aloha nico.

    15 Mar 2010

    The worst part of being allergic to melons is that you can’t just indiscriminately pick over fruit trays assuming that since the kiwi is on the other side from the melon, that they haven’t intermingled.

    Lest you want to wake up the next day with a face so puffy that it looks like you’ve had some sort of work done.

    The skin around my eyes is so tight from the swelling that it takes effort to blink.

    I’m also late for work, because I woke up at 7:04 AM. My watch is also off by an hour, because I have yet to change it to accurately reflect DST, and I wore a different one yesterday. Did that stop me from going to Starbucks? No, it did not.

    12 Mar 2010

    “We have experiences in which race and ethnic misunderstanding play a huge part — however, most of us can identify that it was a negative experience and do not wish to duplicate this. The levels of awareness vary and some individuals pay more attention than others — but most of these oblivious people stumbling through racialized experiences are not racist. To call them so is to over-use the word and undervalue its significance and meaning.”

    I am Belligerent. — Fellow Crackers

    Tumblr, thank you for that piecing together that awesome post title.

    This argument really solidified why it’s important to argue against a distinction between “date-rape” and “rape-rape.” The distinctions in each and every instance of rape can come out in the details, but it’s all rape, and it all the same issue, the same event, and the same fucked up mindset.

    Racism is racism. Whether it’s people asking you “where are you from” or the fact that different ethnicities in America find themselves having to present themselves somewhere in a triangle between Indigenous, Black, and White because that’s all a lot of white people are really capable of grasping. It’s a longstanding history of, what you call in a later post, “racial accidents.” It’s white people preferring the company of white people, and since they currently hold the “gateways to success” if I can make up term, whether they mean to or not, choose the white person over the person of color. You’re telling me that the fact that I tense up when I’m passing a dark skinned black man in baggy clothes on the street isn’t racism? That’s it’s a “racial accident?” This is all racism. And not calling it that, as robot-heart pointed out, is diminishing the term.

    ETA: sorry for the poor initial formatting.

    (via sexartandpolitics)

    I really have nothing to add to Danny’s point.

    11 Mar 2010

    11 Mar 2010

    I love the colour palette on this sunset-inspired (at least in my mind) shoe from Vans. It’s available now through Atlanta’s Wish or your local Vans Vault dealer for around $60.
As usual, I’m a huge fan of the mix of materials, especially the integration of ripstop, a material I’m more accustomed to seeing on jackets.

    I love the colour palette on this sunset-inspired (at least in my mind) shoe from Vans. It’s available now through Atlanta’s Wish or your local Vans Vault dealer for around $60.

    As usual, I’m a huge fan of the mix of materials, especially the integration of ripstop, a material I’m more accustomed to seeing on jackets.

    11 Mar 2010

    “Unable to run a mug shot, the CBS art department apparently decided it was just as helpful to give readers a bird’s-eye view of a rape in progress. Pure prurience is nothing new on the Web, but I would expect more discretion from the first network news division to have a woman as its public face. It’s obviously time to lower my expectations. How does the image, which a colleague called “rape clip-art,” add anything to the story? It doesn’t enhance the piece. It’s more likely to enrage a reader (if that reader is me, apparently) than enlighten her.”
    Double X on the subject of a New Jersey man on trial for allegedly raping five of his daughters, impregnating three of them, and systematically terrorizing his family for years.

    11 Mar 2010

    Mistral

    Mistral

    Riviera

    Riviera

    Nouvelle Vague

    Nouvelle Vague

    Summer nail polish colours from Chanel. Yes please.