#enlightened beauties

[enlightenedbeauties]

Enlightened Beauties, let's all encourage light skin sisterhood. As light skin women, it's extremely crucial that we support and protect each other. Its also beneficial. No matter the genetic makeup, light skin women have got to form a sisterhood. Whether you're biracial, MGM, or monoracial (black), light skin women should stick together. No matter what others may say, we share a common phenotype, which means we share similar struggles. Let's please remember that we naturally have the look that ALL women want and work so hard to imitate!

#LightSkinWomenUnite #LightSkinSisterhood #TheLighterTheSkinTheGreaterTheWin

[enlightenedbeauties]

Biracials are NOT black

Zazie Beetz photographiée par Pete Thompson (2023)

[velaraffricate]

im so tired of grammar being seen as this boring, dry thing that doesnt really matter and only pretentious people care about! grammar is beautiful!!!

[enlightenedbeauties]

Happy Sunday, Enlightened Beauties! This week we’re taking a look at another hit by the great Vanessa Williams called The Right Stuff, which was the first single off of her debut album. This single was released in 1988. It also topped the Billboard charts and won many awards in 1989. Please enjoy!

[nobeerreviews]

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

-- Bruce Lee

(Roma)

[enlightenedbeauties]

Enlightened Beauties💕💞

intimacy 🫶🏾

[allanodyne]

holding on to hope is a different kind of pain

by AllanOdyne

[enlightenedbeauties]

Public Service Announcement: There have been increased attacks against Asians in the U.S. and other countries, which is completely unacceptable! Here at Enlightened Beauties, we stand with our Asian brothers and sisters! Let us mourn the innocent lives lost due to anti-Asian hatred! End Anti-Asian Hate!! 🇯🇵🇹🇼🇰🇷🇻🇳🇭🇰🇹🇭🇵🇭🇸🇬🇱🇦🇰🇭🇨🇳

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[holistichealingg]

[sunkissedlake]

I understand completely that at the end of the first season Jayce and Viktor's relationship could be seen as platonic. I understood it- but now? After what I just finished watching with my own two eyes? That is gay behavior. The queerest of queer

[reverie-quotes]

She doubled over and embraced herself, because there was nobody else to do it.

— Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

[shutyourfacemonsterlover]

There's an element in many BATB stories that I feel goes a little unnoticed by the general audiences, and it's something lost in the year of white feminism / pearl clutching / Buzzfeed media analysis, that categorizes these stories as "problematic" and in that...when you strip these stories down, these stories are about disabled people finding humanity. Abuse survivors attempting to gain control of life after years of trauma.

I mean it's a bit obvious, but you take out the allegory, the fantastical elements...the Beast is disabled, in a way, that their physical functions can't allow them to function in society.

Like, even Quasimodo is mute. the fantasy isn't even that dense some times lol.

Their abusers (and often the true villains) are often figures in power: parents, religious leaders, politicians...Precisely the type of people in reality that mistreat the disabled in the first place, from abusing at home to passing laws in society that invalidate and downright exterminate their existence.

Like, there's no coinicidence why a lot of these stories shaped the horror genre. and how both genres attract a lot of neurodivergent or queer fans.

So to see these stories being transformed to be thought of "ew creepy incel nice guys" fantasies is so tone deaf. Men dont fantasize being ugly, traumatized and living isolated by society, fam. they like imagining themselves being either the Luke Skywalkers or the world or the Darth Vaders, lol. Something active and with power. (And why Fr*llo in Hunchback isn't the same- he has power and represents society, but that's a talk for another day)

And if you think disabled, deformed, neurodivergent people aren't mistreated, mocked or osctracized anymore...like girl what fairytale you livin' in. i want in lol.

And why these stories hit stronger when the Beast was born a monster (or deformed as a child), instead of a relatively "normal" man committing an accident (but that's just me). Life can be cruel to you just for something you can't control, and a lifetime of pain changes you, not often for the good, but it's real. (and also why that mantra of "abuse turns you kind" can be very very dangerous talk, not all victims respond the same to trauma)

And that's also why BATB adaptations where the Beauty also is an outcast herself (Elisa, Entrapta, Dea, modern adaptations of Esmeralda), and can relate to the Beast's alienation, hit stronger in my eyes. Because compassion is often the key to these stories, and well, who understands your pain better than somebody who's gone through the same thing? (and also why "female monster"-type characters are also very fascinating to read about but also rarer to see ).

[enlightenedbeauties]

I don’t care who gets mad but…

Can Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Mary J. Blige, Beyoncé (the skin bleacher), Rihanna (another skin bleacher), Jasmine Sullivan, or any other non light skin female singer do THIS?!

Didn’t think so.

An underated queen!!!

[connectingwithsoul]

And even if we go into the next life and our memories get erased again, I will remember you.

@connectingwithsoul

[enlightenedbeauties]

Rest in paradise, Jacky Oh. Even in death, us light skin women still get bullied and attacked.

[enlightenedbeauties]

Biracial Beauty

Biracials are NOT black