That is the number of white people I had to scroll by on my dash to see a single erotic picture of a person of colour.
People, send me erotic tumblrs that rebolg/post people of colour. And by this, I don’t mean tumblrs that reduce POC to a fetish.
I’m already following:
http://blackqueerandkinky.tumblr.com/
Oh look, it’s another blackface editorial in Vogue
April 19, 2013Somehow, in 2013, yet another magazine has decided it would be a good idea to put a Caucasian model in literal blackface for a fashion editorial. This time, the culprit isVogue Netherlands. (In the recent past,Numéro, L’Officiel and Vogue Paris, have all come under for using blackface.)
Model Querelle Jansen stars in the May 2013 issue’s “Heritage Heroes,” sort of a retrospective editorial of some of Marc Jacobs’s work for Louis Vuitton. The styling of each look is, we guess, somehow meant to illustrate the inspiration of a particular collection. Marc Jacobs found inspiration in African-American cultural icons for his Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 collections–Grace Jones and Josephine Baker, respectively. Vogue Netherlands decided that the best way to convey those inspirations would be with some white models, black face paint and wigs of what looks like black hair, worn throughout. A caption from the editorial translates to “This collection is inspired by the style of the Parisian showgirl Josephine Baker, mixed with tribal influences.”
A couple of alternative ideas: use a model who already looks something like Grace Jones or Josephine Baker without face paint. Or just, you know, don’t paint a white person’s face black ever? Why is this even something we have to keep pointing out? European editors and stylists especially, it seems, are really not getting it.
Vogue Netherlands, though it’s a relatively new Vogue (it launched in March of last year), has a particularly bad track record with using non-white models. And lest we forget, the Netherlands is also the birthplace of the controversial “Zwarte Piet” tradition, wherein Dutch people dress up in blackface to celebrate Sinterklaas every year.
As many Dutch commenters have pointed out, Zwarte Piet takes place during Sinterklaas, a winter holiday that is similar to Christmas but preceeds it. Those in blackface are depicting a helper of Sinterklaas (essentially Santa Claus) who was either a slave or a white person covered in soot, depending on whom you ask.
jesus fucking christ.
Before anyone claims they don’t know what black face is or that there are no black people in the Netherlands? Kindly spend some time with Google. And note that they chose to do this as part of a “nod” to African Americans. This is how you use racist imagery to generate free press and increase your sales.
فواد و امیر می نویسند:
این عکس را اول تقدیم میکنیم به مادرانمان و بعدا به تمام زنان سرزمینمان کوردستان.
پوشیدن لباس زنانهی کوردی نه تنها تحقیر نیست بلکه یک افتخار بزگ است برای ما.
از دیرباز زنان سرزمینمان پا به پای مردان در همهی جایگاه جامعه حضور داشتهاند،
در آن زمانی که به خاطر زن بودن آنهارا زنده به گور میکردند، زنان ملتمان کوردستان در جنگها فرمانده و در جامعه از ارزش والایی برخوردار بودند،
هیچ کس و هیچ دولت و قانونی نمیتواند به زنان ما بی احترامی کند .“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”
After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.
In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.
Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست(via Ajam Media Collective)
(via laughingfish)
stripesweatersandwaterbottles:
sometimesifindstuffinteresting:
It’s part of an experiment to analyze how motor control changes with age. It guessed my age within a year (told me I had the clicking skills of a 31-year-old!).
What about you?
The program guessed I was 30 - I will be 33 in a month.
It guessed I was 40 - I will be 38 next week.
It guessed me correctly!
It said I was 43. I’ll be 18 in a couple of months.
mine said 42 and im 23
it said 30, I’m 28
close enough
it told me 32 and i will be 25 this summer
said 28, i’m 26
said 28, I’m 28
said I’m 30, I’m 23
then again I’m alarmingly low on sleep and my sleep meds are starting to kick in, so…
It said I’m 30. I’m 21. :(
It said I’m 30. I’m 24.
i got 31 - I’m 18
I got 33 and I’m 21.
29 and I am 25. My partner got 30 and is also 25, but she is half a year older than me.
29. I’m turning 32 this week.
29, but I’m 20.
29 but I’m much older.
It seems like a case of when keeping it wrong goes real.
What started as a celebration of the Hopkins High School’s cross country ski team qualifying for the state tournament culminated is outrage, signs in protest and the suspension and criminal charges of two African-American students who decried what they felt was racial mockery. And, according to supporters of the African-American students, no disciplinary action was taken against the white students who openly mocked African-Americans.
The incident began on Feb. 13; when eight to 10 white members of the school’s ski team came to school dressed in motley ensembles of do-rags, fur coats, white tank top undershirts, sagging pants and gold chains. One even had a fake marijuana joint tucked behind his ear. Somehow word spread that the students were celebrating a “Ghetto Spirit Day.” Those who came to school in costume dispute this assertion, and claimed to school administrators that they were dressing up to mimic popular white rapper, Macklemore, who sings “Thrift Shop.”
“That’s absurd,” said Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights attorney and associate professor at the University of St. Thomas’ School of Law. “They called it ‘Ghetto Spirit Day’ and when I looked at the pictures and video of them it was evident their intent was to mock African-Americans. What they claim is laughable, just laughable.”
Levy-Pounds said the Macklemore claim is just a convenient out for the members of the ski team. In Macklemore’s hit song, “Thrift Shop” he tells a tale against designer consumerism. Macklemore is very out front about showing cultural tolerance, even choosing to perform in t-shirts that call for the legalization of gay marriage. A very detailed image search of Macklemore could not find the rapper dressed in any of the attire the Hopkins students donned, minus the fur coat, which he wears in his video for “Thrift Shop.”
What has Levy-Pounds and others so outraged is the notion that, to date, no disciplinary action has been taken against members of the ski team for violating the school’s policy of racial harassment and bullying, but two African-American students who posted signs in protest of the “spirit” activities were suspended due to their protest efforts, given criminal citations for a non-physical dispute with an assistant principal and, according to Levy-Pounds, one was even handcuffed. According to Levy-Pounds, the criminal charges stemmed from the students trying to retrieve their protest posters from the trash, where the assistant principal had placed the posters.
“The way (the African-American students) were treated it felt like they were being retaliated against for standing up. Rather than using the incident as a teachable moment, the school used it to criminalize these young African-American men,” said Levy-Pounds. “I applaud (the two students) for not responding with violence and addressing the situation in the manner they did.”
Levy-Pounds said the school’s response is indicative of a pervasive school culture that seeks to indoctrinate African-Americans into the criminal justice system.
“It’s a part of a pattern; part of a system that continues to devalue young Black men,” said Levy-Pounds.
Hopkins Superintendent John Schultz said due to federal student privacy rights he could not discuss and disciplinary actions taken by the school, but said the actions of the ski team were not reflective of the overall environment at Hopkins High.
“There was no spirit week going on and there was no Ghetto Spirit Day,” said Schultz. “This was all student driven by some members of the cross country ski team, who said they were dressing like a rapper.”
Schultz said the members of the ski team were pulled aside by faculty the day of the incident and informed that their attire may be offensive to people of different cultures. However, according to Levy-Pounds, nothing more was done and days later the team went on to compete in the state championships. Levy-Pounds said the ski team’s antics clearly violated the school’s written policy against racial harassment and should have warranted disciplinary action.
Levy-Pounds said she has called on the district to bring in a third party investigator to look into the incident and make disciplinary recommendations. Schultz said the district is bringing in a third party investigator, but that investigator has yet to be determined.
Civil rights attorney Levy-Pounds has also called for the district to expunge the suspensions from the affected African-American students’ records and to have all criminal charges dropped.
“These students should be given a written apology from the district,” said Levy-Pounds.
(via alexandraerin)
you realise your baby in a towel bag (for use after a bath) looks like a KKK Grand Wizard because of the unfortunate way the hood on the bag is shaped. Yikes.
I can’t decide what’s funnier, the dog, or the guy that’s dying of laughter in the background
This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I don’t know why I still can’t stop laughing.
This legit makes me want to cry because I have *never* seen a picture of an older trans man naked. It’s always young guys, usually much younger than me. It’s like we don’t have a future, an adulthood, a middle age, an old age. It’s like we just stop.
As a trans man who’s well past the age (and transition status) of ~sexxay tranz boiz~, pictures like this give me some kind of hope. We’re not just one image stuck in time, snapshot of a skinny white andro urban-queer young trans dude with perfect top surgery scars, poster boys for young radical queerdom. We’re not all Youth. We live in more than two dimensions, and one of them is time.
Older queers tend to fall off the map full stop. Trans people, even more so. But we don’t disappear once we stop being, basically, fashionable. Supporting our young people is important, but we need to show them we have a future, too.
I literally cannot envision my own future. There are no images of older men like me.
One image obviously can’t address all the lacks in representation, much less one image of a hot skinny (apparently?) white man. But just to have that one extra factor in there, of age, it’s - it’s important.
More, please.
Yes, to both the images and to the above commentary. I love seeing images of older queer and trans people as I become more and more of one myself (and was never the ~sexxxay~ anything *shrug*).
(Source: unicornboyz)
I’m pretty much on a tumblr hiatus. I don’t have the energy or interest to keep up at the moment. I will likely come back at some point.
Right now on the Diane Rehm show there is a discussion of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” and guest Michelle Bernard (founder and president of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics and Public Policy) is laying down some TRUTH about the absence of WOC in the book and subsequent discussion.
“Black women were completely left out of the book… many African American women looked at the word feminism and the title of the book and the contents of the book as almost being frivolous. And being sometimes about white women whining about something that African American women never had the option to whine about.”
Diane is having a hard time grokking her point. One of the other guests pointed out that the book comes out of Betty’s background in academia and spoke specifically to the women in her circle — college educated, mostly young and white — and the societal messages aimed at that group. She does admit that this leaves out other kinds of women.
This is on right now, but will probably be available to stream here. Worth a listen.
Also, I need Michelle Bernard in my life at all times. She seems awesome.
(via theprophetlilith)
Everyone’s heard of friendzoning – even if they don’t know the word, they sure as hell know the concept. It’s what happens time and again to unfortunate Nice Guys who, despite being nothing but sugar and spice to the girls they love, are nonetheless denied the sexual relationships they so obviously deserve and are instead treated like platonic equals – a terrible, unfair fate spawned by the dark side of feminism.
And if you thought even part of that statement was correct, Imma stop you right there.
To borrow the succinct, nail-head-hitting phraseology of one hexjackal*:
Friendzoning is bullshit because girls are not machines that you put Kindness Coins into until sex falls out.
Dear Hypothetical Interlocutor whose hackles just bristled with the unfairness of that statement; who thinks that girls can be in the Friend Zone, too, and that therefore this point is both invalid and reverse-sexist into the bargain. For your edification, I would like to submit the following definitions of the term Friend Zone as supplied by Urban Dictionary:
1. “The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend’, it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.” – Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends.
‘I’ve been locked in the friend zone with her since high school!’
2. A state of being where a male inadvertently becomes a ‘platonic friend’ of an attractive female who he was trying to intiate a romantic relationship. Females have been rumored to arrive in the Friend Zone, but reports are unsubstantiated.
Girl: “I love you (Insert the poor bastard’s name here,) but I dont want to ruin a great friendship by dating you.”
Guy: “Well why the fuck did I waste two months on you?”and Wikipedia:
There are differing explanations about what causes the friend zone. One report suggests that some women don’t see their male friends as potential love interests because they fear that deepening their relationship might cause a loss of the romance and mystery or lead to rejection later…
Dating adviser Ali Binazir described the friend zone as Justfriendistan, and wrote that it’s a “territory only to be rivaled in inhospitability by the western Sahara, the Atacama desert, and Dante’s Ninth Circle of Hell.”
I therefore submit to you, Hypothetical Interlocutor, that the Friend Zone is not an equal opportunities habitat. It is where men go – or more accurately, where men perceive themselves to go – when women fail to reward their friendship with sex. Or, to quote the immortal wisdom of the internet:
Slut is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say yes.
Friendzone is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say no.
Here’s the thing, Hypothetical Interlocutor: if you truly are a self-professed Nice Guy (and I strongly suspect that you are), then you probably espouse the belief that women and men are equal. More than espouse – you believe! You know! Except that, somewhere along the line, you’ve got it into your head that if you’re romantically interested in a girl who sees you only as a friend, her failure to reciprocate your feelings is just that: a failing. That because you’re nice and treat her well, she therefore owes you at least one opportunity to present yourself as a viable sexual candidate, even if she’s already made it clear that this isn’t what she wants. That because she legitimately enjoys a friendship that you find painful (and which you’re under no obligation to continue), she is using you. That if a man wants more than friendship with a woman, then the friendship itself doesn’t even attain the status of a consolation prize, but is instead viewed as hell: a punishment to be endured because, so long as he thinks she owes him that golden opportunity, he is bound to persist in an association that hurts him – not because he cares about the friendship, but because he feels he’s invested too much kindness not to stick around for the (surely inevitable, albeit delayed) payoff.
And if she never sleeps with him? Then she’s a bitch.
I cannot state this clearly enough: if you really believe in equality, then you have to acknowledge the fact that women have a right to say no. That no matter how pure and true your feelings, your ladylove is under no obligation whatever to reciprocate them, because friendship is not a business transaction, and women are allowed to want male friends. Yes, it is difficult and sad and heartbreaking to love someone who doesn’t love you back, and doubly so when that person is a friend. Believe me; I speak from experience. This is not a fun thing to endure! But discounting the woman as a bitch, a user, a timewaster, a whore with no taste who only wants to sleep with arseholes instead of Nice Guys like you is not on. It is pure, unadulterated sexism: the attitude that friendship with a woman is only ever a stepping-stone to getting into her pants, such that if the pants-getting is off the table, then so too is the friendship.
Which, frankly, is bullshit. If you don’t care enough about someone to enjoy their company and respect their decisions when sex is off the table, then that person is right not to sleep with you, because enjoying someone’s company and respecting their decisions is pretty much how sex gets on the table to start with.
To quote the single best point in an otherwise deeply problematic Cracked piece:
What we learned as kids is that we males are each owed, and will eventually be awarded, a beautiful woman. We were told this by every movie, TV show, novel, comic book, video game and song we encountered…
In each case, the woman has no say in this — compatibility doesn’t matter, prior relationships don’t matter, nothing else factors in. If the hero accomplishes his goals, he is awarded his favorite female. Yes, there will be dialogue that maybe makes it sound like the woman is having doubts, and she will make noises like she is making the decision on her own. But we, as the audience, know that in the end the hero will “get the girl,” just as we know that at the end of the month we’re going to “get our paycheck.” Failure to award either is breaking a societal contract. The girl can say what she wants, but we all know that at the end, she will wind up with the hero, whether she knows it or not.
And now you see the problem. From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
In pop culture, girls who crush hopelessly on guys they can’t have are painted as just that – hopeless. Over and over again, we’re taught that girls who openly express sexual or romantic interest in guys who don’t want them are pitiable, stalkerish, desperate, crazy bitches. More often than not, they’re also portrayed as ugly – whether physically, emotionally or both – in order to further establish their undesirability as an objective fact. Both narratively and, as a consequence, in real life, men are given free reign to snub, abuse, mislead and talk down to such women: we’re raised to believe that female desire is unseemly, so that any consequent shaming is therefore deserved. There is no female-equivalent Friend Zone terminology because, in the language of our culture, a man’s romantic choices are considered sacrosanct and inviolable. If a girl has been told no, then she has only herself to blame for anything that happens next – but if a woman says no, then she must not really mean it. Or, if she does, she shouldn’t: the rejected man is a universally sympathetic figure, and everyone from moviegoers to platonic onlookers will scream at her to just give him a chance, as though her rejection must always be unfounded rather than based on the fact that he had a chance, and blew it. And even then, give him another one! The pathos of Single Nice Guys can only be eased by pity-sex with unwilling women that blossoms into romance!
Well, screw that. The Friend Zone is a fundamentally sexist construction based solely on the idea that women should be penalised for putting their own romantic happiness above that of an interested man. If a lady doesn’t want you, then either respect her decision and keep away to salve your heart, or respect her decision and stay because you still think she’s cool enough to be worth the effort of friendship. But if you don’t respect her decision, then you don’t respect her – and if you don’t respect her, then stay the fuck out of her life.
*Amendment, 11 April 2012: Originally, the first quote in this piece was attributed to Aeryn Walker. However, she has since informed me that the kindness/coins line originated with @hexjackal, and though I don’t have the exact reference for that first attribution, I’ve nonetheless changed it in the text.
"In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.” - Andy Warhol
Hi, I'm Lucy. I am, among other things, a white, kinky, polyamourous, trans, queer former dyke, an American non-binary femme with invisible disabilities, a feminist who finds a lot of problems with feminism and many feminists, and a bunch of other things.
This tumblr is NSFW as it is fueled on lust and rage. Well, more or less. Sometimes I am thinky, sometimes I am silly, sometimes I am angry, sometimes I just want to look at attractive nude people who may or may not be shagging. Sometimes there is less than a minute in between those 'sometimes'.
I mainly talk on Twitter and have a neglected thinky blog.
My pronouns are ze/zir/zirs/zirself.
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