Black Bunnies – The African American Playboy Bunny
Some where on tumblr I read that the bunny outfit was created by a black fashion designer. I think I reblogged it.
Tag: representation matters
It’s about time we elbowed our way into the industry!
Black Women Find Success in the Lucrative Business of Black Hair Care
Posted by For Harriet
Not much seems unusual about Judian and Kadeian Brown’s storefront in a tidy plaza off Church Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where every block seems to have its own African hair-braiding salon.
Posters of African-American women with long, sleek hair fill the window. Round jars of shea butter belly up to slender boxes of hair dye on the shelves. Wigs perch on mannequin heads.
What makes Black Girls Divine Beauty Supply and Salon’s visitors do a double-take is the skin color of the proprietors. “I go, ‘Look at all the faces on the boxes,’ ” said Judian Brown, recalling other shopkeepers’ and customers’ surprise when they realize she is not an employee, but the owner. “Who should be owning these stores?” [My emphasis]
“More girls should join boys’ teams so it could be a tradition and it wouldn’t be so special.” – 13-year-old Mo’Ne Davis, the 18th girl to play in the Little League World Series in its 68-year history, the FIRST girl to throw a Little League World Series SHUTOUT. Her fastball? 70 MILES PER HOUR. #throwlikeagirl #BlackGirlsROCK
WIZARDING SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD: SOUTH AFRICA
Clinging haphazardly to the jagged sides of the Drakensberg escarpment, the South African Institute for Witches and Wizards is an impressive conglomeration of architectural wonder and eccentric contraptions that keep the sprawling institute welded to the steep slopes of the mountains. Many say roaming the institute is an arduous test of one’s stamina as the primarily vertical layout of the institute relies on a plethora of stairs to navigate (luckily it has gotten better after the restriction on the indoor use of broomsticks was lifted). Over centuries, many pockets of shallow caves have been dug out and furnished by students who like to spend their free time observing the vast landscape before them from high up in the mountainside. The student population supplies much of the profits for Mava’s Zoomtastic Glasses, which is a popular accessory for observing the abundance of wildlife that roam the lands.
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I love my skin!
http://www.discordcomics.com/minoritymonsters/04-lucie-decline/
I like to think she wears a jumper because a bakery is the only place warm enough for her demonic skin.
Vote for the next one!
Emma Watson represents the UN, in her role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, in Uruguay where she was campaigning for a higher representation of women in politics.
We should see all the things that make people and the world different and not pretend that we are colorblind or that one story is enough to represent a whole group of people.
They’ll talk about diversity and anti-racism, but will interpret people pointing out whiteness and straightness as an insult rather than a fact. They’ll see it as an attack, because they’re used to comfy invisibility-as-default. They’ll praise “colorblindness” as though it’s something to aspire to. “Colorblindness” as an ideal has been criticized at length by many, many smart people—let’s listen. Don’t strive to make the marginalized invisible; strive to make the privileged visible.
It’ll make people uncomfortable. Trust me. They’ll live. The least the privileged can do is be aware of it.
Notice. Again and again and again, until it drives you to frustration because it’s everywhere. Until it drives others to frustration because they’re starting to notice, too, and now they can’t stop either.
Do not allow the barrage of majority narratives to pass unremarked upon.
Do not let the privileged be the default.
Notice.
The need for these fictional black women to exist and not be labeled as mean or unfeeling just because of their show of strength, assertiveness in their position of power, and their ability to see things objectively when the vision of everyone else around them is clouded by feelings is absolutely necessary.
When their fandoms attack and dehumanize them, making them out to be a bunch of cold-hearted bitches, it angers me. It angers me because they are examples of black women here in the real world whose character is targeted for fighting to be taken seriously in their careers, demanding to be equally respected as their counterparts, and not apologizing for succeeding when the odds were never in their favor.
The names are fictitious, their stories aren’t.
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