February 2011
20 posts
Lipstick Therapy: A New Era for the Darker Girl →
Coco and Creme. DIG IT!!
January 2011
24 posts
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Personal, moody, simple, adorable. One of my favorite recently discovered things.
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The ever tempting waters of the dating pool
I went out Saturday night with a few friends for some karaoke at a local bar. The night began calmly enough—a few laughs, a few beers, a few songs. As the night wore on, a trio of 30-something men came into the bar and sat at the table next to ours. I was familiar with one of the men, I’ll call him John, from karaoke nights in the past. We greeted each other in a friendly fashion, made...
Tabula Rasa: This is an edgy tumblr post →
tabularasae:
ailanthusaltissima: First I am going to say that I am not being “offensive” and that if you read it as offensive, there is something wrong with you.
Next, I am going to jump head first into a racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic rant. I will refer to groups as “those people” or “others.” I will…
wherethefuckisbulbasaur asked: Send that to me as a message so I can reply please.
Stuff for Us →
Super cute online store that I love because it caters to the beautiful brown that is me. Dig it.
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My MLK Day Reflection
Watch Season 1: episode 9 of the Boondocks.
That’s all I have to say about that.
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“Write drunk. Edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via ernest365)
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Colorism, pt. 1
One succinct definition of colorism is “discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social treatment based on skin color”. Okay, true. But this is missing a key element: the self-loathing side of the equation.
Colorism could almost read as an if/then mathematical sentence. If colorism is discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social treatment based...
“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
– Julius Charles Hare
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via breakmenow)
