radiosaturday

September 19, 2014

rosalarian:
thelingerieaddict:
buttononyourlips:
reverseracism:
lifandiveira:
riverclans:
lifandiveira:
asieybarbie:
ignore anyone who tells you otherwise.
No white girls?
no
Why? You do t think white girls should be told they’re beautiful?
The amount of white whine in the notes…it’s ridiculous.
Every time we ask for the inclusion of young girls and women of color in pieces similar to this, where everyone is white, we’re told
“If you want representation then make it yourself and shut up about this!”
“Let the artist make whatever they want and include whoever they want! Freedom of expression!”
“If you need to see someone who looks like you in order to feel included then you are the real racist.”
Yet all I see in the notes are:
“If you want equality you have to include EVERYONE including white girls and guys!”
“it’s pathetic that the only way you can feel good about yourself is by excluding others.”
No doubt they feel some type of way with their own bodies but what is dedicating a piece such as this to women who fall no where near the Eurocentric standards of beauty taking away from white women when they have so much representations and campaigns centered around them.
~Eon
In case people like lifandiveira would like a simple explanation as to why white girls are not needed, go to images.google.com and type the word “beauty” and tell me what you get.
Seriously.
If you’re not blown away by the insanely disproportionate amount of white women depicted with a dash of women of color scattered about, then I don’t know what to tell you.
It is amazing how the exact same conversations happen again and again when women of color attempt to carve out space for themselves.
Even before I saw the notes I knew exactly what conversation I would find. This is beautiful and perfect.
wanted to reblog this with this convo too