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May 10

vampishly: underbluelightsmakeup: lovelydyedlocks: Ms. Willa’s World HAIR!!! <3 I now have the strong urge to reverse my hair colours XD

vampishly:

underbluelightsmakeup:

lovelydyedlocks:

Ms. Willa’s World

HAIR!!! <3

I now have the strong urge to reverse my hair colours XD

May 06

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Apr 25

makeuploversunite: Giveaway! Just an I love my followers giveaway! This is a mixture of my favorite products and summer products :) Products included Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray - Great for keeping your makeup on all day, prevents your makeup from looking cakey/powdery, can be sprayed before and after makeup. Too Faced Natural Eye Palette - Great every day palette with a mixture of matte and shimmery shades. 2 NYX lipglosses in Beautiful (medium pink) and Nude Peach (peachy coral) 2 NYX blushes in Mauve (dusty rose) and Summer Peach (peachy pink) Real Technique’s Blush Brush - Great for powder, blush &amp; bronzer. Deluxe Mini Benefit Porefessional Primer Rules Giveaway ends Friday May 3rd, 2013 Must be following Makeup Lovers Unite Likes do not count as entries Reblogs count as one entry, can reblog up to 10 times total International, all countries can enter! Good luck :)

makeuploversunite:

Giveaway!

Just an I love my followers giveaway! This is a mixture of my favorite products and summer products :)

Products included

Rules

Good luck :)

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Mar 31

Gee, I don’t know how to research writing Characters of Color tastefully:

racismschool:

missturdle:

1.) It’s not hard to figure out what to do, there are plenty of resources.

People say you have to get it right, do your research, but … what else are you supposed to research? It’s not like people with more pigment in their skin have completely different personalities than those with less, any more than any individual. It’s frustrating when I can’t even figure out what the heck people are talking about.

Bam. Research step one done for you.


2.) Writing characters of color/minorities is a good thing.

I don’t like the notion that fantasy authors are under some kind of obligation to present ethnically diverse worlds. I’m English, and a fair sized part of English history consists of unwashed beardy white people in mead halls. If I’m inspired by my own history and cultural heritage, then that’s what I’m damn well going to write about. I’m not writing about some other culture just to appease the people who think there aren’t enough black characters in fantasy, or whatever. You want it, you write it. Nothing to do with me.

You’re wrong.


3.) Your all White Fantasy Land Didn’t Exist in Real Life:

…the rather medieval one has more diversity than real medieval Germany probably had […] In a world with medieval means of transport, it just doesn’t seem natural to me to mix dark-skinned people with blue-eyed blondes in one setting. I just try to give the people a colour that fits the place where they live.

You mean like the people from Africa and the Middle east who began to take over Southern Spain, as well as the Jews who were pretty well spread out throughout Europe, the Middle Easterners they would have met on the Crusades, and the incoming Mongol Hordes who spread to the very edges of Eastern Europe before the empire finally collapsed? Don’t forget that Turkey is right there, and the silk road would have gone from Song Dynasty China, through India, and ended in Turkey before moving further westwards into places like Germany. Also the attempts at the Franco-Mongol alliance would have been pretty interesting. (That’s about the 13th century - arguably smack dab in Middle Ages Europe and definite contact between France/Christian Europe and the Mongolian Empire.)

Unless you’re writing everything in the far reaches of Denmark or something, historically speaking, I call bullshit on people who have societies that are only all white ever, because it’s just inaccurate. Consider the relative closeness of Northern Africa to Spain, or Turkey to the rest of Europe, the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Crusades, Slavery existing in Europe, including England, the slave trade, imperialism, Pax Mongolica, The Silk Road, Jewish Diaspora, the Islamic Empire vs The Holy Roman Empire, Egypt, Algeria, China’s sailing across the world, The Maruyan/Gupta Empires of India, tea trades, Columbus sailing in hopes of finding China, etc, etc, etc.


4.) I mean I just don’t believe you anymore. It’s unrealistic. Seriously guys.

You’d think I’d just denied the holocaust or something. Get a grip. All I said was that I’m going to write about my own cultural experience and anyone who thinks I should do otherwise for the sake of political correctness can bugger off.

This isn’t even about being PC this is just not being wrong about everything.

good lord.

This is an amazing resource. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this.

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Mar 30

callingoutbigotry: skullvomit: anniemok: The Red Umbrella Project, a sex workers’ rights advocacy group, is sending out postcards to politicians with illustrations of interviews of sex workers’ experiences with the unfair NYC “Carrying condoms as evidence of prostitution” law. RUP director Audacia Ray sent me this text from an interview with “a 22-year-old person who identified as black, Puerto Rican, and gender non‐conforming.” I hope I did this person justice with these drawings. Sex workers’ rights is an issue extremely close to my heart, so I was very happy to do this job. Big thanks to this person for sharing their story (not sure of their pronouns), to Dacia for the job, and to Voz for recommending me (and also for every time she gives me a good compassionate kick in the ass when I’m off-base about anything, and really everything she posts). This is awesome and holy shit that is a fucked up clearly bullshit law (but I mean aren’t most?). Sex work needs to be decriminalized and pigs need to stop harassing people for fucking existing. Taking away sex workers’ condoms doesn’t stop them from having sex, it stops them from having safe sex

callingoutbigotry:

skullvomit:

anniemok:

The Red Umbrella Project, a sex workers’ rights advocacy group, is sending out postcards to politicians with illustrations of interviews of sex workers’ experiences with the unfair NYC “Carrying condoms as evidence of prostitution” law. RUP director Audacia Ray sent me this text from an interview with “a 22-year-old person who identified as black, Puerto Rican, and gender non‐conforming.” I hope I did this person justice with these drawings.

Sex workers’ rights is an issue extremely close to my heart, so I was very happy to do this job. Big thanks to this person for sharing their story (not sure of their pronouns), to Dacia for the job, and to Voz for recommending me (and also for every time she gives me a good compassionate kick in the ass when I’m off-base about anything, and really everything she posts).

This is awesome and holy shit that is a fucked up clearly bullshit law (but I mean aren’t most?). Sex work needs to be decriminalized and pigs need to stop harassing people for fucking existing.

Taking away sex workers’ condoms doesn’t stop them from having sex, it stops them from having safe sex

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anarcho-queer: badreputations: glasscoffin: innercityforestfire: angry-hippo: socialismartnature: The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit. Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlY When I was in prison I worked 3 shifts a day, 5 days a week, starting at 5 AM and ending at 8 PM. I was paid $5.25 a month. Pay for the inmates who facilitate UNICOR workers (by making their food, washing their laundry, etc,) is even lower than the wages cited in the above graphics. The prison industry is also a slave industry, and it isn’t just corporations who benefit. All the furniture you see in federal buildings, post offices, DMVs, etc, where do you think it comes from? Prison labor. I think a lot of people know about states that use prison labor for license plates, but fewer people know that the plaques on doors at city halls, and sometimes the doors themselves, come from prison labor. The incarcerated are a hyper-exploited class unto themselves, and almost no one seems to be helping them to organize themselves. I have no sympathy for those in prison. They’re lucky if they’re paid in my opinion. Slave labor and punishment aren’t the same thing. are you fucking kidding me? a woman was recently imprisoned for FIVE years. FIVE. Why? Because she lied about her address to get her kid into a nicer school. CeCe McDonald was put in jail because she defended herself against a white guy. People are arrested for fighting back against their abusers. People are put in jail for having addictions. People are put in jail for being homeless. Not to mention, prison populations are overwhelmingly POC. Why? Institutionalized racism, dude. It’s not a coincidence the picture is of a black woman. It’s the truth. and it’s fucked. Our “justice” system is fucked.  I don’t feel sorry for prisoners getting paid such low wages. No matter what they’re in for. Break the law all you want, but don’t be stupid enough to get caught. If you’re going to do something that you are told is illegal then do it right and cover your tracks. Even if you were not aware you were doing something illegal you should have, because ignorance of the law is never and excuse. If you’re stupid enough to get yourself caught then I think you’re lucky if you get paid anything. Besides, why should a prisoner get paid even minimum wage when most of them are living under better conditions than half the elderly people stuck in nursing homes today. Three hot meals a day, a roof over their head, clothes on their backs, education if they should want it, regular access to exercise equipment, a job provided to them if they should choose to work, and health care all paid for by the tax payer. There is a reason they are incarcerated and there is a reason they don’t get paid as much as someone working on the outside. People like you piss me the fuck off. Do you honestly not see a problem with the government making a huge profit off of prisoners, 50% of whom are non-violent offenders. 50% of prisoners are also parents to a minor child, including more than 120,000 mothers and 1.1 million fathers. 2/3 of them are non-violent offenders.  The united states has more prisoners than any country in the world, accounting for 25% of the world prison population. And the US gives our prisoners much longer sentences than any other part of the ‘developed’ world. The typical mandatory sentence for a first-time drug offense in federal court is five or ten years, compared to other ‘developed’ countries around the world where a first time offense would warrant at most 6 months in jail. And prison labor isn’t fucking voluntary. If prisoners don’t work, they serve longer sentences (prison labor may reduce sentences for some), lose privileges, and risk solitary confinement which is torture.  Our government and private for-profit prisons makes billions a year from prison slave labor. That is why we have the largest prison population on earth and why we give harsh sentences. Fuck all the asshole reblogging this post who ‘see no problem with this’ and support slave labor. Millions of people are being criminalized for being poor and having addictions and you’re lending your support to the cruel rich fucks profiting from our misery. I’m usually not the one to wish suffering on people but YOU deserve to be slave inmates working for pennies a day more than half of those serving time.

anarcho-queer:

badreputations:

glasscoffin:

innercityforestfire:

angry-hippo:

socialismartnature:

The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit.

Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlY

When I was in prison I worked 3 shifts a day, 5 days a week, starting at 5 AM and ending at 8 PM. I was paid $5.25 a month. Pay for the inmates who facilitate UNICOR workers (by making their food, washing their laundry, etc,) is even lower than the wages cited in the above graphics. The prison industry is also a slave industry, and it isn’t just corporations who benefit. All the furniture you see in federal buildings, post offices, DMVs, etc, where do you think it comes from? Prison labor. I think a lot of people know about states that use prison labor for license plates, but fewer people know that the plaques on doors at city halls, and sometimes the doors themselves, come from prison labor. The incarcerated are a hyper-exploited class unto themselves, and almost no one seems to be helping them to organize themselves.

I have no sympathy for those in prison. They’re lucky if they’re paid in my opinion. Slave labor and punishment aren’t the same thing.

are you fucking kidding me? a woman was recently imprisoned for FIVE years. FIVE. Why? Because she lied about her address to get her kid into a nicer school. CeCe McDonald was put in jail because she defended herself against a white guy. People are arrested for fighting back against their abusers. People are put in jail for having addictions. People are put in jail for being homeless. 
Not to mention, prison populations are overwhelmingly POC. Why? Institutionalized racism, dude. It’s not a coincidence the picture is of a black woman. It’s the truth. and it’s fucked. Our “justice” system is fucked. 

I don’t feel sorry for prisoners getting paid such low wages. No matter what they’re in for. Break the law all you want, but don’t be stupid enough to get caught. If you’re going to do something that you are told is illegal then do it right and cover your tracks. Even if you were not aware you were doing something illegal you should have, because ignorance of the law is never and excuse. If you’re stupid enough to get yourself caught then I think you’re lucky if you get paid anything. Besides, why should a prisoner get paid even minimum wage when most of them are living under better conditions than half the elderly people stuck in nursing homes today. Three hot meals a day, a roof over their head, clothes on their backs, education if they should want it, regular access to exercise equipment, a job provided to them if they should choose to work, and health care all paid for by the tax payer. There is a reason they are incarcerated and there is a reason they don’t get paid as much as someone working on the outside.

People like you piss me the fuck off. Do you honestly not see a problem with the government making a huge profit off of prisoners, 50% of whom are non-violent offenders. 50% of prisoners are also parents to a minor child, including more than 120,000 mothers and 1.1 million fathers. 2/3 of them are non-violent offenders. 

The united states has more prisoners than any country in the world, accounting for 25% of the world prison population. And the US gives our prisoners much longer sentences than any other part of the ‘developed’ world. The typical mandatory sentence for a first-time drug offense in federal court is five or ten years, compared to other ‘developed’ countries around the world where a first time offense would warrant at most 6 months in jail.

And prison labor isn’t fucking voluntary. If prisoners don’t work, they serve longer sentences (prison labor may reduce sentences for some), lose privileges, and risk solitary confinement which is torture. 

Our government and private for-profit prisons makes billions a year from prison slave labor. That is why we have the largest prison population on earth and why we give harsh sentences.

Fuck all the asshole reblogging this post who ‘see no problem with this’ and support slave labor. Millions of people are being criminalized for being poor and having addictions and you’re lending your support to the cruel rich fucks profiting from our misery. I’m usually not the one to wish suffering on people but YOU deserve to be slave inmates working for pennies a day more than half of those serving time.