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nothing more that i desire: fat-amy-for-president: fat-amy-for-president: I was at Hot Topic and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:39:26 -0400

nothing more that i desire: fat-amy-for-president: fat-amy-for-president: I was at Hot Topic and...:

fat-amy-for-president:

I was at Hot Topic and saw this cool tshirt for some band or something called Bring Me the Horizon and idk what bring me the horizon is and don’t really care but the shirt is cute so i’ll wear it

This was an experiment….

gamefreaksnz: Mirror’s Edge 2 spotted on German Amazon A...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:10 -0400

gamefreaksnz:

Mirror’s Edge 2 spotted on German Amazon

A listing for Mirror’s Edge 2 has turned up on the German Amazon today.

Still need to play the first one. My list…it grows

Me every time I'm on a bus or train with one of those people whose head phones are so crappy you can practically hear every beat and lyric, or the ones who just blast Gucci Mane from their speakers with no regard for whomever's around them: 😧 "DA FUCK IS THAT NOISE?!!!" 😒

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:42 -0400

Me every time I'm on a bus or train with one of those people whose head phones are so crappy you can practically hear every beat and lyric, or the ones who just blast Gucci Mane from their speakers with no regard for whomever's around them: 😧 "DA FUCK IS THAT NOISE?!!!" 😒

fuckyeahqueerrevolt: iridessence: kahtiihma: the fuckING...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:41:24 -0400

fuckyeahqueerrevolt:

iridessence:

kahtiihma:

the fuckING PENCIL SHARPENER ONE

BRILLIANT THANK YOU

i also like the idea of vaginas having razors inside of them like pencil sharpeners.

DAMN!

wired: archiemcphee: A little girl attending the 2013 Motor...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:56 -0400

wired:

archiemcphee:

A little girl attending the 2013 Motor City Comic Con enthusiastically cosplaying as the legendary Stan Lee is undeniably awesome. But when that same little girl poses for a photo with the real Stan Lee? That, friends, is Super Awesome and pretty much made our day. (They both have such wonderful mustaches!) There’s a photo that deserves place of pride on the fridge.

[via Fashionably Geek]

Today in things that are both nerdy AND adorable…

Click here to support New Media BootCamp Tuition Fund by Karachi Utonwa Opara

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:19 -0400

Click here to support New Media BootCamp Tuition Fund by Karachi Utonwa Opara:

Thank you so much for visiting my fundraising page! I am trying to raise funds to attend the New Organizing Institute’s New Media BootCamp, which is a week-long training hosted annually by the New Organizing Institute. This year, it will take place from July 20 - 27. At BootCamp, attendees are a…

Please donate if you are able. Every dollar helps.

Thanks in advance.

i feel like this needs to be a separate post

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:41:54 -0400

ianthe:

so if

modern clown makeup is rooted in blackface/racist caricatures of black people

and one potential psychological explanation for why clowns are so scary is that they seem “less than human”

what the fuck does that say

Lagos, Nigeria

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:41:01 -0400

Lagos, Nigeria

"Kanye West is white America’s worst nightmare. Because as much as one may attempt to dismiss him —..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:51 -0400

“

Kanye West is white America’s worst nightmare. Because as much as one may attempt to dismiss him — by calling him an asshole or classless or deranged or various other adjectives that fill the comment sections of literally every article about him — you still have to turn on your regularly scheduled late night comedy program and stare him in the face. You can’t avoid Kanye. He’s made very sure of that.

[…]

Kanye is not a “new slave” in the same sense as the victims of the prison industrial complex, but he is still trapped in a world that expects him to not only be complicit with the struggle of his people, but to be appreciative that he is not one of them. And on top of all that, while he gets to exist in the world of the 1%, having the money and signifiers of success still aren’t enough to make his (white) 1% peers actually even respect him.

[…]

The ideals of Public Enemy are as relevant today as they were in the 80s, but hip-hop was nowhere near as dominant and omnipresent a cultural force as it is at this moment; to compare the reach of their messages is silly. Upper-middle class white families did not have to deal with Public Enemy if they didn’t want to. Similarly with politically-minded “noise rap” artists that have been name-dropped in reviews of Kanye’s new material — it’s all well and good for Death Grips and Blackie and even Killer Mike to espouse similar messages and sounds (and honestly, the sonic qualities of “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead” are hardly at the top of the list of why they’re important), but none of them have anywhere near the amount of visibility and influence as Kanye, even if they did hit it first.

[…]

People in current positions of comfort and stability are so willing to dismiss the transgressive thoughts of an angry black man that they will use any convenient excuse to diminish from them; if someone says something that makes you uncomfortable, why not immediately change the subject to his girlfriend’s ass or that time he yelled at a papparazzi or that time he got drunk and embarrassed a white girl? When was it exactly that Kanye shifted, in the eyes of the mainstream, from lovable polo-wearing backpacker to perpetually and unanimously An Asshole? When, precisely, did everything he said get immediately categorized as a “rant” or “controversial” regardless of the actual content? I want to say it was around the time when he said that George Bush didn’t care about black people on live tv. Hmm. Odd.

”

- Meaghan Garvey, Who Will Survive In America? (via machistado)

A Collection of 4c Hairstyles: The Racist Origins of Modern Clown Makeup (or, just one more reason to hate clowns)

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:46 -0400

A Collection of 4c Hairstyles: The Racist Origins of Modern Clown Makeup (or, just one more reason to hate clowns):

ilovemy4c-hair:

ianthe:

This post was asking about a potential link between the afro-style wigs and big, painted lips of the modern clown and racist caricatures, so I decided to do what any good theatre history student would do - I did some research.

SPOILER ALERT: YUP, IT’S RACIST AS FUCK

From Janet M. Davis, The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top:

Some circus programs contained portraits of clowns in literal blackface, with huge red mouths and bulging eyes, strumming energetically on a banjo, but often the auguste clown’s blackface was metaphorical. He created his racial identity through the act of ‘‘whitening up’’ with thick pancake.

His greasy whiteness and exaggerated bodily zones—huge red mouth, lolling, paint-encircled eyes, big fake nose, ears, and feet—made his look strikingly similar to blackface. Showmen played upon this visual connection by arguing that African American men literally were clowns because of their supposed aﬃnity for clowning and the circus. The Ringling Bros.’ route book from 1895 and 1896 contained a section, ‘‘The Plantation Darkey at the Circus,’’ which imagined—in almost orgasmic language—black men as minstrel characters.

[…]

Proprietors further conﬂated the African American man and the clown by arguing that both were completely controlled by their emotions, not reason.

Superlative examples of white manhood—the big cat tamer, the wire walker, and so forth—demonstrated little emotion during life-threatening acts. The clown, by contrast, howled in mock fear when he saw a mouse, or shrieked in pain at a mosquito bite. Showmen characterized male African American spectators in a similar vein as giddy and superstitious.

[…]

Actual big-top acts made this rhetorical relationship between the clown and the African American complete. In 1888 Eph Thompson trained the elephant John L. Sullivan at the Adam Forepaugh circus. Wearing a boxing glove at the end of his trunk, the elephant sparred with Thompson in the ring and frequently ‘‘punched’’ him so hard that Thompson went ﬂying over the ring bank.

Unlike the white trainer who dominated powerful animals, Thompson played a clownish coward—constantly vanquished by the boxing pachyderm—and consequently remained unthreatening to Euroamerican audiences. Yet Thompson still had a diﬃcult time ﬁnding employment with American shows. As a result, he moved to Europe where his career ﬂourished.

In line with the tenets of nineteenth-century romantic racialism, show-men’s portrayals of black men and clowns reﬂected contemporary representations of white women: late-nineteenth-century scientists argued that ‘‘excessive’’ emotionalism deﬁned women, racial ‘‘savages,’’ and children of all races. The German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel and the Americans Edward Drinker Cope and G. Stanley Hall were all proponents of recapitulation theory, positing that every organism repeats the life history of its ‘‘race’’ within its own lifetime, evolving through the less developed forms of its ancestors on its path to maturity. They contended that Euroamerican women and ‘‘primitives’’ remained mentally and emotionally ﬁxed in lower ancestral stages of evolution. Accordingly, only white boys were physiologically and mentally capable of reaching the highest stages of racial and gender development as fully evolved men. This line of thought used pseudoempirical phrenological evidence to claim that African American men were perpetually emotional and juvenile, just like the clown.

The painted clown acted out childish behaviors and infantile pleasures. He reveled in dirt, cried freely, openly adored the serious ‘‘adult’’ acts, and played physical pranks on everybody, from ringmaster to the audience. If playing a hobo (popularized most fully by Emmett Kelly’s ‘‘Willie’’ tramp character during the Depression, when at times nearly one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed), the auguste clown’s persona was deﬁned by dirt. Laughing loudly at the clown’s antics perhaps transported audiences back to the unrestrained pleasures of their own collective infancy and childhood.

More than a ‘‘low Other’’ who simply represented a tantalizing version of what they were not, the unfettered clown symbolized what clock-bound, alienated adult Euroamerican men perhaps felt they had lost.

Even the red noses have their origins in racist stereotypes.

From Mikita Brottman, Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor:

While the Native American plains tribes had their own various manifestations of the Trickster figure, the main clown type of non-Native Americans was not the August, as it was in Europe, but the character clown… After the [Civil War] ended, however, one particular style of character clown came into prominence: the Hobo.

Eric Lott describes how the Hobo figure was originally based on the blackface minstrel clowns (hence the exaggerated white mouths) who portrayed the figures of African Americans made homeless by the ravages of the Civil War.

Lott explains that the Hobo character clown is a distinctly American invention, with his tattered hat, huge white mouth, three days’ growth of beard, torn clothes, and cartoon alcoholic’s big red nose. […] It seems ironic that such mawkishly appealing personalities had their roots in the miseries of poverty and oppression and the disfigurements of alcoholism and venereal disease.

Well, this explains a lot. Thank you http://ianthe.tumblr.com/ for looking it up. Reblog this and spread the word.

"I want to see more girl monsters. Girl giants, girl dragons, hulks & trolls. Scylla and hydra...."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:38 -0400

“I want to see more girl monsters. Girl giants, girl dragons, hulks & trolls. Scylla and hydra. Girl monsters who are huge and whole. Teeth and plush fur and long muscled tails. Heads enough to see you anywhere. Gleaming green or brown. But girl monsters are usually zombies or vampires. Pale and thin, bleeding or dead. Not Lady Lazarus, not a phoenix from the ash. I want to see how you get strong without being broken first. Get strong and stay strong. Get big and bigger.”

- Terror Incognita (via fib)

I support this 100%. Now where did I put my art stuff?

(via darthnerdgasm)

orobolicious: thetraplooksbeautiful: simonefiasco: westendblue...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:42:06 -0400

orobolicious:

thetraplooksbeautiful:

simonefiasco:

westendblues:

tashabilities:

When I tell you white folks are trying to take over ALL our shit,

Including the language that they call us ‘ghetto’ and ‘ignorant’ for using?

And they sellin it on teeshirts like a white woman would come up with that phrasing.

AAVE is the same language they penalize us for using, denying us opportunities and resources, calling us ignorant,

But they put it on a shirt with a BLONDE bitch and SELL IT?

I feel kicked in the chest.

How does that phrase even go with this damn Disney princess (any Disney princess really)?

They have the nerve to be appropriative and not even clever…

isn’t that the sleeping beauty girl? she slept through her whole fucking movie.

all she got is time.

Also, why is she wearing glasses? What the fuck does glasses have to do with anything?

huh?

wagatwe: super1eklectic: sourcedumal: 10 actual Indian...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:57:26 -0400

wagatwe:

super1eklectic:

sourcedumal:

10 actual Indian actors who could’ve played Khan Noonien Singh instead of Benedict Cumberbatch: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Naveen Andrews, Sacha Dhawan, Kal Penn, John Abraham, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Aamir Khan, Kabir Bedi (who should’ve been the original Khan anyway)

LOOK AT ALL THESE GORGEOUS ASS MEN!

LOOK AT THEM!

I’ll take them over Curdled Milk Oppa ANYDAY

JOHN ABRAHAM!
‘Member that time he said he breaks beds when he has sex? Yep
Bless this post

LOVE STAR TREK.

Hate the movie isn’t using a brown person for Khan. D:

I was just talking about this.

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:54:00 -0400

I was told my black lipstick was scary, so I tried another...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:27:43 -0400

I was told my black lipstick was scary, so I tried another shade. Thoughts? #PurpleLipses

beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:50 -0400

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

alwaysfacingthesun: My go to excuse after “I’m fine”.

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:27 -0400

alwaysfacingthesun:

My go to excuse after “I’m fine”.

"Miguel’s finishing move is called the Kaleidoscope Dream."

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:11 -0400

“Miguel’s finishing move is called the Kaleidoscope Dream.”

- Charlamagne Tha God (via damnhebig)

dead

(via etherealxeyes)

Naomi and Djimon Hounsou by Herb Ritts for Interview Magazine,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:01 -0400

Naomi and Djimon Hounsou by Herb Ritts for Interview Magazine, December 1991

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:19:51 -0400