIVOR’S WISHES. WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND?!
THANK YOU!
Yes. Yes. Yessss
“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican...”
– bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism (via nyx2701)
Yeszzz
“The strength of her image, then as now, is that it swings constantly from the...”
– Jean Paul Goude on Grace Jones
*seriously working on this Grace Jones book yall!
Brigitte Fontaine ft. Grace Jones: Dancefloor
hardcandymusic:
I’m always on the look out for new Grace Jones music and it is always a suprise when I find something! Grace has once again collaborated with Brigitte Fontaine on this new track Dancefloor. You gotta love the French singing! Check out their previous collaboration Prohibition here. - Camille
Original Article
still my favorite image of Jones…
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
“Denying racism is the NEW racism.” PREACH!
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
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Kyriarchy in action.
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Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A.
^^^^ Preach!
“Girls get a lot of mixed messages—they are told, ‘Girl Power!’ and what does...”
– Tina Fey (via thesluttypumpkin)
“This is not addressed primarily to white people. It does not put you down in...”
– Nina Simone before performing “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” (via dionthesocialist)
PREACH Queen Nina!
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The High Priestess, ladies and gentlemen.
(via ANegroKing)
“I can’t tell if I’m angry at Black people who are willing to ignore racism...”
– The Goddamazon.
And as an addendum: The Gyaru subculture appropriates from Black folks too. It’s called B-Gyaru, in which the gyaru dresses in more “urban” clothing and gets a darker tan. Lots of fitted hats, snapbacks, and sneakers. They even interviewed a few in Japan to see what inspires this...
