Smoking Still Looks Cool

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hell yeah it does. sweet blog!

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:42:52 +0800

That’s the spirit!

irritationknot: Tom Waits, 1976. Photos by Neil Zlozower.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:02:28 +0800

irritationknot:

Tom Waits, 1976.

Photos by Neil Zlozower.

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thesavagesalad: also fun fact there’s a blog called “ewwblack girls” which despite having been...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:30:09 +0800

thesavagesalad: also fun fact there’s a blog called “ewwblack girls” which despite having been...

thesavagesalad: justinsimien: Dopeness (Taken with...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:29:27 +0800

thesavagesalad:

justinsimien:

Dopeness (Taken with Instagram)

this is perfection

isumatv: So let’s talk about Holi. For one thing, I didn’t even...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:28:26 +0800

isumatv:

So let’s talk about Holi. For one thing, I didn’t even realize this very Indian holiday had been appropriated by ridiculous white Midwesterners until recently. I mean, fair enough, to many Indians, it primarily means an opportunity to drink, consume bhang, and drive dangerously — so you can understand why it would appeal to college students in the States.

Buuuuuut, it’s a Hindu holiday. It’s on the Hindu calendar, not the Gregorian one. It’s also supposed to celebrate the start of spring. Which it isn’t in the United States, because the USA is in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

And it is one of the most blatant examples of exotification of another culture I’ve ever seen — if you want to have a water festival where you throw coloured dye on each other, just have a water festival where you throw coloured dye on each other. You could call it the We Throw Coloured Dye On Each Other Festival. Why you gotta call it Holi? Oh right, because that exotic brightly coloured powder and the charming photos of dark-skinned people doing such amazingly rustic and interesting things is SO COOL and we want to do what they do!

Appropriation and cultural fetishizing: never cool. Quit it.

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aquaticwonder: Inhale, Exhale

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:59:48 +0800

aquaticwonder:

Inhale, Exhale

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damnlayoffthebleach: blackridinnhood: So, I decided to check...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:17:17 +0800

damnlayoffthebleach:

blackridinnhood:

So, I decided to check out Hybrid Vigor’s twitter when someone said they made a racist remark about Dear White People dominating the Indie Wire poll. What they say, which while not TOO bad, voices the very REASON why this film needs to be made.

In order for these filmmakers to say “don’t make it about race; think about the filmmaking,” shows just how LITTLE white people are aware of how racial minorities are treated. If you see on this person’s twitter, they have over 250,000 followers. If just all of their followers voted once, they’d have a huge advantage. However, DWP is dominating. As someone in the comment section pointed out, it’s their own fault. They have more support and yet can’t get these people to go vote? Not our fault.

But more so, this jackass assumes that we are voting for DWP because it’s about Black people and that’s it. They ignore the fact that many PoC feel the need for a film like this to exist. That it appeals to us BECAUSE there are no movies that tackles the racism and microaggressions that we face every day. That we ARE thinking of the filmmaking and we’re voting for the film that interests us the most. Because it’s doing something no one else is doing. That we NEED this film to be made.

This person ignores all of this just so we’ll vote for them. And it’s disgusting that the filmmakers of Hybrid Vigor will dismiss that people are ACTUALLY intrigued by this film in order to promote themselves. If anything, their ignorance is proof on why this film needs to be made.

Go support Dear White People and vote! We’re in the lead but we can’t let up!

GO AND VOTE FOR “DEAR WHITE PEOPLE“

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:10:32 +0800

# THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:10:20 +0800

# THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION

lauramcphee: Woman Smoking, Sweden, c1952 - via geewhizgolly

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:04:06 +0800

lauramcphee:

Woman Smoking, Sweden, c1952 - via geewhizgolly

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