things that shouldn’t be as difficult as they are:
- dealing with spiders
- buying bras in the right size
- purchasing pads or tampons without getting embarrassed
- devouring the souls of my enemies
- getting out of bed in the morning
- ordering food over the phone
- using public transport
why does sex have to result in babies why cant it result in pizza
“push, Helen! push!” she gives the last of her energy, and she hears it
the soft, tender sizzle of a freshly baked pizza
the doctor holds it up by the crust, carefully snipping off the little plastic table
“it’s a deep dish!”
what the hell is wrong with this website
We like pizza and not babies.
I m c r y i n g
So three Black women in maybe two thousand pages of women’s magazines and all of them biracial or racially ambiguous, so they could be Indian or Puerto Rican or something. Not one of them is dark. Not one of them looks like me, so I can’t get clues for makeup from these magazines. Look, this article tells you to pinch your cheeks for color because all their readers are supposed to have cheeks you can pinch for color. This tells you about different hair products for everyone—and everyone means blondes, brunettes, and redheads. I am none of those. And this tells you about the best conditioners—for straight, wavy and curly. No kinky. See what they mean by curly? My hair could never do that. This tells you about matching your eye color and eye shadow—blue, green, and hazel eyes. But my eyes are black so I can’t know what shadow works for me. This says that this pink lipstick is universal, but they mean universal if you are white because I would look like a golliwog if I tried that shade of pink. Oh look, here is some progress. An advertisement for foundation. There are seven different shades for white skin and one generic chocolate shade, but that is progress. Now let’s talk about what is racially skewed. Do you see why a magazine like Essence exists?
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| — | An excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) |
Favorite films » Labyrinth (1986), Jim Henson
“I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”
favorite movie of all time. (:
i think there should be a biological setting for ‘i dont want kids why do i need to ovulate/menstruate’ and then your period just ollies out for a while
like ‘ok bro i accept your life choices call me if you want a baby’
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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| — | The Toughest Indian In The World, Sherman Alexie (via shelbyisms) |
