Swung From The Branches

My dad’s initials are J.K. so whenever he signs his emails with jk it looks like he’s saying just kidding

lattefoam

Why Are White Girl Still Trying To Call Themselves Art Hoes this is so two years ago educate yourselves please

heygoghs

@ the white girls who are still confused about this: 

As the art hoe movement gained popularity, white people (myself included) turned it into a very classist aesthetic. Posts with thousands of notes tagged as #art hoe exclusively featured thin, white girls with expensive Kånken backpacks, Copic markers, Moleskine notebooks, and Birkenstocks. No one’s going to stop you from buying these things and loving art and this aesthetic, but the art hoe community was originally founded by POC for POC! 

Mars, the creator of the art hoe movement said, “It seemed really classist – that you had to have this certain level of wealth. Jam and I are broke. It hurt me, because I don’t have an income like that – I can’t go and buy an expensive DSLR.  People tried to use the ‘angry black person’ stereotype when I called them out on it; telling me it wasn’t a big deal. But it felt like a big deal. People of colour are often denied artistic ability, or the things we birth into the world are stolen by white counterparts. I never intended Art Hoe to be that way.” [x] [x] [x]

In an interview with Huffington Post the co-founder Jam was quoted saying, “Seeing a disabled trans black woman superimposing herself over a white man’s painting saying ‘I am here, I have worth, and my existence and art matters!’ is so wildly radical and revolutionary.” [x]

in conclusion: stop erasing platforms & safe spaces made for people of color 

You know when you put on make-up in your room because you’re like ‘yeah man, I love art, this I basically art on my face, making it into art, and then it’s like wow I look good as hell, but then you’re like NO ONE CAN SEE ME LIKE THIS for some reason?

I wanna just like just live life you know I want nothing to get in the way but then again that’s what I’m doing ad the things gettin in the way are part of life and it’s just I have no clue what I’m doin with my life and I’m just I want to just like ugh it’s so frustrating I just want to like not

It’s funny cause “I’m not down” can either mean I’m not feeling down, like conforming that you’re not upset, or that you’re not down for life like you feel kinda low and don’t wanna do life

fairenoughman

I wish I had a good shot at life

fairenoughman

I saw this and was like oh man yeah I feel you and then realized I posted it fuck I hate my life