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Leeks (how do they make us feel?)

done for The Strand Newspaper at U of T

Room with Tree

I'm going to say this once

To my fellow white women: Beyoncé’s LEMONADE is not for us. We can enjoy it. We can blast it loud in the shower. We can appreciate it aestheticly and visually and musically. But it is not for us to appropriate for our own gain. I don’t want to see white women writing op-eds about it. I don’t want to hear your acoustic covers of the tracks. I’m not interested in your critiques, as a white woman, of it. I don’t want you CAPITALIZING on a piece of art that is fundamentally not. for. us. LEMONADE is a beautiful tribute to black womanhood, femininity, the black struggle, and black power. It is NOT for all women, and most importantly, it is NOT for white women to co-opt and colonize and attempt to profit from.

I don’t care if your feelings are hurt because it “doesn’t include enough” white folx. I don’t care. I don’t want to hear about it.

Appreciate the beauty. Sing its praises. Enjoy the depth and the poetry. But don’t try to make what isn’t for you, your’s. In any way, shape, or form.

if i see one more person speak for every black person as a whole im going to honestly lose my mind. stop perpetuating this idea that every black female thinks and agrees with you, or that you SPEAK for every single black female. this is not a do or don’t situation, you don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about.

*takes pics of the sky while in class*

{❀} / Akira Kashiwagi

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