What the fuck? A makeup look for autism awareness, with the stupid autism speaks puzzle piece on your face?
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» so this exists...
please kill me
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» Regarding A Police Force Too Illiterate To Read Its Own Previous Press Release « opthunderbirdinfo
TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault, violence, racism.
Thunder Bay, February 2008. A thirty-four year old First Nations woman was abducted from Simpson Street & Victoria Avenue. She was bound with duct tape, driven 90 km North of the city on Hwy 27 (Armstrong Hwy). She was taken on a snowmobile sled to an ice hut, tied to a bed naked, raped for three hours, impaled with objects; her head was pushed into a hole in the ice. Kevin Lewkoski, age 42, drove this brutalized woman back to the city and dumped her at Robin’s Donuts, May & Arthur Street. An OPP helicopter search found Lewkoski’s ice hut. He was arrested on shift at Lac Des Iles Mine. On Feb 6, 2009 he was sentenced to 1 YEAR JAIL; OUT IN 6 MONTHS. Judge David McCartney.
FEBRUARY 2008 IN FUCKING CANADA. IF YOU’RE NOT OUTRAGED YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION. THESE AREN’T INDIVIDUAL MONSTERS. THIS IS SYSTEMIC FUCKING INSTITUTIONALIZED VIOLENCE AGAINST ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA.
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“You should be a politician.”
My Mom’s response to me saying I am tired of white people movies.
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Guy in the LGBT Centre: I don’t get your hair, you’re a woman and men have that hair. I don’t get why women want that hair, why is it shaved?
Me: *blank stare*
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» Justin Bieber Gets Indian Inked as Nelly Furtado Supports Idle No More
Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber has pulled another move bound to be received with head-scratching in Indian country, getting an image of an Indian head tattooed on his back.
Bieber irked many Natives with ignorant comments he made to Rolling Stone in July about his supposed Indian heritage. “I’m actually part Indian,” he said. “I think Inuit or something? I’m enough percent that in Canada I can get free gas.”
The issue of Bieber’s Native heritage was never settled, but he says his Indian head tattoo is a tribute to his grandfather.
Don’t take that the wrong way — Bieber is not saying he researched his genealogy and found that his grandfather is (or was) of Native heritage. Thatdidn’t happen. What happened was this: Bieber’s grandfather used to take young Justin to Stratford Cullitons hockey games. The logo for the Cullitons — formerly the Warriors — is an Indian head. “This is for u Grampa,” Bieber wrote when he sent out a photo of the tattoo via his Instagram feed.
Meanwhile, with the Idle No More movement growing, the Canadian mainstream is taking notice. This has been both a good and a bad thing, with many non-Native Canadians voicing opinions that oddly echo Bieber’s remark about “free gas.” On message boards and Twitter, we’ve seen many comments to the effect that First Nations people are spoiled by a lot of government handouts and now want more. A mainstream entertainer with Bieber’s influence could do a lot to change minds if he or she were to explain First Nations issues accurately, or at least dispel some myths.
Could Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado take up the cause? Furtado endeared herself to many in Indian country with her respectful use of hoop and fancy shawl dancers in the video for her single “Big Hoops (the Bigger the Better),” and on New Year’s Eve she gave Idle No More a nod in the midst of a performance. In the video below, she tells Idle No More protestors in the crowd, “I can’t ignore your signs.”
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setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:
Okay so I know this is kinda taboo but anyways.
Frida Kahlo: Not too easy on the eyes. I mean she’s got the lady-mo and the monobrow thing going on. She didn’t know where to put her blush or what shade lipstick would obviously suit her skin tone. Really, she’s a bit of a wreck. So this got me to thinking. What would have happened if her girlfriends had done the right thing and taken her to a beautician, (which clearly needed to happen)? I did a subtle re-paint over the top of her original self-portrait to “conceptualize” what it would have looked like if she had been whisked off to Beauty Works or the likes….I didn’t want to alter the integrity of the original painting too much. What do you reckon?
Did you really just skin-lighten a Frida Kahlo self portait
and remove her facial hair
and call her “a wreck”
and then say she couldn’t choose a fucking lipstick to suit her skin tone
after you changed her skin tone
how can one person be everything that is wrong with the world at once
I don’t think she changed her skin tone but still.. ! What the fuck are you doing? Who cares about making her beautiful by western beauty industry standards. You’re going against everything that makes her really beautiful. Frida had a bunch of fucked up shit happen to her, unibrow and all. And she wore her facial hair with pride. It’s part of who she was and what made her a strong, proud, awesome woman and symbol of feminism. The fact that you consider her friends not taking her to a salon to ‘fix’ her ‘flaws’, wrong. Only serves to show how shallow you really are. You don’t have to buy in to the shit they sell you to be beautiful. And fuck you, photoshop pictures of yourself next time.
I beg to differ.
Removing the lowlights and expanding the midtones and highlights to cover previously dark areas in order to “even out” the skintone counts as “lightening”.
Here’s a half-and-half comparison to better see what was done here:
This is basically what most hydroquinone skin-bleaching creams are touted to do.
The audacity of this person to try and “fix” Frida. I cannot.
It’s a white man that did this.
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And it’s sad because by his (original) artwork, he does seem talented. Why is it that such talented people do such terrible things?
Because white supremacy.
Fuck anyone who thinks this is okay.
The fucking white male privilege, the sexism and the racism…fucking astounding.
-Redd, who is still pissed as fuck over this bullshit.
Let’s not forget that he:
- Thinks there is a formula for “pretty girls”. [x]
- Portrays racial stereotypes. (Note that he usually portrays people from other countries at labourers in field, and rarely shows people from other countries in powerful roles.) [x][x]
- Thinks having the “correct proportions” on a woman means taking away her muscles and making her facial expressions soft instead of badass. [x]
- Uses gender-stereotypical superhero poses. [x][x]
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT
Fuck this, way to ruin a perfectly good piece of art and say incredibly sexist and racist shit about a woman who knew way more about the world than the OP ever will.
