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Jul

Shana Elmsford: And while I’m in this mood.There’s something deeply troubling, and...

shana—e:

And while I’m in this mood.

There’s something deeply troubling, and kind of pathetic, about tumblrs ran by white women (and men, but lord knows I don’t follow a whole lot of you) that are filled with reblogs from people of color, pics of people of color, and absolutely no original posts of their…

  1. comradeocean reblogged this from secretarchitecture and added:
    sadnessblogging is helped by reading and reblogging things that can articulate what are some of the amorphous things...
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  5. ursulajanelle said: It is gross because it is not just fetishism, but also like they are expecting a pat on the back. Look how progressive I am. Look at how I accept all people and how open I am to all forms of beauty. I am the most evolved person on tumblr. etc.
  6. handaxe said: I feel this way about white ppl who reblog contextless quotes from bell hooks and Audre Lorde alongside sj racism posts and they express this all-caps anger, “OMG I AM SO MAD!! THIS IS AWFUL!!!” but like. that anger feels like a performance to me.