#mixed woman

[ongawdclub]

K e h l a n i

#kehlani #singer #rnb #r&b #pop #hiphop #hip hop #neo soul #mixed girl #mixed woman #mixedgirlmagic

[canmking]

I c e S p i c e

#ice spice #rap #rapper #mixed woman #mixed girl #mixed race

[lexxxiidenisee]

#me #selfies #selfie #thickness #thick #thick hips #thicc girls #thick thighs #plus size #pretty girl #mixed girl #mixed woman #thickwomen #$aw9860

[yungmadzz]

It feels good to love myself again

#selfie #beautiful #love #mixed girls #curlsfordays #curlybeauties #curlynaturalhair #mixed woman #girls with curls #mixedgirlmagic

[soulful-bohem]

Tumblr seein it first. Don’t play with me when I got these shades on 🕶

#me #creole #love #smile #happy #woman #pisces #soulful bohem #vacation mode #mood #good vibes #mixed woman #thick vibes only #thick woman #life #shades on

[gems-x-gabby]

Remants/Aja Barber's Book

Ah remnants. Those potentially pesky pieces of fabric left over after you’ve cut out a pattern. For those, like myself, who order way too much fabric because they are worried there will not be enough, it could mean up to an extra yard of fabric. 

A perfect example is my Cashmeretter Holyoke Dress that I made with this really cool large scale floral fabric from StyleMaker Fabrics. 

Photo of a mixed/black and white woman in the Cashmerette Patterns Holyoke dress

I was so worried that 3 and ½ yards would not be enough to make my dress. I ordered 4 yards because I like to play it safe. Once I finished cutting the pattern out I saw that there was a lot left! I wasn’t sure what to do at the time but I knew I didn’t want to throw it out. 

I never thought to consider remnants part of a fabric stash. What is a fabric stash? Sewists will know - it is the fabric waiting to be made into a lovely garment. Based on what I’ve seen on Instagram, it can be very comforting and personal to each individual sewist. It is a spectrum, some makers have tons, and some have little. 

I am not here to stash-shame! I have a small stash, but only if I count the yards of fabric I have not cut into. If I count my remnants, I realize I do have a considerable stash. I didn’t consider remnants part of my fabric stash until I read Aja Barber’s incredible book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism.

Cover art for Aja Barber's book, Consumed

Aja Barber’s book is a deep dive into sustainable clothing and making practices. It is not lost on her that indigenous folks had been doing this all along, as well as many marginalized black people and people of color. Cultures around the world had been using sustainable practices for generations before colonization and the exploitation of their precious resources.

 It was only recently that people started wearing clothing items only once or twice before considering them “old” and moving on to the next purchase. I know for a fact that my grandfather had one, well made suit that he wore to church every Sunday. Clothing is made for cheaper prices overseas through exploitative labor. The crux is that many folks in America find that cheaper clothing is the only option accessible to them. It’s a vicious cycle.

Aja Barber points out, for those that have the privilege, there is a choice to make. It’s not so much about buying the most ethical, well-made option. It’s about choosing to wear what one already owns and use what one already has. This made me change my view on the remnants in my stash. 

I am trying to stop viewing them as annoying pieces that I could just throw away some day. They have an impact on the planet and they are not something I can just schluff on to the next person. That could end up littering someone’s land one day and I am very uncomfortable about that. 

Mixed/black and white woman wearing a t shirt of remnant fabric, walking away

I recently grabbed all my remnants and put them on display. I think about what I can do with them. I have already made one shirt. To be honest, I don’t love the color blocking, BUT I do love the fact it won’t be taking up space in a landfill. I don’t love it now, but I’m going to try and wear it as long and as often as possible. 

Mixed, black/white woman turning to show detail on remnant shirt

I’m not going to be perfect at reusing, but that’s not the point. The point is to just make an effort and make deliberate decisions about fabric purchases in the future.

#cashmerette patterns #bipocsewist #blackwomenstitch #sewingblog #sewingblogger #blacksewist #mixed woman #reduce reuse recycle #slowliving #fast fashion #slowcontent

[acarillustrated]

thinking about mizu from blue eye samurai. thinking. thinking so much. thinking about how mizu operates outside of gender. like we joke about her gender being revenge but straight up? it literally is. like she grew up as a boy and is most comfortable being a man, but behind that is the feeling of betraying himself because he isn't being honest about who he is and he lives in fear of being discovered. and when he lived as a woman, she found joy there as well. she fell in love, and though she wasn't good at it, she liked being a wife and enjoying a simple life. but in that life too, she isn't being honest about who she is. and when she reveals her true self, it's not a woman, she's a demon, a weapon. she's to masculine to be a woman, and too feminine to be a man. ultimately, mizu is most comfortable when they are being a murder machine. that's when they feel they are being the most true to themself. like a sword, they are neither man nor woman, but a blend of both, which makes them stronger.

#also there's a point to be made about how their identity as a mixed person plays a role in their gender #but i can't really speak on that #it's obvious tho #like that's what the show is about #like the reason mizu is perceived as masculine is because she's half white #honestly the racial thing is more important #which is why it's explicitly stated in the show #but im seeing a lot of discourse about mizu's gender #honestly a lot of mizu's relationship w gender is subtext #like good news tho! #mizu is a woman! but also a man! #it's both at the same time #anyway #ill shut up now #i just love her so much #not art #blue eye samurai #mizu #blue eye samurai mizu #bes mizu

[moonfirebrides]

PlusLoveDesigns

Feminist, body positive, fat positive art by @ruthsdesigns

#fat positive #body positive #mermaid #plus size #plus size mermaid #black women #mixed race women #siren #semi nude #fat #beauty #fat acceptance #body neutrality #black beauty #black woman #dark skin

[ongawdclub]

I c e S p i c e

#ice spice #rap #rapper #mixed girls #mixedgirlmagic #mixed woman

[canmking]

D o j a C a t

#doja cat #rap #rapper #singer #pop #rnb #r&b #mixed girl #mixed woman #mixed race #good lawd 👀

[lexxxiidenisee]

✨️do not disturb✨️

#me #thick #thickwomen #thicc girls #personal #selfie #mirror pic #cozy #bored #do not disturb #mixed woman #mixed girl #mixed #melanin #thickness #thicc af #thick thicc #pretty girl #pretty #come cuddle

[yungmadzz]

#selfie #beautiful #love #mixed girls #curlsfordays #curlybeauties #curlynaturalhair #mixed woman #girls with curls

[soulful-bohem]

Agape

#me #creole #love #happy #pisces #thick woman #agape #black and white #mixed woman

[little-pondhead]

Inspired by this post.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #danny fenton #mad scientist danny #his suit is a mix of Jack and Maddie’s suits #with a lab coat thrown on top #he 100% smacks joker with a baseball bat on live television #and loves to kidnap zoo animals #Batman cannot find mention of the Fentons anywhere #it is driving the Justice league mad #Superman: stop right there kid! #Danny: suck my a s s #Wonder Woman: why do you keep stealing paintbrushes from the local art centers #Danny: I’m a bad bitch you can’t kill me! #Batman: hang on I speak fluent Teen #Batman: …you finna catch these hands #Batman: don’t @ me when you’re six feet under #Danny: I Am Uncomfortable With The Energy We’ve Created In The Studio Today #when the fight is over he’s just like #aight imma head out #it was fun playing #see y’all next time #and just #rips reality a new one #the Justice league can hear someone from the other side talking #as Fenton goes through the portal #‘did you have a good time? i made cookies come tell me about your day’ #the portal always closes before anyone can get through #until one day it stays open and they all make a collective decision to go through #clockwork knows exactly what he’s doing

[stromblessed]

Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

#blue eye samurai #mizu #racism #bes #I am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that Taigen saw Mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal #but I still think that scene is making a point #again I dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously #but its been bothering me ever since I first saw them #I really dont think Mizu just looks like a 100 percent Japanese person...... with blue eyes #and I bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to London where Im sure she will meet plenty of people #who are more than happy to point out their observations to her #also I ran out of room in this post to go into it but this is also what made Mizus marriage an absolutely doomed prospect #Mikio talks about wanting to find the right creature for his lord and well... a mixed race woman is the right creature huh #he just needed a little push imo #getting kind of sad at the thought that Ringo is the only person in Mizus life who knows her whole identity AND accepts it wholly

[junkartie]

Another hazbin redesign bcz why not lul

#hazbin hotel #alastor #i havent even watched it yet 💃 #lmao #a lot of aspects about hus design i luv #i do feel like with how the cast look maybe making him a bit more mixed would b cool #everyone looks too much like every tumblr sexyman/woman ever