I Wanna Be Thick For You, Jesus

theuppitynegras: patrickandmarcus: daniellemertina: smidgetz: In west Philadelphia born and...

thebookofstyle — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:35:37 -0400

patrickandmarcus:

daniellemertina:

smidgetz:

In west Philadelphia born and raised

on the playground is where i spent most of my days!

A BITCH NIGGA, THATS THAT SHIT I DONT LIKE

morbidyetdelightful: curls protectively around Uhura and hisses the point isn’t that she is a...

thebookofstyle — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:13:22 -0400

morbidyetdelightful:

*curls protectively around Uhura and hisses*

the point isn’t that she is a strong woman who doesn’t need a man

but that she is a black woman who gets to have a man in the first place

Filmmaker Brings Attention To A Latina Soldier Who Fought In The U.S. Civil War

thebookofstyle — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:20:19 -0400

fylatinamericanhistory:

nbclatino:

The U.S. military may have recently lifted the ban on women in combat, but Loreta Velazquez, a wealthy Cuban planter’s daughter who immigrated to New Orleans in 1849, secretly fought in the U.S. Civil War 150 years ago — first as a soldier in the Confederate Army, and later as a Union Army spy.

Read More

I wrote a post about this woman last year! PBS will be airing a documentary on her life today (May 24).

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.

thebookofstyle — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:35 -0400

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.:

notesonascandal:

theraceproblem:

racismschool:

Just so we’re all clear on what we just read. Black people make up 22% of the poor but only 14% of the government benefits. Meaning, 8% of poor Black people are not taking government benefits when they need them.

While, white people make up 42% of the poor but receive 69% of the government benefits. Meaning, there are white people who are classified as middle class who are receiving government benefits.

…but welfare queens and stuff.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT!

Black people make up 22% of the poor BUT only 14% of the government benefits.

White people make up 42% of the poor BUT receive 69% of the government benefits.

This needs to go viral.

This is essential piece of information revealing racial bias AGAINST Black people in receiving government benefits.

Never again do I want to hear about White people living in poverty.

Never again do I want to hear about Black people living on government benefits.

Reblog this. Over and over again. POST IT ON EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE WHERE YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT.

"Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a..."

thebookofstyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:20:14 -0400

“Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a 1992 book devoted to sex, Madonna has been viewed as a feminist provocateur, pushing the boundaries of acceptable femininity. But Beyoncé’s use of her body is criticized as thoughtless and without value beyond male titillation, providing a modern example of the age-old racist juxtaposition of animalistic black sexuality vs. controlled, intentional, and civilized white sexuality.”

- All Hail the Queen? (http://bitchmagazine.org/article/all-hail-the-queen-beyonce-feminism#.UZvUyP56MrU.facebook)

You’ll love this BLOG!

thebookofstyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:30:24 -0400

You’ll love this BLOG!

missnoxie: maats-asp: tainry: quantumspork: stxii recast:...

thebookofstyle — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:57:48 -0400

missnoxie:

maats-asp:

tainry:

quantumspork:

stxii recast: indira varma as khan

!!!

Do want

Now THIS would have been cool.

feministdisney: mourning-would: feministdisney: flopehoats...

thebookofstyle — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:02 -0400

feministdisney:

mourning-would:

feministdisney:

flopehoats:

elizabitchtaylor:

gbg-g:

interstellargeek:

feministdisney:

xelamanrique:

look who’s finally joined!

look who got pushed to the side

Wow, move Tiana over one and suddenly all the PoC princesses are in the very back. I mean, did the people that made this lineup not see how racist this appears?

Mhmm. So not surprised

ew i hate the redesign and also why would you put Mulan in the outfit she wore to see the matchmaker, which she hated because it didn’t really represent her?

GOD DAMMIT MULAN IS NOT A PRINCESS SHE MARRIED A GENERAL

I like how someone read all this and at the end of it all was truly outraged that…

Mulan is in the lineup

I’m just gonna say that to me it looks like they put them in order of popularity. But sure lets turn everything in existence into some form of racism.

But sure let’s pretend the WoC princesses are least popular in spite of everything that indicates most of them being popular fan favorites, much more so than Aurora or Snow White??

And even if it were true, popularity of merchendise is manufactured in itself. Tired of people acting like certain princesses are associated as princesses more just by chance. It’s because they’re marketed that way! Think of how- even after Tiana came out- WoC princesses are tokenized in any princess merchendise.

If there is more than one princess, and less than six, there will almost always be only one shown. This is one of the reasons Pocahontas is less associated as a classic princess- Jasmine usually ended up being the tokenized character. Even though WoC made up almost half the line before Merida came along, I’ll be on my deathbed before I consistently, or even sporadically, see three of them together when it isn’t entire group. Even though this happens all the time with the white princesses. (links show examples of marginalizing merchandise)

So yeah after almost 15 years of doing that since the inception of the princess line, it’s no wonder that the princesses who are featured on every piece of merchandise- because Disney chooses to feature them- become seen as the “classic princesses.” Marketing does not just make use of perceptions- it creates them. People perceive the white princesses as being classic princesses because they’ve been repeatedly exposed to this message, not because it’s a given fact of life.

It may seem pointless to talk about it to a lot of people, but no one is saying it’s racism in the sense of denial of housing opportunities, jobs, or anything like that. It is, however, a largely subconscious racial microaggression that contributes to a socialized way of viewing PoC as “the other” that are there to “show diversity” and white people, characters, preferences, everything, as the “default.” This happens not only when we refuse to call actions out, but also when we fail to even notice it happening in the first place.

whats annoying about saldana

thebookofstyle — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:29 -0400

strugglingtobeheard:

is she has said she identifies as a black woman. and yet now poc don’t exist and race isn’t a thing. then why do you identify as black? i don’t get it. and to be playing a role of a woman who wrote songs like young gifted and black and spoke about race and its saliency (which wasn’t too long ago) and saying this is just a smack to the role she is playing. disrespectful.

veganrantss: White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:40:35 -0400

veganrantss:

White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.

Beethoven: ARE YOU READY TO HEAR SOME SYMPHONIES?!

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:20:33 -0400

Beethoven: ARE YOU READY TO HEAR SOME SYMPHONIES?!
Audience: *cheers*
Beethoven: I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!

"1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don’t. It..."

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:00:36 -0400

“

1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don’t. It will not be beautiful. It will not be brave. It will be selfish. It will be broken. Your mother will cry.

2. Don’t write for him. Write for you. Write for others like you. Write so the girl that thinks about stepping in front of public transportation doesn’t. Don’t be selfish.

3. When you will yourself to sleep and it doesn’t come- get up. It doesn’t matter that it’s 3 am. There will be other 3 am’s. Take a shower. Take two. Wash him out of your hair. Write a poem. Read the same book you’ve read 202 times again. The 203rd time might tell you something different. Don’t stay in bed- you will think about the bus again.

4. Don’t kiss him because he’s broken. Don’t kiss him because his laughter never reaches his eyes. Don’t try and fix him. Fix yourself first. Be selfish. He can’t save you.

5. Date yourself. Take yourself out to eat. Don’t share your popcorn at the movies with anyone. Stroll around an art museum alone. Fall in love with canvases. Fall in love with yourself.

6. Dress up and wear red lipstick and get drunk with your friends. They’re the ones that will pick you up. Don’t kiss him. Or him. Don’t fall asleep on strange couches with strange boys. When his hand slides up your dress walk away. Hit him. Don’t kiss him. He can’t save you.

7. Get another tattoo. Get five more. Get another hole in your ear. Don’t listen to your dad. You will still be able to get a job. Did you really want to be employed by someone like your father? Haven’t you had enough of judgmental old white men anyway? Get fuck you tattooed in tiny letters on your hip.

8. When you feel the yearning for a new city- start over. Take 200 bucks and a three suitcases. Work anywhere that will have you. Meet strange people and forget your name. Call yourself Ruby. No one will know the difference. Remember to call your mother. Don’t be selfish. Come home when you find yourself in the strangers and the small one bedroom apartment.

9. Don’t whisper evil things into your own ear. Other people are going to shout them at you. Be your own hero. Keep a sword on your key ring.

10. Don’t step in front of a city bus. It will not be beautiful. Live. Stay up all night with a boy that promises you everything and means it. Live. See shitty local bands with a friend. Wear a different band’s t-shirt. No one will care. Live. Have a baby girl with tiny fingers and tiny toes someday. Pour love into her until it’s overflowing. Live. Wake up. Staying in bed all day is not poetic.

Live. Live.

Live.

Do you hear that? It’s me. It’s your life. Wake up.

”

- (via savarnas)

girljanitor: blackamazon: girljanitor: indica-tor: POC who live here in America: I realize...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:22 -0400

girljanitor:

blackamazon:

girljanitor:

indica-tor:

POC who live here in America:

I realize you’re hurt by the ignorant words of “white people” who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I’m sorry.

But I have a question for you. In this “land of the free”…aren’t you free? What are their words doing to you, unless you LET them affect you? I thought this was a free country, where people were allowed to speak their minds, and other people were allowed not to listen.

But maybe I was wrong. Maybe the words of people are so strong that it’s impossible to stand up against them. Which is sad, and basically means our country is full of weak people.

No matter what race or gender I am, I would never let people’s words affect me. Don’t you realize they’re just words? Words are not physical, they will not capture and torture you. They won’t keep you from getting a job (and if your race is keeping you from getting a job, that’s the owners problem, not every white person), and they won’t kill you.

Unless you let them.

So take pride in who you are and stop listening to stupid people. It’s that easy. Once you let go of worrying about what other people think, your life will be a hell of a lot easier. And a lot less stressful.

Empower yourself. Empower your own life.

“once you let go of ‘worrying what people think and say’, then magically all this will disappear! “

“RACISM CAN’T AFFECT YOU UNLESS YOU LET IT!!!”

did you ever know that you’re my HEEEEEEERO

i genuinely want to print all these out and give them to assholes i see in other areas of my life because this shit leaves me speechless sometimes

thegoddamazon: notesonascandal: native-detroiter: tashabilitie...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:20:21 -0400

thegoddamazon:

notesonascandal:

native-detroiter:

tashabilities:

theuppitynegras:

blackgirlsrpretty2:

whoa whoa whoa, but based on the comment from the Waiting to Exhale post last night, black women were the only women who talk shit about men and that’s why we’re single and bitter. That’s why black men date outside of their race. *side eye*

welp

I’m here for the gifs, but especially the commentary.

Yes, fawtha gawd, the commentary.

and Chicago too

Ooop!

And wasn’t the entirety of Sex & the City based around four middle to upper class white women basically shitting on men, fucking men, having fucked up relationships with men, and complaining about it?

I mean…literally the only Black people I ever saw in that show was one episode where Carrie Footface Bradshaw dated a Black man, and the Black woman who was his sister told her to basically fuck off because she was tired of white women snatching up the good men.

And Carrie wasn’t even about him like that because there was no way the producers were going to let Carrie have more than a one-shot with a Black man.

Also, in BOTH films, it involved them shitting on men…mainly white men, and the only Black people in that film were literally THE HELP. The nannies, the maids, the drivers, the fucking Magical Negro assistant Jennifer Anniston played.

And let’s not forget Lipstick Jungle.

Or Desperate Housewives.

Or Weeds.

Or basically every show centered around middle to upper class white women in which they have any kind of relationship with men that goes sour.

Just saying.

holdmyhat: iamtonysexual: This is the best usage of that gif...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:44:02 -0400

holdmyhat:

iamtonysexual:

This is the best usage of that gif I have ever seen.

vanillish: remember when my boyfriend shaded the fuck out of...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:50:26 -0400

vanillish:

remember when my boyfriend shaded the fuck out of lady gaga

aurorinthetardis: first of all, who let me get so emotionally invested in a television...

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:48:05 -0400

aurorinthetardis:

first of all, who let me get so emotionally invested in a television show

second, who can recomend some more

If you think this is a joke then you’re not in college yet.

thebookofstyle — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:43:25 -0400

If you think this is a joke then you’re not in college yet.

satanic2chainz: ramblingsofanurbanjawn: smidgetz: So he saw Olivia’s sex tape. Your pops ordered...

thebookofstyle — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:25 -0400

satanic2chainz:

ramblingsofanurbanjawn:

smidgetz:

So he saw Olivia’s sex tape.

Your pops ordered a dude to seduce you, to make a sex tape, to make you break up from the President.

SON.

Your father watched your sex tape.

OMG.

Shonda.

Omg!!!

shit is too dark

Get to the Source: There is so much fucking femininity policing on fashion blogs that it makes me want to hurl.

thebookofstyle — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:20:14 -0400

Get to the Source: There is so much fucking femininity policing on fashion blogs that it makes me want to hurl. :

searchingforknowledge:

nudiemuse:

deafmuslimpunx:

searchingforknowledge:

deafmuslimpunx:

nudiemuse:

searchingforknowledge:

That hair cut made her look old!!!

she wore a cocktail dress on the red carpet horrors!!!!

Willow Smith looks like she’s…

I Wanna Be Thick For You, Jesus

theuppitynegras: patrickandmarcus: daniellemertina: smidgetz: In west Philadelphia born and...

morbidyetdelightful: *curls protectively around Uhura and hisses* the point isn’t that she is a...

Filmmaker Brings Attention To A Latina Soldier Who Fought In The U.S. Civil War

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.

"Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a..."

All Hail the Queen? (http://bitchmagazine.org/article/all-hail-the-queen-beyonce-feminism#.UZvUyP56MrU.facebook)

You’ll love this BLOG!

missnoxie: maats-asp: tainry: quantumspork: stxii recast:...

feministdisney: mourning-would: feministdisney: flopehoats...

whats annoying about saldana

veganrantss: White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but...

Beethoven: ARE YOU READY TO HEAR SOME SYMPHONIES?!

"1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don’t. It..."

girljanitor: blackamazon: girljanitor: indica-tor: POC who live here in America: I realize...

thegoddamazon: notesonascandal: native-detroiter: tashabilitie...

holdmyhat: iamtonysexual: This is the best usage of that gif...

vanillish: remember when my boyfriend shaded the fuck out of...

aurorinthetardis: first of all, who let me get so emotionally invested in a television...

If you think this is a joke then you’re not in college yet.

satanic2chainz: ramblingsofanurbanjawn: smidgetz: So he saw Olivia’s sex tape. Your pops ordered...

Get to the Source: There is so much fucking femininity policing on fashion blogs that it makes me want to hurl.

morbidyetdelightful: curls protectively around Uhura and hisses the point isn’t that she is a...