Photographs From ‘The Black Panthers’ Series By Ruth-Marion Baruch (circa 1968-1969) Via The UC Santa

Troye Sivan - Rush (2023)

Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s

Are you Okay, Inoue?

Ichigo and Orihime

“As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (2001)

Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante

Anyone but The Black Girl, A Story of Shipping in Fandom

Table of Contents

I’m not racist!!1!

Inexplicable reasons of dislike, not explained

Why that white girl who showed up for 2 minutes is more worthy of romantic affection than her

She’s strong; she’s independent; she don’t need no man

You can’t trust her, you just can’t

Stolen looks? Passionate kissing? Steamy sex scene? Sorry she doesn’t have chemistry with him

Who cares if it’s canon?

Why that minor character white guy is more worthy of romantic affection than her

He’s already in a relationship, so you can’t ship Black Girl with him, sorry

If she doesn’t have a weapon, if she can’t fight, she should just be written out, because!

There are 200 white dudes on this show, we don’t need Black Girl!

What’s a queer black woman?