Patched, Stitched, and Sewn Together

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"Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence."

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"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service."

Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)

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stfuconservatives:

accurate

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Can we fucking stop and talk about the lyrics to Le1f’s “Wut” for a second?

thebigblackwolfe:

jcoleknowsbest:

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

Homeboy is shitting on whiteness and Gay Inc. left and right GOOD.GOD.

Yassssss…

God I love Le1f. IF HE EVER COMES TO ATLANTA I WILL MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO SEE HIM @_______@

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artmusicvegan:

Selections from Toyin Odutola’s series of self portraits, All These Garlands Prove Nothing.

Odutola’s exhibit My Country Has No Name, opens at Jack Shainman Gallery May 16-June 29, 2013. The opening reception takes place on Thursday, May 16th, from 6 – 8 PM. The exhibition will feature Odutola’s pen ink drawings on paper, metallic marker drawings, ink on black board and new lithographs.“My Country Has No Name is an exploration of identity rooted in the friction created by hyphenated nationalities and a study into what comes from a reconciliation of seemingly distant and divergent cultural homes to form a new multilayered reality.” (Images courtesy of the artist &Jack Shainman Gallery).

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"I think marriage in general is not a healthy institution in our society. If people want civil rights, then that’s what I feel we should be fighting for. Couples, people who are each other’s kin or primary intimacies, a friend who takes care of a friend for 30 years in the same household—all should have basic civil rights. To bring that whole movement for social justice under the rubric of ‘gay marriage’ seems to me just to reinforce patriarchal notions of who is worthy of care and support. It also lets down the gay people who don’t want to be married.
The movement for gay marriage has had a strong push among very class-privileged people, because they are the people with trusts and with property and with health care. If you’re gay, black, poor and you don’t have any access to insurance, the question of whether your partner can be included on your insurance is just not relevant to the health needs of your life. What would be more relevant is national health care!"

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thescienceofchic:

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bisexual-genderfluid-christian:

fuckyeahbodypositivity:

wereallsexyasfuck:

lets play a game called ‘find a shade that would suitably match an African American or any person of any color different than white’. Very tired of white washing.

while there’s obviously a couple of shades for POC up here. there’s so so so so much whiteness. no one needs to wear make-up but anyone who wants to should have the option.

And even those that would work for POC are still on the light end.

Another thing I’ve noticed, which might be a microaggression, is that a lot of the darker skintones have food related names. The lighter shades will be stuff like beige, ivory, and nude (don’t get me started on the word nude), but the darker shades will be honey, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, etc. 

If I wanted a caramel machiatto, I’d have just gone to Starbucks.

Sorry but I lol’ed, and you are very correct. Our shades usually have some sort of food attached to them, its annoying. They can take the time to find all these different names for beige but they can’t come up with a few names for brown?! Like maybe sienna, sepia, mahogany, bronze, sable…we come in a variety of brown shades and there are many ways to describe our skin tone without calling us chocolate or cafe au lait. 

The drugstore is pretty much 50 Shades of Beige… 

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