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Dr Frances Cress Welsing
i don’t know if maybe i’m being too emotional but i refound this picture and started crying on the spot. the black panthers, yellow peril, and the brown berets. this is powerful, y’all. i think one of my next posts for @bfpnola will be about these groups, their impact, and how they intertwine. this makes my heart hurt but in the best way.
when marnie was there (2014) dir. hiromasa yonebayashi
may you find the courage to let yourself be vulnerable long enough to be truly seen, held, healed and protected
favorite video essays:
Why the Shining is terrifying
Why Perfect Blue is Terrifying
The VVitch explained
What makes a movie scary?
Decolonizing Games
Everything ACTUALLY wrong with Silent Hill 2: Revelation
The naked Lady that changed the rules of art
Rogue One vs Star Wars: the fault in our Star Wars
Sandra Bullock & the White Savior trope
Why the costumes in Little Women did NOT deserve an oscar
Why the music in the live action disney remakes is worse than you thought
Coco's feel-good oppression
Disney Princess: reality through fantasy
Pan's Labyrinth: the disobedient fairytale
The mythology of Princess Mononoke
hey, take some more video essays. (part one)
how tiktok makes you feel ugly
a relaxing critique of animal crossing new horizons
the 27 club: mental illness and art
talent belongs to the beautiful - how media manipulates your tastes
lindsay lohan: the rise of a starlet ( part one, part two )
the unrealistic beauty standard is deadly
how beauty brands failed women of color
the devil wears prada style analysis
the beauty standard between men and women
what happened to all of the black children sitcoms?
a deep dive into ‘aesthetic’ youtube
dan schneider’s wife aka hungery girl exposed
why black people hate justin timberlake
janet jackson: the underrated legend
erotica: madonna’s career ending album
the cracked reality of the ACE famly
the lovely bones is scarier than we remember
lady gaga is performance art
why rappers are the new rockstars
colorism and violence: what really happened to 3lw
the real ellen - the bitter truth behind the daytime icon
pretty privilege: beauty standards, bimbo effect and free scones
from fame to shame: shane dawson’s story ( tw for racism & pedophilia )
you’re not relatable anymore
the beauty community: racism & toxicity
a goofy movie and the power of nostalgia
music that defined the 2010s
heathers, jawbreaker, & the timelessness of killer cliques
deep cuts: society & queer horror
pinterest aesthetics, fatphobia & whitewashing
tiktok vs black creators: if you hate us just say dat
the “blaccent”; nonblack creators key to fame
ghost singing: who was really singing on michael jackson’s posthumous album
judy garland: the end of the rainbow
marilyn monroe: living blonde
the downfall of the singer cassie
this teen idol manipulated everyone
how frenemies reveals a mental health misconception perpetuated by the internet
legacy, chronical, & every other reimagining of the craft
it’s not a coincidence, it’s colorism
evil queens: a gay look at disney history
the authenticity of lana del rey
"My soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame."
-Voltaire; Micromegas
i made a quiz that tells you what art style you are
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I established the habit of studying music theory in the mornings before work. There is a great course on the “Introduction to Classical Music” by the Yale University.
Words as feelings
Losing my Welsh: what it feels like to forget a language
When my mother said she was lonely, I knew I had to relearn my Bengali language
The deep roots of writing
Gesture Talks
Africa’s colonisation of the English language continues apace
The Ebbing Language
The Strange Persistence of First Languages
Mother Tongue
What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language?
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair
Thoughts into words
I beg anyone who sees this, put your poems that you are too scared to post in my asks. You can be anonymous if you wish!
I love reading poetry and would love to get some of yours out there!! Don’t be frightened! Send them in my asks :)
✨Reblog this if people can put poetry in your asks!✨
hello everyone. Here’s the worst thing you’ll see this week:
The Red Dress Warriors Start Up fund is a native woman with experience looking for funding in order to help other native woman defend themselves and identify potentially dangerous situations due to the high risk rate of violence they face. They’re not even halfway to their goal since February - check it out here and support native woman protecting themselves!
Are you still alone
in bed? Is it morning yet where you are? The smoke turns to rain as usual. Listen, my love. This year is just a visitor & next year’s
ghost. Take care of it because yes—yes, you do deserve flowers for once in your life. You will be the only one left. So hold my hand & call me
tomorrow. We are all here.
— Michael Wasson, from “Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You,” published in Poetry
Tik Tok and Instagram have a 1-minute limit on videos, Twitter has a 280 character limit… just maybe this has caused an uptick in people with short attention spans and and difficulty reading between the lines. Because if it does, it shows.
i hate makeup and beauty culture and high heels and the fashion industry and bras and diet culture and beauty pagents and porn and prostitution and surrogacy and cosmetic surgery and influencers and shaving and i hate that people refuse to take misogyny seriously and i hate men making money off of womens suffering and dehumanization and i hate people refusing to even acknowledge womens objectification and i hate when people act like YOURE the misogynist for being against womens exploitation
All this yapping about “white-feminism” sure hasn’t translated into any material effort to uplift the voices of non-western women huh. If liberals listened to non-western feminists instead of talking over them to complain about “white-feminism” we might actually get somewhere. Why does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie realize that men cannot become women and liberals do not? Why are indian women against surrogacy but liberals think it is harmless? Why are south-asian feminists fighting for sex-segregation whenever possible and liberals are not? Why are korean women marching against pornography? Why are they destroying their make-up to fight impossible beauty standards but in the orwellian rreality of the liberal left porn is empowering and make up is self-expression? Girls in Benin city do not think sex work is work, why do liberals? What are the chances upper-middle class white westeners are right and they are wrong? Self-serving, shameful overcompensation and nothing more.
how do we get people to stop referring to mild temporary discomfort as ‘trauma’
i want to climb through the clouds and exist there all by myself i want to hold hands with heaven sing sweet melodies to the moon i want to be unafraid and full of overflowing lust for life wave stars and galaxies into my bones and ribs i want to understand life and death but all i do is waste my youth to the endless sadness of my heart
Damn if he keeps being so nice to me, I'm going to have a crush on him
“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1942-1951)
“One day it just clicks… You realise what is important and what isn’t, you learn to care less about what other people think of you and care more about what you think of yourself. You realise how far you have come and you remember thinking that things were such a mess they’d never recover and then you smile. You smile because you’re truly proud of the person you have fought to become.”
— Unknown
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag