My favorite gif in the whole wide world (that doesn’t have to do with cats).
Liam Hemsworth is set to play Ali Baba!!
Yall we really need to protest this shit foreal. This is actually really really racist. This Anglo-Saxxon, Blonde Haired Blue eyed, Australian is going to play a Middle Eastern person. A Middle Eastern folk hero!! There are plenty of great Middle Eastern actors out there that would be perfect for the role. There needs to be some kind of backlash from this. This is Hollywood white washing the history of the Persia. There are no people in that part of the world that look like Liam Hemsworth. If he gets to play Ali Babba, then the next King Arthur better be Idris Elba, Abraham Lincoln should be played by Will Smith, and the next Jesus should be played by Jackie Chan. Sometimes I really hate you Hollywood.
omg this isin’t about RACE this is purely about the ACTING SKILLZ and PERSONALITY of the actor it is purely coincidence that the actor chosen happens to be WHITE eventhough the story has nothing to do with white people. gawd you guys are so SENSITIVE I CANT EVENNNNNNNN!11111111111
My favorite part about Hollywood is the fact that if there’s a terrorist in a movie they’ll use a middle eastern person
but if it’s a movie about a middle eastern hero they use a white guy
that’s totally cool.
All the girls of my class love coloring and each time they color, they decide to make the character they are coloring have blonde hair and blue eyes (unless of course they are certain disney princesses). Always. Each of the six girls who are coloring choose those features. And only one of the girls has those same exact features, the others have equally as beautiful brown hair and/or eyes.
I asked them once why blonde and blue and they replied that it’s because it’s pretty.
Children live-action tv shows these days almost always have a white protagonist or if by any chance they are a poc, they are the only other poc (except for family members) in the show. And if there is a popular girl, she is almost always white (and of course blonde).
Anytime there is a poc on a show, they are the token poc. If they are south asian, they have a stereotypical accent and talk about bollywood, make references to spiritual things and karma… it would just be nice to have more poc characters on Disney children’s tv shows that weren’t so stereotypical and the token poc.
On Thursday it happened again.
Two girls at work were teasing Sharon (one of the two poc kid in the class) about her skin. Saying that it was “yucky” and “dark.” She was just sitting there, tears were streaming down her face.
No one should ever hate their skin tone, let alone a little four year old girl.
The bratty girls immediately got in trouble with the head teacher and I tried calming Sharon down by telling her that she is beautiful and so is her skin. I also tried to make the other girls realize that it’s not okay for them to say that, I doubt they really understand, but I just told them that I was disappointed in them each time they asked me to play with them. They looked guilty, but who knows… four year old girls these days are pretty terrible and catty.
This whole situation was horrible and it made me so upset. I was angry at those girls for saying that, but I had to keep my composure since I was their teacher and my boss was in the room. I just want to make sure that other girls like Sharon never have to feel that they are not pretty or amazing just because of how terrible people can be.
I grew up hating my skin color while in Virginia because I was told by society, by the people around me that being white means you’re flawless, you’re perfect. I was told that dark skin looks rough. That white skin looks delicate and gentle - “like a woman should be.” My mother was called ugly by young white American girls in the playground because she was an Asian woman. I have never seen my mother look so ashamed of herself while trying to take me away because I was angry, I was yelling at those girls. I don’t want any woman of my race to be ashamed of her complexion. I don’t ever want my children or my siblings or my students to go through the same. I love my skin. I love the richness of it. I love how it isn’t white.
I love how it’s a big fuck-you to everyone worshiping and supporting Euro-centric ideas of white beauty.
“WILL SMITH!”
— my 4 year old nephew when Snoop Dog appeared on the tv screen.
remember that time when i followed this one girl’s blog because i had a crush on her cousin (this guy from school)?
Matthew Gray Gubler’s list of reasons to stay alive.
(Source: gublerheaven, via hungryhungryhiba)
“You might be polite about hiding the pain of it but I won’t, I can’t. I’m tired, I’m lost, I call out to Allah in this global isolation. Being a Muslim in a post 9/11 era has killed me on the inside, Mehreen. I have found myself apologizing again and again for things I would never do, for things my religion has never taught me. I have literally waited for people to call me a terrorist while I walk down the pavement in crowds. Your father has been questioned. I have been questioned. We’re scrutinized. We’re spied on whether we’re in USA or out of the country. It doesn’t matter if you’re Arab or if you’re Asian or if you’re African or if you’re European. You’re just a “Mozlem.” And “Mozlems” are bad. I don’t watch TV anymore. I don’t read the newspaper anymore. It’s either us getting killed for being “suspects” or us retaliating and then everyone starts calling us cavemen, barbaric savages. You know how it feels but you hide it. You’re polite about it. You’ve cried about it. Your father has. Your mother has. How does it feel to be subjected to constant paranoia, distrust, hate, xenophobia? Where do I go? Back home? The home that America wants to engage in war with? Do I stay in America? The place where my identity is no more than that of a “bearded terrorist”? Where do I go? Home is where the heart, right? My heart is crushed, Mehreen. There is no home. There is no peace. I call out to Allah after every prayer and weep in sajda. I ask him, Ya Rab, why us? Why? How long do we suffer? When will these people understand that it’s not you, it’s not me, it’s not him, it’s not her, it’s not Islam, it’s just a few bad people. I see our Muslim youth grow old before time with worry, with hurt, with this alienation. When will it stop.”
— My friend just emailed me. My heart has broken into a thousand pieces. Every single word of this hits so, so hard in the core. (via mehreenkasana)
More Illustrations from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edmund Dulac
(via lovecanleavetheroom)
the only thing i’m particularly skilled at is manipulating others into making food for me.
(Source: kurobon, via sonicteeth)
Finals.
