#darkskin women makeup

[chichimodele]

📸: Justine Skye

[darkskinblkwomen]

IG: memu.conteh

[iheartyaya]

I get money I’m a star

[mskennedymayes]

What my shirt says

[tyraracquel]

Blooming 💐

IG: tyranobanks

[liseauxlethal]

Birthday Girl 🌟

[renaissancecreature]

The way I just can’t get over them makes no sense. God really created a beautiful woman when he made me 🥹🥹🥹

#melanin #melaninfeed

[ellapastoral]

[mixedkid-matchup]

you do not have to answer this!! I'm using you to confess my dubious feelings for the Percy Jackson series bc you also expressed like some weird feelings about it, and I kind of thought the series was untouchable bc of how much everyone I see fawns over it, and I have GOT to get this off my chest to someone who might get what I'm saying. But I have major issues with the writing/premise/series bc it's just feels so deeply colonized and it's bothered me since it FIRST came out and everyone in middle school and high school was reading it and teachers were assigning it. Like the whole premise for the Greek gods being in the US is that they follow Western "progress" and it completely disregards all the amazing things Indigenous did and our way of life, and also removes the importance of place-based culture for both Greek stories and Native peoples (like okay all the Greek stuff moved to the U.S. but wth happened to all our spiritual figures?? The story completelya cts like Native people weren't here and didn't have complex beliefs and ways of life connected to the land, and the gods were just free to take over here with no issues). As a mixed Indigenous kid it just rubs me wrong in all the worst ways and the academic systems love affair with Greek and Roman stuff and Rick Riordan's sheer popularity has been forcing this stuff in my face foreveeeerrrr 😭😭 I was surprised to see your tags about the fandom being weird before too tho since I don't interact with it, so I hope you don't mind this ask and just know I kinda feel the same way!! Ok thanks bye sorry for the rant.

BRO I HAVE HAD THIS RANT ON HAND FOR A LONG TIME ITS OKAY!!!!!!!!!

I THINK IF HEARD ABOUT THIS ACTUALLY. but you explained it way better. like when i first read percy jackson ok fine i was 11, i obviously caught onto the ableism and such but i did not catch onto this until i thought about it when i got older. you're super right. the whole thing about ww2 being caused by demigods was the weirdest shit ever i literally did not remember reading it until i read lightning thief again last year. why did hitler need to be child of hades. THAT IS QUITE LITERALLY HOW PERCY DESCRIBES HADES WHEN HE SEES HIM. LOOKING LIKE HITLER. then what you're saying how they move with the places that are the most progressive and basically take over..... like it's just ..... incredibly misplaced and insensitive.

but about the fandom being weird (its literally encouraged by riordan's book tbh), in heroes of olympus, hazel is a black girl from lousiana in the 1930s?? or 40s idk anyways i think she dies and then nico brings her back. whatever, everyone draws her lightskin and with orange hair, and super skinny, (which she's from louisana. shes darkskin and does not have "caramel" hair i hate white men sometimes.) and shes like 13 btw and in a relationship with frank whos like 16. weird as hell and everyone thinks theyre so sweet. and also rick cannot write meaningful young women. and especially not girls of color. like its WEIRD how piper is portrayed as some pick me girl she constantly feels the need to express shes not like the Aphrodite girls. and rick had to make it weird with aphrodite anyway by making them a whole stereotype of snobby boys and girls who love putting on makeup. they had drew, an asian girl & counselor of aphrodite, straight up mean to piper bc she likes jason. like for no other reason. drew only wants to participate and go on the quest because of jason. and other stereotypes like making leo, latine, be super flirty.

and lets really talk about how annoying annabeth was about the blondes are dumb stereotype because, girl we can talk about misogyny and people not letting you do things because of it, but lets also talk about how you are TWELVE, and the blonde stereotype is tired. i never liked annabeth, she was really tone deaf as someone whos half black. OH AND FRANK. they had this weird ass arc where they implied he was fat because of lack of confidence? like when he got confident he, lost weight... because of a blessing of mars? i dont even know.

like as i get older its more and more annoying to see it. i literally rolled my eyes when i saw rick talking about colorblind casting when people got mad about annabeth. he could of said anything else. how this could reconceptualize annabeth's arc around misogyny and now racism. and purposely alter her character to fit this new black annabeth. but no. people treat colorblind casting as a pinnacle of progressiveness.

[chichimodele]

📸: Justin Skye via social media 💎

[iheartyaya]

A 90s classic

[mskennedymayes]

February 2024💗

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[youngblackandlit]

I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you will never understand. 

In class we discussed the poem Twenty-Six Ways of Raymond Patterson. Each stanza provoked a discussion on how we see Black men. Before we even read the poem, our professor asked us to imagine a Black man in our head and tell her what we see. There were various answers but a majority of the class imagined a darkskin man, myself included. Throughout the day we discussed toxic masculinity, societal standards, and expectations that are set on Black men. Our professor ended our class by telling us to bring a picture of a liberated Black man. Basically, a Black man who is free from the confinement of society. A Black man who has no limit to his expression. I immediately thought of singer/songwriter Prince. Prince has broken barriers never heard of before. He thrived in his androgyny with flamboyant clothes, makeup, and a perm. I see Prince as both liberated from the expectation of black masculinity and sexually liberated. Not only did Prince not conform to toxic standards with the way he looked, but the way he acted as well. In the article, “Was Prince’s Androgyny About Identity Or Brandin” Prince stated “ I don’t know. It’s attractive for me. I mean, I would like to be a more loving person, and be able to deal with other people ’s problems a little bit better. Men are really closed and cold together, I think. They don’t like to cry, in other words. And I think that’s wrong, because that ’s not true.” Prince stated this in reference to being asked about if femininity in men is not attractive. This shows how Prince did not feel it wrong or unappealing to present feminine traits, mostly presented in women, especially at that time, in men. While I agree that Prince is a superb icon when discussing breaking out the box black men are placed in, what gives him the space to experiment with his feminine and masculine energy in the public eye? One could argue that him having a lighter complexion allows him to play around with society’s binary in the black community. Although, there were times that Prince did receive heavy backlash for his androgyny and expression. This does not take away from the fact that the world’s response would be different if a tall, dark skin black man tried to have the same freedom as Prince. 

Works Cited

Vogel, J. (2022, October 12). Was prince's androgyny about identity or branding? Forbes. Retrieved March 13, 2023, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/joevogel/2018/05/06/was-princes-androgyny-about-identity-or-branding/?sh=7a9334aa450a 

- Mimi

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[theprincientist]

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