of venus

fashion, film, fotography, funk. she/her #FreePalestine

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

In 1952, a 27-year-old psychiatrist from Martinique published a book arguing that colonialism wasn't just a political system, it was a documented form of collective mental injury, and he had the clinical training to prove it.

Frantz Fanon trained as a psychiatrist in France before working in colonial Algeria, and Black Skin, White Masks was his first major work, written while he was still finishing his residency. In it, he argued that colonized Black people are pushed to internalize whiteness as the standard of worth, then measured permanently against a standard they're never allowed to fully reach, producing real psychological damage he treated directly in his own patients.

He wasn't writing as an outside observer theorizing about race. He was a clinician diagnosing a condition he watched colonialism actually produce in people.

The book became foundational to postcolonial theory and influenced the thinking of civil rights leaders well beyond Africa and the Caribbean. More than 70 years later, people are still assigning it in university courses because the psychological pattern Fanon described never fully went away, it just changed its packaging.

[of venus @alItherage]

Currently reading, absolutely amazing work

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

In 1952, a 27-year-old psychiatrist from Martinique published a book arguing that colonialism wasn't just a political system, it was a documented form of collective mental injury, and he had the clinical training to prove it.

Frantz Fanon trained as a psychiatrist in France before working in colonial Algeria, and Black Skin, White Masks was his first major work, written while he was still finishing his residency. In it, he argued that colonized Black people are pushed to internalize whiteness as the standard of worth, then measured permanently against a standard they're never allowed to fully reach, producing real psychological damage he treated directly in his own patients.

He wasn't writing as an outside observer theorizing about race. He was a clinician diagnosing a condition he watched colonialism actually produce in people.

The book became foundational to postcolonial theory and influenced the thinking of civil rights leaders well beyond Africa and the Caribbean. More than 70 years later, people are still assigning it in university courses because the psychological pattern Fanon described never fully went away, it just changed its packaging.

[Steph @ship_gq]

Mona Tougaard for Givenchy ss27. The gold framing is so good 🥹

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

One of the stranger parts of being an adult is realizing how many people have never questioned a single belief they inherited. Not even out of curiosity.

[nostalgia & history @internetpreai]

michael jackson's 'bad' next to weird al yankovic's 'even worse' in 1988

[🪻 @onetruelave]

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[msemmen connoisseur @fairymuseee]

red and lilac never disappoint

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that, I was Black. Most recently, I was African American. It seems we’re on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.”

—Harry Belafonte

[of venus @alItherage]

Where’s that screenshot of „this discussion has been had before, you’re just young“?

[sophia ✿ @tellemthatits]

smiley angel

[of venus @alItherage]

Whoa WAIT?!?!?! I take serious offence what the fuck?!?!? My chest hurts!

[chukwudi @wrdjsn]

i had to go find the video myself this is ridiculous

[of venus @alItherage]

I just might be lack toast in tolerance

[Saroyah♡ྀི🎀 @saroyahx]

THE UAE & ETHIOPIA COMMITTED A MASSACRE KILLING 31 DISPLACED SUDANESE CIVILIANS, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND INJURING 19 OTHERS IN A UAE DRONE STRIKE LAUNCHED FROM ETHIOPIA ON A SUDANESE IDP CAMP.

[▓▓▓ Batty ‧ 🦇☭ ▓▓▓ (4/6 COMM SLOTS TAKEN) @toothersgoofers]

Africans are genuinely being treated as subhuman every day. No human deserves to be treated as anything less than that, a human. Don't ignore it just because they're black.

[🐆 @THEFILLEMUSE]

roberto cavalli fall/winter 2002

[Fashion Archive @_ArchiveFashion]

Jean Paul Gaultier, F/W 2000 Couture

[ؘ @meowpplehead]

ཐི ₍^.ˬˬ.^₎ ཋྀ — michael monster high !!