The Yoruba Foreigner

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:46:13 -0400

gettingahealthybody: GPOY!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:05:58 -0400

gettingahealthybody:

GPOY!

Love.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:02:31 -0400

Love.:

sumney:

There are many artists that tap into vintage 60’s soul in their songs, but Laura Mvula really stands out.

Past, present, and future. This lady is a timeless gift.

vouslalala: nappynomad: I was OBSESSED with these as a kid. I...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:29:38 -0400

vouslalala:

nappynomad:

I was OBSESSED with these as a kid. I didn’t have HBO, so my granny tapped them for me and I picked them up from her whenever the tape was full. I’m juts now realizing how much these are influencing my current art project.

for chris

I didn’t know these existed

mymotivationstoloseweight: mybodyneedschangeandineedcash: wildl...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:15:51 -0400

mymotivationstoloseweight:

mybodyneedschangeandineedcash:

wildlovelyrose:

c1it:

britishslang101:

got-glasses:

that-filipino-kid:

Disney used to be on point. Idk wtf that Shake It Up and A.N.T Farm crap is. Even second generation Disney had SOME core to it; Early Hannah Montana, Early Suit life of Zack and Cody and Wizards of Wavery Place. Even Sonny with a chance was ALRIGHT. Now they’re just getting desperate.That’s so Raven taught things like ^THIS. Now the only thing Disney talks about is boy crushes. Lizzie McGuire had a variety of different episodes, And one episode was even about Miranda having an eating disorder. Something SERIOUS that people can ACTUALLY relate to.Then there was Phil Of The Future and Even Stevens- Mainly for entertainment as opposed to teaching moral lessons, But at least they were creative and entertaining. This new crap is just pathetic.

This.

Preach.

AMEN.

reblogging for my childhood omg

YASSSSSSS!!!

I SAY THIS EVERY TIME I REBLOG THIS, BUT I MADE THIS COMMENTARY ON MY PERSONAL BLOG LIKE A YEAR AGO AND “THAT-FILLIPINO-KID” HAS BEEN GETTING CREDIT FOR IT ALL THIS TIME, BUT IT’S MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE.

(via

TumbleOn)

dontstoptriing: i-think-you-are-lovely-so-i: This is an...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:49:38 -0400

dontstoptriing:

i-think-you-are-lovely-so-i:

This is an excellent metaphor for what most people go through. Though I think the art was intended to be an inspirational, “go get your dreams” type image, i think its a lot more sad and true than that. The unicorn is a mthical beast that doesn’t look anything like a rhino, except that they most have a horn. There is nothing that a rhino can do to become a unicorn, short of destorying its mind and completely altering its body.

This isn’t a stretch for what most people go through when they have body image issues. They look in the magazines and she glorious beautiful people, people so beautiful they don’t actually exist. And some try to work to be exactly like those people. But maybe they just weren’t meant to be shaped like that.

A rhino can still be a beautiful rhino, it does not have to be a unicorn.

^ all of my thoughts I haven’t been able to put together coherently every time I see this

"Procrastination is a thief. It steals our time, our potential, our self-esteem, our peace of mind."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:48:26 -0400

“Procrastination is a thief. It steals our time, our potential, our self-esteem, our peace of mind.”

- Joyce Meyers (via princessofarabia)

starttostudy: uptownview: If you are going through hell. keep...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:43:09 -0400

starttostudy:

uptownview:

If you are going through hell. keep going.

Winston Churchill

iwouldhaveyousmileagain: (via 20 Ways to Tie a Head Scarf |...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:39:17 -0400

iwouldhaveyousmileagain:

(via 20 Ways to Tie a Head Scarf | Scarves.net)

daddyfuckedme: reblog if neopets started the internet addiction that ruined ur life

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:48:50 -0400

daddyfuckedme:

reblog if neopets started the internet addiction that ruined ur life

feliciashanay: 2damnfeisty: feliciashanay: lexzilla: Michael Ealy & his wife had a...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:47:12 -0400

feliciashanay:

2damnfeisty:

feliciashanay:

lexzilla:

Michael Ealy & his wife had a baby…………………….let’s talk about how sad I am right now. I think I might cry myself to sleep tonight, y’all. this pain is real.

nooooooooo

shwetanarayan: airspaniel: gailsimone: newlevant: Hi! I’m...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:43:02 -0400

shwetanarayan:

airspaniel:

gailsimone:

newlevant:

Hi! I’m stoked to present my thesis comic, If This Be Sin, based on the life of Gladys Bentley. It’s for sale on Gumroad! You can download the 16 page full-color PDF for $2.

Gladys Bentley, was a blues singer, piano player, and drag king who performed bawdy tunes in Harlem nightclubs throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the social obstacles she faced as a black, openly queer woman, her outrageous and energetic act became a mainstay of the Harlem cabaret. In 1952, under the oppressive social conditions of the McCarthy era, Bentley publicly renounced her previous identity and claimed to have found happiness as a feminine housewife.

Gumroad is super simple to use, you just have to enter your credit card number and you’ll be sent a direct download, plus Gumroad will email you a link to re-download it if you ever lose track of the file.

FOR EVERY 100 NOTES, I’LL GIVE AWAY A DIGITAL COMIC TO A RANDOM TUMBLR USER so please share if you can! (Within each 100 notes, only people who reblog are eligible for a free copy.)

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the comic!

This looks amazing!

AHHHHH! Oh my god, this looks AWESOME!

reblogging for awesome and also as a note to self to get this when spoon exists

Photo

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:34:06 -0400

queeniman: thearcanetheory: modernanglophilia: Tumblr, please...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:08:58 -0400

queeniman:

thearcanetheory:

modernanglophilia:

Tumblr, please spread this like WILDFIRE. This teenager has been wrongly suspected of being one of the Boston bombers. He’s scared for his family.

Please pass it on.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311248/Sala-Barhoum-track-star-teenager-denies-involvement-Boston-Marathon-bombing-picture-widely-circulated.html

racism kills

stop it

This really brings tears to my eyes wallahi

thisistopedia: London, 1996. Photos by Adrian Boot

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:52:35 -0500

thisistopedia:

London, 1996. Photos by Adrian Boot

howiviewafrica: AFRICAN INVENTOR: In 2010, BERTIN NAHUM, from...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:50:54 -0500

howiviewafrica:

AFRICAN INVENTOR: In 2010, BERTIN NAHUM, from Benin, created ROSA, a robot that helps surgeons performs brain surgery. This invention, used in hospital around the world, made him the 4TH most revolutionary high-tech entrepreneurs in the world; after Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and James Cameron! He is also the CEO of Medtech, a French company which specialize in robotic surgical assistance.

"Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the fundamental point that not..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:45:07 -0500

“

Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having shoes. It’s a problem of poverty. Shoelessness, such as it is, is a symptom of a much bigger and more complex problem. And while donating a pair of shoes helps shoelessness, it does not help poverty.

Things like jobs help poverty. Jobs making things like shoes, for example. But TOMS doesn’t make its shoes in Africa, it makes them in China where it’s presumably cheaper to make two pairs of shoes and give one away than it is to get people in a needier community to make one pair of shoes.

The result of this setup, as Zizek explains most succinctly, is that on a big-picture level, TOMS (and other buy-my-product-and-donate companies) are busy building the exploitative global structure that produces economic inequality, while on the other hand pretending that supporting them actually does something to fix it.

It doesn’t. It just gives people shoes.

”

- The 7 Worst International Aid Ideas (via stfuconservatives)

evemeanslively: This is worth watching. best thing ive...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:28:29 -0500

evemeanslively:

This is worth watching.

best thing ive watched this year

Photo

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:58:02 -0500

it's hard trying to balance social, academic, and spiritual life..it seems like when one is winning the others are losing, and in my case, right now my spiritual life is losing, when it fact it should be the first one winning because once that life is doing well everything else does well

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:57:14 -0500

bewtifulmind:

..so i guess it’s time i make a change