Month: March 2015

congenitalprogramming:

To elaborate: Blackout Day highlighted Black people. It showed that black people come in all shades from all places. Latin@, Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern. There were men there were women, there were genderqueer individuals. There were abled and disabled, proud and hurt people, there was everyone.

It was about Blackness reclaiming its beauty in the face of hurt and slander, about all of us being proud of who we are.

‘Selfie Week’ is a well thought out attempt at giving white people a selfie day by tucking themselves in with other races, because honestly no racially aware white person would advocate a white selfie day when they know good and well that white people are the defacto default acceptable/beautiful person on magazines, in tv, everywhere, and that blackness is seen as unworthy all around the world.

By trying to piggyback directly on BlackoutDay it diminishes the impact of Blackoutday for what it was, and it’s hurtful. It follows a long habit of white people coming up with a way to weaken, disperse and devalue black movements. It’s the selfie version of:

“Black people are beautiful :)”
“Um, don’t you mean ALL people?”

Boycott Selfie Week.

Edit: If you agree, reblog this. Don’t just like it. It needs to be seen.

caitlinisactuallyawritersname:

Just a friendly reminder:

Anon hate is never, ever okay.

The popular bloggers, the well-known writers, the “Big Name Fans”…are also human beings with difficult, demanding, sometimes painful personal lives.

Even if you don’t like their ship or what they put on their dash. Still a person behind that blog.

Sending unkind messages via anon in order to fulfill some monkey-brain need to take someone “popular” down a peg? Makes you a hurtful asshole. Full stop.

thefourteenthdoctor:

watchtheskytonight:

spirit-of-the-ocean:

my uncle used to be one of those people who drove dead people to cemeteries and such 

then he became a taxi driver and the person he was driving tapped his shoulder to ask a question and my uncle screamed really loud

IT’S BACK

I’m sure that’s what he thought.