#america top model

[definitelynotacorvid]

Americas next top model

[incorrectquotesmcu]

Fury: Who’s the most annoying one of the Avengers?

Natasha: Everyone’s equally annoying.

Fury: [raises an eyebrow]

Natasha: ... Tony.

[texaschainsawmascara]

what nourishes me destroys me / quod me nutrit me destruit

ANTM / Angelina Jolie

[undead-knick-knack]

They're all gorgeous. But only one has what it takes to be...

[cokedupblonde]

i need

[icedsodapop]

Look, Tyra Banks is problematic and has been rightfully criticized for the many, many problematic statements she had made on ANTM. But, there's something so hypocritical and rage-inducing about seeing White women viciously commenting on Tyra Banks' physique and appearance at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, saying that she deserved it for making women feel bad on ANTM.

There are a couple things that I think need to be addressed which is:

1. Using fatphobic statements and bodyshaming Tyra Banks and thinking that it's justified becos she had made fatphobic and bodyshaming statements before, does not make you any better than she was. You are still bodyshaming. Also seeing White women thinking they are justified in shaming a Black woman's body? No, fucking no.

2. The individualizing of systemic problems to Tyra Banks. Banks is literally not the only person on ANTM who bodyshamed the contestants on the show. The other judges had participated in it as well, and it tells you a lot about the modelling industry in general. Banks has also been criticized and denied jobs in the past for not meeting beauty standards as a curvy Black woman. Is it too far of a stretch to consider that in order for her, a curvy Black woman, to succeed in the modelling industry, she'd internalized a bunch of toxic beauty standards?

All this to say, I think it's possible to re-evaluate Tyra Banks' legacy and hold her accountable for what she has said and the harm she's complicit in upholding, while also making space to be compassionate and nuanced about her. I mean, if (mostly White) women can see Ballerina Farm as a victim while she's been profitting off promoting white supremacist, cisheteronormative patriarchal values in a pretty soft-lit package to young impressionable pple, I think we can do the same for Tyra Banks?

Anyways, please read this:

[brinty]

[potledom]

FAVORITE OUTFITS ↳ Tyra Banks: [5/?]

[medievalcat]

Betsey Johnson in America's Next Top Model 02x04 (2004)

[heybiji]

feral

[culthermag]

Currently thinking about Tyra Banks’ simple but chic ESPY Awards look from 2000.

I don’t know what I love more… the high ponytails or the shine the bedazzled choker brings to the look. Having lots of thoughts! [ x ]

[soliqz]

antm cycle 5 audition polaroids

[simonetingz]

Toccara Jones for Black Man Magazine (2005).

[cokedupblonde]

me & who

[esoteric44ngel]

[neplusultraa]

World building exercise #5

Quick 10 minute sprint