Labios del Sol

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Mon, 20 May 2013 02:03:58 -0400

"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:57:58 -0400

“I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party.”

- Paul Gilmartin (via sadfag)

"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:27:36 -0400

“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.””

- Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via spring1999)

Medusa's Heir: BLACK PEOPLE CREATED

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:12:24 -0400

Medusa's Heir: BLACK PEOPLE CREATED:

pussyharvest:

HOUSE MUSIC (born in Chicago’s Black gay scene, originated from soul and disco)

ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM) (based on disco)

METAL MUSI C (born of blues rock)

THE ROLLING STONES (“inspired” by blues musician Muddy Waters, NAMED THEIR GODDAMN BAND AFTER ONE OF…

julianne332: motionburnsthemood: Abandoned Amusement Park in...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:22 -0400

julianne332:

motionburnsthemood:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

NO!!! The top picture is from an abandoned park in West Virginia! Geez.

invisiblelad: ray-ray-wifeyyy: fuckyeahblackpinupgirls: wendys...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:10:35 -0400

invisiblelad:

ray-ray-wifeyyy:

fuckyeahblackpinupgirls:

wendyss:

Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South, escorted by U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower for her safety. 14 November, 1960

Sometimes I like to take sometime to appreciate our history <3

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1960.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 15:19:07 -0400

pixie-phobic: Art, nu-grunge and general awesomeness.

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:22:06 -0400

pixie-phobic:

Art, nu-grunge and general awesomeness.

2brwngrls: Love these old family photos of my aunts in Ghana,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:20:01 -0400

2brwngrls:

Love these old family photos of my aunts in Ghana, circa the mid 70s. Yass to those platforms.

- Z

vandekamp: I’ve been waiting on this post for years I was...

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:10:37 -0400

vandekamp:

I’ve been waiting on this post for years

I was pretty obsessed with her in this video. Not in a creepy way, I just thought she was awesome. I was a weird teenager.

ceremonys: ☪

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:07:02 -0400

ceremonys:

☪

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Sat, 18 May 2013 16:29:13 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 16:28:20 -0400

thedorseyshawexperience: The Cola Road (2013)

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:45 -0400

thedorseyshawexperience:

The Cola Road (2013)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 16:25:50 -0400

damnafricawhathappened: Never forget Ablisa

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:35:15 -0400

damnafricawhathappened:

Never forget Ablisa

"The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:30:22 -0400

“The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them isn’t that they don’t include strong characters focusing on the problems facing blacks and Latinos in America today. The thing that sucks about those shows is that millions of black people look at them and can relate on so many levels to Hannah Horvath and Charlotte York and George Costanza, and yet those characters never look like us. The guys begging for money look like us. The mad black chicks telling white ladies to stay away from their families look like us. Always a gangster, never a rich kid whose parents are both college professors. After a while, the disparity between our affinity for these shows and their lack of affinity towards us puts reality into stark relief: When we look at Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, we see people with whom we have a lot in common. When they look at us, they see strangers.”

- Hipster Racism Runoff And The Search for The Black Costanza by Cord Jefferson @ Gawker

When they look at us, they see strangers.

(via darkdarkgirlvashti)

I was trying to find this quote recently. I don’t think most white people understand how it feels to be thought of as only as a dehumanized stereotype or a token. Never as someone like you who can be relatable and have things in common with you. It’s always a surprise to people online and offline when people find out that I like things that they do, too ; that I’m not just some angry activism-obsessed woman. When people like Lena Dunham say they don’t know how to write Black people, it’s pretty much saying that she doesn’t think that Black people are also fully complex human beings like her. Sure, there are cultural considerations to be made, but it’s ignoring the fact that people of color are diverse and not a monolith, so it’s not like the only girls who are like her are white.

(via wretchedoftheearth)

jies-cleodore: Willy Cartier By Jiès

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:25:01 -0400

jies-cleodore:

Willy Cartier

By Jiès

princesspunani: #missing #Detroit

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:03:05 -0400

princesspunani:

#missing #Detroit

greatleapingocelots: Ryan and Colin throughout the years.

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:02:19 -0400

greatleapingocelots:

Ryan and Colin throughout the years.