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Serious hair vanity! :)
Hahaha just reblogging a pic of myself
because I can
Fuck modesty indeed! Who needs modesty when you have hair that is SO AWESOME!
I was looking for somewhere to book myself in today. My friend wants me to get an undercut…
Anonymous asked: Hi, my question might seem a little ignorant, so I apologise, but I was curious and had to ask... why do people put an asterisk after the word trans? Love the blog, keep it up. :)
Well hello there anonymous questioner! I don’t get many of these, so I’m now super curious as to who you could be.
As far as I know the * after the word trans is meant to indicate its use as an umbrella term, including people with genders outside of the binary, or people who don’t have a gender at all. Basically it means everyone who isn’t cis, as opposed to just trans men who were assigned female at birth and trans women who were assigned male at birth.
If I’m honest though it’s something I picked up from reading posts by trans* people, and now I’ve just gotten used to writing it that way all the time. So I do sometimes think “do I need the asterisk there”, but I figure using a more inclusive term can’t be a bad thing?
Also thanks for the blog love, I’m glad you enjoy my random collection of Doctor Who, general geekery, feminism and other social justice-y stuff. ^_^
“Television and magazines are often regarded as factors that influence girls to be thinner that leads to young girls to many eating disorders. There are hundreds of studies that draw conclusions between media like television and magazines and poor self-esteem or body image.
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Television makes children, especially white boys, believe that they can achieve things easily whereas black kids are often told that they may not achieve much in life.
‘Young black boys are getting the opposite message: that there is not lots of good things that you can aspire to. If we think about those kinds of messages, that’s what’s responsible for the impact,’ Nicole Martins said.”
You don’t say?
The next time anyone ever says “it’s just a TV show, why are you taking it so seriously?” MOTHERFUCKING THIS.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Womanist Musings: The Empowerment of Willow Smith is About More than Gender -
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The moment the topic of hair and Black womanhood comes up, there will always and forever be a connection to race, but you wouldn’t know that from reading the White feminist coverage on this issue. For them, empowerment of girls, regardless of frame reference, is always reduced to teaching them to fight patriarchy. Allowing a White girl freedom to cut or dye her hair, is a completely different thing than allowing a Black girl to do so. One is about bodily integrity and the other is about bodily integrity and racial freedom.
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Giving Willow autonomy over her hair not only frees her from patriarchal appearance demands, it frees her from White supremacist constructions of Black femininity.
Because judging from what I saw about this quote over the weekend, this is a message that really needs to be heard far and wide. By myself as much as anyone else.
Reblogged bcs I’m brown but not black, and I didn’t get it.
Reblogging because I’m white and so obviously didn’t get this.
Also because of, “many Black women still cannot wear their natural hair at their jobs because it would be considered unkempt, or too political.”
Fucked up shit I was blissfully ignorant of, but that sadly doesn’t surprise me all that much. My friend has a beautiful afro and told me recently that she’d had strangers in bars literally tug on her hair to see if it was a wig. What the actual fuck?
Finished off an open bottle of red wine.
Wanted another glass.
Saw the time and decided to have chamomile tea instead.
I don’t even know who I am any more!
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Remember that time we said we were going to BE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION?!! -
*************** 20th June at 9pm ***************
Put it in your viewing diaries/Sky+/video recorders and what-have-you because we’re going to be on BBC3 chatting body hair and feminism on a new show, “Cherry Healey - How to get a life”. Eek!
Tune in for:
- Frequently flashed hairy bits!
- Swimming pool japes!
- Challenging of stereotypes!
- And our shiny, pesky faces in significantly higher definition!
YOU BET WE’RE EXCITED!
Non-UK folks I’m afraid you’ll miss out on the official broadcast, but hopefully you’ll be able to catch the show after it airs either on iPlayer by using a proxy, or elsewhere on t’interwebs (but you didn’t hear that from us right?).
OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD. It’s probably too late to pull out now isn’t it? *hides under a table*