Tangible Thoughts of Tish

dimensionalcucumber: thewolfsbaneeffect: wheelsjustkeeponturnin...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:08:37 -0500

thewolfsbaneeffect:

wheelsjustkeeponturning:

impryceless:

altondeon:

Hussein Chalayan F/W 2013

ummmmmm. did somebody just changed the game here

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE BARBIE STARTED IT LIKE 10 YEARS AGO! FINALLY!

Imagine walking into public wearing one of those

Wardrobe malfunction? More like wardrobe BIEN-function!

fancifullauren: irishfangirlshipper: dorkstrider: why do women’s clothing designers believe that...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:08:23 -0500

fancifullauren:

irishfangirlshipper:

dorkstrider:

why do women’s clothing designers believe that girls do not need pockets

It’s so they can sell us bags

lovequotesrus: EVERYTHING LOVE

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:06:32 -0500

lovequotesrus:

EVERYTHING LOVE

choirfreak8718: trackgirl22: African-American Academy Award...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:20:24 -0500

choirfreak8718:

trackgirl22:

African-American Academy Award Winners

i forgot mo’nique won one!

papertopen: The Ultimate Dog Shaming [x] Oh man this is the...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:17:19 -0500

papertopen:

The Ultimate Dog Shaming [x]

Oh man this is the best one ever.

Gradient Lair: How Internalized White Supremacy Ruined a Black-Owned Small Business

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:16:26 -0500

Gradient Lair: How Internalized White Supremacy Ruined a Black-Owned Small Business:

gradientlair:

A young Black woman that I know worked for a small, Black-owned restaurant. She was the general manager. The owner was an older Black man (around 50-60).

She created the business plan, pricing points, menu offerings, and general ideas for how the place would run. It’s only fitting since she…

notesonascandal: codeswitchshawty: shitrodsays: See this is...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:08:24 -0500

notesonascandal:

codeswitchshawty:

shitrodsays:

See this is why I fucks with Tyler

ahahhahahahhahaha

I can’t even express how funny this is to me.

Tyler just earned a fan.

oh Tyler!

Photo

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:17:35 -0500

blkgirlblogging: eyan-j: escapedgoat: So…many…things…wrong. s...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:16:49 -0500

blkgirlblogging:

eyan-j:

escapedgoat:

So…many…things…wrong.

sweet minty jesus

YOU HAD ONE JOB.

musicnerdery: theintersections: Jack Nicholson gives no fucks...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:14:05 -0500

musicnerdery:

theintersections:

Jack Nicholson gives no fucks at all.

Sad thing is he woulda got all of it tho.

now see, Jack

karnythia: notesonascandal: youngriseup: Photograph from the...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:11:36 -0500

karnythia:

notesonascandal:

youngriseup:

Photograph from the early 1990s of Dean Steed’s (Daniels and Younge Freedom Fighter) father

Challenging the Racist Mythology of Black “Dead-beat” Fatherhood

The prevailing narrative of Black fatherhood presents African American men through overarching and racist stereotypes of “thugs”, “gangstas,” and “dead-beat” fathers. The myth of the deadbeat Black father asserts that Black men as a community do not enjoy or maintain loving relationships with their children and ex wives or partners. Instead, they flee from responsibility. This image of Black men as fathers dominates the public conversation and the media. The media are guilty of reducing Black fathers to a monolithic community of second class fathers and by implication second class men. Their presentation disregards the true diversity of Black fatherhood and Black masculinity. In the public narrative of Black fathers the media deliberately omit the representation of Black men who exercise strength, creativity, and agency in enduring the plight of the Black male.

What the larger narrative neglects to include is the significant influence of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in the criminalization of Black men. This creates a national climate that decimates the possibility of active fatherhood among Black men. The media and Black fatherhood critics never acknowledge the toll that the prison industrial complex plays in leaving many Black mothers, women and children without husbands and fathers. Added to this, Black men who leave prisons struggle to find gainful employment to fulfill the traditional role of patriarch and provider. This reality continues for them as we move into an increasingly global economy which out sources jobs thus removing economic opportunities from outside of the Black community. The high and unprecedented incarceration rates of Blacks within a prison economy that reaps the benefit of Black labor further diminishes and complicates the power of Black fathers to provide for their families.

My father is loving, involved and is raising three daughters. Although he is separated from my mother who was his first wife, he remains a constant and ever present force in my life. He is neither a “baby-daddy,” “dead-beat,” “thug,” or criminal. My father like many Black fathers defies the myth.

BLACK FATHERS DEFY THE MYTH!

My Black Father defies the myth.

He was 17 when I was by born & my grandma didn’t like my mama cuz she was dark, so she told him I wasn’t his baby. He could have left. He was encouraged to by his tragically color-struck mama. But he didn’t. He stayed with us. Then my sister came. Then he married my mama. Then my brother came. And he stayed. He stayed thru all their challenges. He parented us. He did well with all that. Now he’s helping me with my children. He’s not only a father, he’s like a Super, Next Level father. Kinda awesome for a Black teen dad from the 1970s. from the

My deadbeat ex is a white guy from a “good” family. He’s not the only deadbeat in the family, his brothers also have issues with supporting & seeing their kids. My involved loving husband is a black man I met while I was divorcing my ex. We were friends first, and then a couple. Despite being 4 years younger than I am, he stepped right up. Y’all can miss me with this black men don’t raise kids nonsense.

"The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that even when you are the youngest person..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:10:04 -0500

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The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that even when you are the youngest person ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, many people will use the occasion not to hold you up for all of the amazing things you obviously are, but to tear you down for the ways you don’t look like them, the ways your name isn’t their kind of right, the ways you don’t remind them of themselves, the ways you are not blonde or blue-eyed, as if those things could possibly matter when set against the otherwordly talent and beauty and brilliance you possess.

The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that you come into it already expected to be less than you almost certainly are, the genius and radiant darkness you possess already set up to be overlooked, dismissed or erased by almost everyone you will ever meet.

The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that even when you are everything, some people will want you to be nothing. They will look at you through the nothing-colored glasses they will put on every time you enter a room. And the bigness of you, the outstandingness, the giftedness, will be invisible to them.

The thing about being a little black girl in the world who is already, at nine years old, confident enough to demand that lazy, disrespectful reporters call you by your name, is that most people will not understand the amount of comfort in one’s own skin it takes to do that, will not be able to grasp the sheer fierceness of it, the boldness, the certainty, the love for yourself, and will not be blown away at seeing you do it, though they should be.

The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that your right to be a child, to be small and innocent and protected, will be ignored and you will be seen as a tiny adult, a tiny black adult, and as such will be susceptible to all the offenses that people two and three and four times your age are expected to endure.

But take heart.

”

- Mia McKenzie, “The Thing About Being A Little Black Girl In The World: For Quvenzhane Wallis,” Black Girl Dangerous 2/25/13

Simply put, I love this post!

(via racialicious)

LOL @ this whole exchange

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:38:32 -0500

LOL @ this whole exchange

Power Flats

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:49:51 -0500

girlwithcurves:

Although I’m an avid heels girl, I wear flats quite often.

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blkgirlblogging: monsieuralvin: MY Japanese favorites (I can...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:01:10 -0500

blkgirlblogging:

monsieuralvin:

MY Japanese favorites (I can tell sushi is there twice)
I obviously don’t have a lot, but I don’t want to put…a billion pictures on this.
So excuse the really popular ones that may be missing (:

i want all the things right now.

Get in my mouth Japanese food