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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:35:51 -0400

hakoshi: brightestbuzz: heterosexually-challenged: dealanexmac...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:07 -0400

brightestbuzz:

heterosexually-challenged:

dealanexmachina:

Best cosplay ever.

omg. if you’re too young to know who this is supposed to be then we can’t be friends.

AAAAAH! SO AMAZING.

tastefullyoffensive: [completelyseriouscomics]

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:52:16 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[completelyseriouscomics]

How to break up with someone: Give them a sock and tell them they are a free elf now.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:15 -0400

How to break up with someone: Give them a sock and tell them they are a free elf now.

loveisneverbetter: scoopstmk: sushi aaaaaaaaaannnd now I’m...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:46 -0400

loveisneverbetter:

scoopstmk:

sushi

aaaaaaaaaannnd now I’m hungry

Danielle, lets get sushi soon!

Just let me know when! I’m pretty free during the day.

sushi aaaaaaaaaannnd now I’m hungry

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:29:59 -0400

sushi

aaaaaaaaaannnd now I’m hungry

psuedofolio: NOW WITH SLIGHTLY LESS “BATMAN BEING BATMAN”...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:10:53 -0400

psuedofolio:

NOW WITH SLIGHTLY LESS “BATMAN BEING BATMAN” RESULTS

So I noticed there was a glut of new hits on the old one, and I remembered I’d been wanting to make a bigger new one. This time, I’m also starting a tag #randraw for people who want to post and share their results.

HAVE FUN!

truebluemeandyou: DIY Harry Potter Monopoly Game from Design in...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:34:41 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Harry Potter Monopoly Game from Design in Technology here. For how to make the board, cards, etc… go here. For the printable files (board, spells, potions, properties etc…) go here. *Read the comments on each post for additional tips and tricks for making this game. This must have truly been a labor of love and is so well done. This is obviously not for commercial use so please don’t sell it. First seen at Geek crafts here.

For lots more Harry Potter themed DIYs go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/harry-potter

It’s so beautiful.

lati-negros: writeswrongs: cavetocanvas: Gordon Parks, Dr....

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:31:20 -0400

lati-negros:

writeswrongs:

cavetocanvas:

Gordon Parks, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark conducting the Doll Test, Harlem, New York, 1947

In the “doll test,” psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark used four plastic, diaper-clad dolls, identical except for color. They showed the dolls to black children between the ages of three and seven and asked them questions to determine racial perception and preference. Almost all of the children readily identified the race of the dolls. However, when asked which they preferred, the majority selected the white doll and attributed positive characteristics to it. The Clarks also gave the children outline drawings of a boy and girl and asked them to color the figures the same color as themselves. Many of the children with dark complexions colored the figures with a white or yellow crayon. The Clarks concluded that “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” caused black children to develop a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. This photograph was taken by Gordon Parks for a 1947 issue of Ebony magazine. (via)

You want to know what is exceptionally fucked up?

The same study was replicated in 2008. Dark-skinned children still by far selected the white doll. Repeatedly.

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark - Panamanian

twiststreet: wizardvictor: Walt Peregoy, everyone. Disney...

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:06:01 -0400

twiststreet:

wizardvictor:

Walt Peregoy, everyone.

Disney legend Walt Peregoy. (See also)

thesims3official: The Sims 4 is Coming 2014! #TheSims4 Just....

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:26:03 -0400

thesims3official:

The Sims 4 is Coming 2014! #TheSims4

Just. Just stop. I can’t handle this. I’m still exploring Sims 3. This is just mean.

blueflame91: ms-monochrome: did-you-kno: Lost Generation. I’m...

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:52:09 -0400

blueflame91:

ms-monochrome:

did-you-kno:

Lost Generation.

I’m a part of Lost Generation

and I refuse to believe that

I can change the world

I realize this may be a shock but

“Happiness comes from within”

is a lie, and

“Money will make me happy”

So in thirty years I’ll tell my children

They are not the most important thing in my life

My employer will know that

I have my priority straight because

Work

Is more important than

Family

I tell you this

Once upon a time

Families stay together

But this will not be true in my era

This is a quick fix society

Experts tell me

Thirty years from now I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce

I do not concede that

I will live in a country of my own making

In the future

Environmental destruction will be the norm

No longer can it be said that

My peers and I care about this earth

It will be evident that

My generation is apathetic and lethargic

It is foolish to presume that

There is hope

And all of this will come true unless we reverse it.

Source

there’s a great video of someone reading this poem

Fuckin love this poem

groins: cherrispryte: Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 –...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:57:12 -0400

groins:

cherrispryte:

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003)

Oh. Sobbing. Okay.

I will never, ever not reblog Mr. Rogers because he was a perfect human being.

creolesoul: A History of Black people in Europe It is...

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:44:14 -0400

creolesoul:

A History of Black people in Europe

It is generally known that black people have been residing in European countries since the early colonial times. But even before the 15th century and during Roman times, a time when colour of skin still wasn’t a racist stigma but just another physical feature, black people lived in Europe. Remains of a man with black African features were found in England recently, dating his life back to the 13th century. Read this article for more info.

Besides that, facts have been found of black people living in different parts of Europe, although I don’t want to overstate their presence or influence. But it is generally known that during the Muslim era of the Iberian Peninsula (from the 8th century AD until the 15th century AD) people with dark skin were part of daily live. The Muslims who invaded Spain and Portugal around 700 AD were a mixture of black and dark people from North-Africa. They were often referred to as Maures, wrote about and painted, way before the dehumanization of black people started.

I added above Jan Mostaert’s portrait of a nobleman, guest of the Queen of Austria. This painting dates back to the early 1500’s in what we now call Belgium, then part of the Duchy of Brabant. There is no doubt this man has African roots while being a respected member of European culture. We can only guess that this man is of Maure origin, i.e. a Muslim having converted to Christianity or even the second or third generation of converts.

Below I will go deeper into the subject. I will give you some internet links, book references and a list of early Europeans of African descent, each time linked to their wiki page. If you know more about the subject I invite you to add information in a comment.

Al Andalus

Many blacks who were Muslims converted to Christianity after the emirate ofAl Andalus was abolished (end of 15th century). But the Reconquista took centuries (8th-15th century) and during those times black people gradually integrated the Christian and Northern European world. Among them were noble men and scholars. The negative image of blacks, as natural slaves, only gained prominence in the 18th century when the transatlantic slave trade became a central piece of European economical activity and later when European nation-states were being established.

Slavery and racism

Of course slavery existed before racism. In the 15th century blacks and whites were enslaved indiscriminately. Blacks in the America’s could become free men and own their own slaves and land (which was rather common in colonial Brazil for instance). It is only in later years that being black made you a slave forever and by birth, or at least a kind of human always inferior to white people. This racial perspective on identity and humanity only gained authority in later modern times. Read more on the subject here.

Coat of Arms

Black people were part of European imagination and reality from very early times. Read more here and here. We can say with certainty that there were black people in Europe before that white people reached the area south of the Sahara. North Africa, Iberia and the Middle East were the crossroad where black and white intermingled. In Europe references to blacks was a positive sign of strength and military power. Still today you can find many blacks in coat of arms for towns all over Europe, central, south and north, dating back to the middle ages.

Some Literature

After the 15th century, Portugal entered an intense relationship with African kingdoms in the Gulf of Guinea and the Congo coasts. Slave trade (although not based on race) and exchange between the kings led to the presence of Europeans on the West- and Central African shores, just as Africans in Portugal. Accounts from those days tell us that the sight of black people in the streets of Lisbon wasn’t a rarity during the Middle Ages, more on the contrary. I want to refer to following books for those who want to know more about this topic:
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe(eds.)
Africa’s discovery of Europe, David Northrup

As a consequence of the slave trade free blacks also arrived in Europe between the 16th and 19th century. Blacks lived in London, Liverpool, Lisbon, Seville, … during the 17th and 18th century. Other historical books with scientific authority give you in depth knowledge of this:
Hugh Thomas’s ‘The Slave Trade’
Ivan Van Sertima’s ‘African Presence in Early Europe’
All this publications teach us something about this hidden part of European history.

Leo Africanus

Leo Africanus is often stated as one of these black and European noble men and scholars. But it is rather speculation to state if he was black or white. He was definitely a Maure but as racism, whiteness and blackness were unknown concepts as we know it today, we can’t know his ‘race’ for sure. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Even very common socio-cultural concepts of today such as ‘French’, ‘German’ or ‘English’ didn’t exist in those days such that it would be silly to argue whether historical figures of those days were German or French. Same thing is valid for the white and black race as defined today.

Famous Europeans with African ancestry (1500-1900)

Below I will list some of the most famous figures of European modern history (after 1500) who happened to be black or have African ancestry, but were integral parts of European (high) society. Most of the time the African ancestry of these people is ignored by history books although acknowledged and accepted by most history scholars. I think it throws a new light on the concepts of race and the meaning of blackness in the 21st century.

Alessandro ‘il Moro’ de Medici 1510-1537
Duke of Florence

Abram Petrovich Ganibal 1696-1781
Major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and nobleman of the Russian Empire

Anton Wilhelm Amo 1700-1775
German Philosopher

Ignatius Sancho 1729–1780
Author and abolitionist, UK

Olaudah Equiano a.k.a. Gustavus Vassa 1745-1797 Author and abolitionist, UK

Chevalier de Saint Georges 1745-1799 A famous musican, composer and swardsman of his times
Listen to his music here.

Thomas Alexandre Dumas 1762-1806 A general of the French Revolution

George Polgreen Bridgetower 1780-1860 Musician and composer
Listen and watch here

Alexandre Pushkin 1799-1837
Famous author, great-grandson of Abraham Petrovich Ganibal

Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870
French author of the world famous tale of ‘The Three Musketeers’, Thomas Alexandre Dumas’s son

John Archer 1863-1931
Presumably UK’s first black mayor, political activist

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 Musician and composer
Listen to his music here

(via afroeurope.blogspot.nl)

yourpalfriendpatine: brofiling: white privilege radically...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:16:36 -0400

yourpalfriendpatine:

brofiling:

white privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros

This is how brofiling actually works in real life. The Week Magazine ran with this image as their cover sketch.

Just so it is said, clearly and unambiguously: the Tsarnaev brothers are white guys. They are white. The FBI’s own wanted poster for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lists his race as “white”, but you would never know it from the cover image on The Week.

Hold up the cover to someone else, and ask them how many white people they can see on the cover. Chances are they will identify Gabby Giffords on the top left and the image of the Boston policemen (all white men) on the top right, but how about those two guys in the center? Nope, not a chance that anyone would say these caricatures look white.

Why? Because in addition to being white they are also “Muslim”, which is the current dehumanizing “Other” that whiteness has constructed as a sanctioned target for violence in US popular culture.

This is how white privilege works in media representations and everyday life: when the criminal suspects are demonstrably white men, seize upon any aspect of difference and magnify it such that they become Othered, non-white, and menacing. If it is too hard to do so, simply dismiss them as aberrations and isolated cases of insanity. This is also how white culture, specifically the process of whiteness in conjunction with white privilege, portrays several non-white identities, including those that are now considered white but at one time were decidedly not so. For example, see here for how the Irish were depicted as violent apes or lazy drunks in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Taking a break from tumblr.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:55:39 -0400

delusioninabox:

Because I can’t handle this anymore. I may or may not keep drawing the dailies on the main site.

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I hope I’m not adding to your depression fire. I’ve been there though and it’s a dark place.

I just recently discovered your dailies. Many of them, including the one about effort, helped me realize that I’m not alone in my struggles as an artist and it’s ok to feel the way I do sometimes. I am very unsure of myself to the point that it’s extremely difficult for me to finish what I start. But I can’t see myself doing anything else so I’m stuck feeling like a failure at the one thing I’m good at. Reading your comics lets me know that I’m not the only one and I’m trying really hard to overcome my lack of confidence.

Take all the time you need.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:47:12 -0400

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:06:21 -0400

Merry Brides: DIY: Marbled Paper Goods

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:10:28 -0400

Merry Brides: DIY: Marbled Paper Goods:

merrybrides:

You can use your marbled paper for so many things! I choose to make some cute little name cards as well as some little stir sticks.

Supplies

Cardstock

4 Colors of Acrylic Paints

Wooden Dowels

Mini Clothespins

String

Water

Liquid Starch (you can buy it right near the spray…

lohrien: Illustrations by Isaiah Stephens dA l tumblr

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:05:31 -0400

lohrien:

Illustrations by Isaiah Stephens dA l tumblr