March 2012
why do people sleep on ivy queen?
baddominicana:
latinosexuality:
seriously. why?
her gender expression and exaggerations are so much from dancehall culture and performances that are becoming popular by folks like, that white broad you know.
she’s def learned also from celia cruz. she’s ferosh. grown ass feroshness.
shes a fucking bad ass. she been gangsta and unapologetic about it for fuckin ever.
latinos hate on her...
“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a...”
– Junot Diaz (via vulturechow)
i love this quote so much.
(via youarenotyou)
ay, junot! mi macho! (via baddominicana)
“Watching the daughter of a New York collector call her mother a “fat whore” and...”
– James Bae on etiquette playing a role in embarrassing or awkward encounters…
An excerpt from I like your work: art and etiquette
(via hydeordie)
“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– Excerpt from Teju Cole’s essay “The White Savior Industrial Complex”. (via jalwhite)
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Justice for Trayvon... but how?
lowendtheory:
wordsandsteel:
Reading about Trayvon Martin’s killing and am beyond saddened, sickened, and outraged at the continuation of state-sanctioned killing of black and brown youth. I wonder, however, if there another way to push for justice for Trayvon, without appealing to the prison-industrial complex as a means of retribution. Even if the state does prosecute his killer, what does...
“Learning about death and dying is part of growing up. If we are lucky, we come...”
– Tayari Jones (via frontofbook)
I was reading through my tumblr, down where a...
liquornspice:
I’m on my phone, so this post will be cut off, but i think it’s really important.
Restored:
genderbitch:
There’s a theme among the sellouts. Yanno, little hints dropped about other privileges they have.
A significant portion of the sellouts weren’t women but those that were generally were middle class and white. And the nonbinary individual and man sellouts also...
“When Vance died in 1996 and nothing happened, I assumed, that’s it, it’s done.”
– MCASD Director Hugo Davies about a former SD patron who had moved to Europe due to dissatisfaction with the local art scene, who, with his wife, posthumously have donated over $45 million worth of art to MCASD and the San Diego Museum of Art.
In case you weren’t clear before how museum directors...
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