Anyway the reason I am so hard-line on this is bc tying the "right" to write difficult or dark material to victimhood status is harmful to victims bc it forces us to out our own trauma for our writing to be seen as legitimate. If we don't, or we do it the wrong way, +

Imagine being 10 years old, finding your mother’s body, and growing up with no answers. That was my reality. My mom, Tawana McGowan, was murdered in Redford Michigan — and her case is still unsolved. It’s time to reopen it. #JusticeForTawana WXYZ Detroit Local 4 WDIV Detroit FOX 2 Detroit

Long before the general public cared about Gaza, this government made it clear you wasn’t getting none of that.

pretending the Hunting Wives is the pinnacle of lesbian representation when it's about a lady who is fucking a teenage boy is so funny actually. to shit on a lesbian b-movie! please stop talking about the male gaze when you don't know what it is & won't read Laura Mulvey's essay.

even if "honey don't" wasn't written and worked on by lesbians & queer women, it wouldn't matter because you don't know what you're talking about and your issue is just that you don't like the quirky b-movie style it's going for. you lot don't know enough abt film to talk abt it

and i'm reminded of this now that people complain that sabrina's album is about her personal life and her reflecting on her decisions instead of being a radical feminist critique... her art about her own life is not valid enough, it must be doing something else too?

The soft singers of yesteryear are not the soft singers of today.

ppl are so mad at the idea, the mere suggestion, of pussy

oomf deleted a very real and true post abt dating advice but im cosigning her btw

A huge difference between the rappers of yesteryear and those of today on average is that back in the day the 90s to mid 2000s rappers LOVED to read. They loved to use words we weren't familiar with from the actual dictionary. Not all made up words/slang. But actual words.

i love vintage porn im collecting images of vintage black porn and wow women used to have big boobs that sagged

everyone watch videodrome now…..we rlly are living in the 80s again

some of the most perverted movies were released during the reagan administration

carnal flower 🥀 denying a woman's agency and subjectivity in favour of something inauthentic to her for the sake of pushing a women's empowerment message 🤩 reminds me of this... ppl forget art is abt feeling more than anything

carnal flower 🥀

thinking about the time my school had a screenwriting course with an actual screenwriter and she was the only person who understood the implicit situation of an out of context scene

videodrome…..

this isnt me saying thats the message this is me saying we have got to get more perverted….

videodrome (1983) introducing his son brainscan (1994) and his daughter cam (2018)