my entire life is comprised of me deciding if i should fiesta or siesta
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likestitches
Wanting to put your head in your hands and scream hysterically is a funny thing. That is once one realizes that it’s a lot like trying to hide and draw attention to you all at the same time.
what i want to know from men’s right activits who want “progression of both sexes” is how much further can white cis straight men progress? like where are you going???? mars?????
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We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
— Anthony Marra, from “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” (via weaverofstars)
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Raktajino, hot: patronsaintofwolves: Made Rebloggable By Request. I said that the...
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I said that the villain shouldn’t have been Khan. J.J. didn’t have to rehash that when he has this whole new universe to play in. And Benicio del Toro was originally casted then pulled out and the other people J.J. had lined up were all Hispanics/Latinos. My whole thing was J.J. never looked for a desi actor in the first place. It never was his intention to cast one which is already problematic as hell.
And what you told me is one of the (if not THE) most common excuses for whitewashing that’s been thrown about time and time and time again to the point I could recite it in my sleep. Just because an actor is GOOD doesn’t mean that what was done was RIGHT. And you don’t even know if there were better POC/desi actors out there who would’ve done a better performance because they never got the chance. A chance was never taken or going to be taken on them. Representation for POCs is already at a low and that low is even LOWER for those actors/actresses of Asian descent. To take a role- one of the FEW roles- that was already canonically scripted as a POC male for a majorly underrepresented group, pass over that group completely and go for someone of “similar” background to the original actor, for that to fall through and then STILL skip the original group and go straight to a white man? No. That was a scheisty move and yet a smart one because J.J. knows JUST how popular Cumberbatch has gotten and this very thing helps defend what he did by allowing Cumberbitches and people who don’t care about whitewashing to stand at the front lines. What he did was problematic as hell.
Khan was this charismatic, superior, Übermensch villain that even had respect from Kirk AND he was a man of color. A man of color being genetically superior to and having the respect of the white male protagonist? Utterly mind-blowing. To have a villain like that at a time when the fight for equality and against white supremacy reared up again during the Civil Rights Era? Progressive as hell when you realize that a large majority of the white population in the USA were barely giving ANYTHING good to people of color at that time, least of all respect. To take Khan and cast him as a white man when A) you didn’t have to do Khan at ALL or B) you had the opportunity to cast a man of color from the proper racial background and you didn’t even try is taking a full city block of steps backwards. Whitewashing one of the most iconic, multi-faceted villains of color the world has ever seen and making him into a white guy with NO explanation whatsoever (even a reason as to why he’s white now despite being Indian pre-Nero would’ve been better than us just having to deal) was completely unnecessary. It’s 2013 and it’s not a badge of honor that a 2013 movie is less progressive than a 60s TV show and the movie that came about 31 years ago.
I liked Benedict as a villain. I didn’t like that he was Khan (J.J. basically tricked him into the role anyway which is fucked up because he didn’t know he was playing Khan until after he’d signed the contract). I think Benedict was great and could have been equally as great as John Harrison or as some other villain and I also think Khan should have been left the hell alone.
I’m not ashamed to say it and there’s nothing wrong with what I said. We should be past doing things like this but we’re not and that is a major problem.
But I feel like I’m just beating a dead horse because you and everyone else are all going to just say the exact same thing and use all the praise Benedict is getting as an excuse for whitewashing and why “it’s ok so long as the actor is good”. It’s not. It’s not ok, it will never BE ok, and your excuses will remain just that- excuses.
GOD BLESS THIS POST
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I love the feeling of starting a new project!
Tags: excited this could be fun!
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Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children. Closing schools is not an education plan. It is a scorched earth policy. Evidence shows that the underutilization crisis has been manufactured. Their own evidence also shows the school district will not garner any significant savings from closing these schools.
This is bad governance. CPS has consistently undermined school communities and sabotaged teachers and parents. Their actions have had a horrible domino effect. More than 40,000 students will lose at least three to six months of learning because of the Board’s actions. Because many of them will now have to travel into new neighborhoods to continue their schooling, some will be victims of bullying, physical assault and other forms of violence. Board members are wishing for a world that does not exist and have ignored the reality of the world we live in today. Who on the Board will be held responsible? Who at City Hall will be held responsible?
This is bad governance. CPS has consistently undermined school communities and sabotaged teachers and parents. Their actions have had a horrible domino effect. More than 40,000 students will lose at least three to six months of learning because of the Board’s actions. Because many of them will now have to travel into new neighborhoods to continue their schooling, some will be victims of bullying, physical assault and other forms of violence. Board members are wishing for a world that does not exist and have ignored the reality of the world we live in today. Who on the Board will be held responsible? Who at City Hall will be held responsible?
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Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.
While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via natashakills)
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The internet is so convenient
Wow. That sure is fucking convenient.
Well holy fuck.
Internet, you’re the bestest.
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That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack.
— David Foster Wallace (via beautyisanillusion)
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i just want perfect skin and hair and teeth and body proportions and endless supplies of money and intelligence is that too much to ask for
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The classic doll color test performed with a white child, complete with the parent’s
excusesreactionsThe little girl even says she picked the white figures as the good child because it “looks like me” and the dark girl as bad because “she’s dark”. When Soledad O’Brien asks the girl’s mother about it, we’re met with quite a few colorblind based excuses and “well, we just don’t talk about race”.
“We don’t talk about race!!”
And your kid is saying racist shit regardless.
That should fucking tell you something, lady.
But of course, it won’t. I bet you cash money she won’t change a thing, continuing to use that color blind bullshit.
This is why the whole idea of not discussing race with white children is bullshit. No, it won’t “taint” them. When you don’t talk about it, they still form opinions — racist ones — because they don’t know any better, so to speak. Then one day they grow up into adults that are, guess what, still racist. As Black folks, we pretty much all had “the talk” as kids/young people; our existence in this society dictates that we do, because racism is a part of our lives at an incredibly young age. Colorblind ideology has been proven to be toxic as blatant racism. And little white kids can be just as racist as their parents.
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lam·bent: VII
Sunday, I crack your skull to find that
what comes leaking out
spells my name
Monday, I hold your hand so hard that
there are tears in your eyes
you press our fingers together, silence
Tuesday, you find the cigarette burns on my thighs
‘did you do this? I love you.’
you kiss me till…
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I think I am leaking-
Imagine:
A woman pours her heart
into a bowl and feeds it to her cat.
The heart becomes a liquid thing-
like heat, a shocking,
but not so shocking red,
like my mother’s lipstick, like the first drop
of blood, like the tone
of a poem written all wrong.
Sometimes I look at people I don’t know
and think “I could love you”. My ribs tremble
with survivor’s guilt, and the branches
of my wrists spell out my future.
I think I am leaking-
and this is the sound of fragility.
We are capable of kissing
bruises and watching mothers cry
over lost children, who are not actually lost,
but hiding;
under the kitchen sink,
or in the upstairs closet, or in the concave
that is the human heart,
plucking ribcage songs.
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Will the hunger ever stop?
Can we simply starve this sin?
Can we simply starve this sin?
— Bring Me The Horizon
how sad it is that we create a society where we raise boys to base their self worth on whether or not they can trick unsuspecting women into sleeping with them and we raise girls to base their self worth on how long they lasted until they were tricked
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