Josephine Baker (1920).

STEVEN YEUN 2022, ph. Hyea W. Kang for GQ Korea

We need to dismantle the systems in place that allow white people to get away with offering black people sub-par services based on the excuse that our bodies are more difficult to work with. Black hair is not more difficult than white hair, it simply requires a different skill set. Tattooing vibrant tattoos on black skin isn’t more difficult than tattooing white skin, it simply requires a different skill set. Photographing black people isn’t more difficult than photographing white people, it simply requires an understanding of photography. Doing makeup on black skin isn’t more difficult than doing makeup on white skin, it simply requires different products. Working with black people is not more difficult than working with white people you’ve all just been taught that it’s not valuable and therefore not worth learning how.

Photo by e҉n҉j҉o҉y҉ on December 21,

reblog or the gods of glo up will not bless you

so many black people i know - friends, family, etc - talk about breaking generational curses but… when u ask them about their beliefs regarding:

the LGBTQ+ community

fat people

disabled people

womens rights

reproductive rights

wealth inequality

etc…

they have the same old reductive view points their parents had and so on… what generational curses could u possibly be ending if u believe there are only 2 genders? or if u believe that black capitalism will save/protect the black community? what generational curses are u ending if u still think vaccines cause autism? if u still think hitting children is how u discipline them? like… i cant take it seriously.

u dont actually want to break generational curses. just saying it aloud over and over doesnt mean ur doing the necessary work to end generational curses. ur literally going to pass down the same traumatizing shit we was raised to believe in.

Keira Knightley for Telva Magazine (2022)

my bi awakening