#blackladies

[rahmae14]

Team B L A C K Ladies 🖤🙌🏻 #events #blackladies #blackcolor #singles #instagood #instaoutfit #outfitoftheday #instagrammer #crowneplaza #girlsday #team (at Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpZkyjWLVoh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spicedbush]

The amount of black women I've seen today talking about how they're done trying to find solidarity with white women because it seems they betray us at every turn is overwhelming. I don't blame them, I'm right there with them

[tuxedoger818]

#SailorMoonETC

[american-neurotypical]

people will see reblog a post with a screenshot of a person saying something dumb (or not even dumb! maybe just kind of silly) and say "this is why i hate white americans"...while the screenshot is from a black person...

[miguelnothing]

#SailorMoon x #BlackLady x @copixcatalanian https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpq0vxqon7J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[galleryfedorova]

Check out Erotic Art, "Hot Africa III", Women Painting, Black Ladis, Jackson Pollock Style, Artist Ben Black (2023), From Gallery Fedorova

[misguidedfanscosplay]

Neptune is back! After several years on the backburner @redbird_cosplay invited me to a group shoot as neptune. Everything that could go wrong with this cosplay absolutely went wrong. But she may be back at gold nova depending if i get these shorts white again 😂 📸: @dinoraven.cos Dark/Black Lady: Dinoraven Moon: @pyrostudies Mars: @princess.sushi Venus: @lacedbutterfly Jupiter: @ichess.cos Neptune: me Mercury: @redbird_cosplay #sailorscouts #navyscouts #sailormoon #darklady #blacklady #sailorscoutcosplay #navyscouts #sailormars #sailorvenus #sailorjupiter #sailorneptune #sailormercury #mashupcosplay #beach #goldcoast https://www.instagram.com/p/CnemmAISLHi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[oonajaeadira]

Soft Din is my favorite Din.

Thanks, friend.

WINKTOBER DAY 3: Anal (Din Djarin)

Din Djarin is soft. Raise your hand if you agree.

What is the term the counselors and healers call uptight people on your world….oh yes, ”anal keeping”–“anal” for short–that’s Din, anal.

This gun goes here, this crate is only for munitions, this cargo net is full even if it looks half-empty, this isn’t a toy, this isn’t the day we have bone broth, this helmet stays on, this is the way.

And once every cycle he’s down in the hold of the Crest with you, his silent, sulking, hulk of a form taking up the space as he slowly and meticulously cleans each weapon in his locker, one after the other, whether he’s used it or not.

His presence is unnerving, and so you begin to talk, telling him stories while you work on the ship’s wiring–terribly dull stories of your care-free childhood, your loving parents, your prosperous village, the boring, safe, idyllic life you had before getting off that rock and flying away with a Mandalorian who just wanted his ancient heap of a gunship to keep flying.

But before long, you notice that the more you speak, the longer it takes for him to clean his weapons.

And after that…you learn to see beyond the scowl of the visor to the melancholy beneath, recognize his voice not as irritated but battling something like shyness, his need to keep the tools of his trade clean not so great as the draw to be here, to be confided in, to let his heart be lightened by someone’s laughter and, ultimately, to be near the one gentle person in this lonely galaxy that doesn’t seem to be frightened or intimidated by him….someone that has so many interesting stories to tell….

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WINKTOBER 2022 MASTERLIST

[elebath]

black lady (sailor moon)

by denki blo

2024

#fanart #illustration #handwriting #uruseiyatsura #blacklady #ブラックレディ #セーラームーン #ファンアート #イラスト #smalllady #manga #comic #anime #90s #synthpop #art #music #electric #cool #comtemporaryart #frozen #ice #girl

[chimaeracabra]

What the hell is going on with Reddit? Suddenly, a lot of the subs I regularly post in have gone private, and my comments and posts I've made in them are now gone. r/blackladies and r/dietetics in particular. And I don't think I was just randomly banned from all these. 🤨 Not happy about this! Lots of helpful posts and responses in these subs. 😡

[darthvatrix2]

This is an ongoing discussion/debate in r/fantasy writers. They're definitely INVADERS. At least this one sought you out. One actually went to reddit-BlackLadies to pump them for information. Then, they went to reddit-Queerwomenofcolor. Same question: what are some stereotypes of Black women.

Black people have been writing Speculative Fiction since the 1880s in America. When minority communities started having discussion in 2014 about representation, it concerned too things: 1) like the the TV shows "Friends" and "Jerry Seinfeld" there were absolutely no POC, when NYC is literally the melting pot of the world, Every Fantasy genre written by White writers lack any description of other races; even in pacing. 2) Minority communities want to write about their own stories that represented themselves against White publishers being indifferent.

I never in a thousand years, I'm 61 and should have known better, that they would have a twisted interpretation, that they should write OUR stories.

White publishers are willing to publish these books. "A new exciting voice with a fresh perspective." So beautiful and authentic. "

This phenomenon I find to be intellectually, morally and ethically bankrupt.

Hey there. I'm writing a story set in New York City and am not American. I have few characters, but most of them are arab or white. I can't help but feel a bit wrong about it, given that America is much more diverse than that, and NYC being an emblem of that. Do you think I should force myself to include more representation or should I just tell my story, and leave that more diverse cast to some other story I could write? I know this is a neverending debate and there are many opinions about it, but I've always agreed with everything you've said in matters of representation in fiction, and so I'd be curious to know your personal answer on it.

I'm a little confused by how you're using "representation," here. It sounds like you think representation = "randomly sticking BIPOC everywhere." I think when most people use that word, it means something more like "create an accurate or at least plausible depiction of a group or place." In actual New York, there are plenty of Middle Easterners and white people who live in relatively homogeneous small communities where they might only see someone of a different ethnicity on the subway. If your story is set in one of those communities -- and you do stick some random BIPOC in that subway scene, because that's plausible -- then it sounds like your characters might be an example of good representation.

(Note: if you're not writing something set in the real world, but it features human beings, it needs to represent humanity as a whole, unless there's a good in-world reason not to. But if it's our world? You can get specific.)

Here's the catch, tho: plausibility is relative. If you've absorbed some biases and haven't done enough research, then you might end up writing something that feels plausible to you, but which isn't actually representative or plausible to anyone else. The way to avoid this is to do the research and check (to the best of your ability) your biases. For example, you aren't American, I assume you've at least visited NYC? If not, you should. You can visit some of the communities I mentioned! You can eat in restaurants, visit mosques, have conversations with actual real people who are living the life you're writing about! If you don't have the time, money, or spoons to do that, there are other ways to do good research -- films and YT/Tiktok videos made by people from the communities in question, for example. But you'd need to watch a lot of them to get a good representative sample.

I recommend this book to all the writing students I've taught at Clarion, and other writer workshops: Writing the Other, by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward. There's a particular part of it that seems relevant here, which is a kind of hierarchy of "appropriate" appropriation, I think first mentioned by Diantha Day Sprouse but included in Writing the Other. Basically it says that if you want to write about a culture that isn't your own, you can learn about that culture in one of several ways: a) You can be an Invader, and just go take whatever intellectual and artistic tidbits from that culture that you want, regardless of how damaging this might be to members of that group. Example: non-Indigenous people who write about actual secret practices, or who encourage the desecration of sacred places. b) You can be a Tourist, in which you're still mooching from that culture, but at least you're figuratively paying someone for it and accepting tidbits that the culture has chosen to sell. Example: getting a sensitivity reader. Or c) you can be an Invited Guest, who brings in as much as they take out, and who has formed relationships that are beneficial to all involved. Example: being part of an exchange program, both as a student and later as a host, and maintaining those friendships outside of the program.

The goal is to be an IG, but that isn't always possible. Tourist is still better than being an Invader. (...I feel like I'm leaving out a category. It's been a while since I read the book; any more recent readers want to check me here?) But the closer you can get to actually participating in that culture, the more your work will be informed by reality instead of biases or misinformation, and the more likely your work will read as plausible not just to you, but to your widest possible audience -- people familiar with the culture and people who aren't.

(I'm a little concerned about your phrasing of "force myself to include more representation," note. Why would that need to be a forced thing? A writer's goal should be to write something that feels lived-in and authentic to [if it's a real place] most people's experience -- not to meet some arbitrary standard, but because that's how you master immersion and characterization. If good immersion and characterization feel forced to you right now, that suggests you need more practice. I recommend writing short stories!)

[miguelnothing]

#sailormoon #blacklady x @copixcatalanian https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAgL2MNaCR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[galleryfedorova]

Check out Erotic Art, "Hot Africa II", Women Painting, Black Ladis, Jackson Pollock Style, Artist Ben Black (2023), From Gallery Fedorova

[journalingpromp21]

Gracias a @blackladys-things21 y a toda la gente que me ha ayudado a llegar a los 5 reblogueos.

"Lo tuyo te encuentra"

[nb14]

[secretchopshopobject]

Black ladies are love

Mann. I am Indian but I love my black ladies. They are pretty, they are confident, they are caring and what else.