every-sound:

vikkiisagenderneutralname:

jalwhite:

odairses:

oh, i see. ~science~. ‘cause western science totally doesn’t suck western culture’s dick or anything.

research like this is so problematic, it’s gross that it even gets published. and forreal, i don’t want to have to explain to a single person that science can be racist.

omg “the science of beauty” is the most ignorant bigoted fucking thing i’ve ever had the misfortune of being aware of.

Bitch is also MAAAAAD plain too! haha See that pokey face every time i go to the mall!

“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

 - Bruce Lee

warsanshire:

- slumber/less.

i sorta want one of those rings that joins the nose ring to the earring! so pretty

so gorgeous, i bet he looks straight up weird walking down the street! Like NO body looks like THAT!

eclecticspectrum:

africanrelic:

africanprodigy:

i knew it, i always said so, not because i dont like nigerian food, but chae you guys jollof rice is tasteless, its as if you just added rice, tomato paste and water and boiled it together with no seasoning or even following proper…

This shit is soooo wrong! Naija all the way!

Lynch @ 65 and still Sexy

queerhairyvag:

deafmuslimpunx:

dassitright:

joeylphotographer:

Study of Arbore Virgin

Arbore women are well know for their long headdresses. The girls shave their heads to indicate virginity, and only start growing hair after marriage.

Arbore tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia

© JOEY L

I’m a little disturbed the title of this photograph. I don’t like that he went there and went around photographing young virgins. I mean, would it be OK for me to head on over to Denmark and start photographing young virgins there too? Let’s not ditch our ethical standards just because we find ourselves ‘fascinated’ by a culture that’s not our own.

She is so beautiful. What is her name, how old is she, what are her dreams, what are her hopes and her fears? I wish you had asked her those things so you can tell us about her. You took away her name and her identity. Who is she? The title of this photo is extremely insulting.

this is the issue I have with entitled westerners.

‘yeah its cool, im just going to someone’s neighborhood, gonna take a few pictures of young girls and put them on the internet. totally legit stuff’

ughhhhhhh

jalylah:

my patron poet

Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward
by Gwendolyn Brooks 

Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,

the harmony-hushers,
“even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.”
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.

Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along. 

ancestryinprogress:

ceceiscool:

androgynousblackgirl:

Film: “La Noire de…”
Also known as “Black Girl” is a 1966 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop.

The film centers on a young Senegalese woman who moves from Senegal to France to work for a rich French couple. It was the director’s first feature-length film. It is often considered the first Sub-Saharan African film by an African filmmaker to receive international attention.

You can watch the whole film via DynamicAfrica

whoa! just watched this on netflix

thank you, i was trying to remember the title. it’s a great movie. very deep.