And one of the deadliest cosmetic procedures, and people use the racial politics of Black natural bodies as the theoretical framework when talking about BBLs. This is what happens when people’s political aptitude doesn’t evolve past 2015 online cultural appropriation discourse
There is a slippery slope you guys are entering that you may not be able to walk back from: collapsing the capitalistic exploitative politics of cosmetic surgery by using Black bodies to launder its image, insisting that these surgically augmented bodies are indistinguishable from naturally curvy Black bodies that allows even white women to hide behind thus shield. let Saartjie Baartman Rest in Peace
there’s a reason our ancestors risked their lives and were murdered bc of reading + the elite are doing everything to make sure our kids are illiterate. our ancestors understood that liberation/organizing and literacy/education were synonymous.
@ammawhatt@plushiecollect Yes! The Congo Cosmogram. They found this symbol in pottery and on floors from Haiti to South Carolina. Also how this idea of the death/ancestor realm being separated by the water line (Kalunga) may play a big part in why so many AA are Baptist! I even did a presentation on it
Being on vacation or doing water activities in a wig is so crazy to me. Idc if that shit is glued down with industrial glue, it will always be crazy to me.