BEST SHIP EVER! I don’t even care if this is true or not— if Willy Cartier and Frank Ocean are dating, I am simultaneously really happy (such pretty everywhere) and really sad (because I want them both.)
http://www.theboombox.com/2012/12/04/frank-ocean-willy-cartier-dating-photo/
Sorry, I’ve been away for so long. I’ve had a lot going on, but I’ve got more to say and much that I’ve learned. I’ll hopefully be updating more regularly as we head into 2013.
Anyone who hasn’t heard of elixher.com should check on it. It’s an online magazine for QWOC. Also, the Peculiar Kind has been one of my most checked web series lately.
Links to both:
Anything on earth that a woman is capable of doing is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be unwomanly because a woman is a woman. Therefore, anything a woman does is womanly by default. Fighting is womanly. Winning fights is womanly. Bruises are womanly. Savagery is womanly. Unwholesomeness is womanly. Athleticism is womanly. And not giving a shit what some poor delicate flower of a newspaper columnist thinks about your womanliness is super fucking womanly.
FUCK YOUR “BODY POSITIVITY” FOR ACTING LIKE IT’S MY FAULT FOR STRUGGLING TO LOVE MY BODY. THAT SHIT IS HARD. THIS IS ME HATING MY BODY.
fuck your white body positivity. fuck your cis body positivity. fuck your able-bodied positivity. fuck turning the shame on people, not power.
you’re doing it wrong if you don’t understand the legacies of colonialism and racism in beauty standards, in the states and abroad. if you don’t understand their relationships to eating disorders in poc communities. if you don’t understand how brown and black people struggle to love their racialized bodies. you’re doing it wrong if you don’t understand how trans people, most especially trans womyn, due to the culture of absolute violence that is reserved specifically for them, perpetuated even by other trans people, struggle to love their bodies in this cissexist world (thanks, white gender binary). if you don’t understand that sometimes, trans people just hate their bodies because they aren’t right at the time, that they will never be able to achieve the bodies that they want. if you don’t understand that trans people will always have a complicated relationship with their bodies. you’re doing it wrong if you don’t understand that disabled people struggle to love their bodies in this ableist world. if you don’t understand that some disabled people view their bodies as being wrong or bad, and are struggling with making peace with that. if you don’t understand that disabled people will always have a complicated relationship with their bodies.
you are doing your boring feminism so wrong if you don’t understand that you’re hurting the most marginalized.
*STANDING OVATION*
THIS. there is so much freedom in knowing that you don’t have to do it right. you are absolutely allowed to feel complicated and just wrong. you don’t HAVE to feel good/right/happy until and unless you are.
(via fuckyeahhardfemme)
—this. because i feel this too. how do you deal with straight privilege when it’s useful but also problematic?
Like how some trans people can look cis. Or some poc can look white.
It’s a privilege that can be stripped away in seconds and has massive disadvantages of erasure, inadvertent shaming and being exposed to hidden liberal bigotry (cuz they think no one who would be offended is…
just wonderful!
Great photos. Beautiful
In Love with this woman!
(Source: shabazzpizazz, via loudblackram)
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right??
(Source: amphetameans, via tenementhalls)
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