Freely, meu coracao.

youngist: fuckyeahfeminists: iamayoungfeminist: SO ACCURATE...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:41 -0500

fuckyeahfeminists:

iamayoungfeminist:

SO ACCURATE OMG

So over millennial hate. Fuck off. I love my generation.

yay now it’s accurate.

So, why do we need young people-powered media, you ask?

Here’s one reason: TIME

(pun intended)

Ha-ha

fuckyouverymuch: We can’t wait. No, we can’t.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:13:21 -0500

fuckyouverymuch:

We can’t wait.

No, we can’t.

Tu, yo y el Pompidou. Piénsalo.

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:27:44 -0500

Tu, yo y el Pompidou.

Piénsalo.

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:51:17 -0500

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

Source

Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

“It’s not PMS. It’s you.” necklace pendant

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:18:09 -0500

“It’s not PMS. It’s you.” necklace pendant

Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me Uncomfortable... and Kind of Makes Me Angry

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:56:41 -0500

jazzylittledrops:

So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…

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Implode

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:37:10 -0600

Implode

Don’t blame it on your shadows.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:25:45 -0600

Don’t blame it on your shadows.

Maybe I won’t be so afraid. Everything has it’s plan… Either Way.

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:07:42 -0600

Maybe I won’t be so afraid.

Everything has it’s plan… Either Way.

fuckyouverymuch: We need some advice. Yes, we do.

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:31:24 -0600

fuckyouverymuch:

We need some advice.

Yes, we do.

We are aware.

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:14:01 -0600

We are aware.

Descubrimos que vivimos en un planeta insignificante que gira...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:31:30 -0600

Descubrimos que vivimos en un planeta insignificante que gira alrededor de una estrella ordinaria perdida entre dos brazos espirales a las afueras de una galaxia que, a su vez, es miembro de un cúmulo galáctico poco poblado, arrinconado en algún punto perdido de un universo en el cual hay muchas más estrellas y objetos que personas.

Desde Aristarco, cada paso en nuestra investigación nos ha ido alejando del escenario central del drama cósmico… Hay quien deplora secretamente estos grandes descubrimientos, porque considera que cada paso ha sido una degradación, porque en lo más íntimo de su corazón anhela todavía un universo cuyo centro, foco y fulco sea la Tierra. Si deseamos que nuestro planeta sea importante hay algo que podemos hacer para contribuir a ello. Hacemos importante a nuestro mundo gracias al valor de nuestras preguntas y a la profundidad de nuestras respuestas

samisaysbonjour: Carousel and Centre Pompidou in Marais 250...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:43:28 -0600

samisaysbonjour:

Carousel and Centre Pompidou in Marais

250 días.

- Es war nicht so gemeint

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:28:59 -0600

- Es war nicht so gemeint

roseaposey: “Judgments”I took this last year, but in...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:22:35 -0600

roseaposey:

“Judgments”

I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.

Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.

I’d like to think I’m more open now.

280 días

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:54:23 -0600

280 días

And you said: This is the first day of my life, I’m glad...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:53:26 -0600

And you said:

This is the first day of my life, I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you…

El patas y la infancia.

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:38:47 -0600

El patas y la infancia.

I’ve been waiting so long to be were I’m going In...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:06:36 -0600

I’ve been waiting so long

to be were I’m going

In the sunshine of your love.

Fantastic underwater imagery by Christy Lee Rogers. There’s a...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:18:57 -0600

Fantastic underwater imagery by Christy Lee Rogers. There’s a distinctive motion blur in these that make them resemble oil paintings, so lovely!

Underwater Photos Resembling Paintings