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Join me as I get ready for my first Renaissance Faire during Pirates Weekend

#melaninpoppin #woc #blackisbeautiful #blackgirlmagic #RenaissanceFaire #crochet project #summer crochet #piratecore #diy projects #mermaid #grwm #grwmvideo #nerdofcolor #black girl nerds #fantasy life #Instagram

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Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

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I created a simple crochet tube top! I decided to put a few outfit options together

#melaninpoppin #woc #blackisbeautiful #blackgirlmagic #natural hair tips #natural hair #black girl makeup #natural beauty #type 4 hair #makeup #crochet tutorial #outfits #upcycled fashion #handmade #thrift fashion

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friends

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27th year 🥰 Happy Birthday to me!

#melaninpoppin #blackisbeautiful #woc #blackgirlmagic #natural hair tips #type 4 hair #natural hair #happy birthday #white dress #natural beauty #curly hair #sewistsofinstagram #linen dress #black girl makeup #makeup

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All fair points:

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“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via leofarto)

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I'm so tired of cis people asking stuff like, "Why would Texas want a lisf of trans people who legally changed their names?" or "Why would Florida want a list of college students who have seeking gender affirming care? We can't figure it out."

It's eliminationist.

Ken Paxton wants a list of trans people who have changed their name in Texas so he can reverse all of those decisions (and that's the most charitable interpretation). Ron DeSantis wants a list of college students who have seemed affirming care so he can force them to detransition.

Oklahoma introduced a bill to forcibly detransition people under the age of 21 (ironically doing what they accuse us of doing, forcing someone to live as the wrong gender). Texas has a new bill that will ban gender affirming care for every Texan of any age and makes it a felony for doctors to provide it. Multiple states either have passed or will pass bills that will ban legal name changes. Some states have slipped in language to anti-drag bills (which are horrific enough on their own) that ban anyone from displaying, presenting, or dressing outside their "biological" gender (one state has language about "DNA gender") in public.

It's about legally and morally mandating trans people out of existence.

Plain and simple. It's about making sure that trans people can not exist. Period. It's not about restrictions, or "think of the children!" It's about eliminating us from public life and then eliminating us from private life so that we have a choice of either die or conform.

When will y'all realize this isn't some wedge issue or a political football that they'll just give up on if they lose an election or two. These are ideologues who are singularly focused. They don't care about the marketplace of ideas. They don't give a shit if they get mocked on lefty Twitter and the late night shows. They only care about one thing: gaining and then wielding power to achieve their goal of eliminating trans people (and then gay people, and then women who don't conform to their gender standards, ect).

If you give them that power they will use it.

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Vivienne Westwood: 'Anglomania' Fall (1993)

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RIP Vivienne Westwood (8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022)

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Vivienne Westwood

Bold & bright, a true style legend

1941—2022

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Stephanie Levi-John as Lina de Cardonnes in The Spanish Princess

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Yes, we need sex education, but you know what else we need?

Body education. 

We need to learn what’s normal for our own bodies, we need to learn how they’re supposed to function so we know when they go wrong. How do you tell what a lump looks like in breast cancer? What does skin cancer look like? What do bruises mean and when does skin get infected? Did you know that your areola (the bit around the nipple) can grow and shrink in the heat? Or that they can be different sizes? What does it mean if your pupils are different sizes? Periods have pain but how much? When?  What’s the recovery position?

Basically, when they say you know your body, not everyone actually does. And not knowing how other bodies work means that if something’s up with yours it may not be caught until it’s too late. 

(This is from someone who’s spent their adolescence and early adulthood going, “Wait, your body doesn’t do that?”) 

Body education. 

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It’s been a while since I’ve made a post, and I figured that these tips might be extra helpful with exam season approaching. As someone who struggles a lot with procrastination, I do everything I can to fight the urge to put assignments off until the last minute (even though I’m not always successful). 

As always, good luck! (ᵔᴥᵔ)