#light of the east

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[enkays-den]

Some captures from yesterday's stream ✨

[tea-tuesday]

stopped by niconeco zakkaya in the east village!

[robocop1906]

Just going to the store for some milk

[thisaintourhome]

one the spookiest sets of photos i've ever taken in a single night

east vancouver, bc. november 2022.

[rebellum]

Full on saying "sex based oppression isn't real, that's a radfem talking point" seems like way too much to me. Like, it IS real. Every single person who was assigned female at birth, or who is considered to be female bodied in any way (so, including eg trans fems who may be considered female bodied due to surgery, intersex people who were maybe assigned as female later on in life), is oppressed because of that. That's an inarguable fact.

But that doesn't mean every single person who was assigned male at birth oppresses every single person assigned female at birth through the axis of sex. Like, obviously trans people who were amab don't have more social privilege as a group than cis gender conforming women.

Both things can be true at once.

[emaadsidiki]

Big Apple 🍎🗽

[vintagecamping]

A family camping in East Alligator River

Kakadu National Park

1977

[jadafitch]

Deer Isle Thorofare Light with nesting bald eagles. Located on Mark Island, which is also a wildlife refuge, maintained by the Island Heritage Trust.

[chlobody]

the swimming hole

[arc-hus]

Kohan Ceram Offices, Tehran - Hooba Design

https://www.hoobadesign.com/

[1eatboys]

I keep seeing the odd post here and there mentioning that Ballister Blackheart is white in the Nimona comic and it hurts my heart a little each time I see somebody say that bc he’s actually not! Ballister Blackheart is canonically Asian in the comic, he is East Asian and simply has light skin.

I just find it saddening and wrong (granted I’m white myself so maybe it’s not my place to have an opinion on) to erase a character who is canonically a poc just because they have light skin :/

This is not a diss to people who didn’t know or people that were mistaken, that’s sort of the reason I’m making this post, so more people can know the truth rather than be misinformed or assume incorrectly.

(Context of the photo attached is that it is from a QnA Nate did on the Nimona comic years ago)

Edit: added alt text of everything written in the photo

[spacedlexi]

it shouldve looked like this

[nejjcollectsbooks]

Mehndi : The Timeless Art of Henna Painting by Loretta Roome

Is a history on henna body art across cultures in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. For such a popular practice among women of these cultures, there is not enough literature on it, instead, like history, common folklore and cultural practices that are passed down through oral traditions, the art of henna is also passed from one woman to another. Which is why it's great to come across a female author who is able to put into such eloquent words its importance, benefits, and cultural significance and be one of the few to record its history.

[toyastales]

Brickell Neighborhood, Miami, Florida

[orionsangel86]

How cool is it that so many people across both hemispheres got to witness something usually reserved for a much smaller area all because the sun is throwing a huge tantrum right now. Just throwing out huuuge amounts of energy and our planet is like cool lets make pretty colours in the sky with that. Thats called turning a negative into a positive on a celestial scale 😌. We should be more like Earth lmao